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Peter Frase
Personal blog · peterfrase.compoliticseconomics
Peter Frase's personal blog at peterfrase.com covers politics and economics. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Copyright in anti-Star Trek”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Peter Frase's posts on the 'Anti-Star Trek' theory of future technology and on Germany's role in the 2007 mortgage-backed securities crisis. The comments are bare links with no evaluation of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Copyright in anti-Star Trek2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-15
What Hacker News says?
If you want a Star Trek future, the last people you should be listening to are Jobs or Disney: http://www.peterfrase.com/2010/12/anti-star-trek-a-theory-of...
Comment linking /2010/12/anti-star-trek-a-theory-of-posterity/
on “I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Ecosystem”Submitted The Comforts of Dystopia as a story · 16 points
HN discussionCtrl+F "Dusseldorf" http://www.peterfrase.com/2011/08/the-big-short-germany-and-...
Comment linking /2011/08/the-big-short-germany-and-toxic-financial-products/
on “Shorting Home Equity Mezzanine Tranches (2007) [pdf]”Submitted Copyright in anti-Star Trek as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intellectual Property and Pseudo-Innovation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Peer to peer production and Google's threat to intellectual property as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gamer’s Revanche as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Regulating the Social Network as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Robot Redux (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Libertarianism From Above and Below as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Peer-to-Peer Future: Peter Frase as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Perils of Extrapolation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If you’re not dying, you’re not learning as a story · 1 points
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