Readit News logoReadit News
aaren commented on Ask HN: Location-independent entrepreneurs, where do you live and why?    · Posted by u/dave1619
pandler · 9 years ago
I've been popping around quite a bit recently. Some recent destinations in no particular order: Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea, USA, Australia, India, Kenya, South Africa, Germany, Norway, New Zealand. I stay for a few months (usually 2-6 months) at a time and move on.

Currently in Bali because it's cheap, the weather is nice, I'm right on the beach, there are solid coworking + cafe options, and the Balinese people + culture + architecture are absolutely splendid.

aaren · 9 years ago
You mind emailing me (in profile)? I'm looking for some Bali specific info - just want to work and surf basically :)
aaren commented on Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income?   freakonomics.com/podcast/... · Posted by u/ryan606
branchless · 9 years ago
You have to fund it via land value tax or rentiers will take up all the slack.

Get rid of income tax, tax land. We want to stop rentiers, we don't want to stop workers. Right now it's back to front, by design.

aaren · 9 years ago
Can you explain how land value tax relates to current UK council tax? Is CT just a really poorly implemented LVT and could LVT be implemented by modifying the existing CT system?

I advocate for LVT in the abstract but get stuck on explaining implementation in a relatable way.

p.s. really appreciate your persistent posting on this :)

aaren commented on Apple Jumps on the WebRTC Bandwagon   nojitter.com/post/2401715... · Posted by u/blaccspotmedia
SCHiM · 9 years ago
Yes. This is very easy to install using PFsense inside a virtual machine.

Here's a guide that is recent and I can confirm that it works:

http://www.malwaretech.com/2015/08/creating-ultimate-tor-vir...

aaren · 9 years ago
Is this basically the same as what Whonix does (routing through a dedicated gateway VM)?

http://whonix.org

Posted by u/aaren 9 years ago
Anti Evil Maid 2 Turbo Editionmjg59.dreamwidth.org/3574...
Posted by u/aaren 9 years ago
North Carolina man arrested for not returning VHS tape rented in 2002theguardian.com/us-news/2...
aaren commented on HN: Please add Reddit style collapsible comments    · Posted by u/AndyKelley
kuschku · 9 years ago
If there was a Firefox version, it might actually be usable on Android, too.
aaren · 9 years ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...

Sadly it doesn't work on android firefox.

aaren commented on Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer   svds.com/ethereum-the-ris... · Posted by u/hunglee2
drcode · 10 years ago
To be fair, only Consensys and R3CEV are "developing on ethereum"... Microsoft and Red Hat are merely offering machine images with ethereum software pre-installed for their users, as they do for many other software tools- Though I'm happy to be corrected, if you can point me to a Microsoft and/or Redhat-authored smart contract.

The news for ethereum is positive enough right now, no need to exaggerate the facts.

aaren · 10 years ago
Sorry, I got excited and imprecise. I suppose I mean "developing on and around".

I'm just trying to counter the idea that the excitement around ethereum is somehow manufactured by 'clever marketing'.

aaren commented on Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer   svds.com/ethereum-the-ris... · Posted by u/hunglee2
kang · 10 years ago
Vitalik became famous cause of his journalism. Then the sale gave ether founders loads of money. Now it is being used to market cleverly. One example around me here in India is BlockchainU. Blockchain university has taught in almost all prime Indian IT companies pumping ethereum & thus atleast most, if not all, corporate devs are working on ethereum here, whereas there is no central advertising foundation for bitcoin.
aaren · 10 years ago
Are you suggesting that Consensys, Microsoft, R3CEV and Red Hat are only developing on Ethereum because of clever marketing? There isn't some technical merit to the platform that means they are doing this?

Why didn't these companies develop their products on Bitcoin? Are they incapable of due diligence in this space?

https://consensys.net/

http://www.blockapps.net/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/ethereum-blockchain-a...

https://consensys.net/static/blockappsRedhat.pdf

http://r3cev.com/

aaren commented on What future for BT and the UK's broadband?   bbc.com/news/technology-3... · Posted by u/robhodge
aaren · 10 years ago
Someone linked to B4RN [1] the other day: community owned, non profit, symmetric gigabit internet in the north west of England, for £30 / month.

If more of these networks spring up, then maybe something good will come of BT's tardiness in laying decent infrastructure. Granted, B4RN is strongly enabled by being able to easily lay fibre under farmland, but there are other models that are more appropriate in urban areas - see e.g. the guifi network [2] in Catalonia.

[1]: http://b4rn.org.uk [2]: http://guifi.net

aaren commented on Tails installer is now in Debian   bits.debian.org/2016/02/t... · Posted by u/p4bl0
aaren · 10 years ago
This is a big improvement over the previous setup, but I feel that it could do with handling the most insecure part of the process: downloading and verifying the tails iso.

It would be great if this installer could leverage the trust I have in my system to painlessly acquire and then validate the tails iso, without having to deal with

I just tried feeding a regular debian iso to the installer and it didn't complain at all. This shouldn't be possible - what if this was a bad tails iso?

a

u/aaren

KarmaCake day317June 6, 2013
About
github.com/aaren

mail@aaren.me

View Original