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New comment by kldavis4 in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

kldavis4 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:00:47 +0000

tbf part of the reason boomers are assholes is directly a result of the parenting of the greatest generation.

New comment by kldavis4 in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

kldavis4 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:17:54 +0000

This is the primary issue. My dentist who we'd used for 10 years sold without us knowing. Almost all the staff we'd known left and finally the dentist/former owner. I didn't understand what was going on and why the service had gone to shit. Talked to a dentist friend and he suggested it was a PE takeover. I did some research and confirmed that was what happened. Found another privately owned dentist, but it's clear that some laws need to change to protect patients.

New comment by kldavis4 in "5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe"

kldavis4 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:10:21 +0000

While it is true that reversing combustion would require more energy than was released burning it, I don't think anyone reasonable is proposing it. The proposal is to redirect future energy production away from fossil extraction and into cleaner sources (solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal) which is a completely different thermodynamic problem. The constraints are things like grid storage capacity, permitting timelines, and critical mineral supply chains - not physics.

If we overcome these very real contraints, we reduce the rate of new additions to atmospheric CO2. We will still need to do the thermodynamically hard work of removing CO2 at gigaton scale, but deferring that until removal tech is more mature is the right sequencing.

Of course, this assumes that we are actually working towards the CO2 output reductions right now and really committed to CO2 removal in the near future.

New comment by kldavis4 in "Gina Gallery of International Naive Art"

kldavis4 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:07:01 +0000

In case you were wondering like me, this is visual art by an artist without formal training - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_art

New comment by kldavis4 in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

kldavis4 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:45:24 +0000

That just doesn't seem to justify anywhere near the valuation though does it?

New comment by kldavis4 in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

kldavis4 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:23:59 +0000

The orbital data center thing is really strange. Without some kind of massive technological breakthrough the physics of an orbital data center make no sense. Napkin math for a single data center including solar panels, radiators, compute and structure is somewhere on the order of ~6500 tonnes. Let's say Starship can put 100-150 tonnes into orbit per launch, that is somewhere between 40-65 launches for just one single orbital data center.

Congress wants to tie the United States to Israel with this new legislation

kldavis4 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:33:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/05/congress-us-israel-legislation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440097

Points: 15

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New comment by kldavis4 in "Most of the US economy is in a recession"

kldavis4 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:22:54 +0000

does that include the 90% marginal tax rates? :)

New comment by kldavis4 in "The only moat left is money?"

kldavis4 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:47:48 +0000

looks like the real tension here is that "money" and "reach" aren't quite the same moat though. I think the post kind of conflates them. existing audience is the actual barrier - money can buy ads but it can't buy trust or distribution, not quickly anyway

the gravitational threshold thing is real ngl. I've seen the same dynamic in product launches - identical quality, completely different outcomes based on whether you're already above the line or not. that part holds up

not sure the "creativity is the moat" counterargument fully lands either. yeah taste matters, but AstroBen's point is valid - anything that gets traction gets cloned basically immediately now. so creativity gets you first mover advantage for like... a week?

maybe the actual moat is just community? people who already trust you before you ship. which is a form of reach I guess, so kind of proves the point

New comment by kldavis4 in "I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0"

kldavis4 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:45:18 +0000

My only gripe with the Goland integration is if you have multiple terminals open with CC, it will randomly switch to the first terminal for no apparent reason. Then, if you aren't paying close attention, you prompt the wrong instance.

New comment by kldavis4 in "Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor"

kldavis4 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:54:27 +0000

Sounds similar to this case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States?wprov...

New comment by kldavis4 in "Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets"

kldavis4 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:18:10 +0000

> So this all had to happen sufficiently close to the Sun and that material had to be captured in the Sun's protoplanetary disc. We needed the right combination of elements to form a protective magnetic field and produce enough but not too much heat.

any idea how close? like 10s of light years or what?

New comment by kldavis4 in "Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems"

kldavis4 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:18:21 +0000

also, when I'm in my local store it seems like cell connection goes to shit for some reason and then I have to jump on their in store wifi in order to search their website

The Google Trends Spike Before the D.C. Shooting Raises New Questions

kldavis4 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:29:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.allenanalysis.com/p/the-google-trends-spike-before-the

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081956

Points: 29

# Comments: 15

New comment by kldavis4 in "Literalism plaguing today’s movies"

kldavis4 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:55:57 +0000

2002 doesn't look like the interesting year to me. It seems like 2020 and the pandemic is where the most significant drop happened. So we're really looking at post pandemic recovery since that time. How much of the lower numbers are due to theater closures and / or high inflation since then?

New comment by kldavis4 in "Show HN: Genetic Boids Web Simulation"

kldavis4 — Fri, 23 May 2025 20:22:26 +0000

how are genetic (algorithms) used?

New comment by kldavis4 in "Inflation in December was even lower than first reported, the government says"

kldavis4 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 17:21:55 +0000

> The idea that 2% inflation is good for the economy, and deflation is bad smacks of the government selling the idea because increasing government spending via inflation is a way to raise taxes without raising taxes.

I think the premise is that deflation is much much worse (and not amenable to the available controls that the Fed has available) and it is pretty impossible to reliably target < %2 inflation, so effectively the idea of "2% inflation" is the minimal possible amount of inflation.

New comment by kldavis4 in "Ask HN: How should I setup a phone for a newly blind relative?"

kldavis4 — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 17:57:35 +0000

Supersense (ios/android) is the app that was recommended for my grandmother and can be used for reading mail, etc. I honestly found it to be buggy and hard for her to use. The main difficulty, though, was she couldn't easily get her phone turned on and open the app in order to actually use it. Eventually she gave up on the smartphone. She does really find Alexa useful for the limited tasks it is capable of. I'm thinking about having her try a nest hub as google's assistant seems to be a bit more capable.

TinaCMS and Level.js

kldavis4 — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 21:45:16 +0000

Article URL: https://tina.io/blog/Tina-CMS--Leveljs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38224946

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kldavis4 in "Reality Labs has lost $11.4B during 2023 (there's still one quarter left)"

kldavis4 — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 12:53:43 +0000

Was any of this R&D work published? Given that you are convinced by the technology, I am curious to know more about how you were using it?