The reply has been flagged/marked dead by HN since, and should at minimum auto-collapse (thus hiding even worse replies to it) regardless of your account's "showdead" settings. I'm not going to link to it, and it's not worth reading regardless.

It was flagged. I replied to it, you can get the gist of what it was based on my reply.

Here's the comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123664