Hacker News: rdxm

New comment by rdxm in "Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”"

rdxm — Mon, 15 May 2023 10:48:57 +0000

tax law is tax law, it's that simple. if the hedge fund did what the whistleblower alleges, then bye-bye tax exempt status.

also since when is a rainy day / reserve fund unique to a particular religion? it's been common sense financial practice for longer than your particular religion has been in existence.

New comment by rdxm in "Mandatory helmet laws make cyclists less safe"

rdxm — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 10:41:36 +0000

Absolutely not true on the efficacy assertion. I've been run over while out training on my bike, went through a windshield head first. Without a helmet on my brain matter would have been in the lap of the driver.

I've got hundreds of thousands of miles in my legs and I won't get on a bike without a helmet on even going around the block.

On the infrastructure yes, agree. I'd be happy with simple stuff like ubiquitous bikes lanes and 10 foot wide shoulders...

New comment by rdxm in "Apple and MLS to present all MLS matches for 10 years, beginning in 2023"

rdxm — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:32:34 +0000

The big deal is no blackouts. That's a first for pro sports broadcasting I think...

New comment by rdxm in "Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code"

rdxm — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 22:36:33 +0000

you can do this today with Jupyter Notebooks. Can you provide a value prop vis-a-vis Jupyter Notebooks? (aside of course from the raging dumpster fire of lack of curation in JN re vulns...)

New comment by rdxm in "Show HN: WAPM – WebAssembly Package Manager"

rdxm — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 20:09:10 +0000

In this day and age, it's arguably irresponsible to publish any tooling that does not organically integrate a requirement to use Sigstore for all packages allowed to be uploaded.

The very first things you should be talking about on your service is provenance mechanisms and security.

I don't believe I saw anything related to thos topics on your site. Did I miss it?

New comment by rdxm in "Barcelona’s Bicibús: hundreds of families biking to school together"

rdxm — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 13:54:47 +0000

I think you'd be a little surprised. I have a friend in Chicago who's bike commuted year round now for decades.

That's anecdotal for sure but once you are acclimatized to winter I think the gating criteria is more around a secure place to park your bike during the day.

I have another work buddy in Minneapolis who sends me pictures of the temp guage on his Fat-Bike of like -20F training rides in Jan and Feb... yikes!!!!

New comment by rdxm in "Alcohol-free beer is fizzing"

rdxm — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 16:20:22 +0000

The Athletic folks had a tent up at the Lutsen MTB race a few weekends back. It is actually really good, no difference in taste quality from the "leaded" stuff. This has definitely come a long way.

Perhaps timely too! https://youtu.be/3Xa1L01ZNaY

New comment by rdxm in "The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory"

rdxm — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:24:24 +0000

This is the best assessment to date I've seen.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-...

New comment by rdxm in "NASA completes engine test firing of moon rocket on 2nd try"

rdxm — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 23:01:58 +0000

After something like 6+ months of introspection from the first test fire fail...after a decade plus of missed schedules...blah, blah, blah.

The SLS is a shit-show, everyone knows it and it's getting tedious being a tax payer given this bull shit, the F35 debacle, etc.

I'm a NASA fan, but the reality is that the age of G funded space travel is OVER. time to move on....

New comment by rdxm in "Insurrectionists’ social media presence gives feds an easy way to ID them"

rdxm — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 01:00:16 +0000

lol, prob one or two stingrays floating around that area....

New comment by rdxm in "Fintech in Chains"

rdxm — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 01:58:34 +0000

How in the world is looser regulation of opaque (at best) SV bullshit CO's a good idea? The more relevant question to ask is what exactly is the value prop of fintech?

I don't see it as any different than the mortgage brokers of the 2008's: stripping fees off transactions with ZERO value add to the consumer...

If you want to really fix things start with the national market system. At this point between dark pools, HFT and non-public company markets it is an unqualified effing disaster from both a price discovery and accessibility perspective.

#justsayin

New comment by rdxm in "[dead]"

rdxm — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 20:44:43 +0000

This is nothing short of a an unqualified disaster. Peter Thiel's influence here is not in the best interest of the Republic, and Trump is too effing stupid to realize that...

New comment by rdxm in "Is the Saudi Government Plotting Against Another U.S.-Based Critic?"

rdxm — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 04:43:03 +0000

the not so secret reality of all of this is that saudi money is everywhere. and they only very recently allowed women to drive a car.

there's no question that the valley is owned / driven by this influence. the question is: at what cost?

but, I digress, by all means, please, continue on the start-up-y discourse...

New comment by rdxm in "Let's hear scientists with different Covid-19 views, not attack them"

rdxm — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:56:56 +0000

Is anyone really surprised? Current culture world-wide is built on 15 second attention span idiocy and social media bs.

Want to see this go away? Remove FB/Insta/Twitter from the planet, along with the entire mainstream media, all of which have business models based on the aforementioned idiocy as well as non-stop conflict generation.

When you are done with that task go purge every sitting legislative body on the planet which in general are bought and paid for by those same special interests.

Then you'd have a clean slate to build on for intelligent dialog and meaningful efforts related to not just Covid 19, but many other pressing global concerns...

New comment by rdxm in "Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack"

rdxm — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:21:50 +0000

this is awesome. one of the by-products of the public cloud era is a loss of the having to consider the physical side of things when considering operational art.

New comment by rdxm in "What DoorDash pays, after expenses, and what’s happening with tips"

rdxm — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 01:15:11 +0000

The "Gig Economy" will ultimately go down in history as one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated on the broader public.

New comment by rdxm in "Google Interferes with Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results"

rdxm — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 16:45:48 +0000

We are down to like one or two remaining professional journalism shops (FT and Economist, imho).

Sad to see once decent, thoughtful operations like WSJ, NY Times, WaPo, basically turned into conflict generation drivel producers.

Edit to add: I don't mean to ignore efforts like Pro Publica, but they are very small ops and don't really move the needle readership-wise.

New comment by rdxm in "Chase did a bad thing, so we did a good thing"

rdxm — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 23:22:10 +0000

ok, so this is being provided by a new/competing bank and a marketing agency. What could possibly go wrong?

A quick read of privacy policy should dissuade anyone form putting information into this system.

A+ for guerilla marketing

F- for anything related to privacy, etc...

FB Being FB, Gets Enterprise Cert Pulled by Apple

rdxm — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:48:11 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/facebook-broke-apples-rules-and-now-its-employee-only-i-1832198624

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19044325

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rdxm in "Jepsen: Dgraph 1.0.2"

rdxm — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 01:27:53 +0000

gotta say, if you do distributed systems, subject yourself to Jepsen analysis and publish it, you win a truck-load of points in my book.