Donald Trump Invites Tech Leaders to a Meeting

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12 points·jdp23··7 comments

Perhaps a little suspicious that this news comes out the day after political discussion was banned for a week?

I understand your impression, but it's really just random. We (I mean the people moderating HN) have no advance knowledge about anything like that. Actually the idea is ludicrous from where I sit, and you'd think so too if you saw how mundane what we do all day is.

Thanks for mentioning that this is just for a week, though, because to me that's the most important detail and it's been forgotten at times.

Flagged for politics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404

It'll be interesting to see how the moderators treat this. It's exactly the kind of stuff a lot of people on HN want to talk about - and have a lot to add.

The thing is, anything past abstract algebra is (at some level) politics.

No doubt algebra is too. Maybe not the theorems, but certainly the estimates of their importance, and so on.

Can you copy the interesting paragraph? They are going to meet. He will say something vacuous or something crazy. They will reply politely.

What I think that may be interesting:

* They decide to nuke China if they don't drop the Great Firewall in 24 hours.

* They decide to disassemble the NSA (not just rename it, truly disassemble).

* They decide to give the FSF 1 trillion dollars to complete HURD.

But I really don't expect nothing too interesting as a result of that meeting.

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