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39,336karma·10,537submissions·July 8, 2008
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Working on stuff at the intersection of cryptocurrency and computer security. Also a Puerto Rico resident (Act 20/22); happy to help people move to Puerto Rico to take advantage of the federal tax exemption, 0% capital gains rate, and 4% business income tax rate. Also FFL07/SOT02.
Chief Security Officer for Evertas Insurance -- the world's first cryptoasset insurance carrier. https://evertas.com/
Previously, CEO and Co-Founder of CryptoSeal (YC S11), which was sold to CloudFlare on 2 June 2014. CISO/Board Member of Tezos Foundation 2018-2020.
Previous startup founder (HavenCo, a couple ecash projects, distributed colo, and DoD/Iraq contracting, new thing), too. Deeply interested in computer security, infrastructure, security, conflict zones, and making the world a better place.
Aside from living on a Caribbean island during crypto export controlled 1990s, I've lived on a tiny artificial platform in the North Sea, plus more reasonable places like London, Amsterdam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and spent 6 months diving in Thailand.
"I, the greengrocer XY, live here and I know what I must do. I behave in the manner expected of me. I can be depended upon and am beyond reproach. I am obedient and therefore I have the right to be left in peace."
Email: ryan@venona.com (etc) Twitter: @octal https://twitter.com/octal LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlackey
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It doesn't have to generate profit, but it does need to generate more science/better science than the next best alternative way to spend the money. (It's presumably not optimized solely…
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Tangentially: What purpose does ISS serve today? It cost $150 billion to get to this point, but is it doing anything which justifies the operating and maintenance costs? vs. other uses of the money. O…
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One of the biggest markets for small aviation engines which run on something other than 100LL is small drones — running on JP8, Jet A, or Jet A1 would make military logistics far easier and safer. Eve…
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LOL/cry that it doesn't let you enter a current electric bill above $500, but does include Puerto Rico and Hawaii adresses.
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https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&p... Not just a dessert (topping), but also a floor wax (well, not really, but pretense for Iraq War) ( https:/…
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Yes, and magnesium, etc. All the normal things.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6075645/ (Dr. McMillan is probably the best medical doctor of any specialty I've ever interacted with in any context, …
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I was 6 ng/mL. I'm 81 ng/mL now (well, November). Ref range is 30-100 ng/mL. (Bioavailability of oral D3 supplements is pretty low, generally. I'm sure most of what I'm …
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Yes. My ophthalmologist said it was specifically due to reduced plasticity in the retina, which caused variable astigmatism. He's a top researcher/published on this specific thing. (Obviousl…
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Subjectively (1 of 1), I take 20k IU/day of D3 (and K2/mk7) and feel both happier and healthier, from about a week after I started supplementing. Was very low levels of vitamin D before, and…
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I wish there were an HR "brand" for "We want the absolute best team possible, with diversity of thought and experience, and aligned on our mission and core values. We recognize lots of …
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Czechia (formerly Czech Republic) is also trying to change their English-language name; in both cases seems like a reasonable request and worth respecting, at least when it comes at low cost (I wouldn…
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I assumed that was the "real" Ryan Cleary (LulzSec), not the Finland guy who was impersonating him.
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Evertas Insurance | US-based REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.evertas.com/ | https://www.evertas.com/careers/ Evertas is the world's first cryptoasset insur…
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I don't have children, but I think if I did, I'd ease them into social media by paying them run a social media profile for a cat -- from the perspective of the cat, with no humans or PII vi…
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I have a folder on my laptop (backed up in a few places) with PDFs of labs, other reports, etc. I have DICOM of some specific imaging, but haven't had a whole lot of imaging generally. I have a …
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"On the Internet".
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I've usually had 30 minutes scheduled for these (weekly or biweekly), both as manager and employee. >50% of the time it's "we talked about everything already on signal yesterday, so…
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This is a great idea. I've read >100 books over each of the past 5 years (2022: 121, 2021: 183, 172, 193, 208). My goal is 156 this year. (Tracking via Goodreads). Probably 90% of mine are a…
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90% of the books I read are audiobooks. My eyes get tired before brain does.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Kuhn. All of Lee Kwan Yew’s books. The Ancient City Some Spanish literary classics, in Spanish. (I’m at newspaper reading level, not great, and still trying …
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They emailed months ago asking if people wanted to opt out; it was a concern but I suspect the vast majority of people both want to be in it AND are already trivially googleable as being in YC.
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We would opportunistically hire for other roles if the right candidate showed up (underwriting, potentially COO/COS)
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Downside with doing stuff like that is putting all NGO personnel at risk going forward.
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Evertas Insurance | US-based REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.evertas.com/ | https://www.evertas.com/careers/ Evertas is the world's first cryptoasset insur…
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I wonder if this was just lazy MVP development or a conscious strategy to get attention. I never would have heard of them without this controversy, and it's something very cheap for them to fix …
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I had no idea people still used filters on instagram.
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MIT admin specifically have repeatedly shown themselves to be cowards who don't care about students/values/etc on issues other than free speech, so it's not like they're being…
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Guess what is the second most powerful navy in the world (and is a very close ally of the most powerful navy in the world?). Japan's "maritime self defense force".