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catominor | 3 years ago | on: Mikhail Gorbachev has died

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.

catominor | 3 years ago | on: The Crypto Elites Are Plotting a Wall Street Merger

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.

catominor | 4 years ago

well written, thanks OP

catominor | 6 years ago | on: Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming

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.

catominor | 6 years ago | on: Rome’s border walls were the beginning of its end

"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.

catominor | 6 years ago | on: Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]

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.

catominor | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: iOS only launch or both platforms launch for an app as of Sept 2018?

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.

catominor | 7 years ago | on: Who Were the Mamluks?

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.

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