Hacker News: ryacko

New comment by ryacko in "Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android"

ryacko — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:50:14 +0000

Independent of network cards, TLS using AES-GCM will cost one cycle per byte.

New comment by ryacko in "McKinsey, technocratic management, and structural inequality"

ryacko — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 17:29:16 +0000

DARPA's budget is three billion dollars. Intel's net income is twenty-one billion dollars. The need for public-sector investment has ended.

New comment by ryacko in "Coronavirus Outbreak: Hoaxes and Conspiracy Theories Spreading Wildly"

ryacko — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 21:27:25 +0000

>It's not to far of a stretch that someone leaked this from their lab.

You may not know about this national news item from 2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

Which was strangely well timed to be after 9/11, I wonder how long Ivins planned to mailed the spores.

New comment by ryacko in "Police begin operational use of live facial recognition technology in London"

ryacko — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 23:02:44 +0000

>But if technology makes this concept obsolete, then we must adapt.

The point of the Third Amendment is that people do lie. Do you trust the King's soldiers to report on the coming and goings around your house truthfully?

New comment by ryacko in "Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029"

ryacko — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 17:09:09 +0000

Space colonization is only viable for a small handful of people who produce at least a million dollars in revenue per year.

Programmers and CEOs.

New comment by ryacko in "82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on government cell phones"

ryacko — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 05:21:26 +0000

>not how a bureaucracy thinks. Come on.

Conspiratorial bureaucracies operate that way. Trust no one, allow nothing that can be used to undermine...

Read Memoirs Found in a Bathtub.

New comment by ryacko in "Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ Before Taking Tech Jobs"

ryacko — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 21:05:12 +0000

>Would you expect an ethics class to do anything more than provide a forum for debates like these? Do you think anyone will actually change their view?

I've been on the receiving end of several ethical issues and find that it is often less about ethics and more about tribal politics.

New comment by ryacko in "NOBUS (Nobody but Us)"

ryacko — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:10:25 +0000

looks at the history of major criminal conspiracy cases and historical events

The answer is throwing everything you have, and only some of the time reveal what you know.

New comment by ryacko in "Video Gaming Will Take Over"

ryacko — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 07:45:17 +0000

Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf was a turn-based game that was tactical and strategic.

New comment by ryacko in "Equinix is acquiring Packet"

ryacko — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 07:33:29 +0000

An affidavit doesn't cost much and requires presenting government ID. There would be no fraud if affidavits were required.

New comment by ryacko in "Academic Torrents"

ryacko — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 19:23:00 +0000

Wikipedia does cover that issue. Competing views are difficult to reconcile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Systemi...

(using a version of the article from ten years ago because everything is unnecessarily verbose on wikipedia now)

New comment by ryacko in "Anonymous shell companies buying American real estate"

ryacko — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 19:18:03 +0000

Don't worry, Trump tweets assist in my mental stability.

New comment by ryacko in "Anonymous shell companies buying American real estate"

ryacko — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 06:11:24 +0000

>But this is one of those things that was historically only available within a government office

If you want to know where a person lived pre-internet, you looked them up in a phone book, which is substantially less privacy preserving than looking up the owner of a house.

Well, post-internet, 2FA has been leaked to advertisers.

New comment by ryacko in "We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need new programmers"

ryacko — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 16:48:38 +0000

Some IRC clients would change the nick of the user if the user toggles that they are AFK.

New comment by ryacko in "A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song"

ryacko — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 15:14:24 +0000

No, the millions is not backed by bonds. It is a complex topic, but Brazil stopped their inflation by issuing a new currency and implementing price controls.

Much of economics depends on expectation, there is nothing inherently logical about any of it.

New comment by ryacko in "Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs"

ryacko — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 15:12:43 +0000

You're right, Epstein was engaged in a platonic mentoring relationship with scandalously young women who by many metrics were also good looking.

New comment by ryacko in "A Sick Giant"

ryacko — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 04:44:51 +0000

The Anti-Masonic Party was a thing for a time.

There are certainly mood and history defining events for various historical periods that are under reported.

The earliest secularists were all freemasons.

New comment by ryacko in "Iran general Qassem Suleimani killed in Baghdad drone strike"

ryacko — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 19:00:17 +0000

I don't want you making decisions with ambiguous information over life or death situations.

New comment by ryacko in "Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)"

ryacko — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:26:31 +0000

Who? Whom do you think I'm talking about?

New comment by ryacko in "American Letter Mail Company"

ryacko — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 08:58:19 +0000

Horses are still just as expensive as they were. Railroads are faster now, and more efficient through diesel-electric engines.