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New comment by gadders in "Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi"

gadders — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:48:44 +0000

You think Solar + Batteries is equivalent to a nuclear power plant? What would the footprint be for equivalent solar power production?

New comment by gadders in "Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi"

gadders — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:47:37 +0000

They're also more exposed to massive power outages. Why do you think that is?

New comment by gadders in "Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi"

gadders — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:09:55 +0000

Oh, China is by no means a beacon. I just don't think we should be (effectively) outsourcing pollution to them. In the last 8 years, China has emitted more CO2 than the UK has in the last 250.

New comment by gadders in "Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi"

gadders — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:10:09 +0000

The case against wind and solar is that it only works when it is windy or sunny. At least Nuclear is consistent.

New comment by gadders in "Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi"

gadders — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:41:19 +0000

Is this satire? We have steel plants and potteries closing down because they can't afford to be run due to energy prices.

But that's OK because we can import from China or wherever and it counts against their (dirtier) emissions than ours.

New comment by gadders in "Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi"

gadders — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:39:23 +0000

...when it is sunny and windy.

I honestly don't know why anyone is arguing against nuclear at this point.

New comment by gadders in "Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi"

gadders — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:22:51 +0000

Oil companies seem awfully keen to drill in somewhere that is not economically viable. Net Zero has left us more exposed to Putin, not less as we don't produce much of our own energy and are in fact buying Russian oil via India, rather than drilling out our own.

New comment by gadders in "Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi"

gadders — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:02:48 +0000

Oh look: https://www.gov.uk/government/people/ed-miliband

"Ed Miliband was appointed Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero on 5 July 2024. He was elected MP for Doncaster North in May 2005."

New comment by gadders in "Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi"

gadders — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:56:43 +0000

He might have been a Net Zero nut, but I don't think he's the one stopping people fracking or drilling the North Sea. And it was Nick Clegg who said "no point building a new nuclear plant as it will take ten years to deliver"(about ten years ago).

New comment by gadders in "Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi"

gadders — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:54:43 +0000

The massive wave of migration in the last few years has decreased GDP per person.

New comment by gadders in "Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi"

gadders — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:53:00 +0000

At a large company I know, offshored Polish developers now cost more than ones in the North of the UK. So I think Poland has come up as much as parts of the UK have gone down.

New comment by gadders in "Surprise, pay $1000"

gadders — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:38:58 +0000

Standard growth-hack douche-baggery.

You'd think the YC mentors would give advice like "Don't be a dick to your potential customers".

Also I'd tell them where to stick their invoice.

New comment by gadders in "Siri AI"

gadders — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:09:01 +0000

Does the UK get this new AI and not the EU?

New comment by gadders in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

gadders — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:52:23 +0000

You didn't hurt my feelings. You came on here and boasted about how weak your country was.

New comment by gadders in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

gadders — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:30:14 +0000

The first time in history people have been able to accurately predict a counter-factual.

Of course, any economic gains weren't guaranteed and were predicated on competent national government and we saw what happened there.

However, net-net, I'd rather have one shite layer of government, rather than two.

New comment by gadders in "Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?"

gadders — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:22:41 +0000

Michael Arrington told everyone about it on TechCrunch.

New comment by gadders in "Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements"

gadders — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:12:25 +0000

They prefer it because they don't have to pay to use it.

New comment by gadders in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

gadders — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:41:17 +0000

I agree on the capital T. It's still Turkey to me.

New comment by gadders in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

gadders — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:40:31 +0000

I agree on a capital T. Country names are proper nouns and should always be capitalised.

New comment by gadders in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

gadders — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:30:33 +0000

Turkiye is the endonym, not the exonym.