HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

gggggg5

192 karma · joined January 5, 2023

submissionscomments
gggggg5··on Video shows 8-car pileup after a Tesla allegedly using FSD stopped in tunnel
Perhaps you just had a legitimate reason to cause a crash, doesn't mean the person driving behind you truly deserves any blame.
gggggg5··on UK: Excess deaths in 2022 among worst in 50 years
How is that? How do you suppose the British government could have avoided this? You speak of Ukrainian lives, so presumably you are referring to foreign policy and not domestic policy. Through which foreign policy decisions has the British government caused this?

It's not like Britain could have kept energy prices down by not aiding Ukraine. It's also hardly realistic to suggest that British aid to Ukraine has come at a significant expense to the taxpayer, given the baseline defence spending by Britain to counter Russia.

gggggg5··on FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims
>He twitted it himself in November:

Are you being deliberately dishonest or did you just misread something?

Luke discovered that a server belonging to him was compromised in November, yes. Much later, he found out that his personal devices were also compromised.

He has repeatedly stated that he did not keep any bitcoins on that server, and also repeatedly stated that his coins were stolen from cold storage.

It's possible these attackers had Lukes home computer compromised for years, his bitcoin holdings are not what makes him an interesting target. His ability to backdoor bitcoin core or other similar software just might.

gggggg5··on FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims
The point you were getting at simply doesn't exist. Ask those ethnic Russians if that's an Estonian or Russian name, they will tell you it's a Russian name.

Writing Russian names in Estonian script does not make them Estonian names.

gggggg5··on FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims
Yes, he is an ethnic Russian who happens to be an Estonian national. "Russian" does not refer to the nationality, it is an ethnicity. There are vast amounts of Russian nationals who are not Russian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians

In Estonia these people are referred to as Russians too, because that is what they are and what they identify as.

gggggg5··on FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims
Nobody was called Russian. _throwawayaway correctly called it a Russian name, you incorrectly replied with "That's an Estonian name", which it isn't.

Most of the Estonians with Russian names do identify as Russian, even if they aren't necessarily Russian nationals. It's an ethnic group, these are ethnic Russians.

> The reason it looks different, is because they're Estonian, so the name will be different

This is false. It's spelled the way it is spelled because that's how Estonian government wants names spelled. Also, because it would be awkward to interact with a society where most people do not know the Cyrillic alphabet.

gggggg5··on FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims
> Luke had his wallet sitting on a server that he knew to be compromised for months

How do you know this? Luke has denied this over and over again. It seems like you've invented this in order to defame him.

gggggg5··on FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims
Of course Турыгин is a Russian name. Spelling it using Estonian script doesn't change anything.

Looking up other Turõgins in Estonia, they all have very obviously Russian first names and zero obviously Estonian names.

There's no doubt that Ivan Turõgins parents fully intended to give him a Russian name, even if Estonia requires Estonian script on Estonian identity documents.

Even Estonians call these names "Russian names", that's what they are. If someone in Estonia decides to name their kid Muhamed, that doesn't magically become an Estonian name.

> Calling Estonians Russians is not taken well at all

I suspect that your comment wouldn't be taken very well by Estonian Turõgins

gggggg5··on Twilio’s toll fraud problem
Surely the overheads of any useful KYC are way too high for this to work? And basically nobody in this industry does KYC, so how do you propose that would meaningfully affect their interconnects?
gggggg5··on Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm
That's a deeply confusing interpretation. The correct reading is "Carplay brings better-than-Tesla navigation to any car."
gggggg5··on Twilio’s toll fraud problem
Why should Twilio do this when nobody else does?
gggggg5··on Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more than a dozen US companies
Your previous comment is exclusively observing the effect of sanctions on luxury goods.

You generally can't buy the mentioned dual-use goods in your local electronics store. Look up the "EU dual use control list", it mostly covers exotic stuff like electronics adapted to operate in extreme (temperature, radiation) environments.

← PreviousPage 5 of 5