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Comment · 27 days ago
I was surprised by the weakness of this article, regardless the potential absurdities of parts of EA.
Why does The Economist consider this the most important issue this week, in a world of complex problems, to splash its first leader on (and more than one page long too)?
Comment · 9 months ago
> You can't just find one hook that works and reuse it forever...
I would be interested in a study on how long popular accounts do use their one hook -- or set of hooks, or rotate them...
Comment · 10 months ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Co... for how Stephenson considered the essay obsolete five years later.
Comment · 1 year ago
Something I think is often missing in this evergreen debate: governments have banned encryption before, in amateur radio. See e.g. https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/72/encrypted-traffic...
(Obviously, the difference is in number of users -- not many hams, and lots of internet users, and "a sufficiently large difference in quantity is a difference in kind")
Comment · 1 year ago
Does it work with Node/JS/TS front ends only, or can it work with other languages and web frameworks?
Comment · 1 year ago
> 508 Resource Limit Is Reached
HN hug workaround: https://web.archive.org/web/20250711042802/https://xmlsummer...
Comment · 1 year ago
If you haven't read and/or prefer an app format, the "Sorcery!" series was made into a wonderful set of games by Inkle in 2013: https://www.inklestudios.com/sorcery/
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for taking a look.
Wikipedia pages are really just the core, and they're a good signal for "notability" given https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
I am definitely planning to expand to more sources, both timely and less so.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you! I've heard of Slow Journalism, but not Delayed Gratification, which is really beautiful.
Comment · 1 year ago
OP here. One thing I don't have a good answer for yet: this mostly uses Wikipedia as a source. How can I pay back to volunteer editors ("Wikipedians") if this is at all successful? I've seen other sites like newsasfacts.com suggest giving a proportion of profits to the Wikimedia foundation, but obviously they are ultimately separate from the volunteer base, and its fundraising appears increasingly controversial [1, 2].
I slightly balk at the idea, but is a cryptocurrency token possibly the answer? Generate, distribute to editors and have donations come inbound somehow? I see the dangers here!
[1] https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-next-time-wikipedia-asks-for... [2] https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/wikipedia-wikimedia-fou...
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