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Peaceandquiet.io

015UUZn8aEvW — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:16:32 +0000

Article URL: https://peaceandquiet.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997185

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

AI will kill all the lawyers

015UUZn8aEvW — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:41:38 +0000

Article URL: https://spectator.com/article/ai-will-kill-all-the-lawyers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327791

Points: 26

# Comments: 65

How do LLM's trade off lives between different categories?

015UUZn8aEvW — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:15:31 +0000

Article URL: https://arctotherium.substack.com/p/llm-exchange-rates-updated

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45636507

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

America's National Security Wonderland

015UUZn8aEvW — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:54:18 +0000

Article URL: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/02/americas-national-security-wonderland/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43115403

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Usaid.gov

015UUZn8aEvW — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 17:28:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.usaid.gov/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910099

Points: 57

# Comments: 29

XB-1 Flight 7: Play-By-Play From the Cockpit [video]

015UUZn8aEvW — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 03:52:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzve8JVmBfc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42414547

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by 015UUZn8aEvW in "Parasites are everywhere. Why do so few researchers study them?"

015UUZn8aEvW — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:09:43 +0000

It is in fact a good idea, and it would probably generate a lot of insight. But it would be very politically dicey.

Marc Andreessen on Building Netscape and the Birth of the Browser [video]

015UUZn8aEvW — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 23:58:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aTjA_bGZO4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40861600

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by 015UUZn8aEvW in "Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules"

015UUZn8aEvW — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 23:16:34 +0000

>Because the root cause isn't a sudden increase in appetite.

It seems plausible that the introduction of evolutionarily novel ultraprocessed foods, designed by scientists in labs to be as tasty as possible, could increase a lot of people's appetites.

New comment by 015UUZn8aEvW in "Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules"

015UUZn8aEvW — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:35:55 +0000

The main cause of the problem is probably the widespread availability of cheap processed food in the US and, increasingly, other rich countries. I would support regulating these foods, but that would be very politically difficult and it would probably take many years for regulations to gain enough traction to make a difference.

We know from behavioral genetics that, for people in the same environment, individual differences in obesity are about 70% heritable. And there's loads of evidence that the standard "diet and exercise" approach does not lead to long-term weight loss in the vast majority of people who attempt it. (It does lead to shorter-term weight loss, but then people regain the weight, for biological reasons.)

So, short of massive regulation of modern "food products", the only options are either bariatric surgery (which does produce long-term weight loss) or some new intervention. The GLP drugs are the most promising candidates in that category.

I agree that there's too much triumphalism about these drugs at the moment. We don't really know yet whether they will produce long-term weight loss without serious side effects.

New comment by 015UUZn8aEvW in "The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws"

015UUZn8aEvW — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:57:51 +0000

"It's just one additional requirement; it won't break the bank"....this logic, applied over and over by building construction regulators for the past few decades, is an underappreciated but important contributor to the housing affordability crisis. Everyone talks about zoning, but building codes, etc are a big issue too.

New comment by 015UUZn8aEvW in "What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane"

015UUZn8aEvW — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 20:46:21 +0000

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy.

Every hour that a Boeing employee spends trying to design or build a good airplane is one less hour that he can spend angling for power within the organization. So the people who care the most about the original purpose of the organization will be systematically outcompeted by the people who care the most about obtaining power within the organization. A widespread and profound problem.

When companies are small, the machinations of political types and their inadequate contributions to the core product are too obvious, and they get weeded out.

But when the company grows large and successful (due to the efforts of the people who cared about the original mission), it has a brand and long-term customers. At that point, the political types can burrow in without any immediately obvious effects, since there are enough other people doing the real work and the company has enough momentum to keep moving for some time.

The Full MH370 Story So Far [video]

015UUZn8aEvW — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:07:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5K9HBiJpuk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39734936

Points: 9

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Houthis knock out underwater cables linking Europe to Asia

015UUZn8aEvW — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 23:17:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-788888

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39518045

Points: 63

# Comments: 47

New comment by 015UUZn8aEvW in "John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died"

015UUZn8aEvW — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:56:33 +0000

Came here to write the same thing. Bizarre that there is literally nothing about his death on their website or social media accounts.

New comment by 015UUZn8aEvW in "Office Life in the 1980's (Vintage Photos) (2019)"

015UUZn8aEvW — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 01:25:14 +0000

What's interesting is that this huge change in design technology has produced no similarly huge change in the physical product being designed. Buildings are designed and built at about the same speed as they were then. They cost as much or more in inflation-adjusted terms.

Yes, I know that there are lots of specific things that are easier now that we have CAD and related software, but a 1950s architecture student who was told about these technologies would probably predict major resulting changes in the speed of design and construction. But this has not occurred.

New comment by 015UUZn8aEvW in "Tail vaccination in cats: a pilot study (2014)"

015UUZn8aEvW — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 22:01:50 +0000

1-10 per 10,000 seems like a fairly high number if it's "associated with high mortality".

New comment by 015UUZn8aEvW in "Why are there no startups in the real estate construction sector?"

015UUZn8aEvW — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 13:33:22 +0000

See my other comment. Modular is somewhat better in some cases, but not dramatically better, which is why it has gained a certain share of the market but not the majority of it.

Modular is mature technology and would have taken over the whole industry decades ago if it was actually a lot better.

New comment by 015UUZn8aEvW in "Why are there no startups in the real estate construction sector?"

015UUZn8aEvW — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 13:27:31 +0000

PlanGrid is typical of the successful construction tech startups in that it addresses the way that information is transmitted during projects without impacting the actual way that buildings are physically assembled.

New comment by 015UUZn8aEvW in "Why are there no startups in the real estate construction sector?"

015UUZn8aEvW — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 13:21:13 +0000

That is true of "manufactured homes", a.k.a. "trailers", but not of "prefab" or "modular" homes, which are built using the same components as conventional homes.