<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: earnestinger</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=earnestinger</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:48:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=earnestinger" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by earnestinger in "Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s unknown.<p>It can equally be possible, impossible or not worth it.<p>Interstellar rocks crashing at you with velocity of 0.1c might hurt a lot.<p>I would not like my government spending 99% of everybodies income for 100 generations, just to send one human to proxima centauri.<p>Growth and efficiency gains are not guaranteed, and will eventually stop.
(If you take the mass of universe, put it into mc^2, and assume 5% energy consumption increase per year you get 2k years to consume whole universe worth of energy)<p>We can’t just assume that humans will reach Proxima Centauri.</p>
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<p>To solve the issue we must answer several questions: What’s the alternative? How much it would cost for whole class and members of classmate families?</p>
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<p>Yup. Java 1.8 is humongous leap to the right direction.</p>
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<p>I’m stll waiting for the revival of the cousin, underhanded c contest.</p>
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<p>Why court system is relevant for the currency?<p>I assume British courts can enforce contracts that deal in dollars.</p>
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<p>Eg. Some brand used in a movie.<p>Usually brands pay for that screen time, but it’s not very obvious that it’s payed advertising.</p>
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<p>Real men would dig Route 66 canal instead of Panama.</p>
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<p>No idea. Read only is good enough.</p>
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<p>Reasons why:<p>Corporation does not care about life per se, it looks at impact on profit.<p>Corporation has option to sue  offender into oblivion (by thoroughly writing contracts)</p>
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<p>Parent is perfectly right.<p>> cultural shift toward being selfish<p>I enjoy ice cream so damn all other opinions :)</p>
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<p>Or more education.</p>
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<p>I think you are missing the forest for the trees.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 09:12:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44411496</link><dc:creator>earnestinger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44411496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44411496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by earnestinger in "IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do understand that it was not the first first salvo.<p>And that blockading policy and financing of anything but fatah and bunch of other stuff    influenced today situation.<p>But you must admit that oct 7 was unusual escalation. Which now are used as the reason for current idf actions.</p>
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<p>If there is a lot of malnutrition, population numbers will change without migration.</p>
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<p>> Once one side of a war becomes dominant, it just ends.<p>Sorry for being pedanto, but other side must stop resisting for war to end. Guerrilla warfare is quite usual when there is great power imbalance.</p>
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<p>I think the parent meant there were no shooting before the genocide started. Jewish resistances were reactive to nazi actions.<p>I.e. there was not even a possibility that nazis were defending.
While somebody from Palestine side did fire the opening salvo on oct7.</p>
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<p>Not sure I get your point.<p>Try the same, but opposite argument.<p>Something like: Would you wear a t-shirt saying “Palestine is treated unfairly” to oct7 memorial or airport/border crossing?</p>
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<p>> and that many people who express that sentiment wouldn't be expressing it if the powers were flipped<p>That is definitely not true.</p>
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<p>Are you really of this opinion or are you trying to incite replies? :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 13:35:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404613</link><dc:creator>earnestinger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404613</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by earnestinger in "Object personification in autism: This paper will be sad if you don't read (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Link was used to establish that this concept is usually called “gender”. (I felt there was a dispute on that; might be my projection)<p>Regarding anecdotes:<p>In my native language all objects have grammatical gender (feminine and masculine).<p>If I would write a children book natively, about objects that come to life, I would automatically assign their social gender based on grammatical gender.<p>Because language hints it that way. Pronouns, adjectives, participles, all must be adjusted based on objects gender (exactly like it would be done when talking about a person).</p>
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