Hacker News: catominor

New comment by catominor in "The United States of America vs. Samuel Bankman-Fried Indictment [pdf]"

catominor — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:53:17 +0000

things be whack

New comment by catominor in "Mikhail Gorbachev has died"

catominor — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 01:22:05 +0000

The DDR/BDR wealth/income divide is still significant, even today and in spite of the government's fairly aggressive taxes explicitly earmarked to develop the former DDR.

New comment by catominor in "The Crypto Elites Are Plotting a Wall Street Merger"

catominor — Wed, 04 May 2022 00:11:17 +0000

> comic book-view of the world

spot on.

New comment by catominor in "The Crypto Elites Are Plotting a Wall Street Merger"

catominor — Wed, 04 May 2022 00:09:53 +0000

This has a lot of hype and opinion but very little substance. Respectfully, whoever wrote it needs to actually talk to people building things in the space instead of telling them what they are doing. There are small/partial examples of the clickbait title happening but they're few and far between and I saw none of them cited here.

Also of note, open dialogue, while not stylish in our current zeitgeist, is absolutely necessary and should be actively encouraged among all stakeholders even those that may have opposing views of the future. This is in regard specifically tho not exclusively to the Brian Armstrong/Pelosi convo. Anyone that's been around crypto long enough has seen someone finally grok the potential it brings for disparate, and disagreeing people to work together to accomplish shared goals / public goods.

New comment by catominor in "Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?"

catominor — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 06:32:58 +0000

I really enjoyed Fooling Some of the People All of the Time by David Einhorn. He goes clearly and deeply into his suspicions about Allied Capital, a company that he thought/thinks had unethical/illegal accounting and business practices.

New comment by catominor in "[dead]"

catominor — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 22:37:45 +0000

well written, thanks OP

New comment by catominor in "Protein folding: Much more intricate than we thought (2017)"

catominor — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 07:33:31 +0000

sorry, I think I'm out of the loop, what do you mean regarding the quanta magazine reference? Is that a good or bad thing?

New comment by catominor in "Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership with GM"

catominor — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 22:56:11 +0000

In addition to $700M from Nikola to cover the expenses of the work that GM is supposed/going to do for them.

New comment by catominor in "Secessio plebis"

catominor — Sat, 09 May 2020 12:23:31 +0000

Well Said!

New comment by catominor in "Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming"

catominor — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 22:39:37 +0000

Most/all of the coal plants that have been shut down in the USA in the past decade or so due to tightening regulations are sold (at an immense discount) and then shipped in pieces to China and started up again for the rest of their depreciable life (coal plants generally have a breakeven date 15 years after they start producing, and 30-40 years total before decommission).

China also has far less stringent regulations on pollutants, so net loss for global pollutant emission prevention.

New comment by catominor in "Someone is stealing Christopher Columbus letters"

catominor — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 21:48:27 +0000

Declaration of Independence was what Nic Cage had to steal.

He just had to..

New comment by catominor in "Rome’s border walls were the beginning of its end"

catominor — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 21:21:29 +0000

"They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a desolation, they call it peace." (from Agricola by Tacitus, a Caledonian chief describing Rome, 98AD)

This is what Rome was doing before it built its limes, brutally and indiscriminately conquering their frontiers. Feels like this is being indirectly advocated for.. which is odd, considering its modern comparison.

Can support other comments in this thread from my reading of Adrian Goldsworthy's whole catalog.. Rome's decline was drawn out and complicated; it would be simplistic and wrong-headed to say it was because it built walls on its frontiers.

New comment by catominor in "Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]"

catominor — Thu, 30 May 2019 20:38:12 +0000

3) Live for more than a few days, with bacterial fauna of that time being so different, your immune system, completely unpolished for those type of bugs, would probably hold out for only a very short time.

New comment by catominor in "Ask HN: iOS only launch or both platforms launch for an app as of Sept 2018?"

catominor — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 00:23:48 +0000

I build (mostly) iOS apps as a freelance developer. From my perspective, I've had clients successfully gage product-market fit with just iOS, so as to not double costs building and subsequently altering both. It's cheaper, and as grezql says, it's simpler/cleaner.

This certainly depends on your business strategy and preference though, there are lots of good reasons to build for android, even first. But if you have done the business calculus and think you can get away with just an iOS build, you probably can.

New comment by catominor in "Who Were the Mamluks?"

catominor — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:15:10 +0000

FWIW I'd recommend "The Inheritance of Rome" by Christopher Wickham. It is jumps around a lot but gives a lot of really in-depth analysis of the Eastern Roman Empire and the rise of the Caliphate.

It's doesn't look like you may expect.

New comment by catominor in "Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Trading Digital Assets"

catominor — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 06:50:17 +0000

Check out the Howey Test. It's what you have to fail to be determined not a security, this definition is fairly short and good: http://www.legalandcompliance.com/securities-resources/secur...