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New comment by raugustinus in "I’m writing again"

raugustinus — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:49:24 +0000

Dang we're getting old ey?

New comment by raugustinus in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

raugustinus — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:06:04 +0000

Age verification requires identity verification once — but it doesn't require revealing your identity ever to a third party. With FHE (fully homomorphic encryption), identity data is encrypted on your device and never leaves it in plaintext. Not to the merchant, not to us as the verification service — nobody. We only compute on encrypted data and return a yes/no. I'm building this at identified.app

New comment by raugustinus in "LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users"

raugustinus — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:15:17 +0000

"Uber but for nailcare on Blockchain". I'm laughing but I'm not sure if I should be crying. Thanks for the laugh!

New comment by raugustinus in "Metamaterials, AI, and the Road to Invisibility Cloaks"

raugustinus — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:07:48 +0000

So confused when I read invincibility cloak.

New comment by raugustinus in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

raugustinus — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:25:30 +0000

There's https://refraction.network/ but I am not sure how feasible that is at the moment (or at all). I came across it when researching some TLS stuff in golang (programming language).

New comment by raugustinus in "Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD"

raugustinus — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 10:28:47 +0000

Maybe one should revise those thoughts. Apparently all of us will have issues with cow's milk. Some of us just have problems with even small amounts.

At least this is what our specilist at the hospital explained to us.

New comment by raugustinus in "Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)"

raugustinus — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 10:44:56 +0000

Here in the Netherlands there's a huge incentive to move to heatpumps (subsidies and whatnot). I believe most of those (if not all) that are being installed have a defrosting mode which is automatically activated. I have seen mine defrosting in the last few days since it's finally below zero (celsius).

New comment by raugustinus in "Ask HN: LinkedIn mysteriously banned me permanently; where to go next?"

raugustinus — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 06:04:12 +0000

Someone who insults your tech stack. Oh no sorry that's a technology insultant.

New comment by raugustinus in "Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says"

raugustinus — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:43:41 +0000

"If the role of the WHO is to stave off pandemics and not just to monitor them". Not really no.

New comment by raugustinus in "The Next Leap in Self-Driving: Prediction"

raugustinus — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:10:32 +0000

While yes, they also completely lose track if the white lines on the road aren't available.

New comment by raugustinus in "Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition"

raugustinus — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:21:40 +0000

While I mostly agree, I do switch to Chrome every once in a while when the javascript stacktrace in FFdev is a bit unclear. Chrome usually seems to be a bit better. But I always switch right back to FF.

New comment by raugustinus in "Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an impact on the globe’"

raugustinus — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:11:28 +0000

Hah, you made me think of this: "what's really going to bake your noodle later on is would you still have broken it if I wouldn't have said anything".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVF4kebiks4

New comment by raugustinus in "Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an impact on the globe’"

raugustinus — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:54:50 +0000

We are not free to end our own life when you feel you had enough. There's laws for that. But yes, I'll reflect on my options whether or not I'll have that chemo when I'm in my sixties/seventies.

New comment by raugustinus in "Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an impact on the globe’"

raugustinus — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:50:31 +0000

Reading the article beyond the second paragraph actually affirms kinda what you're saying. I guess I shot straight into a kneejerk reaction on the subtitle 'extending the human lifespan' :)

New comment by raugustinus in "Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an impact on the globe’"

raugustinus — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:45:00 +0000

I am 100% for a (more) healthy life. I have no interest in 'extending my lifespan' except for the 'few' extra years that the healthy life might bring.

New comment by raugustinus in "Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an impact on the globe’"

raugustinus — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:20:25 +0000

Hah good one. On the other hand, medical possibilities will be increasing way beyond what we'll be able to afford.

New comment by raugustinus in "Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an impact on the globe’"

raugustinus — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:16:05 +0000

From the point of view of economics maybe. Switching professions can be done in a current lifespan and is not done very often. I don't see people changing just because their life is extended. I just don't understand people's fixation on having a longer life. Seems to me people just keep looking at the horizon to bring them what they want and they forget what's right in front of them.

New comment by raugustinus in "Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an impact on the globe’"

raugustinus — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:02:12 +0000

What makes people think we want to have them around any longer? To extend life is to decrease it's value. Simple economics tells us it's inflation.

edit: I think Neil deGrasse Tyson says it a lot better than me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3G9LOJZTmM

New comment by raugustinus in "Health dangers of sleep deprivation"

raugustinus — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 08:39:26 +0000

Such a shame the subtitle of the article is all about quantity. Quality of life far outweighs quantity, but this subtitle probably serves better as clikckbait.

New comment by raugustinus in "With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit"

raugustinus — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 23:34:19 +0000

The real solution would be for companies to start giving a shit to whom they hire and put some effort into finding them.