That's pretty much the only reason one needs.

I was interested enough to read the article and you were interested enough,albeit in a negative sense, to add your comment; so it seems they were right.

"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."

Especially during the day when threads are not US centric