I think this is a conversation worth having, but this is a tech news board. This isn't exactly on topic, and is guaranteed to be inflammatory.
This article suffers from a baity title and sensational opening but then gets pretty substantive and, I think many readers would say, interesting.
Topics like this have always appeared on HN and as long as (1) they don't come up so often as to feel repetitive and (b) the article is substantive, I think it's ok.
I guess I just see this exact argument being made all over the place, so I’m a little weary of it. But this article is one of the best iterations of it that I’ve seen.
Quoting from the guidelines linked in the footer:
> 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.
This is your prediction. It seems overconfident to me.