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39,335karma·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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I am intrigued to learn more if you post anywhere (nothing in your profile); this all seems intriguing.
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I assume price would be the major factor. Also, as someone who knows nothing about e-bikes, but who knows "DJI makes good cheap drones and gimbals", they'd be pretty high on my list of…
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I'm super excited about how the apple private compute cloud stuff works -- I tried to build this using intel TXT (predecessor of SGX) and then SGX, and Intel has fucked up so hard and for so long…
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If deploying this to end users, you may not want them to be able to footgun themselves/your org, and if you only partially trust the code, you might not want it to be able to easily turn these fe…
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This is obviously different for everyone (and the general problem is fundamental to finite human lifetime and other resources). For me, I'm definitely putting more effort into things I'm rel…
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I didn't realize HDHPs were still available in the US post-ACA, due to requirements that all plans cover certain minimum services 100% from the first dollar, making them kind of silly (it basical…
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It didn't for me.
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The annoying thing is the EDU versions (which allow programming) are substantially more expensive than the base versions (IDK if it's a constant ~$10-12k more, or just 3x the price -- I only have…
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Sendgrid ($2B exit) was one big one.
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Now to find Vault alternatives.
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TB is slow overall, mainly due to Defender. OWL also totally Broke last year when TB updated on a point release, fixed by OWL in days.
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What I want is biometric plus 3 tries 4 digit PIN -- OR a long passphrase.
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I'm a Thunderbird-on-Windows-in-VM-on-Mac user for one on-prem and one web-but-can't-access-on-non-managed-windows-endpoint VM account.
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This will be nice; I've been stuck using OWL for this purpose (which I think is the main extension; IDK if there's anything else.)
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The (US native, presumably) ATC staff speak worse English than the (presumably) non-native English speaker pilots, at least from all the ATC clips I've heard -- JFK and NY region being about the …
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I would assume a huge pump of some kind.
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I think they're the enemies of e/acc, and their EA background (due to FTX, SBF, etc.) taints them a bit when it comes to fundraising.
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I was amazed we spend $38B/yr on kidney failure.
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I'm intrigued by similar state-level laws being passed in the US; a lot of those seem unconstitutional (1A/free speech) in the US, unless incredibly narrowly tailored and banning publishing …
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Just ordered, although the low price buckets it into "probably not worth it". I'd price it ~$10 and do a discount instead.
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Also, do you know of startups taking advantage of TEA status (e.g. 99% of Puerto Rico) to lower the EB-5 investment requirement back down to $800k? (I didn't realize it had gotten up to $1.050mm…
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Curious if you've seen any E-2 visas granted to people from Grenada, etc. to people not born in those countries (i.e. naturalized) after the 2021 (?) NDAA/Portugal friendship/etc. legal…
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I use them and none of this stuff really matters; they basically have deep pockets available to them and in the current operating model can continue indefinitely. I'd love to see more focus on th…
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There are a bunch of scenarios where the US becomes an unpleasant place to be (eg 1860s, 1930s, 1970s) without collapsing, and where specific other places will have problems but probably won't be…
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It's a (virtually) necessary but not sufficient step in the process. The big blockers are exit tax over $2mm (basically, unrealized capital gains get taxed), and doing the actual appointment with…
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The cheap way to do this is (if you're from any kind of immigrant background over the past few generations, or in some cases far longer, especially if Jewish) -- "ancestry/descent based…
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It's about $100-150k to get, you don't need to be super rich.
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This is very sad (although a lot better than if she'd been suffering from some undisclosed illness for years or something, but dying at 30 is bad no matter what). We need self driving cars. They …