What would you explain? Alarmism needs exaggerated alarm, which isn't found in the earlier comment. One could project their own worries about a warming globe onto the comment, perhaps, but that alarm would stem from within oneself, not the comment. Another might see a warming globe as the best thing that could ever happen and there is nothing in said comment that would dismiss that.
It wasn’t auto censored. And you didn’t explain anything, you made a silly and provably false statement and were understandably downvoted almost immediately. Just like if you were to claim the moon landing was faked.
Suppose someone did post that the moon landing was faked. What purpose would downvoting it serve?
1. If posted in good faith, they lose an opportunity to learn. HN should not be joining the ranks of the growing anti-education establishment.
2. If it is trolling, the downvote offers a "read receipt" telling that the wanted attention was found, which only further encourages more trolling. Do not feed the trolls.
There is no situation where downvoting would be a positive contribution. Well, unless you find enjoyment in reading the "why did you downvote this?" comments that sometimes follow. But be careful with that as someday you'll start to see them as just being annoyingly repetitive.
I was wondering why something so mean, basically bullying this guy, was on the front page of hacker news. Glad I skipped to the bottom and read the apology.
I'm still not sure why it's on HN though. And even with the twist at the end they still spent an entire page making fun of the guy's appearance, clothing, name, and so on.
The arrest in Oslo were a married couple from Signapore in their 60s. The man was fined and 8000 NOK for admitting to flying the drone and might get deported. They were flying in central Oslo, and it seems unrelated to the drones in Denmark.
There were also unconfirmed sightings of drones around the airport in Oslo. The director of police states that "It is still unclear what was observed. There are conflicting interpretations of the observations that were made".
Are you implying that's semantically surprising? My wife has to take even a single standard glass slowly. All smaller people I know do, unless they are intending to get at least tipsy, which is probably outside most definitions of "social drinking" (but not outside typical drinking behavior among friends, if you want to take the phrase "social drinking" as statistically literal).
It's a cultural thing. Traditionally, in Mediterranean societies, "drinking socially" means you are sitting at a long table with your family having a big meal and drinking wine from a small glass.
Granted, today the families are smaller, the tables are shorter, the meals are faster, the wine glasses are larger, "social drinking" spills out to drinking with friends and colleagues, and getting at least pleasantly sloshed of a night out is increasingly common, as is bingeing and getting totally smashed with your friends. At which point, yeah, the purpose of "social drinking" is getting off your tits.
We are all slowly turning into Western Europeans I guess :/
How much is sex and how much is body weight and genetics? Swedish and Japanese livers process stuff quite differently, I expect some variation even among "Anglo".
