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Andrew Sullivan
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Andrew Sullivan writes The Dish, a personal blog at dish.andrewsullivan.com about politics and culture. Since 2013, 43 different Hacker News readers have linked it 49 times, most often “The Hounding of Brendan Eich”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- /vfyw-contest/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-05-08
- The Hounding of Brendan Eich3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-04-03
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-17
What Hacker News says?
Anyone who is impressed by this should seriously check out Andrew Sullivan's view from your window contest. Most weeks a reader submits a photo from their window, literally anywhere in the world. And people track it down with very similar techniques, to the exact window. And a lot of the contest photos offer much less to go off of than this [namely, only 1 photo, low res, country/context unspecified]. Here is the wi…
Comment linking /2014/08/19/the-view-from-your-window-contest-winner-218/
on “Using Google Earth to Find an ISIS Training Camp”Submitted Yes, The CIA Spied On Congress as a story · 284 points
HN discussionTo lump a legitimate social insurance program like the Heritage Foundation's Romneycare (which many "conservatives" have taken to calling Obamacare) in with the excesses of civil forfeiture, PRISM, and the TSA is illegitimate. See, for refutation, Andrew Sullivan's "Since When Was Free-Loading A Conservative Value?" http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/08/05/since-when-was-fre...
Comment linking /2013/08/05/since-when-was-free-loading-a-conservative-value/
on “Taken”Submitted Cameron Proves Greenwald Right as a story · 178 points
HN discussionI get a kick out of pinpointing the exact location of photos or paintings. A couple of communities exists for this: * Geoguessr (I don't participate in this one much, street view is pretty limiting) * The Dish's "View from My Window" archive. A now defunct blog series where readers would submit photos from their window. Very difficult. Users often pinpoint the exact window from which the photo was taken. http://dish…
Comment linking /vfyw-contest/
on “Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?”Submitted A Note to My Readers as a story · 142 points
HN discussionNot true! They don't use cocaine, but they do extract flavor from imported coca leaves, and are the only US company allowed to do so. Randomish link from a quick search: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2012/02/25/coca-cola-is-still...
Comment linking /2012/02/25/coca-cola-is-still-made-from-coca-leaves/
on “A letter from Paper (FiftyThree) to Paper (Facebook)”Submitted The Saddest Map In America as a story · 121 points
HN discussion> how many blog posts can the average person write about their feelings on the Iraq War? A books worth: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/deepdish/ebooks/i-was-wrong/
Comment linking /deepdish/ebooks/i-was-wrong/
on “The User Always Loses”Submitted Do Millennials Give A Damn About PRISM? as a story · 30 points
HN discussion87% of Americans are not descended from a recent Sub-Saharan African population (where recent is defined as within the last 80,000 years). African Americans form a genetically distinct American subpopulation with about 70-80% of genes from Africa. If you sent in spit samples to 23andMe from a white American and an African American, 23andMe would have no problem telling them apart. If race did not exist, this would n…
Comment linking /2013/05/16/is-race-only-a-social-construct/
on “Latvia blocking extradition of Gozi writer due to disproportionate US sentencing”Submitted The Hounding Of A Heretic as a story · 25 points
HN discussionI think you're missing the fact that the vast majority of prostitution involves trafficked/exploited people. As this person's experiences illustrate, it's not about choice: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2012/02/22/dissent-of-the-day...
Comment linking /2012/02/22/dissent-of-the-day-9-5/
on “Should Prostitution Be a Crime?”Submitted The Left’s Intensifying War on Liberalism as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI used to hold similar views, but the opinion of this person, who worked with prostitutes, really opened my eyes to the problems and started to change my mind: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2012/02/22/dissent-of-the-day... From a economics stand-point, there's way higher demand than supply. And currently the only supply is another person. Most people won't willingly choose to be prostitutes when they have other opt…
Comment linking /2012/02/22/dissent-of-the-day-9-5/
on “Should Prostitution Be a Crime?”Submitted The Hounding of Brendan Eich as a story · 12 points
HN discussion> the extremely wealthy members of society (the 1%). Not to be that guy, but if "society" is defined as "humanity", as it should be imo when it comes to human health, all of us in first world are the 1%. Edit: "To make it into the richest 1 percent globally, all you need is an income of around $34,000, according to World Bank economist Branko Milanovic. The average family in the United States has more than three tim…
Comment linking /2012/03/01/the-global-1/
on “Blood of world's oldest woman hints at limits of life”Submitted Tesla: An Investment that Wasn't a Lemon as a story · 6 points
HN discussionUsing the reflections as additional information is very interesting. However, I’m not that surprised that views from windows can be relatively easily located. Andrew Sullivan has been running his View From Your Window contest for four years now and people have been guessing the locations of the photos with scary accuracy (as good as in the linked post). Here is the archive: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/vfyw-contes…
Comment linking /vfyw-contest/
on “How taking pictures through windows can inadvertently reveal your location”Submitted Anti-Drone Apparel as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAndrew Sullivan's blog The Dish[0] did this for its entire existence. It was a driving point of the site's culture, to the point where certain topics gained frequent contributors that were probably better recognized because of the advantageous signal-to-noise ratio. Many sites seem to be turning toward a manual moderation model now. This doesn't seem too whacky as a next step for many of them. [0] http://dish.andrew…
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on “We're Replacing Comments with Something Better”Submitted The SJWs Now Get to Police Speech on Twitter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAndrew Sullivan (who can hardly be accused of being a gay basher) put it quite succinctly and very eloquent: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-br... I have to agree.
Comment linking /2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-brendan-eich/
on “Brendan Eich, We’ve Failed You. I’m Sorry.”Submitted RSS vs The Regime as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI agree with Sullivan's take[1] posted yesterday. If this is the gay-rights movement today, a bunch of extremist Social Justice Warriors, I want no part of it. Not only that, but Catlin's reaction to it[2] is also shameful: 'oops, we thought he would evolve like President Obama did, our bad. but hey, we're putting our apps back on the marketplace!' [1] http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-br...…
Comment linking /2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-brendan-eich/
on “Brendan Eich, We’ve Failed You. I’m Sorry.”Submitted Gangnam Style Flip Book Animation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAndrew Sullivan used to run a contest doing something similar albeit less serious and with remarkably good results http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/vfyw-contest/
Comment linking /vfyw-contest/
on “Tracing child abusers: Where was this picture taken? [video]”Submitted The End Of The American Entrepreneur? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHN Journalist here, survivor of several 'digital first' revolutions and now, officially, a 'content director' and glad to have a very good job. A couple of things: 1. A really good newsroom is really tight. Very few print-trained journalists are in it for the money, so the cause and comradeship are everything. A quick way to ruin a newsroom is to implement sweeping changes that have nothing to do with good storytell…
Comment linking /2014/12/01/if-you-cant-parody-them/
on “Inside the Collapse of the New Republic”Submitted Brendan Eich And Hillary Clinton as a story · 2 points
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