Hacker News: steelstraw

We Are Experiencing Definitional Collapse

steelstraw — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 20:21:38 +0000

Article URL: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/we-are-experiencing-definitional

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30408960

Points: 54

# Comments: 37

Official Response: Request to Freeze Canadian Edge Users’ Accounts

steelstraw — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 17:02:52 +0000

Article URL: https://edge.app/blog/company-news/official-response-request-to-freeze-canadian-edge-users-accounts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30407150

Points: 74

# Comments: 95

“Okay So Your Bank Account Is Frozen” Starter Pack

steelstraw — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 15:45:05 +0000

Article URL: https://bankaccountfrozen.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30406556

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

Our immune systems are remembering Covid-19 and fighting against its variants

steelstraw — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 04:45:24 +0000

Article URL: https://abc7.com/covid-variants-immune-system-vaccine-virus/11575669/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30403277

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice ordered us to freeze and disclose assets

steelstraw — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:47:58 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/nunchuk_io/status/1494885897577271299

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30400847

Points: 15

# Comments: 6

New comment by steelstraw in "Study finds most unemployed young men have criminal records"

steelstraw — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 00:12:08 +0000

What % are for non-violent drug related charges that we could expunge by making marijuana legal?

It's crazy to me that this hasn't been done.

New comment by steelstraw in "Dad takes down town's internet by mistake to get his kids offline"

steelstraw — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:23:22 +0000

Does China have the right idea with respect to kids and the internet? Should we effectively ban kids from social media and restrict their usage at the ISP level?

Would like to see the arguments for and against.

New comment by steelstraw in "Thread: There are no other constitutional rights wo freedom to transact"

steelstraw — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 04:50:48 +0000

That is an extremely well argued and important thread. It's really worth reading the whole thing.

It’s Time for Bitcoin to Become a Better Tool for Laundering Money

steelstraw — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 01:03:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-17/it-s-time-for-bitcoin-to-become-a-better-tool-for-laundering-money

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30380990

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by steelstraw in "Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?"

steelstraw — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 21:46:59 +0000

1Password has raised almost $1B. Surely they could put at least $1M toward a critical bounty?

New comment by steelstraw in "Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?"

steelstraw — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 21:05:37 +0000

That is terribly low for such a critical issue. There are Ethereum L2s that pay out $2M bounties.

https://twitter.com/saurik/status/1491821215924690950

New comment by steelstraw in "Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021"

steelstraw — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 20:31:07 +0000

The article says that only accounts for 1 in 7 homes though.

I don't get how people are still buying houses at these prices. Are they paying beyond their means? Wiping out their savings? Or what?

Amazon boots Black Lives Matter off AmazonSmile as scrutiny intensifies

steelstraw — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:06:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/amazon-boots-black-lives-matter-off-amazonsmile-as-scrutiny-intensifies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30374592

Points: 19

# Comments: 2

Public’s Top Priority for 2022: Strengthening the Nation’s Economy

steelstraw — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:33:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/02/16/publics-top-priority-for-2022-strengthening-the-nations-economy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30374161

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

What Pundits Don’t Understand About the San Francisco Recall

steelstraw — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 02:16:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/san-francisco-school-board-recall/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30368790

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Why Elon Musk is so successful

steelstraw — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:12:00 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1494088214402854912

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30367717

Points: 10

# Comments: 6

Big tech censorship not autonomous but often result of coercion and pressure

steelstraw — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 20:51:54 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1493975671361744898

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30365515

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Anti-Protest Law Sweeps Across Canada Financial Sector

steelstraw — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:33:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-16/trudeau-s-financial-dragnet-covers-portfolio-managers-insurers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30364621

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by steelstraw in "US DOE to offer $6B to keep struggling nuclear reactors online"

steelstraw — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:40:32 +0000

They could store it in the form of digital energy (Bitcoin). With that you're able to capture what would otherwise be wasted energy.

"The gas, which would otherwise have been burned off, is instead routed to a bitcoin processor.

For years, oil and gas companies have struggled with the problem of what to do when they accidentally hit a natural gas formation while drilling for oil. Whereas oil can easily be trucked out to a remote destination, gas delivery requires a pipeline. If a drilling site is right next to a pipeline, they chuck the gas in and take whatever cash the buyer on the other end is willing to pay that day. But if it’s 20 miles from a pipeline, drillers often burn it off, or flare it. That is why you will typically see flames rising from oil fields.

The process reduces CO2-equivalent emissions by about 63% compared to continued flaring.."

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/15/conocophillips-is-selling-ex...

Contract Enforcement and Decentralized Consensus: The Case of Slashing

steelstraw — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 04:40:48 +0000

Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4036000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30356438

Points: 3

# Comments: 0