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Julian Sanchez
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Julian Sanchez writes Non-Content, a personal blog at juliansanchez.com about politics, philosophy and culture. Since 2009, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “"General warrant wiretapping": NSA Getting Call and E-mail Content”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Julian Sanchez's blog for commentary on NSA surveillance reporting, the 'Redactor's Dilemma' and the 'Teleporter Library' copyright thought experiment, and a critique of the film Prometheus.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writing on politics, culture, technology, and other assorted topics by Julian Sanchez.
Most-linked posts?
- "General warrant wiretapping": NSA Getting Call and E-mail Content4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2013-06-16
- Why are restaurant web sites so bad? 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-28
- Climate Change, Argumentative Fallacies, and One-Way Hashes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-07
- /2009/12/08/the-redactors-dilemma/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-13
- Things That Are Irrelevant to Copyright Policy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-31
- /2012/10/16/much-ada-about-nothing/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-10
What Hacker News says?
I suggest watching the CSPAN video.I think they are talking about metadata. http://www.juliansanchez.com/2013/06/15/nadler-and-mueller-o...
Comment linking /2013/06/15/nadler-and-mueller-on-analysts-getting-call-and-e-mail-content/
on “NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants”Submitted Lord Camden on NSA Surveillance as a story · 148 points
HN discussionIMPORTANT - regarding the 2-min video CNET bases its story on. http://www.juliansanchez.com/2013/06/15/nadler-and-mueller-o...
Comment linking /2013/06/15/nadler-and-mueller-on-analysts-getting-call-and-e-mail-content/
on “NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants”Submitted Why are restaurant web sites so bad? as a story · 142 points
HN discussionThis article has a similar argument to “The Teleporter Library: A Copyright Thought Experiment”: http://www.juliansanchez.com/2011/07/11/the-teleporter-libra... . The comments on that blog post contain useful discussion of the argument. I especially agree with comment 18 on that blog post, http://www.juliansanchez.com/2011/07/11/the-teleporter-libra... . It argues that the only reason we find public libraries morall…
Comment linking /2011/07/11/the-teleporter-library-a-copyright-thought-experiment/
on “The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library”Submitted Good Defensive Patents Are Bad Patents (Julian Sanchez) as a story · 21 points
HN discussionJulian Sanchez called this the Redactor's Dilemma: http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/12/08/the-redactors-dilemm...
Comment linking /2009/12/08/the-redactors-dilemma/
on “Why Google Earth Can't Show You Israel”Submitted Perils of pop philosophy as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI've always thought this is one of the more brilliant quotes concerning intellectual property rights/copyright, in response to those who feel that they "deserve" or are somehow entitled to the protection of IP rights: "Wise assessment of copyright policy should have nothing to do with how you feel about the person or entity who holds the right at any particular time, because copyright policy is not about identifying…
Comment linking /2011/03/30/4457/
on “What everyone in the SOPA debate is missing: IP is not a fundamental right”Submitted FISA - The Movie. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhat about the UVA rape case? Fabricated story, targeted a fraternity, lots of extralegal unpleasantness. Throughout, the hounding of those young men was carried out by people serenely confident that they were acting to protect young women's sexual freedom. Julian Sanchez has a nice write-up of a similar discussion: http://www.juliansanchez.com/2015/01/27/chait-speech/
Comment linking /2015/01/27/chait-speech/
on “An Investor Wanted to Give Me $50,000. Here’s Why I Said No”Submitted Good Defensive Patents Are Bad Patents as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is not at all a new concept and has been discussed before [1]. [1] - http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/12/08/the-redactors-dilemm...
Comment linking /2009/12/08/the-redactors-dilemma/
on “Using Wikileaks To Figure Out What The Government 'Redacts'”Submitted Climate Change, Argumentative Fallacies, and One-Way Hashes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere appears to be a lot of confusion, even from the experts, on what this exchange between Nadler and Mueller was all about: http://www.juliansanchez.com/2013/06/15/nadler-and-mueller-o...
Comment linking /2013/06/15/nadler-and-mueller-on-analysts-getting-call-and-e-mail-content/
on “Rep. Nadler now saying CNET story (NSA recording calls) is not true. ”Submitted "General warrant wiretapping": NSA Getting Call and E-mail Content as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI believe the NSA scandal is horribly wrong. However, this link shows Trevor Timm's latest tweet, which is very important, and supports reporting by Julian Sanchez, where he started to notice the misinterpretation. Accuracy matters. http://www.juliansanchez.com/2013/06/15/nadler-and-mueller-o...
Comment linking /2013/06/15/nadler-and-mueller-on-analysts-getting-call-and-e-mail-content/
on “Rep. Nadler now saying CNET story (NSA recording calls) is not true. ”Submitted Infringement and Innovation in Online Platforms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJulian Sanchez, the author of this particular piece, threatened to quit the Cato Institute if the Koch brothers took control: http://www.juliansanchez.com/2012/03/05/cato-and-the-kochs-a... So yes, it is completely 100% fallacious to try to associate his piece with them and imply that this has any bearing on its worthiness.
Comment linking /2012/03/05/cato-and-the-kochs-a-presignation-letter/
on “We're Not Censoring You, Just Your Computer”Submitted When are patents obvious? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJulian Sanchez has some thoughts on this at [1]: Legally speaking, the analysts don’t have carte blanche. In other words, this isn’t “warrantless wiretapping” so much as “general warrant wiretapping.” They can’t just tap any old call or read any old e-mail they strikes them as “suspicious.” They’ve got to be flagging content for interception because they believe it’s covered by a particular §702 authorization, and o…
Comment linking /2013/06/15/nadler-and-mueller-on-analysts-getting-call-and-e-mail-content/
on “More details on MAINWAY and MARINA”Submitted Things That Are Irrelevant to Copyright Policy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSure. Looking over the list, I'm reminded why I enjoy reading these people. Even when I disagree with them, it is obvious that they love their field. They have a lot of fun with it. There's a kind of joy found in doing something that you love and have devoted your life to that comes out in their writing. As a result, these writers make actual value judgments. They don't write sterile corporate prose guaranteed to of…
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on “Ask HN: Where do you get your unbiased news?”Submitted Could An Omnipotent Being Prove It? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/christmas-trilogy-20... http://www.juliansanchez.com/2012/10/16/much-ada-about-nothi...
Comment linking /2012/10/16/much-ada-about-nothing/
on “Why women make gifted coders”Submitted The Anti-EULA as a story · 1 points
HN discussionExample: http://www.quora.com/User-Interfaces/Why-do-in-restaurant-re... http://www.juliansanchez.com/2010/12/27/why-are-restaurant-w...
Comment linking /2010/12/27/why-are-restaurant-web-sites-so-bad/
on “How Much Did It Cost AOL To Send Us Those CDs In The 90s? “A Lot,” ”Submitted Men Did Invent the Internet (and That’s a Huge Problem) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhen I first read the title, I expected something about Joel Spolsky and was gearing myself up for a giant sigh . The actual piece was quite interesting (not that a piece about a box of Joel wouldn't be, I suppose), and contrasting that with my expectations made me realize just how well-branded certain names become within their particular niches. Consider, for instance, that for different groups, "PG" most likely me…
Comment linking /2007/08/15/outsight/
on “Joel-in-a-box”Submitted Bad Reasons to be a Moral Relativist as a story · 1 points
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