Hacker News: elproxy

New comment by elproxy in "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence"

elproxy — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:02:05 +0000

« selon que vous serez puissant ou misérable, les jugements de cour vous rendront blanc ou noir » "The laws on little culprits fall;/ Great criminals escape them all."

Nothing new since 1678 it seems

New comment by elproxy in "Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?"

elproxy — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 07:14:48 +0000

In fairness, he did so in part because this was going to go against Total's interests (see Oil, Power and War for that part of the story), but yeah, it was still the right stance to have and history proved him right.

New comment by elproxy in "We Remember Noam Chomsky, the Intellectual and Moral Giant"

elproxy — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:54:59 +0000

I am not sure his death is confirmed though. Apparently he had a new stroke.

New comment by elproxy in "Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas"

elproxy — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 07:43:23 +0000

Yup, or things like sulphur thermal storage[1]. Also, hydrogen is pushed heavily by the fossil fuel industry, as it will provide another out for all their methane reserves (via steam reforming).

[1]https://www.solarpaces.org/why-solar-sulphur-cycle-ideal-sea...

New comment by elproxy in "Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich: debunking trickle-down economics"

elproxy — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:23:11 +0000

Or they did, because the people to benefit from those tax cuts happen to own the media and pushed the very anti-abortion and xenophobic ideas that got him elected...

New comment by elproxy in "Adding crushed rock to farmland pulls carbon out of the air"

elproxy — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:05:32 +0000

Or let oceans do some of the work: https://www.withouthotair.com/c31/page_246.shtml

New comment by elproxy in "French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists"

elproxy — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 19:49:36 +0000

So, should the FNSEA be dissolved then? https://twitter.com/SebastienM/status/1671842089502494721?s=...

New comment by elproxy in "GitHub Copilot emits GPL code"

elproxy — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:23:08 +0000

And just the same, copyleft licenses (which are not "non-permissive" in my book) such as GPL don't "mean that you cannot without consent", they just want you to share the result back under the same license (which is often an issue for some corporate projects).

New comment by elproxy in "Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight"

elproxy — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 08:27:52 +0000

The only thing these people want to save is their class privilege, just so we're clear...

New comment by elproxy in "How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (2014)"

elproxy — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 09:51:32 +0000

I assumed it was going for psoas, but popoasson would work too...

New comment by elproxy in "Ask HN: Name 3-5 books that had the most impact on your career and knowledge?"

elproxy — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 07:19:13 +0000

Not books on Software engineering, but since you asked for most impact:

* Limits to Growth (Meadows, Meadows & Randers)

* Sustainable Energy: Without the hot air (David MacKay) Available here: https://www.withouthotair.com/

* Sitopia (Carolyn Steel)

New comment by elproxy in "Nuclear energy is clean"

elproxy — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:04:18 +0000

Nuclear is expensive first and foremost because of the unreasonable yield demands of capital and the advent of neoliberalism causing states to cave to said demands (source: https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Hinkley-Po...)

New comment by elproxy in "Europe is investing heavily in trains"

elproxy — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:57:16 +0000

Paris-Madrid is a poor choice, provided the French and Spanish rail gauge are different, meaning one needs to change somewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian-gauge_railways

New comment by elproxy in "Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal"

elproxy — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 21:11:14 +0000

C++ mostly ;)

New comment by elproxy in "Life Improvements Since the 1990s"

elproxy — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 12:20:01 +0000

Yes, and as pointed out in the link I shared, air pollution is part of the limited impacts it is applicable to, but points out "it does not apply to impacts like resource use and energy use".

New comment by elproxy in "Life Improvements Since the 1990s"

elproxy — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 07:37:32 +0000

The Environmental Kuznets Curve is problematic though, see for instance: https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2020/10/9/response-to-mcafe...

New comment by elproxy in "Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'"

elproxy — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 07:27:10 +0000

From the article linked above: "(...) We call this whataboutism. Actors advancing this discourse often deploy statistics demonstrating their own small contribution to global emissions, or they point to large emitters such as China – “We are a nation that produces 1.8 per cent of global carbon dioxide, so I do not get closing down our aluminium smelters, most of our steel production, and now our refining industry …” "

Either we start giving get out of jail free cards to specific sectors and so on or we agree that everything needs to reduce its emissions by ~8%/year from now on, regardless of their share in total emissions, and of how hard it is technically to decarbonize.

New comment by elproxy in "Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'"

elproxy — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 07:21:47 +0000

Yes, sure, we can go mine the bottom of the oceans and extract it by centrifuging ocean waters, that probably would give us marginally more than a doubling of margin. Point remains: reserves are exhaustible, an exponential consumption may not be desirable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium#:~:text=As%20of%2....

New comment by elproxy in "Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'"

elproxy — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 07:24:39 +0000

Besides the fact that electricity generation is merely one aspect of GHG emissions (hello agriculture, land use, transportation, etc). The ultimate argument against the "let's not radically change our ways and only retool the engine" view is the following: we have ~120 years of known reserves for the current fission reactors, with a potential 10x multiplier with fast neutron reactors should anybody (other than the russians and the chinese) bother to invest into researching the field. How many more doublings in our economy (and hence energy use) does it take to consume it all ? At a measly (by economists and politicians standards) rate of 2%/year, you get a doubling every 35 years. in 350 years (yeah I know this sounds very far in the light of the current news) we'd have increased our demand by 3 orders of magnitude...

New comment by elproxy in "Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'"

elproxy — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 07:15:06 +0000

Beyond the fact that electricity-generation is once again only part of our emissions issue, there's about ~450 reactors worldwide and the uranium ore reserves give us around ~120 years of operation on current 3rd (/3+) gen reactors (short of having fast neutron reactors basically). Having 1000 in the US (or rather 900 more or 3 times as many globally) would have brought that deadline closer by the inverse ratio, and we'd likely already have tensions on nuclear fuel sourcing. Agree with you on the role of government spending though, but there also needs to be a radical paradigm shift in how we view the economy and what needs to happen in each sector (not just within energy in fact).