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1. ColinW+e1[view] [source] 2012-12-14 18:32:38
>>KenCoc+(OP)
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

    Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, ...
    If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Yes, this is important, yes, it's newsworthy. No, it's not "Hacker News". It's all over the news, and there's nothing specific about hacking, or start-ups. It's not even of "deep interest" in any real sense. It's tragedy, pure and simple, and then it becomes politics.
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2. sixQua+Q1[view] [source] 2012-12-14 18:40:30
>>ColinW+e1
your quote just negated your argument. Read it carefully, it says: "MOST stories about..." Most is the important word here.

This shooting is unprecedented in the US as far as the number of children killed, and will mark a point in history. Considering I don't even watch the news or go to any news web sites, if I hadn't heard about it on HN, I probably wouldn't have even known about it to be honest.

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