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Banned for pointing out that you are lying about your moderation policy, nice!

Predictably, this story, despite almost a thousand upvotes, is nowhere to be found on HN front page. Daily reminder that HN is a commercial entity and works hard to avoid annoying …

And none of them is on the front side, despite the upvotes.

HN is owned by YCombinator. They must not annoy their (potential) business partners.

>Unfortunately, mine has no builtin CD-ROM, floppy drive, ethernet, serial, or parallel port So it's like modern laptops? ;-)

Same, but it also reminds me of another thing: I think it was the Solaris format(1M) utility; instead of the usual “y/n” question before performing a destructive action it said som…

Well, no, most people don’t realize US is using slave labor. Most people believe China does, though, despite no proofs. Sadly, people are still quite disconnected from verifiable r…

And here we have another cornerstone of the racist hate speech - substituting “Chinese” with “CCP”, same way they used to replace “Jews” with “Zionism”.

The problem with American shills like the above is they don’t understand the difference between what they consciously (want to) believe - like them not being racist - and what they…

At the same time many Americans don’t quite believe non-Americans are proper humans. See how they justify invading other countries. Or how any comment critical of US gets flagged a…

Lol, no. Every technology product has to be modified to comply with FCC, not with whatever Chinese equivalent is. Completely reworking TV shows for American viewers is commonplace …

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-wo...

How do we know they start from nothing?

It's a bit more than that - the Russian part of civilisation came _from_ Ukraine. Kiev is much older than Moscow, and that's not something Rashists can forgive.

Google likes to (semi-legally) kill other people software they don't like, like they killed Gaia, the Open Source Google Earth client (which was, in many ways, technically superior…

Except this time we know what happens when you try to cooperate with Russia - eventually you get invaded and genocided, as evidenced in Ukraine. USA is a lesser evil.

I'd say HN should prefer the URL that fits its readers best. Which in this case means paywalled URLs should be replaced with the available workarounds for that problem, ie URLs thr…

The only reason SMS spam exists is that it's legal. Why is it so, if not for lobbying?