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Isegoria
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Isegoria is a personal blog at isegoria.net about politics and history. Since 2009, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Conquest's Three Laws of Politics”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's older posts on the economics of product bundles and paying for unwanted channels, whether language shapes spatial sense, and paper use in offices versus e-readers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Conquest's Three Laws of Politics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-29
- The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-11
What Hacker News says?
Hence the Larry Ellison trade, a cousin of the Bob Rubin trade. Rent-seeking behavior in software development. Wall garden, vendor lock, license, and litigate for every LOC. Make customers pay for technical debt by dumping more exotic spaghetti code. Larry Ellison's way of doing business is about him and what he receives at the bottom line. The customer is an after fact in the sales funnel. A resource that needs to…
Comment linking /2017/05/the-bob-rubin-trade/
on “Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringement?”Submitted HyperCard: What Could Have Been (2018) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHonestly, though, speaking as someone who had to use things made by military contractors, having people who object to the military working on them seems like a recipe for disaster. But that's a pretty small slice of Google's business. > Working for a company while using it as a staging ground for a coup against it is unacceptable. So what does unacceptable mean? Historically, coups like this happen to organizations…
Comment linking /2008/07/robert-conquests-three-laws-of-politics/
on “Google Staffers Share Stories of ‘Systemic’ Retaliation”Submitted Conquest's Three Laws of Politics as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCan you expand on the backing off part, though? Peter Moskos has written a lot on this. As part of his PhD, he spent two years as an actual cop in Baltimore. Now he is a professor of criminology in New York. IMO, he does a good job writing in a balanced and truthful perspective about crime. "I don't know what's going on everywhere (or even most-where), but I can tell you a bit about Baltimore. And I suspect it holds…
Comment linking /2014/12/the-monster-factory/
on “U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Tandem”Submitted Sickle cell trait as an Evolutionary adaptation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt strikes me that the economics of product "bundles" seems to be one of those things that's just inherently hard for people to understand: http://www.isegoria.net/2010/04/paying-for-channels-you-neve...
Comment linking /2010/04/paying-for-channels-you-never-watch/
on “Elsevier journals: has anything changed?”Submitted The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPeople may have a crappy built-in magnetometer, but it seems you don't need one - just a lot of practice. There are cultures that put such weight on the cardinal directions that they always maintain a sense of where they are facing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoception#In_humans http://www.isegoria.net/2010/08/does-your-language-shape-how...
Comment linking /2010/08/does-your-language-shape-how-you-think/
on “Neurons can operate in reverse”Submitted Developing Talent in Young People as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>You see by all futurists accounts the Internet should have already done away with print media, but we just can't let go of our paper. The economist had an article on this, but it's behind the paywall now. http://www.isegoria.net/2008/10/not-dead-just-resting.htm Gist -- "American office workers’ use of paper has actually been in decline since 2001. What changed? The explanation seems to be sociological rather than…
Comment linking /2008/10/not-dead-just-resting.htm
on “Thoughts on "e-readers"”Submitted Scientist Shamans as a story · 2 points
HN discussionExcept not like the Middle East, with the influence of Farouk al-Kasim, and, more broadly, socialism. "The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil". Paywall at https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feab... . HN discussions at https://hn.algolia.com/?q=The+Iraqi+who+saved+Norway+from+oi... . In short, an Iraqi man married a Norwegian women. Their kid had cerebral palsy. They decided their son could get the…
Comment linking /2009/09/the-iraqi-who-saved-norway-from-oil/
on “Why Norway Is Becoming the Richest Country [video]”Submitted China used to have something quite similar to Twitter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It is difficult to understand why this should be such a formidable task (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paying for Channels You Never Watch [2010] as a story · 1 points
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