[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.