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Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives

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204 points joveian | 3 comments | 16 Oct 24 17:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.502s | source
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artemonster[dead post] ◴[16 Oct 24 18:17 UTC] No.41862021[source]▶
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piva00 ◴[16 Oct 24 18:23 UTC] No.41862088[source]▶
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

I suggest you re-read this list: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Rendello ◴[16 Oct 24 18:29 UTC] No.41862166[source]▶
Is the overall quality tangential?
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piva00 ◴[16 Oct 24 18:32 UTC] No.41862203[source]▶
I'd say so, it doesn't develop any discussion or conversation, it's bike shedding. Even more that overall quality is a question of judgment, I read the article perfectly fine and the writing style wasn't a distraction.

What do you think we gain in the discussion by debating the quality of writing (which was entirely passable) instead of the substance of it? To me it's quite clear: absolutely nothing.

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theodric ◴[16 Oct 24 18:43 UTC] No.41862346[source]▶
'Bike shedding', in the context of the current Irish bike shed controversy - heh
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1. LinuxAmbulance ◴[16 Oct 24 19:18 UTC] No.41862770[source]▶
What is the Irish bike shed controversy?
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2. KineticLensman ◴[16 Oct 24 19:29 UTC] No.41862891[source]▶
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2024/09/06/its-not-eve...
3. talideon ◴[16 Oct 24 23:09 UTC] No.41864816[source]▶
Oof! Too soon!