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Here's an idea. Go help them make it better. Fixing our broken ass network and the (bad) incentives that keep is afloat is one tough job. We need all the help

Here's an idea. Go help them make it better. Fixing our broken ass network and the (bad) incentives that keep is afloat is one tough job. We need all the help we can get! You can start here: https://github.com/brave https://github.com/brave

lern_too_spel 7y ago
Why should anyone volunteer their time to enrich Eich and his cohorts who hold the plurality of BAT?
- BrendanEich 7y ago
  https://etherscan.io/token/tokenholderchart/0x0d8775f648430679a709e98d2b0cb6250d2887ef https://etherscan.io/token/tokenholderchart/0x0d8775f6484306... Public ledger nicely allows anyone to see what's going on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality sounds fancy but you are using it wrong, on top of what it would mean if we were talking about votes being false counting tokens as votes.
  - jamiequint 7y ago
    See 1c "the state of being numerous" or 3a "a number greater than another" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plurality https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plurality)
    - BrendanEich 7y ago
      Yeah, but we aren't. What's your point?
      - jamiequint 7y ago
        > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality sounds fancy but you are using it wrong You said OP used the word wrong but he didn't. He was wrong about his statement but not about his word use. If you're going to correct people you should probably be correct yourself.
        BrendanEich 7y ago
        I suppose the obscure meaning would fit, if only the facts supported it (but they don't). Point taken!
  - lern_too_spel 7y ago
    > Public ledger nicely allows anyone to see what's going on. It shows exactly what I said was going on. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality sounds fancy but you are using it wrong The meaning of plurality of tokens as an analogue to a plurality of votes is clear, but if not, pretend that I've spelled it out for you. Do you have any objections to the substance of my argument, or did you just come to provide evidence in support?
    - BrendanEich 7y ago
      You must have confused us for Binance, then. Any fool can google `site:news.ycombinator.com brendaneich lern_to_spel` and see your posts over the years, showing ill will used to justify bogus claims. Somehow you always fade away under rational discourse. It's boring but I'm happy to have another run-around again.
      - RandomBacon 7y ago
        > Any fool So the rest of us HN users are fools? Anyway... why I am writing this comment: I was just going through some of my old comments and noticed you replied to one of them 5 days after I posted. That was two months ago, so it won't let me reply now, so here I am. Comments in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20830172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20830172 I claimed that Brave removes a website's ads and replaces it with Brave's ads. You called me "misinformed". Is the Flying Spaghetti Monster placing those ads there, is it malware placing those ads there (well, technically yes, but I digress)? I'm not impressed with your attitude/ethics. If I needed another reason not to use Brave, there it is. Edit only six minutes after posting: Interesing.
      - lern_too_spel 7y ago
        > You must have confused us for Binance, then. If I deposit my dollars in the bank, are they no longer mine? The last time we had this discussion, I erroneously claimed you controlled a majority of the tokens, and you corrected me that it was only a plurality. Has anything actually changed since then, or are you still just quibbling over insubstantial details? > Any fool can google `site:news.ycombinator.com brendaneich lern_to_spel` and see your posts over the years And any person with half a brain can remove the "brendaneich" from the query and see that I often call out companies and people with dubious ethics. You happen to have shown poor ethical judgment on more than one occasion, as any fool who Googles "Brendan Eich" can see, but those past lapses are different from this one, so let's try to stay on topic.

lern_too_spel 7y ago

Why should anyone volunteer their time to enrich Eich and his cohorts who hold the plurality of BAT?

BrendanEich 7y ago
https://etherscan.io/token/tokenholderchart/0x0d8775f648430679a709e98d2b0cb6250d2887ef https://etherscan.io/token/tokenholderchart/0x0d8775f6484306... Public ledger nicely allows anyone to see what's going on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality sounds fancy but you are using it wrong, on top of what it would mean if we were talking about votes being false counting tokens as votes.
- jamiequint 7y ago
  See 1c "the state of being numerous" or 3a "a number greater than another" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plurality https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plurality)
  - BrendanEich 7y ago
    Yeah, but we aren't. What's your point?
    - jamiequint 7y ago
      > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality sounds fancy but you are using it wrong You said OP used the word wrong but he didn't. He was wrong about his statement but not about his word use. If you're going to correct people you should probably be correct yourself.
      - BrendanEich 7y ago
        I suppose the obscure meaning would fit, if only the facts supported it (but they don't). Point taken!
- lern_too_spel 7y ago
  > Public ledger nicely allows anyone to see what's going on. It shows exactly what I said was going on. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality sounds fancy but you are using it wrong The meaning of plurality of tokens as an analogue to a plurality of votes is clear, but if not, pretend that I've spelled it out for you. Do you have any objections to the substance of my argument, or did you just come to provide evidence in support?
  - BrendanEich 7y ago
    You must have confused us for Binance, then. Any fool can google `site:news.ycombinator.com brendaneich lern_to_spel` and see your posts over the years, showing ill will used to justify bogus claims. Somehow you always fade away under rational discourse. It's boring but I'm happy to have another run-around again.
    - RandomBacon 7y ago
      > Any fool So the rest of us HN users are fools? Anyway... why I am writing this comment: I was just going through some of my old comments and noticed you replied to one of them 5 days after I posted. That was two months ago, so it won't let me reply now, so here I am. Comments in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20830172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20830172 I claimed that Brave removes a website's ads and replaces it with Brave's ads. You called me "misinformed". Is the Flying Spaghetti Monster placing those ads there, is it malware placing those ads there (well, technically yes, but I digress)? I'm not impressed with your attitude/ethics. If I needed another reason not to use Brave, there it is. Edit only six minutes after posting: Interesing.
    - lern_too_spel 7y ago
      > You must have confused us for Binance, then. If I deposit my dollars in the bank, are they no longer mine? The last time we had this discussion, I erroneously claimed you controlled a majority of the tokens, and you corrected me that it was only a plurality. Has anything actually changed since then, or are you still just quibbling over insubstantial details? > Any fool can google `site:news.ycombinator.com brendaneich lern_to_spel` and see your posts over the years And any person with half a brain can remove the "brendaneich" from the query and see that I often call out companies and people with dubious ethics. You happen to have shown poor ethical judgment on more than one occasion, as any fool who Googles "Brendan Eich" can see, but those past lapses are different from this one, so let's try to stay on topic.