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Dave Pollard
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Dave Pollard writes how to save the world, a personal blog at howtosavetheworld.ca about philosophy and economics. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Dave Pollard's posts on collapse, political maps and saving the planet, and a reposted 1980s-era piece on home PCs and software. One commenter calls that piece really funny.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Are you familiar with / have you seen David Pollard's "New Political Map"? https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2013/02/04/preparing-for-collap...
Comment linking /2013/02/04/preparing-for-collapse-the-new-political-map/
on “A Compass for the Politics of Collapse”Submitted Greenland Sharks as a story · 131 points
HN discussionFor most people, "save the planet" == "save the environment in which current human civilisation can and does thrive". Not for all though, definitely: http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2013/02/04/preparing-for-collaps... http://howtosavetheworld.ca/images/New-Political-Map.jpg
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on “DNA confirms cause of 1665 London's Great Plague”Submitted Why Unregulated Capitalism Always Leads to Enshittification as a story · 13 points
HN discussionYou can find quite a few pieces from that era gently poking fun at home PCs and the available software and utility. This is a really funny one from the New Yorker: https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2005/04/29/man-bytes-dog-by-jam... There's a book which I could probably find if I were at home that had a piece going into the limitations of spreadsheets, accounting software, etc. that was also hilarious.
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on “The high cost of software in the 1980s (2019)”Submitted Has the Internet Succumbed to the Tragedy of the Commons? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Curse of Idealism as a story · 2 points
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