Ask HN: How do hackers use Ebola?

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Im genuinely curious: A post yesterday told a story about the discovery of Ebola. I asked how this was relevant to me as a hacker (seeing we're on hackernews) and within 3 minutes I was downvoted into oblivion, flagged and had the comment removed. But Im still wondering...

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You are using a too strict definition of on-topic. The site is not only about programing.

From the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> What to Submit

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

What are you asking lol?

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