<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: DemocracyFTW2</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DemocracyFTW2</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:38:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=DemocracyFTW2" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DemocracyFTW2 in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The only difference with Trump is that he says things out loud.<p>The only problem with Flat Earthers is that they say things out loud. Also, grabbing other people by their **ies.</p>
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<p>> Europe can have a Starlink similar network<p>Please don't, this is madness.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:50:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596262</link><dc:creator>DemocracyFTW2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596262</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DemocracyFTW2 in "UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reading the Wikipedia article on the Equal Earth projection it would seem the map used in the resolution indicates national boundaries.</p>
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<p>To be fair you either produce a globe that faithfully reproduces the geoid (a sphere should do for most cases) or you'll always distort something on the map: angles, areas, distances. And then there's the question of the overall map shape: you can get away with less overall distortion at the price of partitioning the map into more pieces (as done e.g. by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map</a>). The Mercator projection has the advantage, if indeed it is one, of being rectangular. To me, a shortcoming of the Equal Earth projection is that it makes places like Australia and Alaska look like they're somehow 'on the fringe'.</p>
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<p>"""As the only country to vote against the resolution, the United States said the Equal Earth projection pushed an "ideological agenda" and distracted attention from "genuine problems of international peace, prosperity or good relations." """</p>
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<p>This is tantamount to saying that the Egyptians from the 18th Dynasty onwards did have horses but no black or white ones because while the historical records concerning warfare did mention horses a lot, nowhere is there a mention of black or white horses. I conclude the ancient Egyptians only had brown horses q.e.d.</p>
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<p>> If you need an LLM to interpret 2 short sentences, here is what it thinks<p>sick burn</p>
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<p>> entitled leftie thing ("Elon Musk should pay for my Instagram!")<p>At least ever since Musk syphoned billions of dollars from the government, then illegally intervened in elections at home and abroad, then went on to destroy USAID, then went after pension funds I believe it would be just fair if he was made to pay personally for some expenses of private people, yes. You don't have to be particularly left to find that.</p>
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<p>> Democracies don't handle nuance well.<p>Failing democracies don't handle nuance well.</p>
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<p>> I accused you<p>You did not.</p>
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<p>You can mock the grammar of "only colonialism when boats", but AFAIK when the Soviet Union accused some Western power of engaging in colonialism and got "well, you have your Central Asian dependencies" as an answer, they were quick to refine their definition of "colonialism" to include a "transmaritime" checkbox. So, yeah. FWIW there have been those who accused modern nation states of practicing "internal colonialism" in the sense that oftentimes all the money, support and political representation goes overwhelmingly to some select places while the rest of the country is treated as a convenient reservoir of cheap labor.</p>
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<p>> where it is not really a good fit due to concurrency<p>I'm the first to admit that concurrency is and always has been a point of contention in SQLite. But, on the other hand, when your concurrency problem is "we have to co-ordinate many small-ish inserts from web site users" I'm being told that due to the in-process nature of SQLite and overall good performance of inserts you can do A LOT even with SQLite's concurrency model. IOW manages to be fast enough for concurrency not to be the problem.</p>
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<p>As someone who cycled to school and back in a pancake-flat landscape, it often did feel like you were up against the wind in both ways. I swear the winds just waited for me, in the morning and the afternoon.</p>
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<p>I'm not saying they didn't have a good or bad reason to do what they do, what I'm saying is this is akin to paying someone to paint the walls and suddenly you find out they're reconfiguring your smartphone. A tad too intrusive for my taste is what I say.</p>
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<p>"HN"?</p>
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<p>> It also feels different from say the optional (and way lower priced seat reservations in German ICE's)<p>One has to add that most of the time when you buy a single ticket in Germany you have to (pay through the nose and) buy a ticket that is good for one specific train. Miss that train and your ticket is gone. This used to be different before the reform of the Deutsche Bahn after 1989; you used to buy a ticket for a 'communication' (connection between endpoints), not a specific train. TBF in like up to 200% of all cases Deutsche Bahn will route the wrong train in the wrong direction to a wrong station hours after the schedule in which case your Zugbindungsfahrausweis will fall back to work as a pre-reform ticket valid on all trains in that direction (sometimes even including an upgrade if an ICE is all there is, I <i>think</i>).</p>
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<p>Yeah, complains about stale too-warm air on the train <i>and</i> complains about staff airing the train during stops. This way you can't lose an argument either way.</p>
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<p>> allows unlimited rail travel within one participating country, excluding the holder’s country of residence<p>One of the things that always bothered me because it's such an arbitrary rule and has hugely different effects for people from different countries. Like, people from Switzerland or Belgium can easily move around all over the place after a short domestic trip. For a few lucky fellers from Lichtenstein or Luxemburg the rule is practically non-existent on account of the small sizes of their countries, whereas someone from eastern France has to pay for a long-distance ticket across all of France if they want to explore the western part of Europe, and all they get is Spain and Portugal (and Andorra—do they have a train line?) with no way to visit Scandinavia, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Czechia, Slovenia or Germany without having to pay for a cross-country trip through France a second time.<p>Also the age limitation for European citizens whereas non-Europeans have no such limit.</p>
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<p>Yeah I mean the whole "OMG I have to pre-order my vegan meals??!" thing. Back in the day we had to WALK to school and when on a trip we brought along our hard-boiled eggs and meatballs wrapped in aluminum foil.</p>
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<p>> Adobe started silently updating my /etc/hosts file<p>This has indeed things like "!!1! MALWARE !!!!" written all over it.</p>
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