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New comment by HappyPanacea in "One neat trick to end extreme poverty"

HappyPanacea — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:08:16 +0000

Technology, crediting this to capitalism is just as dumb as blaming every society’s ills on capitalism.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

HappyPanacea — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:36:27 +0000

Which combat veterans?

New comment by HappyPanacea in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

HappyPanacea — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:26:23 +0000

Vast over-generalization

New comment by HappyPanacea in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

HappyPanacea — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:20:26 +0000

Finland?

New comment by HappyPanacea in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

HappyPanacea — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:58:52 +0000

No idea why you single out nation states, all states are similar.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?"

HappyPanacea — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:01:41 +0000

Serre is known for being active in old age as well

New comment by HappyPanacea in "ArXiv Declares Independence from Cornell"

HappyPanacea — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:33:14 +0000

Yes the obvious play is to move human labor to cheaper countries like France (including CEO of course).

New comment by HappyPanacea in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"

HappyPanacea — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:31:22 +0000

arXiv's CEO doesn't need to be a tenured professor equivalent it is a preprint repository ffs.

Probing gravity with gravitational waves: cosmology, black hole ringdowns[video]

HappyPanacea — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:12:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBL1Qwqhqfg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452601

Points: 1

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New comment by HappyPanacea in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

HappyPanacea — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:37:02 +0000

> There are literally 100k deaths in Europe that can be prevented if they lifted restrictions on AC so that they can feel good about making a negligible effect on carbon emissions.

What restrictions are there on AC?

New comment by HappyPanacea in "AI and the Ship of Theseus"

HappyPanacea — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:37:53 +0000

> b/c whatever special sauce is hidden in the black box can be inferred from its outward behavior.

This is not always true, for an extreme example see Indistinguishability obfuscation.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

HappyPanacea — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:19:25 +0000

Yes, I don't want to live under Islamic rule.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

HappyPanacea — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:13:52 +0000

> Iran could have been contained and Obama was right on his approach.

So you don't care about people forced to live under IRGC rule and their desire to export their Islamic ideals elsewhere?

New comment by HappyPanacea in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

HappyPanacea — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:05:56 +0000

> Does Iran not have the same rights of self-defense and sovereignty as the US and Israel?

Iran signed Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

New comment by HappyPanacea in "U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran"

HappyPanacea — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:01:52 +0000

I don't think such over-simplistic takes are capable of providing value to this forum. Japan send their regards and so does Armenia Greece and many others.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

HappyPanacea — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:58:30 +0000

If nukes are so good why Israel isn't safe? Or in other words you overestimate how useful nukes are. On contrary for Iran them having nukes mean Israel have to guess if coming missiles contain nukes or not and whatever to strike back with their own nukes where as now they can freely sand missiles without escalation concerns.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

HappyPanacea — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:36:16 +0000

I give up. We started this with "Do you understand the difference between being not in uniform in order to infiltrate enemy territory and being not in uniform in your own territory?" and I clarified again in the comment you responded to: "What I want is Israeli citizens mistaken for an enemy combatant in Israel in a non-active-combat environment or Palestinians citizens mistaken for an IDF soldier in Palestine in a non-active-combat environment."

I will explain one last time I'm not looking for examples of people being harmed from "general" perfidy but those analogous for what happened - a stealth raid infiltrating among an enemy's population, "people start shooting civilians thinking they're infiltrators" as you said. The hostages weren't infiltrators, the context was that they were in enemy territory against their will and active combat. This is quite different from an hypothetical west bank combatant shooting his fellow men in non-active combat because he thought they were IDF.

P.S I'm still confused about the German Jews in the 1930s/1940s comment.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

HappyPanacea — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:31:57 +0000

> Now it's suddenly not a problem? I can't imagine Hamas signed the Geneva Conventions.

As I already alluded to earlier, the principles and spirit are more important to me than the literal conventions and if somebody signed it. I will note that you brought up the Geneva Conventions not me.

> German Jews in the 1930s/1940s would probably disagree.

I'm confused to what you refer to and why you brought it up?

> I mean, the IDF killed three Israeli hostages in Gaza, while with their hands up and holding a white flag, because they thought they were infiltrators.

This is not an example to what I asked for, this wouldn't have happened if Hamas wore uniform, IDF wore uniforms, the held hostages civilians didn't but because they were in combat they mistook them for Hamas. What I want is Israeli citizens mistaken for an enemy combatant in Israel in a non-active-combat environment or Palestinians citizens mistaken for an IDF soldier in Palestine in a non-active-combat environment.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

HappyPanacea — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:30:58 +0000

> Could you clarify where in the Geneva Conventions this very important exemption is stated?

The spirit of the law is more important then its letter. Also I think Israel never signed that part of the Geneva Conventions.

> Because people start shooting civilians thinking they're infiltrators, and even enemy civilians are protected persons.

When did that happened in the Israel-Arab conflict? (When did that happened elsewhere? It sounds like it should be very rare, people don't kill their own so easily?)

New comment by HappyPanacea in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

HappyPanacea — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:03:10 +0000

Why was it decided that feigning of civilian, non-combatant status is bad? because it led to death of civilians who had no part in the fight; pretending to be your enemy's civilians bring no such issue. Although assassinating a patient is also not kosher it less relevant to the discussion about use of uniforms.