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Cheap recycled article--the original local story can be found here: https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/a-track-inspector-claimed-he-was-fired-for-reporting-too

• dang 3y ago
  Thanks! We've changed to that from https://jalopnik.com/safety-inspector-fired-for-finding-too-many-defects-cou-1850817520 https://jalopnik.com/safety-inspector-fired-for-finding-too-.... Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • gumby 3y ago
    This has nothing to to with trains, but: I sometimes submit an article about a scientific paper because the paper itself may be too dense for people without specific domain expertise. Is this the wrong thing to do?
    • dang 3y ago
      It's exactly the right thing to do! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20article%20paper%20popular%20article&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Occasionally we make an exception (in fact I just did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37441718 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37441718), but for the most part you should post the best popular article and link to the specialized paper in the comments. The one domain where this rule doesn't apply is computing, since enough of the audience here understands that domain.