[logicallee]

Fair comment, I just came to glance at the comments. According to the top of the article, it's a 37-minute read but it has to be longer. I started to scroll down with the pagedown key to get to conclusions, etc, but after holding down the key for 2-3 seconds I gave up on even scrolling to the bottom. The article is 7414 words.

It starts: "From a distance, Jim Myers looks like an ordinary farmer. Most autumn mornings, he stands thigh-deep in a field of wet broccoli, beheading each plant with a single, sure swipe of his harvest knife. But under his waders are office clothes, and on his wrist is an oversized digital watch with a push-button calculator on its face. "

The writing style is certainly engrossing, but we just don't all have time for such a length of reading.

Tl;dr anyone?

[netcan]

At the risk of going into boring and meta (it's completely fair to downvote me for this), this is not a fair comment. If you don't want to read the article because it's long, don't. But, don't come in and complain that the article is long. Just ignore it. The people who do want to read it will. Let them comment about it.

Reading the article is the price of admission sometimes that price is high and sometimes it's low.

This is like commenting "Chemistry is boring" on an article about chemistry. Not interested. No problem. Go discuss something you are interested in or submit an article you do want to discuss.

[logicallee]

It is, if you read it as a request for a summary. What, is there none? Is it all description?

If there is a 37-minute film about cryptography that is linked, would you expect everyone to watch it? Or would a request for a summary from someone who has, be fair?

The sentence I quoted ("From a distance, Jim Myers looks like an ordinary farmer. Most autumn mornings, he stands thigh-deep in a field of wet broccoli, beheading each plant with a single, sure swipe of his harvest knife. But under his waders are office clothes, and on his wrist is an oversized digital watch with a push-button calculator on its face") can be summarized as "Jim Myers studies broccolis" (or whatever the summary is.)

It is like commenting "is there an abstract somewhere?" when linked to a 300 page PDF that for some reason has none.

[qmr]

The "tl;dr" is stop being lazy and read the article, or skip it. No one else can read and comprehend for you on your behalf.

[logicallee]

But that's plainly false, as I showed an example of. Type any work of fiction into Wikipedia and you will see a summary by someone who has done just that.