Hacker News: Romanulus

New comment by Romanulus in "Cloudflare Email Service: private beta"

Romanulus — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:30:06 +0000

"Centralizing the decentralized." --(probably) Cloudflare

New comment by Romanulus in "We are the builders"

Romanulus — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:27:13 +0000

Can you explain to me why funneling US tax dollars to other nations is a bad thing?

New comment by Romanulus in "3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 recreated via reverse engineering (2021)"

Romanulus — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 07:03:51 +0000

Playing Deus Ex, of course.

New comment by Romanulus in "Random Ultima Online anecdote #2 – Horses inside players (2014)"

Romanulus — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 06:29:47 +0000

Wow, that seems early in the days of gaming to be doing that... good entrepreneurial spirit! How did you facilitate the sale IRL (and what kind of amounts were you selling)? I'm curious!

New comment by Romanulus in "California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America"

Romanulus — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 22:35:25 +0000

Meritocracy be damned.

New comment by Romanulus in "Vaccine passport app exposed hundreds of thousands of users' personal data"

Romanulus — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 20:36:23 +0000

That's an interesting use of the word 'convince' you've made there.

New comment by Romanulus in "U.S. asks Google for detailed search data in antitrust case"

Romanulus — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 04:55:22 +0000

I can't imagine proof (or the worth of proof) for something imagined.

New comment by Romanulus in "Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more"

Romanulus — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 23:19:29 +0000

Hence the hard pass. It's not like they are providing it for free and need to make money somehow.

"Do the right thing."

New comment by Romanulus in "James Randi Has Died"

Romanulus — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 22:28:03 +0000

That's awesome! When I was in my early teens I went through a similar stint and also emailed him with my thoughts, kudos and thanks. Also to my surprise he wrote back with a genuine message and note.

What a guy.

New comment by Romanulus in "PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack"

Romanulus — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:56:10 +0000

... Battle Fatigue!

New comment by Romanulus in "My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison"

Romanulus — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 20:19:14 +0000

How cool would it be if she got hired to work on another update for Prison Architect?

New comment by Romanulus in "Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19"

Romanulus — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 23:12:58 +0000

I would wager that you do not have children.

New comment by Romanulus in "What harm do minimum wages do?"

Romanulus — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 22:06:18 +0000

Have you considered the converse of very larger companies that have a stranglehold on their market (like Walmart, perhaps) pushing for a higher minimum wage to stifle smaller businesses in the same domain?

It seems like a viable tactic, though I will admit I have not looked into it much myself.

New comment by Romanulus in "Toddlers who use touchscreens show attention differences"

Romanulus — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:56:51 +0000

Ouch... that's kind of bleakly sad. Reminds me of the video of a very inebriated old Polish man doing a breathalizer test who mistakenly takes a swig of the device (instead of blowing into it) and then promptly falling over. We are drunk on information.

New comment by Romanulus in "Wuhan coronavirus: From silent streets to packed pools"

Romanulus — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:04:29 +0000

Welding folks into their homes was a bit extreme... but at least they can get back to their normal lives now! /s

New comment by Romanulus in "Twitter used phone numbers provided for security to target ads (2019)"

Romanulus — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 20:41:17 +0000

All data will be used against you!

New comment by Romanulus in "Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters"

Romanulus — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 02:44:19 +0000

How about a Brazillion?

New comment by Romanulus in "Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack"

Romanulus — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 18:52:46 +0000

Unless he's ordered to stay away from computers for that time.

New comment by Romanulus in "One hour of slow breathing changed my life"

Romanulus — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 05:40:58 +0000

Damn... you just took a pencil to space with that comment. :)

New comment by Romanulus in "One hour of slow breathing changed my life"

Romanulus — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 20:11:29 +0000

This is interesting and I'd love to hear some kind of real-science debunking (as I'm sure it would be the case)... or conversely, showing someone (via video and some kind of monitoring device) directing air in and out of one or the other nostril at will.