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> Mods should honour these requests, because not doing so leads to bad things. You don't get to imply I'm about to break the site rules and then ignore that.

Hey dang, still waiting on my ban. Or a response detailing how HN will be revamping the flagging system to prevent its abuse for censorship. But I'm not holding my breath for that …

I don't care.

I may be tilted, but I don't intend to intentionally break the site rules just to force a ban. It'd just undermine the point I'm trying to make about wanting to have a fair and rea…

Every time I get flagged for saying something reasonable but unpopular, I get so frustrated I just put my HN account away for weeks or months. I want to participate in tolerant, re…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14693109 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14692712 These are entirely reasonable statements, and they're flagged. Not just downvoted, flagg…

Maybe the flagging/downvoting system should be revisited, then. It seems like dissenting opinions are simply downvoted rather than challenged out in the open, as they should be. Th…

We're being bludgeoned by the hammer of sexism, in a discussion about the perils of sexism in the industry, on the foremost discussion board in the industry. The irony. I've submit…

The author's article ended with concrete suggestions for improving the industry. The people going into those suggestions are emotionally charged, and more willing to accept them bl…

Please review my recent comments on this post, which have been flag killed. If you believe they were fairly downvoted and deserve to be flagged, then please delete or permanently b…

That's exactly what I'm proposing, just change the wording to "Generalized sexist statements and behavior that convey insulting or degrading attitudes", removing the "about women" …

> Generalized sexist statements and behavior that convey insulting or degrading attitudes about women (e.g. Insulting remarks, obscene jokes or humor about sex or women in general)…

You paid $140 on Amazon for a Raspberry Pi with Nintendo's plastic case and logo.

I look forward to these selling out before I've had a chance to buy them at MSRP, then finding them resold by the dozen on eBay for hundreds of dollars.

I also wondered if it was recyclable, and according to the business's web site it is: https://tb-m.com/en/about/paper/

That's good to hear, I have some Swedish friends that are looking to move to Calgary in the next few years and were worried about tech job availability.

I don't understand how Python's popularity in relation to Go has anything to do with whether or not Python has good concurrency support. As I understand it, Python's Global Interpr…

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/richNotifications

One new technique that's notably missing, and egregiously abusable, is browser notifications. Several times a day now I'll go to a web site that immediately pops up a browser-nativ…

If I were somehow offended by your statement that wouldn't automatically put me in the right and you in the wrong. You can't control how I feel about what you say, but I also can't…

> but clearly, the imbalance of power between men and women is so large, that there is still no question about which side has more power. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of…

> The recipient determines how they feel about your posting, not you. Doesn't mean they're always right.

I wonder how long until someone "jailbreaks" Teslas.

From https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/re... > A ReplicaSet ensures that a specified number of pod “replicas” are running at any given time. However, a Depl…

There's an update at the bottom of the article for this: > UPDATE: It turns out the BBC Globe ident wasn’t rotoscoped or animated, instead it was recorded live using the Noddy came…