US denies visas to Afghanistan’s all-girl robotics team(theverge.com)
theverge.com
US denies visas to Afghanistan’s all-girl robotics team
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/30/15903206/afghanistan-robot-team-denied-us-visa
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So this gets unflagged, but it's still completely gone from the front page even though it has a very good upvotes / time ratio. I really dislike that about HN. This is clearly an important discussion.
Still says [flagged] to me.
don't use vanilla hn. use a proxy like hckrnews.com instead. they still show flagged posts
Its previous postings remain up. Perhaps this was just flagged as a dupe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14674734
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673603
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14674734
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673603
Have you read this thread? There is no important discussion going on here, only lazy barbs about the US military and Republican party which, while true, are neither intellectually interesting nor particularly germane to the posted article.
If there were something worth saving here, I'd agree that the downvoting and flagging were a problem, but in this case it's just garbage and it gets what it deserves.
If there were something worth saving here, I'd agree that the downvoting and flagging were a problem, but in this case it's just garbage and it gets what it deserves.
There's separate flagging for comments and articles though, you seem to have those confused. Should we flag front page articles every time the first two comments are terrible?
The article seems close enough to being mainstream political news to be flag-worthy to me.
I'd agree that an article shouldn't be flagged because of the comments alone, but either way it's going to vanish from the front page quickly considering how heavily HN weighs downvoting and flagging.
I'd agree that an article shouldn't be flagged because of the comments alone, but either way it's going to vanish from the front page quickly considering how heavily HN weighs downvoting and flagging.
So anything mainstream gets flagged, even if it relates to people in the field of science? Srsly hn, flagging != patriotism
Anything mainstream should get flagged unless it presents some "new and interesting phenomenon," or satisfies some intellectual curiosity. You could replace the robotics in this story with anything else and it wouldn't change it at all, so it's really just three brief paragraphs a subject which has already been covered. I can see why people would flag it.
If you want the topic of America's visa policy as it relates to science to be discussed in depth, then someone can post a better article with substantive content. Most people are only going to read the title and vent their spleens anyway, so the bar has to be set higher for articles which touch on certain topics.
If you want the topic of America's visa policy as it relates to science to be discussed in depth, then someone can post a better article with substantive content. Most people are only going to read the title and vent their spleens anyway, so the bar has to be set higher for articles which touch on certain topics.
Ugh. Winning hearts and minds. I wonder how long that US flag remains on the robot.
Original article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hilarybrueck/2017/06/29/denied-...
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/clarkes-take-on-terror/
Put another way, there was never any rationale for anything we ever did anywhere. All of this is bullshit. Don't even bother trying to make heads or tails of it.
Nothing was ever supposed to get fixed, made right, redressed.
The travel ban? Why does it exist? Because they're fucking assholes. Not because anything matters.