Hacker News: rustymonday

New comment by rustymonday in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

rustymonday — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:13:30 +0000

Thanks for explaining this.

New comment by rustymonday in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

rustymonday — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:34:06 +0000

So this was uploaded only 6 hours ago and has over 1,000 points and is at the very bottom of the front page (#28 right now).

New comment by rustymonday in "Mycenaean Warriors and the Sea-Peoples (2013)"

rustymonday — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:13:40 +0000

There were several. Clay tablets from Ugarit, a Linear B tablet from Pylos, cuneiform tablets from Hattusa (in the decades before the city was abandoned), and several records from Egypt during the reigns of Merneptah and Ramesses III.

New comment by rustymonday in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

rustymonday — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 21:29:30 +0000

If consumers find that's a problem, then they should be willing to pay the 30% premium in the app store.

My guess is that this is not as much of an issue as Apple claims, and this 30% premium will not be worth it to the consumer.

New comment by rustymonday in "FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s"

rustymonday — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:48:55 +0000

Maybe I'd buy that if the exact same thing didn't happen 5 months later with Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. Most of the blame has to be on Boeing.

New comment by rustymonday in "FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s"

rustymonday — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 22:32:59 +0000

It is wrong because people will not want to fly on this plane, and carriers will be less likely to buy this model. This hurts Boeing's bottom line.

New comment by rustymonday in "Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted"

rustymonday — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 20:36:55 +0000

For a post with over 800 points posted only 6 hours ago it's remarkable this isn't in HN's top 30 posts on the front page.

New comment by rustymonday in "Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?"

rustymonday — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 14:44:26 +0000

Plato says that the story is absolutely true multiple times. I don't think we should blame Plato for what may be attributed to our own ignorance.

New comment by rustymonday in "Americans' confidence in technology firms has dropped"

rustymonday — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:44:49 +0000

You're right. More and more pharmaceutical manufacturing is contracted out to CDMOs. So one day big pharma might only do marketing.

New comment by rustymonday in "Europol sought unlimited data access in online child sexual abuse regulation"

rustymonday — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 02:50:46 +0000

The solution is to do it before it's made illegal.

New comment by rustymonday in "Update on KDP Title Creation Limits"

rustymonday — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 21:15:37 +0000

Should people stop telling new stories? A century from now the best books of today will be classics. Books can act as a time capsule of a certain time and place and mode of life. And that has value.

New comment by rustymonday in "An arrowhead made of meteoritic iron from the late Bronze Age"

rustymonday — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 17:03:01 +0000

You're absolutely right. Though I don't understand why this idea persists - even in academic scholarship. It has been proven decades ago that non-meteoric iron was smelted in the Early Bronze Age. Though the main reason bronze was used for so long appears to be because it was actually cheaper than iron. Smelting iron required the burning of an absurd amount of trees, which was extremely expensive.

New comment by rustymonday in "An arrowhead made of meteoritic iron from the late Bronze Age"

rustymonday — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:33:27 +0000

No. Iron has been smelted in Anatolia since 2500 BC. It was initially believe that this iron must have been meteoric, but isotonic analysis done in the last few decades has shown that much of this early iron is in fact non-meteoric.

New comment by rustymonday in "New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages"

rustymonday — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 17:58:04 +0000

Aboriginal Australians migrated to Australia 65,000 years ago.

New comment by rustymonday in "Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers"

rustymonday — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:17:03 +0000

It is absolutely a popularity contest. The biggest problem is that many academics are reluctant to deviate too far from current consensus in fear of damaging their reputation.

The result is that research in many fields tends to stagnate and reinforce old ideas, regardless of whether they are right or wrong.

New comment by rustymonday in "The Odyssey by Homer, Translated by Samuel Butler"

rustymonday — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:57:54 +0000

There's a famous quip that the person who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey was not Homer, but a different man with the same name.

New comment by rustymonday in "The Odyssey by Homer, Translated by Samuel Butler"

rustymonday — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:54:09 +0000

Ancient tradition unanimously ascribed the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey to Homer. We know nothing about Homer, except that he likely lived around the area of Smyrna and that he may have been blind.

Butler's theory is nice and all, but I would give significantly more weight to what ancient writers had to say about Homer.

New comment by rustymonday in "Exploring Linear A"

rustymonday — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 21:31:55 +0000

An architect decoded Linear B.

New comment by rustymonday in "Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness"

rustymonday — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 03:44:42 +0000

So by this definition bacteria has consciousness. I would have to disagree that bacteria are conscious.

New comment by rustymonday in "First people sickened by Covid-19 were scientists at WIV: US government sources"

rustymonday — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:27:24 +0000

I just want to add to this that when I first heard about this virus I searched the WIV on Google Maps. I believe that was 14 January 2020. When I searched it again a few weeks later, the location on Google Maps had changed.

I have no screenshots of this, but I did find it quite odd at the time.