Hacker News: JamesLefrere

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Bybit loses $1.5B in hack but can cover loss, CEO confirms"

JamesLefrere — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:36:15 +0000

Believe it, baby

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Bybit loses $1.5B in hack but can cover loss, CEO confirms"

JamesLefrere — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:36:04 +0000

lol. Good times.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Bybit loses $1.5B in hack"

JamesLefrere — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:47:57 +0000

Solutions have existed for years (eg Gnosis Safe), they just aren’t being used by that exchange.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming"

JamesLefrere — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:05:22 +0000

Funnily enough Nikolai (original creator of ENS, now passed) worked on this idea https://github.com/nmushegian/namepet

ENS is still used for personal identities, and afaik still doesn't care about immutable paths. A wasted opportunity.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "An Interesting Zero Knowledge Use Case?"

JamesLefrere — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:56:40 +0000

Check out TLSNotary, recently supported by the Ethereum Foundation https://tlsnotary.org/

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Decentralized Solana Crowdfunding Platform"

JamesLefrere — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 16:05:28 +0000

> Decentralized Solana

Contradiction in terms

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Difference Between Expat and Immigrant"

JamesLefrere — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:56:34 +0000

It's an oversimplification, perhaps a proxy for wealth. Russian oligarchs hoarding London property are moving from a poor country to a rich country, but they are colonisers.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to woo digital nomads"

JamesLefrere — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 11:08:06 +0000

Salary requirements negate that, plus the Portuguese health system pays rock-bottom salaries itself, and is already on its knees.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to woo digital nomads"

JamesLefrere — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 11:03:44 +0000

Of course it doesn’t benefit the Portuguese. That’s not how Portugal is governed. It’s cynical, but that’s really how it is; learned helplessness on a national scale.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Farcaster"

JamesLefrere — Wed, 22 May 2024 09:25:10 +0000

Farcaster Frames are very interesting, but the problem with the platform is the userbase.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "MIT students stole $25M in seconds by exploiting ETH blockchain bug, DOJ says"

JamesLefrere — Wed, 15 May 2024 21:24:04 +0000

No bug in Ethereum, what lazy journalism.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Judge issues restraining order keeping DOE from tracking Bitcoin miners"

JamesLefrere — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 22:01:13 +0000

Ethereum made the switch from PoW to PoS in 2022. It was called The Merge https://ethereum.org/roadmap/merge

It’s unlikely that Bitcoin will ever do the same, for the same reason Ethereum was created separately in the first place: they (BTC community in general) don’t want to add or change anything, because they perceive that as diminishing its value. Oh well.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Antidepressant use is surging in Britain"

JamesLefrere — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:34:16 +0000

No, that must be some other country, perhaps where one of the last two leaders was actually elected.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "SEC has not approved Bitcoin ETFs [fixed]"

JamesLefrere — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 22:07:09 +0000

I’ve used DeFi for as long as it’s been around and will continue to do so. It’s safer and can be more profitable than TradFi, even with stablecoin yield. It’s a larger area than you might realise, and there is a lot more to it than degen gambling.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Outdoor Computing with a Deck Desk"

JamesLefrere — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 10:49:36 +0000

Wellbeing is one thing (I know I would enjoy this a lot more than an office) but long term UV exposure is not forgiving for longevity. I could find sources, but it’s not my area; my partner is a dermatologist and I take her advice on this. It’s worth wearing sunscreen every day (even in the winter), though I believe you have to be careful about choosing products in some places like the US, where sunscreens can be zinc-based.

It’s basically something easy you can do in your morning routine every day that will lower your risk of developing skin cancer and some other problems.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Outdoor Computing with a Deck Desk"

JamesLefrere — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 08:36:31 +0000

This might be fun for a while, but in the long term you're asking for an increased skin cancer risk. Sorry to be a downer.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament"

JamesLefrere — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 07:22:59 +0000

The EU is not like the USA. We can have regional independence/self-governance and international cooperation, prosperity and peace, without needing a controlling national structure.

Britain is and always has been a European island. We’ll be back in the EU in a generation or less.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin"

JamesLefrere — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 21:04:47 +0000

I’m not OP, but I would argue that. There’s no realistic scenario in which leaving the single market makes Britain a more attractive place for (most) businesses.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Plant-based diet can fight climate change – UN"

JamesLefrere — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 10:16:19 +0000

No, it shouldn't. The majority of the deforestation happening now (e.g. in Brazil) is to raise cattle, or to produce feed such as soybeans for farmed animals; the water for almonds and avocado trees pales in comparison to these activities, as do food miles.

A vegan diet saves much more than a carnist one does, even if it's more local; here in Europe, we have sheep deserts (e.g. Iceland, much of UK) that can be rewilded if more people adopt a vegan diet.

New comment by JamesLefrere in "Climate change made European heatwave up to 3°C hotter"

JamesLefrere — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 08:36:59 +0000

It’s already dead here, and I would argue that it is not unfortunate at all. It’s also a distraction from dismantling coal power and the large car lobby here.