<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: youngNed</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=youngNed</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:42:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=youngNed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by youngNed in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> where there was apparently no issue with safety culture<p>Narrators voice: there was,  in fact, issues with safety culture at nasa between Kennedy's speech and the moon landing<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:48:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597690</link><dc:creator>youngNed</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597690</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by youngNed in "Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> you can see the reasoning here<p>you can see what <i>mullvad</i>, the company selling a product here, <i>say</i> what the reasoning was.<p>As i say, smacks of marketing campaign.  Did clearcast give the marketing team a gift, or did the marketing team invent it?  All we have is Mullvads word, but my word they have been running an extensive campaign in london for a while now.<p>Step 1:
cryptically warn people that their rights are under attack.<p>Step 2:
tell people that you have been banned from saying any more.<p>Step 3:
Conveniently make no mention of the fact that this highly controversial 'banned' ad is absolutely watchable, in the UK, on youtube, with links to it from traditional media adverts.</p>
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<p>Conflating 'Advertising' with 'Speech' doesn't really work here i feel.<p>It is possible to restrict one without the other. The UK, can quite easily stop an advert from saying things like:<p>>> A paid-for Meta ad and a website listing for an online clothing company misleadingly claimed they were established and owned by armed forces veterans and that they donated a share of profits to PTSD support organisations.<p>And still allow The Guardian to run a campaign on shadowy organisations funding politics.<p>Conflating them is done, i feel by those who run companies... i dunno, like VPN's, for the purposes of viral marketing and generating outrage.</p>
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<p>Can i ask: Why do you think its been banned?</p>
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<p>FWIW - I don't think this ad has been banned. But i stand to be corrected<p><a href="https://www.asa.org.uk/codes-and-rulings/rulings.html?q=mullvad" rel="nofollow">https://www.asa.org.uk/codes-and-rulings/rulings.html?q=mull...</a><p>This smacks of viral campaign to me.</p>
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<p><i>what very thread</i> would you rather we justified it in?</p>
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<p>No.<p>You avoid having companies, who can swallow the bill, making whatever claims they like without having to much to worry about other than a slap on the wrist - Their claims are already out. J&J, P&G, Unilever et al - you may trust them to do the right thing, i don't.</p>
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<p>Approval for advertisments has been in place since 1961.</p>
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<p>it is absolutely wild to me that you would allow companies to air adverts <i>without</i> pre-approval.<p>Then when you add in the ability to advertise prescription drugs?<p>Well, what could go wrong?</p>
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<p>> I wonder if I could distinguish in a blind taste test<p>I find it genuinely baffling that that would be the point.</p>
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<p>I hadn't planned on spending my evening googling the pay grade of government officials,  calculating the time taken to change a font on Microsoft Word and extrapolating that over a year.<p>But I'm game if you are?<p>Jupyter notebooks or excel?</p>
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<p>> they need more than a sans serif typeface,<p>Agreed.<p>So... why are the administration going in the opposite direction?<p>> Official departmental paperwork shouldn't look clownish.<p>Oh. It's about looking clownish.  Right.  OK. Pull up a chair,  this might take a while,  and we will get to typefaces pretty late on,  I'll be honest</p>
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<p>Performative? The one that you read about. The one that had a press release,  the one that had articles on social media that you are commenting on.<p>Meaningful? The one that looked into which font was more readable,  for the most people</p>
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<p>But.... and this is important,  it's not funny.<p>"Here is a thing that makes a slight difference,  with no cost,  to a small percentage of people"<p>"Nah, woke. Let's make it worse for them."<p>There is nothing funny about performative cruelty</p>
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<p>There is picture of a cyclist. He is holding a stick.<p>The cyclist puts the stick between his spokes.<p>The cyclist lies on the road,  cursing the government, for causing this.</p>
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<p>When they spelt neighborhood, when the kids rode around the block.<p>When they said they live in a country where a police force follows kids on bikes<p>The clues were all there.</p>
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<p>I have. I also,  crucially,  don't live in America.<p>This article,  also crucially, does not relate to America</p>
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<p>And cigarettes! What next booze!?<p>Libertarianism really does hit a wall when it comes to kids,  in so many ways, doesn't it?</p>
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<p>These are very very isolated outliers amplified by a media hellbent on ragebait.</p>
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<p>These all look great, I'm very interested in hearing from anyone who has followed any of these.<p>How did you find it, what did you get from it?</p>
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