I cringe at the thought that some people consider this to be startup-relevant news (or even hacker-relevant news, for that matter).
I flagged this submission, I hope the usual complainers understand why.
If you don't, by all means, please elaborate.
I flagged this submission, I hope the usual complainers understand why.
If you don't, by all means, please elaborate.
Oh and you actually do submit stuff about Microsoft, but they are all Anti-Microsoft posts. (do elaborate how THAT equates to startup-relevant)
As much as we hate shills who just blatantly support brands for no good reason, we also hate people who blatantly hate companies for no good reasons. HN is a place for reasonable debate. If you think Some big player did something right, you praise them. If you think they made a mistake, you point it out and discuss why it is a bad move on their part. But why the pure hatred?
I'm impressed.
You really took the time to perform an in-depth study of my submission/comment history, even figured out the 80% stat.
Slightly creepy but well-researched, kudos.
It's probably much more relevant to hackers that how important role India plays in controlling AIDS (or, for that matter, the daily BTC/Tesla/etc. posts).
Are you honestly saying that you cannot see how smart people with excellent computing could possibly do anything to help with significant problems such as HIV/AIDS or world hunger or food insecurity?
Are you really only interested in news about the latest cat-photo startup?
(I'm not dismissing those web sites. People have fun, and winning a start-up lottery gives that person money to spend on good science.)
> Roving engine of chaos and snide remarks.
That's not a good thing, especially here.
It looks like you are putting words in my mouth.
All I'm saying is that I follow a subset of news that's related to tech and startup. Which means I don't have an informed opinion on:
> how smart people with excellent computing could possibly do anything to help with significant problems such as HIV/AIDS or world hunger or food insecurity
or:
> the latest cat-photo startup
But obviously, you are entitled to your own decisions.
Interesting twist, but I disagree.
If anything, startups would be interested in disrupting, not aiding, a staid, old, established player's contraptions.
A startup needs infrastructure apart from their product.
Perhaps you could explain why you think this is flag-worthy? I could understand that you might find it unimportant, or dull. But you've flagged it, and declared that you flagged it, which suggests you have some strongly negative feeling toward it appearing here.
I'd be interested to see where you'd put this on a scale with all the other stories that get subbed to HN.
This isn't about feelings, I'm just adding a data point to HN ranking algorithm.
The reason I enjoy being on HN is because of this community's mindset of "let's disrupt the big, established, old players". Seen from that angle, this submission is irrelevant because it's not about disrupting a big player, it's about perpetuating a harmful monopoly.