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They may be a bit on the ranty side but I, for one, greatly appreciate the ability to read an abstract in 15 seconds rather than however long it takes to ingest
by mokus 7y ago
They may be a bit on the ranty side but I, for one, greatly appreciate the ability to read an abstract in 15 seconds rather than however long it takes to ingest a video and separate the content from the fluff.
This is also how HN works: 99% of the time, there’s enough summary and context in the comments that I always just click through to the comments first to find out whether the article/video/whatever is worth the time.
- JshWright 7y agoAbsolutely, but the commentor could have just done that, rather than lamenting that we should be discussing it... in a discussion thread that only exists because someone posted the video here in the first place.
- Klinky 7y ago>This is also how HN works: 99% of the time, there’s enough summary and context in the comments that I always just click through to the comments first to find out whether the article/video/whatever is worth the time. Isn't that also a folly of HN? People not reading the articles and rushing to the comments to make some proclamation or put in their two cents.
- munk-a 7y agoExcept you can fully understand this topic in a lot less than thirty minutes - I agree that people making half-reasoned arguments is a problem but at the same time you can comprehend the contents of this conjecture and the disproving of it via a few simple statements about graphs or relational algebra.