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Nathan Taylor
Personal blog · praxtime.comsciencebusinessphilosophy
Nathan Taylor's personal blog at praxtime.com covers science, business and philosophy. Since 2014, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Why Astronomers and Journalists should pay heed to Biologists about ET”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nathan Taylor's essays on technology and public debate, including cloud services at Apple, the ideological Turing test, UFO reporting, and Paul Graham on inequality.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Astronomers and Journalists should pay heed to Biologists about ET2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-27
What Hacker News says?
Way to fail the ideological turing test: https://praxtime.com/2014/05/27/ideological-turing-test/
Comment linking /2014/05/27/ideological-turing-test/
on “Open Letter to the Linux Foundation”Submitted Why Astronomers and Journalists should pay heed to Biologists about ET as a story · 53 points
HN discussionThis one? https://praxtime.com/2013/11/25/sagan-syndrome-pay-heed-to-b...
Comment linking /2013/11/25/sagan-syndrome-pay-heed-to-biologists-about-et/
on “The Pentagon’s U.F.O. Program”Submitted Apple’s new services strategy. Apple is commoditizing (some) of its complements as a story · 5 points
HN discussionApple doesn't have the right organizational structure to support cloud services across apps to a level of consistency and quality that Google and Amazon does. Nathan Taylor explains this quite well. http://praxtime.com/2013/11/03/apple-strat-tax-voice-as-god-...
Comment linking /2013/11/03/apple-strat-tax-voice-as-god-particle/
on “How Apple’s iCloud Drive deletes your files without warning”- nl · 2015-04-13
Submitted Why Astronomers Pay Heed to Biologists about the Fermi Paradox as a story · 2 points
HN discussion @delish: have you seen this? http://praxtime.com/2016/01/12/paul-graham-inequality-cowens...
Comment linking /2016/01/12/paul-graham-inequality-cowens-laws/
on “What Paul Graham Is Missing About Inequality – Tim O'Reilly”Submitted The surveillance society is a step forward as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disruption theory’s ultimate ironic success would be falsifying itself as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intelligent Life is Just Getting Started as a story · 1 points
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