This is anything but straight. New Yorker is also not straight, but hackers are not the intended audience of New Yorker articles. Normal people prefer stories a

This is anything but straight. New Yorker is also not straight, but hackers are not the intended audience of New Yorker articles. Normal people prefer stories about people to conceptual discussions. FWIW I think there's some good reason for this. Discussions purely about high minded concepts over the lives and experiences of individuals tend to wind their way inexorably toward stupidity or irrelevance. When you're discussing policy making, all that really matters is how it affects people. That's not to say you can't use anecdote to mislead, but that's a different class of sin.