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bradhicks.livejournal.com is a personal blog at bradhicks.livejournal.com about politics. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Brad Hicks's LiveJournal posts on policing, bank regulation, politics and other topics, often as sources or support for their own points. Some commenters find his writing clear and entertaining.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /393124.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-01-10
What Hacker News says?
I've posted this else-thread, but, basically: your assumption is incorrect. http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/316176.html
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on “Good Samaritan Backfire”Submitted Hooray for Amazon as a story · 17 points
HN discussionYou need to understand that doing anything an officer might class as "Disobeying a Lawful Order" can get you killed. This bit, written by an individual with Aspergers, explaims the situation more clearly -- and why the awful nature of it isn't going anywhere. http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/316176.html If you don't feel like reading it, this line will substitute somewhat: > "[...] If you don't think he should have…
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on “Good Samaritan Backfire”Submitted Nobody Will Ever Believe How We Got Here #OWS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor a much longer (but, I think, insightful and amusing) variation on that theme, see http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/393124.html . Warning: not everything in the first paragraph is actually true.
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on “Gmail as a Facade”I came across an interesting analogy about how Atlas Shrugged was the first book in a trilogy. And how Anthem was the 3rd book (the second book, "shrug harder" not having been written or released). > Then [John Galt] went further and, in a fit of offended pique, promised to "stop the motor of the world," to kill 90% or so of Earth's population by intentionally wrecking the economy. Which he then did. How? By finding…
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on “'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years”"Too big to fail" is also an euphemism for "too big to obey the law." > Because this didn't start on November 5th, 1999. This started on April 6th, 1998, a year and a half before Gramm-Leach-Bliley passed, and it started with one man telling the federal government that he just plain wasn't going to obey the law, and that man's name was Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill. Sandy Weill's purchase of Citibank, as CEO of the broke…
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on “Congress passes wide-ranging bill easing bank laws (1999)”This seems like an interesting proposition to me. Are there true things that society as a whole is better off not knowing? For instance, one epidemiologist estimated that 75% of SIDS cases are actually homicides. http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/328184.html That strikes me as a fact that could fall into this category.
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on “Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth”
