<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: D_Alex</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=D_Alex</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:47:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=D_Alex" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by D_Alex in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>They already very agressively hide car lithium fires<p>But you found out... how?</p>
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<p>Hmm… so are we agreeing that Russia turned off the gas because the EU stopped paying?</p>
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<p>But it doesn’t support your claim.<p>In summary, Russia, after having their dollar and euro bank accounts frozen, demanded payment in roubles. It stopped supplying the gas to the customers who weren’t paying. After that, the EU announced it will stop buying Russian gas completely, and replaced it with LNG.<p>Thus increasing the greenhouse gas emissions attributed to its gas use by about 60%. :(</p>
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<p>Really? Do you have a credible source for this?</p>
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<p>The EU has made a difficult problem even worse by switching from pipeline gas to LNG.<p>LNG has anywhere from 10% to 100% more greenhouse gas emissions, depending on who you believe about how much methane leaks during LNG production and transport operations. Most credible estimate IMO is +60%.</p>
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<p>>Policies include building one affordable house.<p>Mine too.</p>
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<p>>Poland and the Baltics know they're next on Putin's list.<p>"Putin's list" is a dishonest meme, just like the "rules-based international order" that the Western nations supposedly embrace.<p>There is no such list, and there are no such rules. There is only deceitful propaganda used to justify geopolitical ambitions. Don't spread it.</p>
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<p>It means have fun, be adventurous, bend the rules a little bit.</p>
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<p>Did you feel safe, growing up?</p>
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<p>And what lesson should be drawn from that?</p>
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<p>>They'd need to sell a sub to everyone in Europe and North America.<p>Yep. Every man, woman and child, and even then provided we include Russia, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti etc, and, out of desperation to get to 1.5 billion, Turkey, which is in Europe a little.</p>
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<p>That's all true... however the point that Google will get just $1 billion per year from Apple for the AI service is still insightful.<p>If AI use via Apple represents 10% of the total that vaguely implies that the total AI market is worth around $10 billion per year (which admittedly seems a bit low), and if it is just 1% (which also seems low) then we get $100 billion per year upper-end estimate.<p>Which just is not enough to justify the current valuations of AI companies.</p>
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<p>>Seems like the simplest test would be to see if an AI can refuse a command, <i>of its own free will</i><p>Certainly not the simplest test, since settling the concept of "free will" is really very difficult.</p>
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<p>>I also think different ideas get conflated.<p>Yep. For example, your post conflates the idea of having a brain with the idea of having consciousness.</p>
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<p>>I think you either added an extra zero or were looking at the hyped prototypes<p>I thought I was clear where I was looking - here, you may check for yourself: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136</a>.</p>
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<p>>Iran would have to respond and thus would have to try to find a way to inflict ‘pain’ on the United States to force the United States to back off. But whereas Israel is in reach of some Iranian weapons, the United States is not.<p>This is too complacent for my liking. Every rusty trawler is a viable launch platform for Shahed type drones (operational range ~2500 km per Wikipedia). Nearly every US oil refinery and LNG terminal are on the coast. And then there are floating oil platforms (e.g.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdido_(oil_platform)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdido_(oil_platform)</a>)<p>The article then says:<p>>One can never know how well prepared an enemy is for something.<p>And:<p>>And if I can reason this out, Iran – which has been planning for this exact thing for forty years certainly can.<p>I'll leave it here for y'all to ponder.</p>
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<p>2022 was abnormally high, caused largely by the disruption of gas supplies to Western Europe after sanctions on Russian gas and the destruction of the Nordstream gas pipeline.</p>
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<p>Yes, it is nothing like 2022 <i>yet</i>. But the concerning thing is that this may be just a beginning of a protracted event, plus the world, and especially Western Europe, is less resilient today to the disruptions in gas supply.</p>
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<p>I'm a bit underwhelmed tbh. Here is Anthropic's motto:<p>"At Anthropic, we build AI to serve <i>humanity’s</i> long-term well-being."<p>Why does Anthropic even deal with the Department of @#$%ing WAR?<p>And what does Amodei mean by "defeat" in his first paragraph?</p>
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<p>>It's not as safe as flying<p>In France and Japan, HSR has had zero fatalities in the entire period of operation.<p>In China, HSR had AFAIR one fatal crash, with 40 fatalities. Per passenger-mile, Chinese HSR is twice as safe as US air travel.</p>
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