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jpdoctor

Good god this has nothing to do with HN.

Good god am I glad that it got to the front page so I read it.

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I was waiting for the part where they asked the judge to join their new web based child adoption startup as an advisor

Ergo it has everything to do with HN.

Yeah, "what belongs on HN" is basically "what HNers upvote".

Indeed, that is in fact very explicitly what belongs on HN. Quoted from the HN Guidelines:

"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."

If it "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity, it's totally cool.

If you think about it, it is technically a hack. They sort of hacked the adoption process. From my understanding usually adoption is significantly more difficult.

I think technically the judge hacked the adoption process.

"what HNers upvote" - "what moderators kill"

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