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Dilan Esper
Personal blog · dilanesper.substack.compoliticsphilosophy
Dilan Esper writes Dilan’s Newsletter, a personal blog at dilanesper.substack.com about politics and philosophy. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “People Who Draw Lines on Maps Are the Problem”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a comment about California's bullet train, which the post covers as a project that went off the rails. The commenter says even opponents underestimated its cost overrun, and does not comment on the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mostly law, some culture, a little bit of potpurri.
Most-linked posts?
- People Who Draw Lines on Maps Are the Problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-20
What Hacker News says?
Even it's opponents, underestimated the cost. We knew it would never be $10 billion. It's rare that a boondoggle is such a doggle that even the opponents underestimated how much of a budget overrun it would be. https://dilanesper.substack.com/p/people-who-draw-lines-on-m...
Comment linking /p/people-who-draw-lines-on-maps-are
on “How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails”Submitted People Who Draw Lines on Maps Are the Problem as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted Internet Discussion Conventions Aren't Rules of Logic as a story · 1 points
HN discussion