Hacker News: klipt

New comment by klipt in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

klipt — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:15:13 +0000

At which point the bitcoin in legacy wallets is clearly worthless

New comment by klipt in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

klipt — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:43:01 +0000

> the cheapest and least disruptive option is to cut consumption

And good for the environment!

New comment by klipt in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

klipt — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:41:28 +0000

> price to pay for the damage the us and Israel have inflicted on Iran

Well if we're talking reparations, shouldn't Iran pay for the damage Hezbollah inflicted on Israel with Iranian supplied weapons for decades?

New comment by klipt in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

klipt — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:36:24 +0000

Israel withdrew fully from Lebanon in 2000, and this was certified by the UN, yet Hezbollah kept attacking them anyway.

If Hezbollah offered Israel a choice between: peace with Hezbollah OR occupy land in Lebanon, I think Israel would rationally choose peace.

But Hezbollah has never offered this. Their stated goal is complete destruction of Israel.

So if the options are: Hezbollah shoots at you from right across the border OR you occupy a buffer zone and Hezbollah still shoots at you but from further away:

Isn't it perfectly rational to choose the buffer zone?

New comment by klipt in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

klipt — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:24:42 +0000

Imagine if the US government diverted the billions spent on this war into building out green energy infrastructure.

If everyone had electric cars charging from solar then Iran's strait gambit would be much less effective.

New comment by klipt in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

klipt — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:17:33 +0000

> now.. with that $2M toll, iran just learnt it can just toll the ships...

But the strait has two sides and Iran only controls one side. The UAE/Oman on the other side could equally threaten to attack Iranian ships unless Iran pays them a toll.

New comment by klipt in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

klipt — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:36:31 +0000

I notice the repo has no data on supply of doctors per person in different countries. It's well known that the US residency system with its limited slots constrains the supply of doctors who can practice in the US.

New comment by klipt in "US Job Market Visualizer"

klipt — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:18:39 +0000

Exactly https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/few-us-busi...

> Only about 70 employers have paid a $100,000 Trump fee on H-1B workers from outside the US since it was imposed through a September White House proclamation, a government attorney said Thursday.

New comment by klipt in "Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker"

klipt — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:09:54 +0000

Yet another reason monopolies are bad.

New comment by klipt in "Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker"

klipt — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:11:45 +0000

If Iran is unwilling to let neutral international observers confirm the number, that suggests they are trying to hide a number they don't want the world to know.

New comment by klipt in "Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker"

klipt — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:05:48 +0000

Difficult to be sure what would happen in a counter factual universe without foreign interference.

We do know that Russia et al sow division online as part of their anti western efforts, a strategy detailed in their "Foundations of Geopolitics" manual.

New comment by klipt in "Pro-Iran hackers claim cyberattack on major US medical device maker"

klipt — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:09:19 +0000

I want American pedos to be brought to justice but let's not forget, in Iran it's legal to marry children so they are actually even worse on this issue.

New comment by klipt in "Pro-Iran hackers claim cyberattack on major US medical device maker"

klipt — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:39:41 +0000

They're angry about civilians dying, so they want different civilians to die from lack of medical devices?

New comment by klipt in "Teenagers report for duty as Croatia reinstates conscription"

klipt — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:46:21 +0000

The government forcing you to put your body in harm's way is the opposite of bodily autonomy.

New comment by klipt in "Teenagers report for duty as Croatia reinstates conscription"

klipt — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:27:48 +0000

Male only conscription. Meaning no bodily autonomy for men.

Three scientists who said no to Epstein

klipt — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:25:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-three-scientists-who-said-no-epstein

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239264

Points: 18

# Comments: 1

New comment by klipt in "Palantir's AI Is Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries"

klipt — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:58:18 +0000

Doesn't the Geneva Convention state that if militants build an underground base beneath a civilian building, that civilian building becomes a military target?

Gaza is Swiss-cheesed with hundreds of miles of military tunnels. If any attack on a tunnel is disallowed because of civilian buildings above it, I predict many countries will start adopting the Hamas strategy of putting military bases under civilian buildings. That way, every attack on your bases becomes a war crime by your enemy - you can't lose!

New comment by klipt in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

klipt — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:18:05 +0000

Sufficiently advanced technology has become like magic: you have to prompt the electronic genie with the right words or it will twist your wishes.

New comment by klipt in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

klipt — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:44:39 +0000

Free trade is leftist now?

I thought a minute ago "communist China" was the protectionist one and "free capitalist America" was the one in favor of free trade.

New comment by klipt in "A shortage of tenors"

klipt — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:54:13 +0000

Then why no shortage of basses?