On: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016)

[kortilla]

> Maybe politics keep popping up because it's a conversation that needs to happen?

What people want to do and what should be done are entirely different things.

[rocqua → kortilla]

Big part of the difference is that one of them can be known.

[wizzwizz4 → rocqua]

What should be done is actually pretty obvious to historians, most of the time. (Future historians, that is.)