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What's interesting about this is you picked: 1. Extremely high quality publications. 2. In a controlled manner. That's not "no news" at all, it's a healthy re

• gumby 5y ago
  Good point. I interpret “nothing as worthless” to mean “extremely low worth, but not necessarily nil” and indeed instead of “worth” I could say “worth in aggregate” Clearly there things worth knowing and not all of them were by Aristotle, Bach, Newton or Wittgenstein:-). The low pass filter screens put the froth; the selection of sources, the dross. Not that I even read every article in The Economist, but I do read about things I wouldn’t notice or bother to were I reading from the firehose. Side point: great thing about HN is that someone can say “here’s a clarification or contradiction in what you said” and have it often not be hairsplitting, so can spark a conversation rather than shut one down.