<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: philipallstar</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=philipallstar</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:56:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=philipallstar" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by philipallstar in "AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pro business is pro consumer.</p>
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<p>I didn't say "within the last 1300 years".</p>
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<p>Solar gets lots of subsidies in the UK. Homeowners who installed it 10 years ago get a ridiculous payment for generating excess, even if the grid doesn't use it.</p>
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<p>I don't know. Can you not make jokes about the chancellor in Germany?</p>
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<p>Jokes about Trump are rife in America, as are leader jokes in many Western countries. These are the last places you will need to worry about that.</p>
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<p>I don't think it's everyone's job to do that, though. If an ideology is innately, for the last 1300 years, expansive, by military might or by population demographic change, you can't blame past grievances for that. It's just innate.</p>
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<p>Which one is that?</p>
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<p>It's easy to tell. Just look up how much profit is being made.</p>
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<p>But if the cause is "death to the West" or "from the river to the sea" or "India should not be secular" then it's a bit of a problem. How do you fight the cause?</p>
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<p>No, I don't think so. There's a set of people who consume media that deliberately and consistently conflates "immigrant" and "illegal immigrant", and they just can't disambiguate what happens to one from what happens to the other.</p>
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<p>I really like this talk[0] by Big Suze from Peep Show on how children learn better with physical writing than with typing.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V6nucKFK88" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V6nucKFK88</a></p>
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<p>> Entering Exclusive fullscreen mode crashes the game on Wayland<p>Pretty good for Wayland.</p>
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<p>> So either they are all wrong<p>That is definitely possible, as there's been a lot of silly lockstep ideological reviewing of things in the last 5 years. However, Jeremy Jahns, who reviews movies based on them being movies (and them not being not sufficiently post-structural, post-colonial critiques of the patriarchy) likes it based on movie reasons, so that was encouraging.</p>
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<p>> What on earth are you on about, we've had 20+ years of right-wing governments.<p>The Tories were barely right-wing, and they were in power for 14 years, not 20+, and for the first 4 they were in a coalition with the lib dems.<p>Look at the immigration numbers in the UK to see how not right-wing they were. Insane to think that's actually right wing.<p>> or the UKIP goon's forcibly removed me from their "Free Speech Conference"<p>The UKIP conference removing you is not evidence of general soft power in the UK.</p>
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<p>That's not capitalism, it's personal responsibility. Why do you dump all the responsibility on other people to stop someone from killing themselves, and nothing on the person actually doing it?</p>
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<p>Agree - the world has horrible things happening, although not on the scale of socialism. The thing that comes close is WW2, but that was an actual war, and not just starving millions of people due to central planning.<p>However, Cambodia:<p>> Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were supported for many years by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), led by Mao Zedong;[c] it is estimated that at least 90% of the foreign aid which the Khmer Rouge received came from China, including at least US $1 billion in interest-free economic and military aid in 1975 alone.[11][12][13] After it seized power in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge wanted to turn the country into an agrarian socialist republic, founded on the policies of ultra-Maoism and influenced by the Cultural Revolution. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide</a></p>
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<p>> When I buy something, it doesn't cost my employer, it costs me.<p>If someone takes something from you by force and spends it, they're spending your money.<p>> as its "not other peoples money" is a monetary system that the government lets us use<p>The government doesn't "let" us use it. If we don't use it (e.g. by swapping services directly) then the government gets annoyed and tries to insert taxable transactions into that direct value swap. It makes us use it.</p>
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<p>Maybe they're using too many humans and not enough AI in their software development. That must be it.</p>
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<p>Many IPOs slide below the initial price. This isn't a SpaceX thing.</p>
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<p>> In March, the National Audit Office released a report noting that the Scunthorpe steelworks was costing the government about £1.3m a day.<p>No, BBC, the government doesn't have money. It costs the <i>net taxpayer</i> that much a day.</p>
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