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39,337karma·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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recent activity (10,537 total)
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Long-haul truckers (and fleets) are probably the most fuel-use conscious drivers out there, so this kind of technology should be rapidly adopted. There are radio call in-shows catering to truckers wh…
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The batteries are charged from the main Diesel engine, but it's still more efficient, even with the conversion losses, due to load variation through time. The issue is that the energy needed for the "…
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From the US, currently in Thailand (heading to Australia)
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Carrying weapons from the car back to my apartment in a shared building elevator is one of the main reasons I want a house with an attached garage next. It's perfectly legal in California to have unc…
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It's completely idiotic to openly carry a fake weapon. Carry a concealed weapon, or open-carry a real weapon, or carry nothing, but never open carry a fake weapon. Nothing good can come of it.
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Specifically, it is hard to develop meaningful long term romantic/sexual relationships if you are transient. Women especially seem to value stability and investment in a community, even beyond the pu…
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I am trying e same thing over the next five months, but I plan to rent apartments for a month or so and travel in between. I like having the Internet, shower, and laundry problems resolved, and I'd l…
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Banks as they exist today are a non option for most business financing. This is sad, and a big change from the peak of us civilization (18xx to maybe 1969) Specialist banks like svb and square can us…
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Costs (due diligence, fund raising, overpriced salaries, legal) would make a VC like this unprofitable. Banks are the solution for institutional small-scale low-risk finance, via debt. Retail/commerc…
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I'd be interested in working from somewhere interesting (Germany, Chile, New Zealand, etc.) for 6 months, but I'm not really that interested in being a beta tester for a new government program. I als…
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The assumption is that some (crazy) people are running tor exit nodes on IPs shared with other traffic. That is IMO a seriously bad practice; even putting stuff like that on the same /24 as critical …
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This is very common with online gaming (== gambling) sites, and payment systems; anything where there is obviously money being processed.
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Yes. Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS, www.maps.org) is my #1 destination for donations. I think the war on some drugs has done more to damage the US than anything else, an…
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I just went from "full time deployed contractor wage" to "use up vacation time, regular wage", and in a couple months, will go to no income. I should have 2 years of savings and no debt (finally!), b…
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I hate open plan offices especially when they're shared across multiple work groups, functional areas (e.g. devs sharing with phone ad sales!), or even worse, companies. I think the happy medium is so…
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Yes, the author of this post clearly has no idea about enterprise/government security policies -- they exist for security and for contractual compliance. He used the example of Manning in Iraq (who w…
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I think it's more that the people on the eBay side were either morons or in breach of their own fiduciary duty to eBay shareholders. The deal terms were voluntarily accepted by eBay; terms which were…
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If DADT was in fact a contributor, I wonder if the response would be greater restrictions/prohibition on gays in the military, or allowing open homosexuality.
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I feel pretty bad about assuming there was truth to this, initially.
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It being almost exactly 4 years in makes it seem a lot more likely that he's fully vested and is now looking at doing something new. I personally think some mix of time-based and milestone-based vesti…
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Southwestern Washington (Vancouver, WA, etc.) seems like an even more cost-effective location (0% corp and personal tax in WA, although there is the B&O tax). I'm not sure if the tax/cost savings…
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I would call the credit card company and report the card as lost/stolen, immediately. Then, set up a policy requiring 2 people to sign for all purchases, and pay for things by company check only. Est…
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I would actually be curious to see ads from any advertiser specifically targeting the hn community. I think it's a bad idea to run on the main site, but it would be neat to have an "ads" link at the …
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Delaying college by going into the military for 2-4 years seems to work out pretty well. Some of the best students I've met have been on the GI Bill. An approximation for non-military-inclined people…
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A pilot's license is $5-10k and maybe 400 total hours of time (50+ flight hours, maybe setup and commute to/from, ground school and study). Most of the good/cheap flight schools are in Florida (since…
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Within Europe, they had a massively superior conventional force, to the point that the US almost certainly would have initiated the use of nuclear weapons (tactical or strategic), after being overrun.…
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I am fully aware of the quality of Russian military equipment and military during WW2. (they had the best mass-produced tank in the war, one of the best air support fighters, and they had much simpli…
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The open question is if gen-Y will be even worse than the baby boomers. I don't think they can be, if only due to numbers.
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It's pretty amazing, but people do rapidly adjust to bombing or other high-ambient-threat environments, possibly overly much so. Still obviously worth avoiding.
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He's pretty unclear on economics, yes. Capitalism more efficiently allocates the labor of people than a command/communist economy. Thus, for the same population, a capitalist economy has more wealth …