Hacker News: gbarc888

Plan for HyperBitcoinization

gbarc888 — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:13:12 +0000

Article URL: https://elaineou.com/2018/01/13/my-plan-for-hyperbitcoinization/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16171876

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gbarc888 in "The Silicon Valley paradox: one in four people are at risk of hunger"

gbarc888 — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 08:56:52 +0000

the jobs that lead to potential upward mobility aren't in Lincoln. Plus, this kind of forward-thinking (incur $15k worth of debt now, pay it off with money saved on rent later) is really difficult for someone like myself who already has a lot of debt.

New comment by gbarc888 in "Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models into This Year’s Holiday Parties"

gbarc888 — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:57:13 +0000

Don't employees usually bring a +1 to these events anyway?

New comment by gbarc888 in "Cloudflare has a plan to never censor again"

gbarc888 — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 01:13:49 +0000

> The problem was that other Cloudflare customers started calling and threatening to cancel their service if Cloudflare didn't cut the Daily Stormer off.

This is not the excuse they used back in August. Back then, the CEO said "The Daily Stormer site was bragging on their bulletin boards about how Cloudflare was one of them and that is the opposite of everything we believe. That was the tipping point for me.”

New comment by gbarc888 in "In two-thirds of heterosexual couples, the man is at least a year older"

gbarc888 — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 06:35:59 +0000

What a quote! "women are like cheese, they get blue veins and start to stink."

Older women (even ones with children) can be just as beautiful as younger ones. Not with an attitude like that, though.

New comment by gbarc888 in "How do I get my son or daughter interested in computer programming?"

gbarc888 — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 06:27:23 +0000

Curious what your answer would have been, though. Most of the answers seem to be "find a toy version of it".

New comment by gbarc888 in "How do I get my son or daughter interested in computer programming?"

gbarc888 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 22:30:13 +0000

that's pretty much the best way to get kids to do anything.

"Whatever you do, son, don't read this Calculus textbook. And you are not allowed to eat these vegetables."

How do I get my son or daughter interested in computer programming?

gbarc888 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 22:10:36 +0000

Article URL: https://elaineou.com/2017/09/26/how-do-i-get-my-daughter-interested-in-computers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15369686

Points: 29

# Comments: 18

SEC Exposes Initial Coin Offerings Purportedly Backed by Real Estate, Diamonds

gbarc888 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 22:04:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-185-0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15369648

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by gbarc888 in "Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee"

gbarc888 — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:51:54 +0000

I agree with you. The third group is also the first people to get laid off and thrown away when there is an economic downturn.

New comment by gbarc888 in "Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee"

gbarc888 — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:47:49 +0000

This is one thing I can't stand about the Bay Area. Roommates are for college kids. It is not normal to be 30 years old, making over 100k, and living with roommates. But everyone I know lives like this, including myself.

New comment by gbarc888 in "Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee"

gbarc888 — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:40:57 +0000

Same background here. China, not Moscow or Crimea

I worry about the next generation. They say that wealth skips every other generation, because if a child grows up in a well-to-do family, they will not value hard work as much.

Bitcoin tumbles on report China to shutter digital currency exchanges

gbarc888 — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 21:26:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bitcoin-china/bitcoin-tumbles-on-report-china-to-shutter-digital-currency-exchanges-idUSKCN1BJ1US

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15204086

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gbarc888 in "The Equifax Hack Didn't Have to Be This Bad"

gbarc888 — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 20:29:42 +0000

Well that sounds just as bad...

New comment by gbarc888 in "The Equifax Hack Didn't Have to Be This Bad"

gbarc888 — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 20:28:30 +0000

The article only says they found a "security risk". I wonder what that is, and how it would allow identity theft if they are actually using public/private keys. Did Estonia secretly backdoor their encryption?

New comment by gbarc888 in "The Equifax Hack Didn't Have to Be This Bad"

gbarc888 — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 19:16:45 +0000

Which countries do you mean? How do they manage their credit scores?

New comment by gbarc888 in "Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack"

gbarc888 — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 17:20:37 +0000

Undoubtedly Equifax will claim that the hackers were agents of a sovereign power, to escape liability. Regardless, they admitted on their own web page that there was a flaw in their web application.

Biometrics would be a terrible idea. Mass surveillance, anyone?

The Equifax Hack Didn't Have to Be This Bad

gbarc888 — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 17:03:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-08/the-equifax-hack-didn-t-have-to-be-this-bad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15201948

Points: 186

# Comments: 67

Musician Taryn Southern on composing her new album entirely with AI

gbarc888 — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 22:26:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/27/16197196/taryn-southern-album-artificial-intelligence-interview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113156

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gbarc888 in "Why We Terminated Daily Stormer"

gbarc888 — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 04:24:39 +0000

The whole Civil Rights Movement came about as a result of a faction of armed rebellion against the US in the 1960s! I suppose you think it was a mistake to let them have the right to be heard back then?