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What Have We Created?

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-so-meta-even-this-acronym dept.

jcd writes:

"I'm rather excited to get going with Soylent and to watch it grow. Nay, help it grow. I have lurked in /. for more than a decade (note: I'm not the same username over there, I know, how sneaky), and always wished I could have been involved with the beginning. So this is a great opportunity, and I joined as soon as I saw what Soylent was doing. Not to mention the fact that I felt right at home with the old style. It's very comfortable.

So here's a question for everyone. Are we going to be the same as slashdot? A clone that focuses as entirely as possible on tech related news? Or will we branch out to other topics? I'm interested to see either way. I posted a comment to this effect in one of our two existing polls, and it may be a community-wide assumption, but I do think it merits a discussion."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by SecurityGuy on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:04PM

    by SecurityGuy (1453) on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:04PM (#3770)

    Nah, I agree with stopping yourself. One of the things I liked least about /. was reading something on CNN, MSN, or whatever, then reading it on /. If I don't get something from this site (or Slashdot) that I don't get from those sites, I won't have a reason to come here. Tell me about the "stuff that matters" that they don't.

    Any nation falling into civil war is a big deal, but there are plenty of sites that cover that already.

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  • (Score: 1) by bucc5062 on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:16PM

    by bucc5062 (699) on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:16PM (#3857)

    True in a sense. But there can be a "nerd" discussion within that framework. Being a "nerd" is not just one who lives in a basement, pounding out code, hacking the NSA and eating Doritos (hyperbole, yes). I figure that term can apply to social sciences, political sciences, and other less techy realms.

    Take for example your comment about civil war. Today I heard a professor on NPR talking about hwo the conflict in the Ukraine was the precipice upon which hung the new cold war. Holy crap I thought, that's big, but the reporter just blew over it and kept talking/asking about Putin. Now me, I'd liek to dig into that idea. That is brain food. That is something to discuss and hopefully hear from experts that can confirm the idea. Is the world on the brink of a Cold War, now with Russia over the Ukraine?

    Not a question to answer in this thread, but it would make a great topic article I feel. I'm a software developer, but political science and social science is not just about which party is fucking us more, it is and can be about the world we live in. That is news for Nerds and one I'd love to see on SN.

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