<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: km3r</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=km3r</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:43:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=km3r" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by km3r in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's in addition to our normal efforts to switch to renewable. No one said this replaces those existing programs.<p>That investment should be happening, but it's not going to comes from companies that you ban from operating.</p>
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<p>What? The water is not getting boiled off. Datacenters, for the most part, have closed liquid loop cooling systems. Electricity goes in, hot air and bits come out.</p>
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<p>Why not just require factories /data centers invest in solar/wind/renewables to cover their power usage.<p>Banning is so childish when there is easy solutions.</p>
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<p>Us revolutionary war. China taking Tibet. US Mexican war.</p>
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<p>Society is better if we sacrifice one horse and buggy driver job for two engineering jobs. The drivers suffer from that, but the net win for society is so plainly obvious that it's a better investment to retrain the driver or just pay the off rather than support a job that dying anyways.</p>
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<p>Joe Biden was 6 was israel was created. 6 year olds are not responsible for ethnic cleansing.<p>And yes, there is ongoing issues (from both sides), but solving the current situation is very different than solving the ethnic cleansing that happened in 1948.</p>
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<p>Except those people are dead. Those who ethnically cleansed Arabs (and Jews) during the nakba are dead. Almost everyone who was ethnicity cleansed is now dead. At a certain point you need to recognize that a new generation has been born into this conflict, and with it, a change in circumstances. Attitudes like yours ignore that Israelis who were born there don't have another home to 'return' to.<p>That doesn't mean that Palestinians don't have a right to resist occupation, but the circumstances are significantly materially different today then 40 years ago.</p>
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<p>What political/ideological goal does attacking the aid workers move forward? It's a war crime, no doubt, but terrorism has a meaning that doesn't include all war crimes.<p>> Killing unarmed civilians, kids, etc is also terrorist.<p>The vast majority of lethal force actions in Gaza are targeting Hamas operations. Civilians getting killed by those strikes is NOT terrorism.</p>
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<p>“Roof knocking” is when the IAF targets a building with a loud but non-lethal bomb that warns civilians that they are in the vicinity of a weapons cache or other target.<p><a href="https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas/how-is-the-idf-minimizing-harm-to-civilians-in-gaza/" rel="nofollow">https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas/how-is-the-idf-minimi...</a><p>Non lethal not non explosive, I stand corrected. Now can you answer the question.<p>You even admit it's a smaller bomb than then say its double tapping? Those are two opposing things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:21:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146068</link><dc:creator>km3r</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by km3r in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  the Israeli Army dropped a small bomb on a house<p>Roof knocking is using non explosive ordinance. It is, by definition, not a bomb. Attacking its use is wild, its a tactic that saves civilian lives, even if you disagree with the validity of the target.<p>> that means you think that Hamas sent these people on the roof to let the Israeli army execute them, not even to use them as a human shield.<p>Yes. That is what human shielding is. The unfortunate reality is that it is irresponsible to completely stop attacks when human shielding is used, as it encourages further use of the practice. Just like blaming Israel for all of those death is also encouraging Hamas to further use the tactic.<p>> What would be the military objective here?<p>Hamas has been very clear that deaths of their civilians further the Palestinian cause by causing the world to turn on Israel. The objective here is clear.<p>Now I turn it back to you: what is the military purpose of roof knocking?<p>No double tapping doesn't make sense here. You wouldn't use a non-explosive ordinance if the goal was "double tapping"</p>
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<p>Terrorism has a simple definition: using force against civilian life to further ones goals.<p>Target a music festival with no military value: terrorism.<p>Blow up a building because hamas has a tunnel under there: not terrorism. If the military value gained is disproportionate to the civilian cost, it is a war crime. But still not terrorism.</p>
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<p>The spirit of the law is reducing the civilian cost of war. Its hard to argue that Israel's few incidents of wearing civilian clothes for special operations increased the odds of civilian costs compared to the same operation done in uniform. Meanwhile, Hamas's lack of uniforms has led to significantly increased civilian cost.</p>
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<p>I said that complexity can lead to intelligence, not that it must.</p>
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<p>I said "intelligence can emerge" not that it will.</p>
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<p>Because it's so entirely reductive and misunderstanding of where the technology has progressed. Hello world is s computer program. So it Microsoft Windows. New levels of "intelligence" unlock with greater complexity of a program.<p>Like look at our brains. We know decently well how a single neuron works. We can simulate a single one with "just a computer program". But clearly with enough layers some form of complexity can emerge, and at some level that complexity becomes intelligence.</p>
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<p><a href="https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-video-super-resolution/" rel="nofollow">https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-video-super-resolution/</a><p>We already have some of the stepping stones for this. But honestly much better for upscaling poor quality streams  vs just gives things a weird feeling when it is a better quality stream.</p>
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<p>> My man, Israel had a blockade surrounding Palestine on all sides for years prior.<p>A blockade that was specifically accounted for the the preceding ceasefire agreement that was in place on Oct 6th.<p>> David and Goliath<p>Yet, it is David who keeps starting this fight, losing, then calling Goliath unjust because his ability to punch back is greater.<p>> And not ignoring Palestine, which had existed for 12 centuries before the birth of Christ?<p>Nope not ignoring. Both groups have a long history in the region. Arabs through colonization centuries ago. Heck, "Palestine" even comes from the Jewish word for invader (the naming is not connected to the arabization of Palestine).</p>
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<p>That is an elementary understanding international law.<p>If after Oct 7th Israel went and killed a single child in retaliation, that would be unjust. Justification and proportionality are not measured like that.<p>Justification is established by a valid objective to go to war. Proportionality is measured in comparison to the military objectives. The Oct 7th attack clearly justifies the removal of Hamas. The proportionality of doing so is dependent on the size of Hamas's army (20k-30k), the size of their infrastructure (500 kms of tunnels), and their ability to separate their operations and operators from civilians.</p>
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<p>The UN has made no such ruling. Committees don't speak for the UN.</p>
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<p>>  one would suspect that the specific characteristics of the human cochlea might be tuned to human speech while still being able to process environmental and animal sounds sufficiently well.<p>I wonder if these could be used to better master movies and television audio such that the dialogue is easier to hear.</p>
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