<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: paganel</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paganel</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:06:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=paganel" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paganel in "Your brain was never designed for this much bad news"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> ? Or the rates of inflation, crime and unemployme<p>A proletarian revolution would be a good start, not sure what this ideologue writer was on about. History is far from having ended, change can still happen through the union of individual wills.</p>
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<p>> (i.e. loud and busy environments with many strangers, often physically closer than comfortable) is unnatural to begin with.<p>That's very natural when it comes to life in an urban setting. Love it or hate it, we wouldn't have been here now (I'm talking from a civilizational pov) without us humans moving into the cities.</p>
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<p>It does save a purpose. For example in the OP's non-clustering example all of the Britain is covered in dots, I'm talking at the highest zoom level, while the Atlas Obscura version, the one that uses clustering, does a better job of providing data by mentioning how many points that general area contains.</p>
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<p>You look like the one of the nerds that got bought by the likes of Thiel and Musk, congrats on that. Interesting how you people still have the guts to bring up the “society” you supposedly care so much about, the same society your lot is so happy to fuck over for some extra financial juice. When will you people stop? What it will mage you people stop? Genuine questions, both of them.</p>
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<p>Some of nerds earned a lot, a lot of money, some of the other nerds they employed also earned a lot of money, and they all decided to screw up the world we all live in. Fuck the nerds! The jocks back in the '70s and the '80s were right, these nerds should have been bullied to hell and back, maybe that way we wouldn't have had today's Musks and Thiels, shitheads that are bringing this world over the edge.</p>
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<p>> to give agents full access to your machine<p>I was mesmerised at the author being away from his computer for a short-while and then, when coming back, seeing the AI agent having opened up a browser window. Meanwhile we all have to use the fricking 2FA almost anywhere now, plus the crazier and crazier rules when it comes to passwords. I'm mentioning the latter because these type of people were the same ones who were pushing 2FA down our throats around 2017-2019 (including on forums like this one), and look at them now.</p>
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<p>The representative system in the US is all but dead when it comes to high-power politics, this second Trump presidency has vigorously shown that. They weren't of that much use before, also, apart from blocking a few essential things here and there. They're also not at the Caligula's horse in the Senate moment, but they're rapidly going that way.</p>
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<p>> Forcing developers to pay for models that were build on code they scraped scott-free<p>That's also caused by some very smart (even brilliant) developers (you can see many of them in this very thread) choosing to be oblivious about all this and bury us all under, hoping that they'll be among the last ones to go. Writing this down I realise that they maybe aren't all that smart.</p>
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<p>Then why the fuss?</p>
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<p>That would make most (if not all) of today's mainstream media speech (and not only) as "not free".<p>To add, in essence I agree with you, that's why I regard Jean-Jacques Rousseau as one of the really few free thinkers out there, i.e. because he was aware that as soon as he was accepting to be paid for what he was writing then his speech would become "imprisoned".</p>
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<p>NATO (of which Canada is a founding member or) actively supports Kosovar separatism, it has even started an unprovoked and illegal war on account of it, at the end of of it all what would be wrong with one of Canada's federal states deciding to split off? If anything, the international community could send some Blue Helmets force there in order to support the local Albertans in the face of Ottawa-led occupation.</p>
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<p>>  If you want fresh strawberries, you can just go to a supermarket and buy them.<p>And they all taste watery, i.e. almost no taste at all, all this as a result of the industrialisation of strawberry farming. Which means that it was a good enough example for me.</p>
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<p>> I don't have any solutions<p>Just touch more grass and try to get off the internet as much as possible, it's 100% worth it. Also, stop consooming stuff.</p>
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<p>That was not an accusation, just a potential excuse for the author. If it's not AI then it means it's either stupidity or class-based ill-will.</p>
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<p>VAT is one of the most regressive taxes imaginable, the author doesn't know what the hell he's writing. Or maybe it's AI-generate slop, too lazy to check.</p>
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<p>>  internal memo requiring all code to be produced from prompts<p>That is absolutely insane. Thing is I can honestly believe that it happens, which makes it even more insane.</p>
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<p>>  probability theory<p>Probability theory presupposes that there's a 0 to 1 or 0 to 100 scale of "truthiness" (depending on which scale one might prefer), while the true non-boolean logic has the guts to fully embrace Parmenides's view on One and the Multiple.<p>We could also try and approach "knowledge" the way that the 5th-6th century Christian mystics were trying to do during their quest to approach the nature of the Divine (or of the Truth, taken in a more restricted manner) via negatives, more exactly via "turning away their faces from said Truth". Interesting that those Christian mystics were an intellectual continuation of the 3rd-4th century Neoplatonists.</p>
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<p>> People seem to think art should be done only by humans, that AI steals art, and is bad for the environment.<p>Yes, we, humans, generally believe that.</p>
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<p>Apparently this has nothing to do with real-world trains and to the real-world rail system, at first, and reading the title alone, I had thought that some trains might have got stuck somewhere because of an IT (google cloud) failure. It's just another SaaS story.</p>
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<p>> The simplest explanation is that they lost access to the recent imagery. I<p>Reasonable explanation, but they didn't, for example this is the Google Earth link [1] with satellite imagery of the area from back in September 2025, the most recent satellite imagery they seem to have from there. The fire damage can clearly be seen. So there must be some other reason behind it.<p>[1] <a href="https://earth.google.com/web/search/Altadena,+CA,+USA/@34.19372743,-118.14373839,413.91281917a,1567.46729812d,35y,0.00000001h,5.75397145t,0r/data=CjQiJgokCeef0z2yyjNAEeef0z2yyjPAGRm6Nlw4RElAIRS6Nlw4REnAKgYIARIAGAFCAggBOgMKATBCAggASg0I____________ARAA?authuser=0" rel="nofollow">https://earth.google.com/web/search/Altadena,+CA,+USA/@34.19...</a></p>
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