<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: lores</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lores</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 02:20:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=lores" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lores in "Mistral raises €3B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>PPP the EU is also about 30 trillions, which is probably the better measure since we're comparing production for domestic purposes.</p>
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<p>There's really very little you can do bar booking an alternative flight at great expense. If you're lucky and you know the delay in advance, at least you may have a chance to take the Elizabeth Line into town and go for a stroll. I'd count a fat hour to go from the terminal to, say, Paddington. It's a pretty area and there are excellent Persian restaurants around.</p>
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<p>Or it would be gone. Or it would be in the hands of psychopaths. Europe trades off the extremes for a better middle. It doesn't produce quite as many big names, but US and EU economies are roughly the same size.</p>
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<p>Yes, you're entirely right. One further, I was at a talk from a law professor at a big uni once, where he had printed the entire text of the Medicare bill on a giant pile of paper. He explained that it had taken him, a professor, several months full-time to understand everything at stake; what chance has a representative to do so, let alone on every bill? What chance has a voter? What does it mean for democracy that no one with decision powers understands what they decide?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:31:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497420</link><dc:creator>lores</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lores in "Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Educated" and "informed" aren't the same.</p>
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<p>Democracy requires an informed electorate. Just having the right to vote isn't enough.</p>
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<p>That's a common belief, but that duty is not absolute and does not imply the executive must choose money over morals.</p>
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<p>These conversations about EU regulations, bureaucracy or general slowness and carefulness contrasted to American ease of doing business and raising capital always make me think "but... look at the state of America! Is it really something to emulate?"</p>
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<p>Oh, pretty sure journalists and headline writers are also well aware of it, if for no other reason that every comment thread must be mentioning it. Their incentives are just to publish trash and generate engagement, that's all.</p>
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<p>But causation requires correlation. In general, I think it's unhelpful to point out something so basic to or about professional research, researchers are well aware of it.</p>
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<p>It doesn't give you 25% a year, because you don't have your investment anymore (or most of it, if there is a second-hand market.) After the first year you'd have a -75% return, after the 5th you'd be at an effective annual 4.5%, after the 10th at an effective 9.5%.<p>It goes up from there, but it takes a while to become an investment better than alternatives. Inverters start failing after 10 years, too, and they're half the cost of a $400 setup, I believe.</p>
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<p>The American propaganda machine has done a good job on Americans...</p>
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<p>In the immortal words of Ladré:<p><pre><code>  Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira!
  Les aristocrates à la lanterne.
  Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira!
  Les aristocrates on les pendra.
  Si on n’les pend pas
  On les rompra.
  Si on n’les rompt pas
  On les brûlera.</code></pre></p>
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<p>These convenient and cheap book/game/video platforms sure killed piracy. Now that piracy's gone forever, we can enshittify the whole thing again! At least I imagine that's how it went in the meeting of 35 year-old corporate suits.</p>
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<p>That's not what's considered waterfall, though. Specs are always required for any work, even if they're only in your head, even if the work takes 15 minutes. It's the length of the feedback loop and the resistance to spec change that makes waterfall, and by his use of tracer bullets I very much doubt it's the case here, if there was any doubt at all to have.</p>
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<p>If you are on the spectrum at all, you have a high-to-very-high chance of being more clumsy than average due to differences in sensory processing.</p>
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<p>They don't? I'm in London, and my local grocer will happily sell me one bean if I want. I've bought 1 bird chilli several times.</p>
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<p>Those only work as long as legislators have shame, or there is a significant faction that can use the provided legitimacy to redistribute power away from the elites towards the people. That's not the case at a national level in the US right now.</p>
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<p>Why not? There are only two redresses against elites who don't abide by a social contract: the law & courts, and physical violence. The courts are much preferable, but legislators now serve those elites rather than the public, and the courts are impotent or unwilling to use what power remains with them. What's left but physical violence to either dissuade or punish?<p>The specific stigma against physical violence (and not against other types, even for cumulatively worse actions) strikes me as very self-serving, an instance of "the law forbids both rich and poor to sleep under a bridge." It's increasingly the only remedy available to everyday people, and the mad acceleration of government capture by elites in the last decade is making murder and rioting inevitable, at least as long as ordinary people still feel they should have some power.<p>Any sort of violence is bad, singling out physical violence as uniquely bad gives misbehaving elites impunity.</p>
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<p>Society still has paid at least for your education, depends on your working power to at least fund your dependents, and at least on some degree of reasonableness from you not to raise everyone's insurance premiums.<p>There's a line to draw somewhere, but even the most ra-ra-individualist heavily depends on society, and has/should have obligations in turn.</p>
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