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Comment by thwest | Hacker News Reader

For worse, surely. As a startup employee and HN reader, I'm disgusted with the amoral money chasing culture we've grown. The attitude towards politics here reminds me of a child plugging his ears, squinting hard and shouting "la la la la la I can't hear you". For all the talk of disruption, the domain of problems we are allowed to apply that to is horribly small.

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The heuristics used in regard to article submissions that relate to political news events are not applied because the article submissions relate to political news events. They are drawn from experience and that experience is that it is particularly difficult to have a productive comment thread associated with such article submissions.

Case in point, the parent of this comment which infantalizes those whose view is that political stories are detrimental to HN.

Why do we have to be amoral money-chasers if we don't want politics on HN? Personally, I come here for tech and code discussions, and elsewhere for politics and current events. I don't feel politics is particularly interesting and is most often off-topic per the guidelines, so I flag all of those.

Dropbox hiring Rice is at the intersection of Tech and Politics/Ethics. It's clearly relevant to the tech community.

If you want to exclude the story because it has political content, you may not be personally amoral, but you are pressing for HN itself to be amoral.

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