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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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Worse than useless -- net negative -- everything related to Iraq/Afghanistan. I didn't go over there because I thought it was a good idea (nation building in either place is dumb, and any c…
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Perfect for preboot botnets :)
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I just bought it -- will be interesting to watch the progress (I love Early Access games like that).
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There are a LOT of very small/deep/etc quakes in some places.
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True Names, particularly because it is short.
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Yeah, I just mean "the gun I have on my waist", not a special car gun. And especially for the police in Texas at the ranch, they would almost certainly be armed, and I'd assume ranch s…
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In a class "Bullets and Vehicles" at Sig Sauer Academy. ( https://sigsaueracademy.com/courses/bullets-and-vehicles ). Truly amazing. Also some classes at Thunder Ranch (…
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These are the best I've found (for compact, functional): https://resqme.com/ The problem with the hammer style is you might be injured or pinned in a position where you can'…
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My current plan (obviously open windows if possible, don't drive into lakes, etc.) is to use the resqme spring-loaded glass breaker (my work gives them out as branded swag at conferences, but I g…
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Once again, fuck cancer.
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That's not consistent with what a lot of my friends have done (people bought two and returned one, or a lot returned their only one, including long-time apple devs/new product folks with >…
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Thiel's program as discussed in the article this post is about.
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You can absolutely get value out of being at a good school (I'd say even a mid tier school has value) -- both academic and social. It's just...is that worth $200-300k and 4 years of your li…
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The top 25% of Harvard grads are impressive. The bottom 25% are not. My experience has been that even the lower half of Waterloo grads, in CS, are solid to good. I'd probably take the 20th perc…
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The optimal path (at least if you're not going into a regulated/gatekept profession, or not from a very poor/disadvantaged background on a full ride, or using the university program as …
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ASML machines can presumably be rendered largely worthless remotely through firmware (or by being forced to operate out of design spec for a while, causing physical damage), and I have to assume TSMC&…
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Competition is great, but also in this case geographical redundancy; having the entire world depend on chips produced in one of the world's most likely military hotspots is terrifying. Still pret…
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Curious how to support Maxim despite Russia complications.
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Agree, but my "country" is population 1.
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I first discovered John Walker through The Hacker's Diet and other writings, and corresponded with him back when I was doing an offshore datahaven 25 years ago. He was an amazing person -- curio…
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It's mostly with liquor bought from offsite and drunk in rooms/private parties, not via Caesar's venues or catering (there's a lot of that too, and this is summer dead period, so i…
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They do sell extra batteries. $199.
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Lynch’s Dune is up there with Apocalypse Now as my favorite movie. It got the feel of Dune correct, even if it made weird changes, and inspired me to start reading sci fi (I think I first saw the movi…
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(not an expert, but based on my research to date:) 50' is borderline (one competent captain, potentially the owner, and one of the passengers helping out at times; of course if you're doing …
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Start with finding hundreds/thousands/hundreds of thousands of people who will follow you to arbitrary places and adventures. I'm sure Elon Musk could do something; Taylor Swift could t…
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Huge life hack for early career if you are living condition and location independent is to work at direction of employer in some location they pay for; saves a lot of money. Might be a compound in Sau…
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I think I did some talks about it ~15 years ago which are probably online. A quick search brings up some stuff but I don't remember which were about Sealand which were about the business. Overal…
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When I was living in Sealand >20 years ago (another micronation project), was fun tracking the other projects -- this one was one of the most successful. Liberland and a few maritime efforts were …
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This person appears to have been a Cloudflare account exec who was terminated as part of a layoff (which was communicated as individual cut), by HR, and not by manager. She recorded the process and po…