Hacker News: _r4nc

New comment by _r4nc in "Trump's 'Crypto Reserve' Is Such Brazen Corruption"

_r4nc — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:43:29 +0000

How about that 50x leverage $200M BTC + ETH trade mere minutes before Trump announced the crypto reserve? [0] Like we all know Nancy does it but that doesn't make it ok for the Grifter in Chief to do it.

0: https://old.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/1j2891u/whale_wi...

New comment by _r4nc in "A Letter to the American People"

_r4nc — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 02:47:13 +0000

I found Marc to be totally insufferable in that episode too. It was blatantly obvious that everything he said was a weak, nonsensical attempt to justify his (and Elon’s) obvious goals of destroying government infrastructure to enable privatization, and removing any and all regulatory oversight so the billionaire class can further exploit America’s labor and natural resources. Both of which do nothing to help the ordinary American but do a lot to enrich the billionaires.

New comment by _r4nc in "Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO"

_r4nc — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:30:12 +0000

Just a guess as I really have no idea but maybe subsidies?

New comment by _r4nc in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

_r4nc — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 06:33:23 +0000

Very well written, and more or less aligns with my own thinking.

New comment by _r4nc in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

_r4nc — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 07:18:59 +0000

I’d love to see that happen as much as you but it really is irrelevant for this case. The truth is that this case is about which government gets to brainwash the masses. By far and away the greatest threat Tiktok poses to the US is a foreign government having that ability to control public opinion en masse.

New comment by _r4nc in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

_r4nc — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:23:31 +0000

What does this shutdown mean for US employees of Bytedance? Will they shut down their US offices or continue business as usual working from the US but only serving users outside?

New comment by _r4nc in "I Don't Have Spotify"

_r4nc — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 02:03:24 +0000

When I moved country and updated my credit card in Spotify to my card from the new country Spotify also changed my “region”. As a result there are so many songs I have “starred”/“added”/“liked” (whatever fucking language they’re using for it now) are just greyed out and unplayable.

Anyway as for actually getting copies of the music I listen to I think we should just pirate it completely unashamedly.

New comment by _r4nc in "Telegram Stars: Pay for Digital Goods and More"

_r4nc — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 22:18:32 +0000

You must be thinking of the US dollar.

New comment by _r4nc in "Australian man says border force made him hand over phone passcode"

_r4nc — Tue, 14 May 2024 00:56:49 +0000

Bricking or wiping isn't a good option because it makes it obvious what you did. One of the properties you want from a duress passcode is to convince the attacker (the border force in this case) you gave them what they want. Convincing fake data is hard to generate and easy to spot. Another alternative is for the duress passcode to unlock a subset of data and apps. This lets them see real but uninteresting data like contacts or family photos while keeping your personal documents (business, legal, medical, financial, keychain, or otherwise sensitive) private.

New comment by _r4nc in "Australian man says border force made him hand over phone passcode"

_r4nc — Tue, 14 May 2024 00:15:19 +0000

I really wish we had duress passcodes for iOS and Android.

New comment by _r4nc in "Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest"

_r4nc — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:58:04 +0000

> I'd love to see regulation around all social media algorithms to ensure they're unbiased.

The bias is a feature. They just don't like the fact that they can't control the bias on TikTok so it spews Chinese propaganda instead of Western propaganda.

New comment by _r4nc in "The US government is buying troves of data about Americans"

_r4nc — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 22:36:05 +0000

Next week: "Congress passes bill banning sale of US Gov employee data."

New comment by _r4nc in "Conservative group targets migrant cell phone data, raising privacy concerns"

_r4nc — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 22:37:11 +0000

Having a census of residents who pay taxes and vote locally, which is required for a functional government, is quite different from real-time (or even delayed) location data from personal devices.

New comment by _r4nc in "What makes brain fog so unforgiving"

_r4nc — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:18:43 +0000

This sounds similar to ADHD, at least at a superficial level. I have ADHD but when I caught covid I didn't experience a further executive function decline either during or after infection. Is there anyone here who has ADHD and also experienced brain fog? How do the two compare?

New comment by _r4nc in "Man arrested for promoting jury nullification wins federal case"

_r4nc — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 03:23:48 +0000

Has there ever been a case where a jury has actually “invoked” nullification? I put quotes because a jury wouldn’t directly invoke nullification, they would just present a finding clearly contrary to the evidence. Follow up question, does a jury have to provide any reasoning for their finding? Or just the finding itself?