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Derek Christensen
Personal blog · derekchristensen.comwritingculture
Derek Christensen's personal blog at derekchristensen.com covers writing and culture. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts by Derek Christensen, mostly linked as references: a write-up on tracking the Sputnik satellite with receivers and orbital math, plus other pieces cited on startups, housing zoning and Reddit.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ideas, books, and observations
Most-linked posts?
- /wp-content/uploads/2014/12/shareholdervalue.jpg2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-03
What Hacker News says?
From what I've read, Transit got its start at John Hopkins. First, they verified that there was a satellite up there with some receivers they had lying around. Then they predicted where it would be with some math. Then someone what if'd whether they could reverse that problem with some brain cells. http://www.derekchristensen.com/tracking-sputnick/ While I agree that planning is important, very important, it can bec…
Comment linking /tracking-sputnick/
on “How to De-Risk a Startup”Reminds me of this: https://www.derekchristensen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2014/12/shareholdervalue.jpg
on “UK power station owner cuts down primary forests in Canada”"But for a beautiful moment in time, we created a lot of value for homeowners." http://www.derekchristensen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/s...
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on “To save California, sacrifice single-family zoning”Being a cliché or not doesn't make it untrue. It's not a novel argument but it's still absolutely relevant. Saying it's not "the capitalism" is a bit of a true scotsman argument. There is only really one capitalism: the one we're living in today. There's no other version of this as far as I can tell. Maybe before we had different variations of it but with globalization, it's one to rule them all. > it's not necessar…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2014/12/shareholdervalue.jpg
on “Louis Rossmann calls community to leave Reddit”
