<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: 7952</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=7952</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:07:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=7952" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Artemis II safely splashes down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Artemis certainly seems safer at least in launch.  It has an escape system that could be triggered throughout launch.  In comparison shuttle could not abort at all until srb separation and after that could have needed risk aerodynamic manoeuvres.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:38:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728389</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728389</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Israel are unwilling or unable to hold to agreements and that makes them an unreliable partner.  The same has been true of America with Iran.<p>Both Iran and America also have a maximalist approach in terms of use of remote weapons and reluctance to accept casualties. That limits the effectiveness of "might makes right".  Massively more so in the larger Iran.<p>And whilst Gaza might seem like a collosal defeat it could be seen in a more positive light in a culture that views sacrifice as noble.  Again same could be true of Iran.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:32:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686167</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Iranian military is very decentralised and designed specifically with American capabilities in mind.  So am not sure they would collapse.  And a defending force is far less dependent on logistics in the short term.  Also, Iran has a culture of sacrifice.<p>Iran and the US exist in a state of equilibrium of opposite strategies.  The US is unwilling to risk its troops and sees sacrifice as weakness but otherwise applies maximal pressure.  And Iran is willing to sacrifice its citizens and sees that as noble.  And outside of a black swan event there is little hope of change.<p>Each side sees its enemies greatest military strength as a moral weakness and will keep fighting.  Whilst conversely believing that sacrifice/maximal remote force may someday work.  Iranians are not going to pivot because their culture has been forged as a response to exactly this kind of pressure.  Nor will America suddenly see the sacrifices of thousands of it's men as virtuous.  So things probably just revert back to the same equilibrium.<p>The point is that America blowing up power plants and Iran absorbing casualties is just an extension of the status quo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:17:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686056</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Plug in solar could be like that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:49:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678856</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We have policies that are good in principal but when they interact with other policy become unworkable for a reasonable cost.  But then you focus on one individual area of policy rather than the system as a whole.<p>Also, in my experience the green initiatives generally have terrible publicity and these kind of articles are just pointing out some positives in a sea of negatives.  What we endlessly miss is that the British public generally wants Co2 reduced and have got that.</p>
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<p>Surely gas prices would spike if the UK needed to import enough to generate an extra 125TWh.  And whilst we are waiting for nuclear to come online you still need to generate energy.</p>
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<p>Surely they would have terrestrial connections to the North.  And this could encourage Iran to cut all the other fibre links that run through the region.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:05:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602710</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Non CfD offshore wind farms probably can be economical without CfD if they had access to very cheap capital. But without CfD the risk is higher and so is the profit margin on the debt which ultimately makes it more expensive to generate the electricity which in turns increases risk of low wholesale prices.<p>Also, for years CfD rates were actually lower than wholesale price and are currently generating at lower strike prices than average wholesale prices.  The problem now is more inflation, capital costs, and commodity prices for materials.  But then a lot of other things are more expensive also.</p>
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<p>That is spectacular.  Can you keep the camera still and let the bee fly?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:07:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556947</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>New cars have questionable affordability for most people.  Particularly when you factor in dubious design choices and expensive marketing.  Cars and driving are expensive.  If that was a barrier there wouldn't be many people on the road.<p>Also, the Electric polo is supposed to be released at around 25k Euros.  Given the lower running costs that seems like a good deal relative to legacy designs.  For all those people will to spend 40k on a car you could put the money into solar panels instead.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:05:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548958</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548958</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You sometimes have end around taxiways that are at one end of the runway and can be used when active.  But that could be a massive diversion.<p>I know that Heathrow have multiple fire stations and rendezvous points for emergency services so that fire service can attend even when one runaway is closed to crossing. This could be needed to allow continued operations following a crash.  It allows them to accept emergency landings more easily whilst maintaining emergency service to another active runway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:37:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514793</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Where things stand with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes.  I don't think any of us can really understand what it is like to be in a war zone.  Proximity to that must completely change people's outlook.</p>
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<p>And building genuine resiprocity beyond money can be good for business and absolutely essential for sole traders.</p>
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<p>I don't think a maximalist solution exists for something like this.  And in fact historic trends are doing exactly what you talk about.  And the best example is money.  It eliminates social resiprocity in favour of a transaction that completes in the moment.  And for many people that satisfies a substantial portion of their basic needs.  But everything else is then left with just an emotional side as the primary objective. Relationships are based on fulfilling some barely understood emotional need rather than practical benefit.  And we feel more and more need to use hacks to try and satisfy that.</p>
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<p>And the world seen through media is heavily abstracted.  And I think that makes people psychologically treat war like a game rather than something actually happening.  We trick ourselves into believing it isn't real.</p>
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<p>The branding people will hate it.  Although IMHO the best thing they could do is co-opt it as a feedback term and acknowledge that AI can be hit or miss.</p>
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<p>The difference between Hamas and Israel is the magnitude of effect.  And that for most of the war one party had much more capacity to change its course than the other.  But either way criticism of the semantics and focus of media just seems irrelevant and overly abstract.  It focuses too much on the group and not enough on the individual.  Which drags the argument into the realm that ethno-nationalists of either side occupy.  Death is always a tragedy and unnecessary killing is immoral.  Anything deeper than that stinks of ignorance and is grotesque.</p>
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<p>> * No one accepts high western "morality" anymore<p>Is that an accurate trend on an individual basis?</p>
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<p>I do know the specifics of the UK and that is what was being discussed here.  But yeah dismissing anything that doesn't align with an easily argued point seems foolish to me.</p>
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<p>I was trying to say that high energy costs are just one issue.  And even then renewables are not the root cause of high energy costs.</p>
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