[jkldotio]

Flagged. I click the link, article loads and then a paywall steals it away. I come back to HN and click the "web" link and it takes me to Google, I click the article there and the article loads and then a paywall steals it away. I try again in an incognito window, the same thing happens.

I am sorry dang, but the web link simply doesn't work sometimes. There is no way for a non-subscriber to read this. While I appreciate you believe there are still things worth sharing that are paywalled it should be made clear in the submission with [subscription only] or similar because otherwise you have me doing 4 or so pageloads for nothing. I.e. this isn't acceptable no matter what your personal opinion is of paywalls. I.e. the paywall argument we've had in the past does not apply here. If there is no way around then it needs an extra piece of information to tell us that.

Ironically this whole palaver is similar to Kafka's "Before the Law". I would add that if you've lived for a substantial time in a country that has inherited the patterns of Habsburg bureaucracy, as I have, then some of Kafka's work isn't actually as far removed from reality as you might think.