Hacker News: jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jbboehrHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:59:54 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by jbboehr in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"]]>A slightly more charitable interpretation might be: sharing useful information creates the possibility of reciprocity.

]]>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:21:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48749336jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48749336https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48749336<![CDATA[New comment by jbboehr in "No Babies? Blame Capitalism"]]>For starters, they named themselves after a murderous left-wing terrorist organization:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobins

> the most influential political club during the French Revolution of 1789. The period of its political ascendancy includes the Reign of Terror, during which well over 10,000 people were put on trial and executed in France, many for "political crimes".

]]>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:23:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430092jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430092https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430092<![CDATA[Liable Humans for AI Deployments]]>Article URL: https://liablehuman.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391824

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]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:58:19 +0000https://liablehuman.com/jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391824https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391824<![CDATA[New comment by jbboehr in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"]]>This is a pretty terrible misrepresentation of original sin. I see you managed to copy it straight out of the Wikipedia page and completely ignore the sentence before it:

> In Christian theology, original sin is the condition of sinfulness that all humans share, which they inherit from the the Fall of Adam and Eve. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin

]]>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:52:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749046jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749046https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749046<![CDATA[New comment by jbboehr in "Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood"]]>> Green Revolution techniques also heavily rely on agricultural machinery and chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and defoliants; which, as of 2014, are derived from crude oil, making agriculture increasingly reliant on crude oil extraction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

]]>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:50:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263068jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263068https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263068<![CDATA[New comment by jbboehr in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"]]>I don't think you are using standard definitions.

> A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war

> Total war is a type of warfare that mobilizes the totality of national resources to sustain war production, blurring the line between military and civilian activities and legitimate attacks on civilian targets as part of a war without restriction as to the combatants, territory or objectives involved. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war

It does so happen that the two world wars were also total wars.

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:30:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215282jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215282https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215282<![CDATA[New comment by jbboehr in "If you tax them, will they leave?"]]>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve

]]>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:04:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804278jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804278https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804278<![CDATA[New comment by jbboehr in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"]]>I bought a knife a while back and, unfortunately, found out that it is really sharp. It could probably cut through flesh like butter.

]]>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:50:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209657jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209657https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209657<![CDATA[New comment by jbboehr in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"]]>Or run over by a van.

]]>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:21:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209162jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209162https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209162<![CDATA[New comment by jbboehr in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"]]>IDK, man, the '70s sounded pretty wild: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/

]]>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:35:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208875jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208875https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208875<![CDATA[Hundreds charged with online 'speech crimes' under 'Orwellian' crackdown]]>Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/15/hundreds-charged-speech-crimes-jd-vance-warns-civil-liberty/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063019

Points: 11

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]]>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:24:52 +0000https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/15/hundreds-charged-speech-crimes-jd-vance-warns-civil-liberty/jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063019https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063019<![CDATA[New comment by jbboehr in "White nationalist books planted in little free libraries across Ottawa"]]>Supposedly: https://books.google.com/books/about/?id=s1pLvAEACAAJ

]]>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 02:45:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044194jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044194https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044194<![CDATA[Civil War Comes to the West (2023)]]>Article URL: https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/civil-war-comes-to-the-west/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43033285

Points: 15

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]]>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 06:33:14 +0000https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/civil-war-comes-to-the-west/jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43033285https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43033285<![CDATA[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Quotes]]>Article URL: https://www.generationterrorists.com/quotes/smac.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032480

Points: 1

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]]>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 03:48:34 +0000https://www.generationterrorists.com/quotes/smac.htmljbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032480https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032480<![CDATA[The truth about house prices and immigration]]>Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/house-prices/truth-house-prices-immigration/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031685

Points: 4

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]]>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 01:18:11 +0000https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/house-prices/truth-house-prices-immigration/jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031685https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031685<![CDATA[The Frivolity of Evil (2004)]]>Article URL: https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-frivolity-of-evil

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43021689

Points: 3

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]]>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:53:46 +0000https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-frivolity-of-eviljbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43021689https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43021689<![CDATA[Gulf of America Day, 2025]]>Article URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/gulf-of-america-day-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42995755

Points: 8

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]]>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:48:42 +0000https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/gulf-of-america-day-2025/jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42995755https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42995755<![CDATA[It's time for the church to go green]]>Article URL: https://unherd.com/newsroom/its-time-for-the-church-go-green/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42993428

Points: 1

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]]>Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:12:17 +0000https://unherd.com/newsroom/its-time-for-the-church-go-green/jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42993428https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42993428<![CDATA[The Cross and the Machine]]>Article URL: https://firstthings.com/the-cross-and-the-machine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42986913

Points: 3

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]]>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 22:55:28 +0000https://firstthings.com/the-cross-and-the-machine/jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42986913https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42986913<![CDATA[New comment by jbboehr in "Dark Enlightenment: Creepy Internet Movement You'd Better Take Seriously (2013)"]]>A better primer: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy...

]]>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 04:40:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969479jbboehrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969479https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969479