I was hellbanned some months ago for using the words "fucking idiot" to describe some fucking idiot who comes to HN almost exclusively to grind the axe of feminism. This was around the time of the dongle joke heard around the world, and many people were hellbanned. She took issue with a rather archaic but totally innocent turn of phrase in an article about cold war tech (of all things!) and decided to derail the thread. So I called her a fucking idiot and now people can't read my posts.
In my case I knew I was hellbanned almost immediately because generally when I contributed to a discussion here I got responses and received upvotes. It didn't take long to figure out what had happened. I know, and knew, that I can appeal via email but I didn't for two reasons: 1. accusations of misogyny (which my banning effectively was) are a death sentence with no chance of appeal anyway, around here, and 2. I decided that HN was missing out nearly as much or more than I was by my hellbanning. I have lurked, though I do visit here less than before, and I have not registered another account. There's been a few threads I would have liked to participate in, especially recently with the USG spying, but for the most part I don't miss it.
Please do not reconsider my banning. I shall wear it as a badge of honor.
Edit: And for those who don't know, there is another thing mods can do to accounts here, which will make HN very slow to respond when logged in to that account. I got that too. Almost forgot until I logged in to post this :-)
>Second, Japanese architecture is interesting, no building is ugly, both the modern ones (like the waterfront building that did not got smashed) and old ones (the traditional-looking houses).
I promise you this is not true. Run-down buildings are to be had like anywhere else, and the country probably has slightly more than its share of ugly post-modern bullshit architecture.
That said, the pretty stuff is really pretty, IMO.
Thank you, rachelbythebay, for hijacking what could have been an interesting discussion about cold war tech, with your stupid fucking semantic feminist bullshit. As you continue your study of the English language (I assume you are not a native speaker because there are few native speakers dumb enough not to understand basic 3rd-grade things like gender in the English language (i.e. "Grandfathers" doesn't mean "our ancestors who are male" you fucking idiot)), you will begin to understand the folly of your statement here.
Oh, what's this? You are a native speaker? Borne and raised in the USA, you say? Might I suggest then you Get The Fuck Out.
You misunderstand the purpose of voting. It's not so that the people can choose the government they are subject to (that would be nice, but in practice it's difficult or impossible to implement). Rather, it's to serve as a check on tyranny.
Even US citizens traveling outside the country, and especially residing outside the country, are on thin fucking ice. No, the US government does not consider itself beholden to any laws when operating on foreign soil. It also doesn't really define any criteria that when met allow it to operate on foreign soil in the first place. As such, you are, in essence, right now a subject of a global American Empire under which you have no rights - not even a right to life or property.
How important that point is depends on how much range affects viability as opposed to the cost of the vehicle itself. Electric cars are rather expensive I guess, but few people are going to make the switch to cheaper cars if they only have a range of 20km.
Eh, that quote from a year ago isn't entirely clear on how they will look for a new job. I'm sure if the implications of the AI behavior were clear then, there would have been at least some raised eyebrows.
Haven't they been been posting pretty shitty quarterly statements for a few years now? They have a lot of money in the bank, so to speak, I'm sure, but it will catch up with them eventually.
There is definitely a cost but it's hard to calculate so it gets ignored. Certainly the rise of indie game developers has been aided in part by the continuing fuck-ups of AAA publishers, though.
Because if your whole idea of what civilization is, is a bunch of bullshit rules enforced under the threat of violence, then I find it hard to imagine you're anything but an anarchist. Or a petulant child. Or both.
They knew exactly how many users to expect, I'm sure. But you aren't going to pay for a solution to handle all of them when you expect the demand to taper off after a few days.
In my case I knew I was hellbanned almost immediately because generally when I contributed to a discussion here I got responses and received upvotes. It didn't take long to figure out what had happened. I know, and knew, that I can appeal via email but I didn't for two reasons: 1. accusations of misogyny (which my banning effectively was) are a death sentence with no chance of appeal anyway, around here, and 2. I decided that HN was missing out nearly as much or more than I was by my hellbanning. I have lurked, though I do visit here less than before, and I have not registered another account. There's been a few threads I would have liked to participate in, especially recently with the USG spying, but for the most part I don't miss it.
Please do not reconsider my banning. I shall wear it as a badge of honor.
Edit: And for those who don't know, there is another thing mods can do to accounts here, which will make HN very slow to respond when logged in to that account. I got that too. Almost forgot until I logged in to post this :-)