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New comment by HappyPanacea in "Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching"

HappyPanacea — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:05:29 +0000

> but this was a huge deal for me living in Israel.

I lived in Israel my whole life and I don't remember ever encountering the notion that 'speaking with your hands is lacking "class"' or that ' It's generally seen as "proper" to not use your hands.'. I just looked and easily found two videos with Israel's Prime Minister where he used hand gestures while talking.

> In the military, especially in basic training, that would probably send you doing pushups.

No, I don't think so, why would it?

New comment by HappyPanacea in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

HappyPanacea — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:14:22 +0000

I would like one day to have a database which measure how strongly every food ingredient in use binds to every human smell receptors.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

HappyPanacea — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:55:42 +0000

Iran knows hard currency is better than soft power

New comment by HappyPanacea in "China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus"

HappyPanacea — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:11:28 +0000

No, there were efforts to ban TikTok well before Oct 7th 2023 in 2020-2021 by the first Trump Admin, and there was ongoing effort in 2022-2023 during Biden Admin.

TikTok Agrees to Sell U.s. Operations, https://www.tiktok.com/en/trending/detail/tiktok-agrees-to-s... , 25 Dec 2022

Biden approves banning TikTok from federal government phones, https://www.npr.org/2022/12/20/1144519602/congress-is-about-... , 20 Dec 2022

U.S. is 'looking at' banning TikTok and Chinese social media apps, Pompeo says, https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/07/us-looking-at-banning-tiktok... , 7 July 2020

New comment by HappyPanacea in "China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus"

HappyPanacea — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:53:26 +0000

I'm not sure why you specified nation-states when this is just as likely to happen in any state.

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.