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Across 8 years of activity on HN and more than one thousand comments, I’ve received 4 admonitions leading to this ban -- first in 2015 regarding the history of Diophantine equation…

The Luddite's comment gets flagged (and thus hidden from public view) two days after my account is banned.

Natch.

nit: "pore over"

What a sad spectacle: the delirious lashing out at modern machines, the sarcastic capitals, the unhinged cries of "religion". Next time I chat with Richard we'll have a laugh as I …

Sounds like you want to smash capitalism! more than you want to destroy Google and Facebook. I did notice you're not explicitly opposed to reusable rockets; although you seem to ha…

Kudos! If you have a chance to visit their building [edit: in Colorado, near Boulder], and even to take a class with them, it's impressive and great fun.

Please get a grip on reality. The average American has access to vastly better products, services, and health care than past kings couldn't even have dreamt of. Even the amazingly …

Your diatribe is a complete distortion of economic history and facts, best crystallized by your use of "concentrated wealth" when what we have witnessed is an enormous creation of …

Mueller appears to be a modern Torquemada. Should every politician be hounded by a nemesis of their own? In the spirit of "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" -- politicians should be u…

If you are interested in the truth, how many of their Democrat colleagues have been shadow banned? Answer: none. But according to you it "certainly doesn't seem to be based on poli…

So, a group of notorious Republican congressmen are trolls and scammers? that's how you believe Twitter makes decisions?

Make it a high karma cost. E.g. you must have been upvoted 10 times to be able to downvote once. That cost can climb up for people who generally don't significantly upvote more tha…

You are claiming that, in response to a news story, the intent to remove a shadow ban applied to notorious Republicans but not to any Democrats is "favoring" Republicans. [added: A…

Ok, what do the shadow-banned Republican representatives Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, and Devin Nunes have in common?

That is a lie for public consumption. It is not just based on some general behaviour. The accounts of multiple notorious Republican congressmen are being shadow-banned. They could …

I'd like to understand what reasoning one goes through to embark on such an illiberal path. (Note: not arguing that they can't legally do it, obviously a private business is free t…

US government subsidies to airports and highways haven't stopped. They dwarf public subsidies to railroads.

Have you inquired into why they became unprofitable ? Have you considered the massive government investments into and subsidies for the two other modes of transportation following …

Nope. I'm saying that Americans are unfortunately missing out on what is elsewhere a great, modern transportation system. If the federal government hadn't used massive war-driven b…

That's not Europe. Learn geography and look at some actual maps.

Indeed, I've travelled from NY to SF in both directions by road, rail, and air. The only experience that was much worse than my travels in Europe and Japan was by rail (namely Amtr…

For our American friends who constantly claim that the USA is unique because of its size, or because of lower population density (whether the subject is Internet connectivity or ra…

You are deeply wrong and need to look at proper maps. Europe is 33% larger than the USA (contiguous 48). [added] Note sure why this fact would be down-voted. We don't include Green…

Down here we'd do it with geology, up there it will be done with selenology.