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1. solotr+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-06-05 14:29:17
Is this relevant to hacker news?
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2. ianlee+x1[view] [source] 2020-06-05 14:38:51
>>solotr+(OP)
Seems on-topic to me, but you never know until the the arrow buttons start to be clicked.
3. floati+K2[view] [source] 2020-06-05 14:44:14
>>solotr+(OP)
Guidelines para 1:

> 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.

I found this story interesting. I didn't know that we had all of these disparate police forces roaming around. I haven't visited DC and they aren't really featured in the media. Seeing some of these various forces show up at protests, and having them behave unexpectedly when asked to identify themselves, has attracted my curiosity. I'm glad that someone took the time to write about them.

Note that I'm not prepared to blindly trust Politico's opinions about these policing forces, but opinions are part of what makes this interesting to read.

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4. Kapura+h3[view] [source] 2020-06-05 14:47:37
>>solotr+(OP)
From the Hacker News Guidelines[1]:

>What to Submit

>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.

I found the story intellectually stimulating, and thought others might too.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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5. jacobu+6f[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-05 15:50:17
>>floati+K2
It's not even 100% clear that all of them are police forces. I could be out there larp-ing and blend right in.
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6. throw5+Ki[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-05 16:10:03
>>Kapura+h3
And yet posts on Kobe Bryant’s death were all flagged.
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7. mywitt+OF[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-05 17:51:58
>>throw5+Ki
Perhaps individuals should have contributed posts that discuss interesting and lesser known aspects of the man's life and accomplishments.

60 posts of "Extremely Famous Person Dies in Accident" is boring. But learning that said person had a little-know passion for bird conservation or something is interesting.

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