talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Republic, Lost (my favorite version)
lessig · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2011–2022).
SignalTube analysis
Among 15 other talk videos tagged US politics & elections, the mean is 3.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 3.7 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
100% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2011–2022; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 48 minutes 12 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2011-11-01.
- Channel / speaker
- lessig
- Verified runtime
- 48m 12s
- YouTube upload date
- 2011-11-01
- Hacker News mention years
- 2011–2022
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in US politics & elections. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic, Lost (my favorite version)Current video | 3 | 3 | 100% | — | 48m 12s | 2011-11-01 |
| Antonin Scalia - On American Exceptionalismtalk · AmericanRhetoric.com | 12 | 11 | 82% | No recorded overlap | 7m 22s | 2016-02-19 |
| Republic, Lost | Lawrence Lessig | Talks at Googletalk · Talks at Google | 10 | 11 | 88% | No recorded overlap | 57m 19s | 2011-11-16 |
| We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim | Lawrence Lessigtalk · TED | 8 | 9 | 53% | 1 (33%) | 18m 20s | 2013-04-03 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved”. Its short rationale: Lessig talk on institutional corruption in politics.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Ask HN: US this bad about civil liberties?”. Its short rationale: Lessig discussion on how money corrupts American government.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “The Only Way to Stop SOPA”. Its short rationale: Lessig's argument on money in politics as a root problem.