<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: youngtaff</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=youngtaff</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 10:06:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=youngtaff" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by youngtaff in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There’s not actually that much high level waste… thing the UK has a couple swimming pools worth after 50 years of operating reactors</p>
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<p>Currently reading it and I’d agree!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 08:53:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119420</link><dc:creator>youngtaff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by youngtaff in "Life During Class Wartime"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The other major issue with "free money" is that it is purely inflationary,<p>Free money as in quantitative easing that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy?</p>
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<p>There are / were no £40k+ cars available on Motability<p>Can't find it now but there's a breakdown of the cars supplied somewhere and even when small BMWs etc were available very few people chose them - most people chose smaller average cars<p>Motability also plays a huge role in priming the used car market in the UK - without them there would be less choice and cars would be more expensive</p>
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<p>Yes and to get a 'luxury car' aka small Audi, BMW or Mercedes someone had to put down a deposit of £3,000 of their own money</p>
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<p>This has a breakdown of the numbers by fuel type, brand etc.<p><a href="https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/" rel="nofollow">https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/</a></p>
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<p>Motability is not 'a Government scheme that buys people cars'<p>People use the mobility part of their PIP payments to lease a car from Motability which is an independent company, they could use the mobility payment to pay for taxi instead.</p>
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<p>Diesel is down YoY <a href="https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/" rel="nofollow">https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/</a></p>
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<p>How long does it take to get from a helipad to the terminals at JFK?</p>
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<p>Even at 15 Euros I bet its way cheaper than a helicopter or electric VTOL aircraft</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:23:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959725</link><dc:creator>youngtaff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959725</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by youngtaff in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>iOS Safari definitely used BoringSSL last time I checked it with Frida</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:49:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862245</link><dc:creator>youngtaff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862245</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by youngtaff in "In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The UK does not have a good, cheap solution plentiful cheap electric in the next decade or two, so any major increase in demand will mean even higher costs.<p>Of course it does… the UK has tariffs that change by electricity demand and supply capacity<p>As we build out more renewables there will be more times of excess supply and hence cheaper electricity during these times<p>The buildout of battery storage and north-south inter-connectors will reduce this fluctuation but it’ll still be there<p>Over time the UK is going to switch it’s pattern of electricity consumption</p>
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<p>Nope…<p>People who receive PIP can choose to use to lease a car from Motability which is an independent scheme<p>Those people could equally choose to have an ICE car</p>
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<p>Yes… but (from memory) someone recreated it but can remember who</p>
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<p>Just introduce a charge per mile for EVs as the current government have already done<p>ICE cars are already hugely subsidised by ignoring the health issues they cause e.g. air pollution<p>What we really need in the UK is better mass transit systems in cities and their commuter zones to remove cars from the roads</p>
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<p>iOS (and MacOS) now use Google’s BoringSSL instead and have for many years</p>
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<p>The Spruce Mine story was a classic case of this hysteria as there were other sources of pure silica e.g. Norway</p>
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<p>And of course it's now flagged…</p>
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<p>What evidence is there than industrial customers want general purpose humanoid robots over specialist ones?</p>
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<p>???</p>
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