While this conversation is a bit meta: I feel politics and religion are ones that should be kept off HN.
People tend to be less rigorous, more entrenched and less able to truly debate about these things than 95% of things we could talk about. This leads to people we may meet one day, try to give money to, try to get money from, try to make a business with, exhibiting some ideas we disagree with, with no useful or easy way to come to a synthesis.
Just like I don't get in large political discussion at work except for bills that specifically effect us in the small (i.e. the 1099 for vendors you spend $600 or more at part of the new health care legislation), I don't want to see them here, and feel they're off topic as they're not particularly any more apropos to us than members of the larger population.
Do I think the new government venture funding goes here? Yes. As it's on topic and relevant in the small to us.
Do I think a discussion of abortion law goes here, even if it has interesting tech in the article? Not in a billion years.
People tend to be less rigorous, more entrenched and less able to truly debate about these things than 95% of things we could talk about. This leads to people we may meet one day, try to give money to, try to get money from, try to make a business with, exhibiting some ideas we disagree with, with no useful or easy way to come to a synthesis.
Just like I don't get in large political discussion at work except for bills that specifically effect us in the small (i.e. the 1099 for vendors you spend $600 or more at part of the new health care legislation), I don't want to see them here, and feel they're off topic as they're not particularly any more apropos to us than members of the larger population.
Do I think the new government venture funding goes here? Yes. As it's on topic and relevant in the small to us.
Do I think a discussion of abortion law goes here, even if it has interesting tech in the article? Not in a billion years.