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Comment by hnecib | Hacker News Reader

I tried hard to find anything in this article that had anything to do with tech or startups. I really did.

From the submission guidelines:

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.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That's fine I guess. I'm sure there's a good hacker out there that is interested in the different parenting styles of French and American mothers. Though I'm not sure about the plural of hackers. That might be a stretch.

There are also hackers out there that are interested in politics, salad recipes, what Bill Murray is doing, and lolcats. I just feel like I'm on Reddit is all.

salad recipes, what Bill Murray is doing, and lolcats don't really gratify one's intellectual curiosity though:)

It is not the theme that gratify one's intellectual curiosity but how he treats it instead.

It's about hacking parenting, and for parents running start ups the insights could be transformational.

In your world, do hackers not have children?

Like I said, they enjoy articles on children, Bill Murray, lolcats, and politics. We should really post more of that stuff.

technology is here to help us live better, so maybe there is an app for this in future? someone works diligently to study child habits from different countries - developed or not and categorizes parenting styles. As a user one can ask the app - which parenting style the action you just took for your child's demand/question fall under, which can help you determine future implications, whether you should have done something else (the app doesnt tell you....but knowledge and data can guide you). I would read these and feed my brain.

This place is turning into Digg little by little. I remember the first page of Digg over half a decade ago. Tech news, phones, and then it went to politics, funny stories, world news. And then it just descended from there.

We're all guilty of it. This is how it starts.

No, it is not. This article is perfectly on topic. On the other hand: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site."

"No, it is not."

That's what Digg and Reddit said. I'll mark my calendar for 5 years from now, we'll come back and have this conversation again. I'm probably wrong, but I might be right. If anything I'm a hypocrite for contributing to this story in the comments above.

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