throwaway1312

19 karma · joined September 13, 2020

throwaway1312on Ask HN: What are the unwritten rules of politics in company environments?

    You have a credit account for each person in the company.

    If you have credit with your boss, and unknown to your boss’ boss, everything’s fine.

    If you have credit with your boss’ boss, but your boss doesn’t, something’s not fine.

throwaway1312on An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose

There's a theorem "Poincaré recurrence theorem" which says if a system is finite, given infinite time, it will return to a state arbitrarily close to its initial state.

While the theorem itself is well proven, I can't find a physicist who can say one way or another whether this applies to our universe.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/200722/poincaré-...

throwaway1312on Ask HN: Ways that financial institutions store ledgers and transactions?

https://www.advent.com/solutions/geneva-for-hedge-funds/

Stores ledgers and transactions of any instrument: currencies, stocks, bonds, etc.

It's developed over the past 30 years, requires financial operations staff to operate. It has a server and client, has an API available.

It's expensive to run for startups and hard to transition out of once you use it.