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Comment by officialchicken

2 days ago

What does this have to do with startups?

>What does this have to do with startups?

You know, I used to have this style view when reading and commenting Slashdot, pre-9/11 about anything other than "the tech".

Afterward, in high school, I began to feel that understanding the foundations of geopolitics can help you maintain an advantage in the business world.

Not much, but it's interesting and I think a large population of users here are curious about drone tech

Check out the first paragraph: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  • > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

    Seems ths qualifies in spades.

    • The "interesting new phenomenon", obviously, is the potential of the generalization of what expressed in the title. It has very evidently both relevance to intellectual curiosity and a potential of impact on our activities.

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