To be fair, this is a blog post, not an article; and I think that the HN title (which is not the blog post's title) is about as succinct an abstract as you can get. (EDIT: I'm sorry, I'm wrong; it is an article on The Chronicle of Higher Education. I think that my second sentence still stands.)
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I wish there was a law that all articles had to have an abstract at the beginning.
To be fair, this is a blog post, not an article; and I think that the HN title (which is not the blog post's title) is about as succinct an abstract as you can get. (EDIT: I'm sorry, I'm wrong; it is an article on The Chronicle of Higher Education. I think that my second sentence still stands.)