Hacker News: bunkydoo

New comment by bunkydoo in "The Zen of Drinking Alone"

bunkydoo — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:16:28 +0000

Aka alcoholism

New comment by bunkydoo in "Gridcoin: An open-source cryptocurrency that rewards volunteer computing"

bunkydoo — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:03:20 +0000

Well, one area that Gridcoin isn't / hasn't been availed for is the fact that it (like folding@home) has projects that helped do research on COVID. Although folding@home didn't provide any monetary reward - at least Rosetta@home is a supported GRC project. Obviously the token price would need to be higher to make the break even cost of the servers & mining feasible, but it is a neat project.

New comment by bunkydoo in "I Nearly Lost All of My Data"

bunkydoo — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 10:02:09 +0000

M Discs brother, they are cleared to last 1000+ years. Long after most people's cloud backups have turned to dust, my most treasured data will endure due to my use of these discs (which may well be unreadable from a hardware standpoint in 3019. But shit, hope they keep the schematics around.

New comment by bunkydoo in "Darpa Literally Reinvented the Wheel for Army Combat Vehicles"

bunkydoo — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 01:59:54 +0000

This is some good work, shows that taking a new approach to things can sometimes be delightfully tantalizing. But remember, the guys at DARPA want to go home and have a beer as well :-)

New comment by bunkydoo in "Facebook’s patents show a commitment to collecting personal information"

bunkydoo — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 01:58:53 +0000

Wow, this is a new revelation. Couldn't have guessed that, what a story mark.

New comment by bunkydoo in "NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]"

bunkydoo — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:17:12 +0000

? doesnt load

New comment by bunkydoo in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

bunkydoo — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 23:32:44 +0000

Seems like something that would have been more fitting for Google...

New comment by bunkydoo in "Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox"

bunkydoo — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 21:53:02 +0000

I believe Tor browser is already just a version of Firefox if I'm not mistaken. What would be the advantage of integrating with Firefox as opposed to say, a VPN integrated into the browser via a plugin. Just seems a little redundant and Tor is beginning to seem dated also with new solutions popping up and making the pitfalls of Tor more apparent.

New comment by bunkydoo in "Buffett Proposed $3 Billion Uber Investment But Deal Crumbled"

bunkydoo — Thu, 31 May 2018 07:09:56 +0000

Margaritaville

New comment by bunkydoo in "I Write Letters to CEOs"

bunkydoo — Thu, 31 May 2018 07:09:08 +0000

I write letters to many different people, none really respond showing me that this is a thoughtful yet ineffective means of reaching out to people nowadays... Interesting thoughts nonetheless

New comment by bunkydoo in "Goldman Sachs to Open a Bitcoin Trading Operation"

bunkydoo — Thu, 03 May 2018 03:08:18 +0000

Goldman Sucks

New comment by bunkydoo in "Gamers Want DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games"

bunkydoo — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 03:16:41 +0000

If such a rule were to pass, it would be cool to see something done for older ROMs. So many games have the potential to go unplayed and become forgotten relics

New comment by bunkydoo in "Sam Altman: ‘Too many’ Y Combinator companies raise money"

bunkydoo — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 03:02:26 +0000

This guy is not really a good thing for YC, I honestly stopped caring that much about this incubator after that guy who was in before him left. Sam Altman should be removed.

New comment by bunkydoo in "Tesla Model S battery degradation data"

bunkydoo — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 23:17:45 +0000

I'm just over here patiently awaiting some startup to unseat Tesla as the king of speedy, luxury, electric automotive. Nobody is quite taking the cake, or even trying for that matter.

New comment by bunkydoo in "Mailable Live Animals"

bunkydoo — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 07:09:38 +0000

I worked at a rural post office for a little over a year, sometimes we'd get chicks going out to the farms - other times it was insects. Pretty impressive the scope of services offered by the postal service

New comment by bunkydoo in "Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy"

bunkydoo — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 05:35:22 +0000

I'm still using paper over here, nothing seems to do it for me on the computer. Paper is great, and paper is king.

New comment by bunkydoo in "As Our Jobs Are Automated, Some Say We'll Need a Guaranteed Basic Income"

bunkydoo — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:13:14 +0000

Basic income probably isn't the answer, but instead basic needs being met through education and proper allocation of resources is a very viable answer. FDR had a vision during his time in office which was for every person to own land. Theoretically, if everyone had access to use some amount of land through entitlement - they would be able to use natural means to provide themselves and their family with certain basic needs like food and shelter. With the advent of technology and GMO crops - anyone should be able to understand growing their own food and building their own home when suddenly presented with more free time in the absence of traditional industrial work. I hate to go all Atlas Shrugged on y'all - but Galt's Gulch was effectively this. It was a commune that recognized an individual's power to provide for themselves when presented with the means to meet their basic human needs.

New comment by bunkydoo in "Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles"

bunkydoo — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 10:57:58 +0000

Well I'll be completely straight and say this isn't anything new. (You've been able to buy similar video glasses from china for about 5 years now) but if it can properly integrate with the app, and slim down a LOT more. To the point the camera is unnoticeable - they could finally start making some money. Well, until the Chinese knockoffs start rolling in

New comment by bunkydoo in "Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100"

bunkydoo — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 02:37:32 +0000

Addiction is probably one of the worst diseases, and I am not sure that you can 'cure' it.

New comment by bunkydoo in "Pardon Snowden"

bunkydoo — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:45:47 +0000

I say pardon him at this point, you'd be better off having him in America than somewhere in Russia being forced to leak further info for continued asylum