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Adam Ierymenko
adamierymenko.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2014
Adam Ierymenko, a software developer and founder of ZeroTier, writes about decentralization, networking, containers, and the moons of Saturn.
What HN saysHN commenters often cite his privileged ports posts and his decentralization essay, and his post speculating on possible life on Titan also comes up.
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- 1Privileged Ports Cause Climate Change5 people · 6 points · first shared 2019 · 2 comments on HN
- 2Privileged Ports Are Expensive (2016)4 people · 267 points · first shared 2016 · 210 comments on HN
- 3Decentralization: I Want to Believe (2014)3 people · 5 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 4Docker: Not Even a Linker2 people · 136 points · first shared 2015 · 69 comments on HN
- 5Decentralization: I Want to Believe2 people · 133 points · first shared 2014 · 69 comments on HN
- 6The Web Is Eating the Desktop (2017)2 people · 72 points · first shared 2018 · 157 comments on HN
- 7Homepage2 people · first shared 2018
- 8The Phases of Titan1 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 9The Boat Linux Missed (and How It Can Swim)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 10On Combinatorics and Zero to One1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 1120ms1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 12Space Mountaineering: The Lean Startup vs. Zero to One1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 13Did YC Just Start a Campaign to License and Regulate CS Research?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 14On the Imminence and Danger of AI1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 15Doing Time: Why User Experience Trumps Everything1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
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api · 2023-02-02
I wrote a little blog about this many years ago that’s still online on my basically unupdated site:
https://adamierymenko.com/titan/
In this I’m at least speculating that Titan might be likely to host alien life in its steamy cryotropical environment. I’d love to see NASA sink a submersible in those methane seas and look for cryowhales.
I’d expect life there to be wholly biochemically alien, probably based on methane or ammonia as solvents, and probably very metabolically “slow” compared to most life here. We might miss even macroscopic Titan life without time lapse photography.
If life on Titan existed and were intelligent they’d be convinced there could be no life here. Earth is a hellscape with rivers, lakes, oceans, and even rain made of molten water.
soobrosa · 2021-07-23
Add the two cents of http://adamierymenko.com/ports.html
"Since we chose the path of virtualization and containerization we've allowed the multi-tenancy facilities in Unix to atrophy and it would take a little bit of work to bring them back into form."
leeoniya · 2017-08-28
> On a philosophical note, I second vortico's question of why common Linux distros require root access to be at all usable. In particular, how did it come to not being able to install a package without sudo?
Previously:
http://adamierymenko.com/privileged-ports-are-causing-climate-change/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14712576
TLDR; "You probably just realized that without the privileged ports restriction everything meaningful on a Unix system would not have to run as root and you could at the very least do a much better job of securing system services."
montecarl · 2017-07-11
I think this is a response to this:
http://adamierymenko.com/privileged-ports-are-causing-climate-change/
See discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14712576
argonaut · 2014-12-06
I don't agree that Stellar is an "obviously inferior" technology. Stellar just makes different tradeoffs.
I particularly enjoy this quote from http://adamierymenko.com/decentralization-i-want-to-believe/:
A centralized alternative to Bitcoin would be a simple SQL database with a schema representing standard double-entry accounting and some meta-data fields. The entire transaction volume of the Bitcoin network could be handled by a Raspberry Pi in a shoebox.
Instead, we have a transaction volume of a few hundred thousand database entries a day being handled by a compute cluster comparable to those used to simulate atomic bomb blasts with physically realistic voxel models or probabilistically describe a complete relationship graph for the human proteome.
takoid · 2022-09-17
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