<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: kruffalon</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kruffalon</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:53:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kruffalon" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kruffalon in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do you mean that capitalist economies are proven to work?<p>Like what does "work" constitute?</p>
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<p>Capitalist economy.<p>Economies can exist in many different ways. At its core it is just a way to describe how we move resources between ourselves and that can be done in many, many ways.</p>
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<p>How much water was used to make 1 jacket?<p>Like a life cycle analysis.<p>I understand it is about having access to water in dry places when you really need it, but still at some point these efforts forgot about something.</p>
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<p>I think it's because you have to use your imagination.<p>Just like active recall (essentially guess consciously before checking the answeris) a better way to learn I think the less detail their is in the story (book, game, movie, etc) the more you have to do yourself and so it becomes your own experience rather than someone elses.</p>
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<p>> - We’re not positioning ourselves as a purely EU-based CA substitute, and we generally don’t market it that way.<p>OK, but in the context of this topic thr interesting part isn't your marketing but your jurisdiction.<p>Could you clarify which jurisdiction you operate under and a link on the ZeroSSL website that collaborates that?<p>Thank you <3</p>
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<p>Fantastic comment, thanks.<p>In my opinion this is a much greater variable than lions for our fight, flight, fawn response that is used to explain stress.<p>The explanation is that we are evolved to stress about lions, but there are no lions (in most of our lives) so the stress is irrational and should be ignored or sidestepped.<p>My theory is that we are more stressed and struggle more with mental health because we, in our modern societies, are part of many more groups. And the rules for inclusion are stricter since every group has to define themselves against all the other groups.<p>So what really happens is that our bodies react as intended to the available stimulus of all the groups we instinctively want to be part of.<p>There are just too many groups.<p>I don't have any solutions, just a theory that helps me navigate my life.</p>
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<p>I object to the notion that this person is keeping a family journal with <i>their</i> memories.<p>Unless they all share in writing and choosing images, it is a personal journal about a family from one members perspective.<p>Other members of the family would have experienced the recorded events differently and would have chosen different things to record.<p>(Written as a person that often thinks that different things are interesting and noteworthy.)</p>
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<p>> If money or economics were relevant in these decisions, most wars would probably not play out in the first place.<p>I don't understand what you mean here.<p>Aren't wars fought over natural resources or the political power over natural resources.<p>Obviously people sometimes miscalculate but in principle I mean.</p>
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<p>I would say that simply expanding the first word of "hello -" into:<p>> Hello, Folk Computer is a research & art project centered around designing new physical computing interfaces. [read more](./notes/tableshots.txt)<p>Is more than sufficient, most of the website is for people who already know about the project. I'm just asking for a small part at the beginning for us who are new :)</p>
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<p>If you have any ins with this project would you mind asking them to add a line or 2 describing what it is about, or even a linked text in the start.txt file?<p>Just a simple:<p>> Folk Computer is a research & art project centered around designing new physical computing interfaces.<p>From ./notes/tableshots.txt with a link towards the top would imo be quite helpful.<p>(Sorry, this is just one of my pet peeves: needing to know what a project is about before being able to read about it is just terrible UX, although extremely common as we as humans tend to forget that we know things others don't)</p>
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<p>This article is brainrot.<p>It is ragebait with no clear idea on actual steps to take against <i>the brainrot industrial complex</i>.<p>It states that we can't or shouldn't even bother thinking about what to do about it instead it offers super generic unhelpful self-help guideline that is almost impossible to do since we must fight the <i>brainrot industrial complex</i> every ms to make it while they just have to win once an hour (or less) to keep us occupied.<p>I'm all for describing problems without even trying to find solutions.<p>But this is worse: this pretends to offer a solution so we get the kick of feeling good without actually accomplishing anything.<p>True brainrot crap article.<p>[Edit:] Spelling and formatting</p>
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<p>Because I'm actually curious if they mean "new" as in "a new knock-knock joke" (which imo is a quite small step especially if you are allowed to screen all attempts and only publish the ones that work) or as "a new kind of joke or way of telling a joke" (which is a giant step especially if it's told <i>live</i> without pre-screening by a human).<p>I'm all for dismissing LLMs and the AI-hype but I'm also interested in trying to understand what it means to be human and I think humour is a key aspect.</p>
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<p>Define _new_.<p>I <i>just</i> think that the difficulty with jokes is the delivery, cadence & setting. Not the actual words.<p>I'm sure a good comedian can tell a nonsense joke and make "everyone" laugh their heads off.<p>And I don't get the sense that you are referring to this part of jokes but rather the actual words.</p>
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<p>I'm just trying to understand what it is you do...<p>Do you make some sort of map and/or list of clues that you hide between the pages of books<p>Or<p>Do you write books that have maps and/or clues in the text?</p>
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<p>Impeccable timing!<p>About 2: Gluten free sourdoughs.<p>Do you have any good starting points or resources to share?<p>I admit I haven't gotten around to search very deeply for them yet as I just started thinking about this again yesterday but previous attempts have not given me any good information just one off recipes rather than creating a new bubbly family member to store in your fridge ;)</p>
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<p>I found this initiative quite interesting.<p>I think it's important to think more holistically about the environment than just CO2, or the Ozon-layer (that we actually managed to fix!).
Full report: <a href="https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-impact-of-consumer-electronics-on-nature-and-biodiversity.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-imp...</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.fairphone.com/stories/we-just-released-the-industrys-first-ever-nature-report">https://www.fairphone.com/stories/we-just-released-the-industrys-first-ever-nature-report</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523081">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523081</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
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<p>I'm confused.<p>Did you understand the comment you replied to as me being negative or did you reply to the wrong comment?<p>I'm well aware that I'm a cunt at times, but I'm having a hard time seeing that in this instance.<p>My intention was to be celebratory towards something I found truly elegant.<p>(Maybe it is common to use "&" to write "etc" or anywhere where you'd normally use "et" but afaik I have never seen it before.)</p>
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<p>Nothing wrong at all, quite the opposite.<p>I like it a lot, and it makes me happy to see someone using the ligature of "e t"[0] ("&") not only as "and" but also as it's original "et" in the abbreviation "etc".<p>To me it reads like someone playing with words in a fun way, which is not that common in my parts of the internet<p>I was trying to express appreciation.<p>---<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)</a></p>
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<p>> I cannot for the life of me imagine how this ended up on the HN front page, but it's cool.<p>But then again you're <i>riffraff</i> how could you imagine that :)</p>
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