throwaway1312
Re:Ask HN: What are the unwritten rules of politics in company environ...
on Saturday October 10, 2020 @09:13PM (#24743121)
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.
Re:An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose
on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @06:48PM (#24713711)
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-...
Re:Ask HN: Ways that financial institutions store ledgers and transact...
on Sunday September 13, 2020 @07:51PM (#24464959)
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.