Hacker News: rwiggum

New comment by rwiggum in "The Cloud Computer"

rwiggum — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:54:54 +0000

retirement is covered by social security healthcare by insurance (offered by the state if you can't afford it yourself)

homes, etc is true though and we just need to build more inventory IMO. but there are tons of areas with affordable homes, they just aren't near the big cities like NYC or SF or LA

New comment by rwiggum in "You Don't Need UUID"

rwiggum — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 02:08:47 +0000

all of cryptocurrency relies on sha256 the fact that the space is huge, and just ignores collisions. seems to work fine.

New comment by rwiggum in "Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi"

rwiggum — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 03:40:53 +0000

This is actually what they're building. They publish ZK proofs over the biometric data instead of publishing the biometric data itself.

New comment by rwiggum in "Bard now open to use"

rwiggum — Wed, 10 May 2023 23:57:04 +0000

it's honestly terrible. ask it "write 10 sentences that end in the word apple" and watch it flail.

New comment by rwiggum in "Meta lays off 11,000 people"

rwiggum — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 18:12:50 +0000

incorrect. RL = reality labs. the VR and metaverse stuff.

New comment by rwiggum in "Deno 1.25"

rwiggum — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 20:29:38 +0000

Yes, easily. We do this for the JS runtime at litprotocol.com

New comment by rwiggum in "GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos"

rwiggum — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 21:06:26 +0000

Free speech is free speech though. Either it's free or it's not free. You are arguing for "not free". I am not a fan of that ideology. This isn't shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre. This is restricting access to speech (code) simply because the gov doesn't approve of what the code does.

New comment by rwiggum in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

rwiggum — Tue, 17 May 2022 23:07:54 +0000

i dunno what makes you think that. the iphone 13 mini was released alongside the other iphone 13's and is the latest gen. all signs point to apple releasing a mini version of the next iphone, too.

New comment by rwiggum in "Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources"

rwiggum — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 18:20:52 +0000

They already brought this back as an option you can set.

New comment by rwiggum in "Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management via RFC 8555 (ACME)"

rwiggum — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 20:09:31 +0000

Can you say more about this or point to a source? I'm very curious to learn more about this!

New comment by rwiggum in "Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow"

rwiggum — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:30:36 +0000

since smart contracts are turing complete, you could easily write a "dead mans switch" contract that requires check in, say, every 30 days.

the contract could be written such that if two or more checkins in a row are missed, then the assets can be withdrawn by any authorized users.

New comment by rwiggum in "Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station"

rwiggum — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 01:33:12 +0000

The rotary dpad thing is worse than a touchscreen IMO. instead of just touching the thing you care about, now you have to scroll around to find it, which is very dangerous when driving

New comment by rwiggum in "Over 10% of Tesla Model S EVs Fail Germany’s Strict Inspection After 3 Years"

rwiggum — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:22:10 +0000

No, model Y performance is about 4-6 weeks in USA at least

New comment by rwiggum in "All Bitcoin private keys are on this website"

rwiggum — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 23:38:54 +0000

This is false

New comment by rwiggum in "Tether minted most USDT to just 2 firms – Alameda and Cumberland"

rwiggum — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 01:48:22 +0000

That's not how it works. If the defi contracts collapse, the borrowers get margin called. The borrowers must overcollateralize quite a bit, usually 1.5x or 2x what they are borrowing. You could argue that the sell order will fall through in the case of a total market collapse. But the market has fallen 90% in the past and this has not happened.

New comment by rwiggum in "Comma Three Devkit"

rwiggum — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:12:25 +0000

"automatic cruise control" is free and comes with every Tesla. It is not $10k. It is what they call "autopilot" and is free. "Full self driving" is what is $10k and includes automatic navigation on highways when using "automatic cruise control"

New comment by rwiggum in "Tether executives said to face criminal probe into bank fraud"

rwiggum — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 21:37:18 +0000

USDC is audited monthly https://www.centre.io/usdc-transparency

New comment by rwiggum in "I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency”"

rwiggum — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:47:09 +0000

It's all open source. You can see the contracts yourself, or read an audit that someone else created. The beauty is that you don't have to trust them, because you can see exactly what can possibly happen with your money by looking at the code.

New comment by rwiggum in "Building Permanent and Censorship-Resistant Blog with Ethereum ENS and IPFS"

rwiggum — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 01:11:03 +0000

Check out Ceramic

New comment by rwiggum in "“It's a truck full of traffic lights”"

rwiggum — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 00:52:05 +0000

It's not smooth though. Once traffic starts again, Eyesight accelerates hard and then brakes hard when it get up to the car, because it's using cruise control and trying get up to speed and there is a minimum speed (25mph? maybe 10mph? i forget) to set the cruise control.