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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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recent activity (10,537 total)
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I mostly go to expat/tourist-focused high-end clinics in Asia (there are a bunch of options; mostly depends on which country you're going to be in -- Thailand, Singapore, Japan are particula…
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I hope more and more medicine/science moves outside the reach of FDA. If someone is willing to pay for a treatment (or recreational product), and is reasonably informed/competent to decide t…
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Is there anything in the SSO/MDM space which doesn't suck?
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They changed their pricing structure so it's not a good self-hosted-gallery alternative and lack of easy sharing/etc. make it higher friction than sharing sites (with far more engagement the…
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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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An electric multicopter would be wonderful for short distance over either water (e.g. PR main island to Vieques) or mountains (not having to have access roads, or being able to go straight-line for pa…
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There are specific issues around giving legal advice as a non-lawyer which could come up. There are also areas (securities law) where something could be construed as investment advice and even a non p…
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I clarified with him on twitter and in fact my “most charitable” interpretation was correct (although he got $32 as a paid witness; I guess inflation! I remember when this was $10-12 and parking vali…
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It's also a tweet , so even if he wrote "lawsuit" and wanted to correct it to "subpoena" (or other legal request), would not be possible to do so. It's interesting later…
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Not a lawyer, not legal advice. (I'm not going to criticize a man who runs an educational toy company for not being precise about "lawsuit" "discovery" "subpoena" et…
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I wish there were a standard for status pages for sites, including long term immutable logs (to track uptime). Maybe a TLD like .status so one could query e.g. www.instagram.com.status (and maybe eve…
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The "color of money" thing was so obnoxious when I was contracting in Iraq. They could easily spent essentially unlimited amounts for certain kinds of things which weren't needed, but t…
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So many problems are avoided by just never answering the door (and figuring out some way to receive packages). If it's a uniformed police officer, "COME BACK WITH A WARRANT" or "C…
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Incidentally YC has done non-profits as well ( https://www.ycombinator.com/nonprofits/ ) which is interesting. Some interesting companies: https://www.ycombinator.com&#x…
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I know of it as "dry cleaning chemical and why you don't want to buy a building which used to contain a dry cleaning shop with on-premises processing".
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This is to some degree reassuring; as the chemical was phased out in the 1970s, maybe it means Parkinson's rates among people who are middle aged or younger today, and thus much less likely to ha…
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This is one of the most amazing organizations doing stuff today -- I wish I lived in Austin to participate more. I've visited a few times and am always impressed by the people I meet there (both …
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Washington State has a B&O tax which, until recently, was the primary state tax. Hawaii has a ~4% gross receipts tax but it can be visibly passed on to customers like a sales tax.
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Yeah, LittleSnitch helps with that. I’d be fine with telemetry if it recorded locally in a way which was fully inspectable and human readable and which I could send IFF I wanted to, but with a passwor…
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The version I use(d) doesn’t connect to their servers, it stores a local password vault, and uses WebDAV to sync. I mostly moved away from passwords, and moved important passwords to a different syst…
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Telemetry in a "trust us, this closed-source application which contains all your secrets, which we provide you and which we update periodically, is only contacting us for "privacy protecting…
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The 1Password "no local/standalone vaults" "upgrade" in 7->8 is what got me to leave it after 15 years or so. They're killing the extensions used by Chrome/Brave…
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Also don’t need to do the entire ocean; there are specific routes and zones we care about the most, can easily prioritize those.
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Best solution is to pre-map the ocean to the degree possible (mountains don't tend to move, at least on the timescales we care about...); this wouldn't need to be done stealthily (so you cou…
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Agree about cheese wiz being gross, but American cheese is fine too. I do like provolone + marinara sauce ("pizza steak"), though. (I've had better steaks in Philly suburbs and NJ than…
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I didn't realize rents for space in a mobile home park in a not-particularly-wealthy area would be so high; $500-750/mo for rent for a trailer? My apartment, twice the size of a trailer, co…
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Jack is posting it on nostr.
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You're right, I've lived and worked in both areas (several times during 2000-2016). SoMA varies a LOT by exact location (at a per-block level) and changes with time of day, time of year, a…
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I would be shocked if it were anything but random/senseless (or opportunistic robbery), happening on the street at 0230 in SoMA. This police request for information appears to be related. https…