<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: glaucon</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=glaucon</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:06:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=glaucon" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glaucon in "Hang on to Your Firefox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know why but I have a different experience. My daily driver is a 13 year old Thinkpad with 16Gb memory, I use Firefox all the time, I routinely have 50+ tabs open, I really have no complaints.<p>I also use Firefox on Android, I have less experience of using other browsers on mobile but what I've got is fine for me.<p>I'm not questioning your experience but I would like others, who might be considering using Firefox, to know that different people have different experiences.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:48:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529325</link><dc:creator>glaucon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glaucon in "Count Binface"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>| terrifically intelligent and obviously absurdly well-educated, he's just a liar and a sociopath.<p>No idea how intelligent he is, I wouldn't say I've seen any obvious signs of outstanding cerebral capabilities.<p>As to his education, he got a 2.1, quite respectable but given the resources employed (Eton and Oxford) in his education anything less would have been shameful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:45:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955795</link><dc:creator>glaucon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955795</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glaucon in "Count Binface"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've just looked up the regulations. If he plans to withdraw he only has until 4pm Monday 20th July. After that he's on the ballot regardless.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:37:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955764</link><dc:creator>glaucon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955764</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glaucon in "Count Binface"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>|suspend him or order a recall by-election as a result.<p>I believe that while the Parliamentary Standards Committee can order a suspension, the prospect of a recall election is not due to the committee ordering it but rather sufficient electors in the Member's constituency petitioning for it.<p>The recall election only becomes a possibility if any suspension is greater than ten days in length.</p>
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<p>|which isn’t going to happen<p>I do wonder if Farage will decide to drop out before the vote.<p>Farage, more than most people, seems to strongly dislike ridicule and to lose a good deal of his vote to a comedy candidate would significantly damage his long term political prospects. If the polls look really bad for him it might be better to cut and run.<p>If that happened it would be difficult for the Count as I assume he would win the seat, but having to be a reasonably behaved MP is an onerous task and one that he might prefer not to take on.</p>
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<p>I appreciate that in global terms I live a life of data privilege, but I really don't think a 95mb download is any problem at all if the thing I'm downloading has utility.</p>
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<p>It may be getting too much traffic, it's coming back with a database error for me at least. Here's the archive.org <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20260701213459/https://escapepod.org/2013/09/14/ep413-why-i-left-harrys-all-night-hamburgers/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20260701213459/https://escapepod...</a> .</p>
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<p>As the article mentions under some circumstances trailer mounted generators are not considered stationary and that is the basis of the plaintiffs claim.</p>
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<p>Wasn't this move meant to be delayed until after the IPO?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:31:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486550</link><dc:creator>glaucon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glaucon in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I haven't read the prospectus but I would be interested to know, when he dies, to what degree the "... control the outcome of matters requiring shareholder approval" part will be inherited. Does that facility just go along with the Class B super-voting shares? And if it does what does it mean if more than one person inherits his shares?<p>On the subject of the governance structure this [1] is worth a read ...<p>"The company significantly limits shareholders' rights to sue. SpaceX's bylaws will make it clear that anyone who owns shares "irrevocably and unconditionally" waives all rights to pursue a jury trial. Shareholders will also be prohibited from bringing class actions against the company, its directors, officers, controlling shareholders or bankers tied to the IPO, according to the filing.<p>Instead,  shareholders will be subject to mandatory arbitration, which had long been illegal in the U.S. The Securities and Exchange Commission reversed its position, opens new tab in September, allowing companies to adopt mandatory arbitration policies, which are private proceedings overseen by arbitrators."<p>... I can't remember how much he spent in Pennsylvania but you might argue it was money well spent.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/spacex-ipo-gives-musk-sweeping-power-curbs-shareholder-rights-2026-05-06/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:51:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455682</link><dc:creator>glaucon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glaucon in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He _says_ he doesn't like renewables but secretly he loves them ;-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:10:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405913</link><dc:creator>glaucon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by glaucon in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's hilarious (or would be if it didn't involve killing people), the same dullards who wanted to "drill, baby, drill" have accelerated the move to renewables in a way they would have struggled to do if they were the most greeny administration ever seen.</p>
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<p>Which is pretty much what Australian average price is. Average Australian domestic tariff is around AUD 0.30/kwh which is USD 0.21/kwh.<p>None of this touches on standing charges, I don't know how that works in the USA, in Australia for an average household it runs at AUD 1.00/day to AUD 1.50/day (USD 0.70/day to USD 1.00/day). For an average household the standing charge is going to add 15 to 20% to the tariff.</p>
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<p>> That's not all that much<p>May not be much in world terms but here in NZ national demand maxes out at around 5.5GW so bringing another GW on stream would be quite handy. Most of the geothermal is a lot closer to Auckland* than our hydro is so so that would be another positive aspect.<p>* Auckland has 25% of the population so a corresponding amount of energy has to be pushed its way.</p>
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<p>Stop masking passwords by default.<p>Masked passwords were boring when passwords were typically 'goeagles' but now they're 'Justlongenough22!' they're a real barrier to anybody who doesn't type the string multiple times a day.<p>If you really think that someone staring over the users shoulder is a genuine risk factor than allow people to turn it on, not (if the user is lucky) allow them to turn it off.</p>
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<p>> What’s the counter to that?<p>In the case of the AWS scenario someone driving by who decides to nick it?<p>Or the courier puts the box down upside down?<p>Just by the way is a package delivery company going to be willing to deliver a package to an abandoned lot?<p>Your solar panel equipped, "rest and recharge" idea is interesting.</p>
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<p>Good line from the blog post ...<p>"So what is the plan now?" - "Move a little faster and not break things"</p>
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<p>> He needs to either _completely_ own up to it<p>I'm not advocating on BG's behalf but your suggestion pre-supposes that his activities exceeded those he has already admitted to. I don't know whether they did or not, but I think it's worth noting that Epstein was very keen to make contacts with influential people and then boast of those contacts. It's at least worth considering what while boasting he made up some stuff about the nature of his activities with those people. For that reason I'm not willing to assume that everyone who ever had contact with Epstein was involved in child sex crimes.</p>
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<p>If you're not British please don't assume that "ejecting heriditary nobles" from the upper house of parliament is automatically going to increase the quality of governance.<p>For more than a century the majority of those who sit in the House of Lords have been "Life Peers", appointed by a politician and without any heriditary aspect. They include such towers of statepersonship as : Evgeny Lebedev (Russian businessman, son of a KGB officer); Alexander Lebedev (another Russian businessman, he's actually been in the KGB); Charlotte Owen (junior aide to Boris Johnson for three years) ... the list goes on.<p>This isn't new (although in recent time the dodginess has risen to new highs) and many of those appointed to Life Peerages meet the goal of having significant life experience they can use to illuminate aspects of legislation that might otherwise be missed. Equally heriditary peers are not all some Wodehousian stereotype of bumbling idiots.</p>
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<p>The plan is not to "remove trial by jury" but to "remove trial by jury for some types of offense".</p>
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