HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

yuja_wang

17 karma · joined September 3, 2016

submissionscomments
yuja_wang··on A scammer stole $500 from me and in the end begged me not to tell his parents
Exactly! That's why he should have gone to the Police.
yuja_wang··on Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered
I thought MacOS was "Secure By Design". This is what Apple states in their official product descriptions.

In fact, it says it on this current page:

http://www.apple.com/business/mac/

"Because OS X is secure by design, there’s no need for IT to install additional tools or lock down functionality for employees. And with an automated zero-touch deployment process, they don’t even have to open the box."

yuja_wang··on Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (2014)
Fat people can fast for a year with few problems.

Here's a write up from the NIH.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495396/pdf/post...

Overeating is a psychological disorder. Few Americans would have any ill effects not eating for a few days -- especially the 66% of Americans who are obese or overweight.

yuja_wang··on Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (2014)
The "Body Positivity" movement that encourages people, especially young woman, to be obese or overweight, and tries to criminalize images of slender people in advertising may be the most unhealthy political movement there is.

Obesity kills 300,000 people in the U.S. each year, and with the exception of several hundred people suffering with psychological disorders who manage to starve themselves each year, being slender or even a bit "underweight" has no negative health effects and may have some positive ones.

yuja_wang··on Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace
I wonder if this is in response to out-of-control GitHub employees enforcing arbitrary "Codes of Conduct" on their users, including flagging repositories for using language that's not inclusive enough, or might offend someone?

Seems like without management, an employee with an agenda--especially on that's not related to technology--could go off unchecked for a long time.

yuja_wang··on I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password
I do that too! I have the same "suffix" that's on all of them that I leave off the written version for a tiny bit of extra security. It's just a few characters that I've been using consistently for years on written-down passwords.
yuja_wang··on Tor’s Branding Pivot Is Going to Get Someone Killed
These types of issues come up a lot in well-meaning organizations. What they don't realize is: "You an include the most people by having the narrowest platform."

So if you're a "privacy technology" group, anything not related to privacy technology should not be part of your focus.

Ever Civil War, for example, has two (or more sides). Now the Tor group has to pick one. If they were simply interested in privacy technology, they wouldn't have to.

You see a similar thing with Codes of Conduct, or "inclusiveness" initiatives. Why can't a Python conference be about Python and only about Python?