> 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.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This pretty squarely does NOT fall under "On-Topic". The only reason it's even being upvoted is because it has "PG" in the title. if it were like, Kanye West, we wouldn't even have it _submitted_, let alone upvoted here.

EDIT: formatting.

  Democracy demands the interchangeable
  part and the worker on the production
  line; Thomas Jefferson may have had other
  notions but de Tocqueville was our
  prophet. Or take American cuisine: it has
  never added a sauce to the world's
  palate, but our fast-food industry
  overruns the planet.

There are always ethical compromises engaging with the real world, and there are few hard and fast rules to follow.

If PG is reading, I’d love to hear the thinking behind going back.