I believe you can't downvote an item, you can only flag it. I'm not sure what the karma level is on that.
HN has, more recently, been more tolerant of what I think of as "items that titillate teenage boys." Such items are defended by people saying that they "gratify one's intellectual curiosity."
Personally I think such items are like car-crashes. You know you shouldn't look, but if you've got a grain of curiosity, you'll look anyway. I flag them, and if enough others do then they get deleted. I certainly don't give them votes. I am one of many, others' opinions will differ.
> 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.
Newsflash: according to gold diggers, "Money makes me cum!". So now researchers know what pimps, prostitutes, rappers, and hustlers have known for years.
As usual, newspapers can't be bothered to give us links or original title like any half-decent blogger would ... wouldn't want to expose themselves to independent fact-checking ...
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[ 0.22 ms ] story [ 19.0 ms ] threadLike that rich men can get the hornier women, which often orgasm more?
Maybe the rich men get pretty wives. Are womens' orgasm frequency connected to high oestrogen? (High levels are connected to attractiveness.)
Maybe rich men prefer serious, get-things-done high testosterone women?
I'm not that wealthy.
HN has, more recently, been more tolerant of what I think of as "items that titillate teenage boys." Such items are defended by people saying that they "gratify one's intellectual curiosity."
Personally I think such items are like car-crashes. You know you shouldn't look, but if you've got a grain of curiosity, you'll look anyway. I flag them, and if enough others do then they get deleted. I certainly don't give them votes. I am one of many, others' opinions will differ.
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :
Partner Wealth Predicts Self-Reported Orgasm Frequency http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/daniel.nettle/orgasms.pdf
IMO they are way too glib about dismissing the possibility that the self-reports are inflated (p5, column 1, last paragraph) ...