[aterimperator]

"The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting. Gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site, it will push aside the deeply interesting stuff, which tends to be quieter."

[gexla]

This is huge news for the U.S. We can argue whether this is the sort of news which should be posted here, but it will likely have a huge emotional impact for the U.S. Our nation came to a standstill on 9/11 and this story will likely have some impact on productivity. ;)

[tzs]

Not just the US. There were a lot of foreigners who worked in the World Trade Center and died on 9/11. I recall shortly after that day reading that for some large number of countries, 9/11 was the largest terrorist attack on their citizens.

[DrStalker]

As an Australian the direct effect of 9/11 on us was tiny, but the effect of the US's reaction has been huge.

[cheez]

How do you mean?

[westicle]

They invaded two countries, one of which was tangentially connected to some of the people involved in the hijackings which has resulted in quite a lot of innocent deaths.

Pretty major story of the past decade.

[cheez]

I read that saying the impact on Australians has been huge so how has it been huge?

[sirrocco]

I wonder who they'll find next to blame for world terrorism when they have the TSA do some other crazy weird stupid shit. Cause everything needs a face.

[duck]

Your new here, but the general consensus is that this is an okay thing to do when it is something big. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

[aterimperator]

Ok, I won't. :D

[scythe]

I wouldn't say it's that shallow. Osama's death has serious political repercussions, much more so than e.g. Michael Jackson or Billy Mays. It could certainly generate interesting discussion.

[davidw]

> It could certainly generate interesting discussion.

But likely it won't, like most articles about politics and highly charged subjects.

[scythe]

But in reality it did, or at least I'd say as much.

[davidw]

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2505048

You don't get this kind of blah blah blah on stories about how Haskell and Erlang do garbage collection.