Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by throwawayboise » Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 4:12 AM UTC

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I was curious and gave it a search. It's hardly a high quality source, but: https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-ufc-news-joe-rogan-seem... Per the chart, Rogan has 11m viewers per episode compared to 3.24m for Tucker Carlson Tonight, which was the highest-viewed primetime cable news show as of 2020 per [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson_Tonight#Ratings

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GP was just making a popularity comparison, in terms of viewer/listenership, not making any kind of endorsement.

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by throwawayboise » Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 4:16 AM UTC

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Didn't Rogan emphatically endorse Bernie last election cycle? Have the alt right become socialists when I wasn't looking?

Yeah Rogan is an independent thinker. He doesn't fall neatly into a left/right categorization.

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by guiambros » Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 4:17 AM UTC

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https://waitbutwhy.com/

love love love waitbutwhy, i wish more people knew about it.

Likewise; love Tim Urban. Spent way too much time reading his work. My favorites are "Religion for the Nonreligious" [1] (which actually has little to do with religion, despite the title), and "The Tail End" [2]. Each one gave me new ways of looking at life and relationships, in ways that I haven't thought before.

I started "The Story of Us" [3], but haven't gone through all. I think it crossed the threshold of long-blog-post and became almost a book-in-a-blog.

[1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious...

[2] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

[3] https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by cakeman » Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 4:18 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by throwawayboise » Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 4:19 AM UTC

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The Joe Rogan podcast. Listening to long-form, multi-hour conversation is so refreshing compared to what traditional news shows have become.

Funny that I interpreted the original "long-form content" as being writing. Rogan's podcasts are certainly long, multi-hour sessions, but tend to wander fairly aimlessly and don't really have a central thesis or topic that they stick to. This is unlike most traditional "long form" writing that I assumed OP was looking for.

Try some of William F. Buckley's old Firing Line episodes, available on YouTube.

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by throwawayboise » Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 4:22 AM UTC

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> NPR, the CBC and BBC

You may enjoy the content from those outlets, and that's fine, but they are certainly not unbiased.

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by kfrzcode » Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 4:22 AM UTC

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The Joe Rogan podcast. Listening to long-form, multi-hour conversation is so refreshing compared to what traditional news shows have become.

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Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by vorpalhex » Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 4:23 AM UTC

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Ivermectin is actually standard hospital protocol (not just for covid) in large parts of the world where parasites are relatively common. Giving someone a dewormer is low cost and high benefit.

One of the reasons the research struggled to figure out whether it helps covid is that it is just a generally helpful drug for big parts of the population. It doesn't do anything special re covid, but it's still a good and useful drug.

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by kfrzcode » Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 4:24 AM UTC

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You may be misinformed..... here's your "actual medical science," from what I imagine is a team of people with "doctorates in epidemiology and virology"

> A five-day course of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 may reduce the duration of illness

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33278625/

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by unfolding » Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 4:25 AM UTC

I really like the Astral Codex blog[1]. It is rationalist blog that features a variety of long-form posts, book reviews, discussions, etc. I don't really know if I consider myself a rationalist or not but I find the posts, discussions, and community to be very stimulating.

[1]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/