<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: TheSpiceIsLife</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TheSpiceIsLife</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 19:03:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=TheSpiceIsLife" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheSpiceIsLife in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The NTSB’s role is to not to assign blame.<p>We aren’t in the aviation industry, and neither are we the NTSB.<p>Prosecutions and convictions do occur as a result of aviation incidents, pilots loose their jobs, pilots loose their licenses, ATC staff can be prohibited from ever working in the industry again.<p>We free to talk about all of those aspects here.</p>
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<p>The NTSB also <i>isn’t</i> the organisation that makes any changes nor, as you suggest, assigns any penalties.<p>The NTSB only makes recommendations.</p>
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<p>Because know one owns a $300 billion dollar hammer that literally runs on <i>fancy calculators</i>.</p>
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<p>I dunno.<p>I was at school for 12 years.<p>There were two good teachers.<p>The rest of them, and all the staff at those four schools, are hopefully spending the rest of eternity burning in hell.</p>
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<p>I’m from Adelaide, so I’m well aware of the gay bashing and “suicides” that happened in Australia.<p>But as you put it: <i>had</i><p>We’re not still doing those things, are we? And if they do happen we’re going we’re not turning a blind eye to them, are we?</p>
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<p>I live in Australia.</p>
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<p>Don’t leave us hanging, what <i>exactly</i> is happening at the crime scene?</p>
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<p>Whether I wanting them or not is irrelevant to the fact that they presently don’t exist, and that I’m not due for a new vehicle for years.<p>I did try to make that clear in the comment you replied to.<p>The battery technology doesn’t exist.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:30:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495369</link><dc:creator>TheSpiceIsLife</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495369</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheSpiceIsLife in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If my 11 to 13 year old got <i>furious</i> they’d swiftly find themselves at an agricultural boarding school in the regions.<p>This being Australia, likely a particular remote boarding school in a particular hot part of the county.<p>Come back when you’ve learned how to be reasonable sort of person.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:13:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486323</link><dc:creator>TheSpiceIsLife</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheSpiceIsLife in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I go further.<p>Even if I am expecting a call from a service provider, insurance, bank, whatever…<p>They’ll want you to identify yourself, name, dob, address.<p>Never do this to unverified inbound callers.<p>And how do you verify an inbound caller is who thru claim they are and not a scammer?<p>You don’t. You tell them you never give out PII to inbound callers as they are indistinguishable from scammers.<p>Then call the them on their publicly listed number and deal with the issue from there.<p>We need to encourage service providers to <i>stop doing that</i> as it is exactly leads to people being more easily scammed.</p>
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<p>I believe cordless VoIP phones are still a product one can purchase new.<p>They need only an electrical outlet for the charge stand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:34:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486071</link><dc:creator>TheSpiceIsLife</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486071</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheSpiceIsLife in "NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Heat pumps don’t solve switching away from gas.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:04:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265801</link><dc:creator>TheSpiceIsLife</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheSpiceIsLife in "NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Never.<p>Come April, all the  production and construction capacity will be commandeered for the war machine.</p>
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<p>I’m all for burning less gas, it’s too important a resource to simply burn for heat.<p>But we need to build the nuclear reactors <i>first</i>.<p>In the mean time, no: people can’t just freeze in the dark.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:05:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47260230</link><dc:creator>TheSpiceIsLife</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47260230</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47260230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheSpiceIsLife in "NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The not-so-hidden costs of collecting extremely diffuse wind / solar is the elephant in the room 10x bill for the supporting grid infrastructure.<p>Nuclear advocates, like myself, claim drop in replacement nuclear power reactors at existing coal / gas sites would largely obviate this.<p>Even adding new nuclear power reactors at greenfield sites would constitute a significantly reduced grid build cost, as the power is highly concentrated.<p>And nuclear is so say that nuclear power reactors employees are routine exposed to less radiation at work than they are at home in their kitchen with granite bench tops.<p>YIMBY.</p>
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<p>Still, 1.4 vs 1.2 is a distinction without a difference.<p><i>One party fucked us over slightly less than the other party</i> isn’t really an argument in favour of <i>either</i>.</p>
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<p>If you click on the time stamp of my earlier comment you should see the option to flag my comment.<p>Dibber-dobber.</p>
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<p>Forgive me father for I have sinned. It has been three minutes since I shit posted on HN, and my greentext stories are famous on 4chan. Also, after lunch today I send 300 emails to Jeffrey Epstein using my work email and signed with my real name. What a great guy!</p>
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<p>Halve it to 0.11G then.<p>It makes no difference, we’d still need gigawatt scale electricity production, with some multiple of that at peak, just for a fairly unremarkable airport.</p>
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<p>I was addressing the claim that Democrats had added merely $1.2 trillion since 1913.<p>I apologise if that wasn’t clear enough.</p>
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