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Its a cool project but nothing about how it works requires web3 technologies or blockchain technologies. Web3 still isn't "solving" any problem in that system.

dubswithus 4y ago
Javascript is cool but no websites really need it. You could build a website without javascript. There's really no reason for it to exist other than to enrich the pockets of consultants. It's not solving any problem on the internet. You can make this argument for any technology at this point. If people like crypto it will exist. It's the same with a lot of other things I think shouldn't exist like gold.
- UncleEntity 4y ago
  Gold is kind of useful aside from its human invented use as a store of value and solving the coincidence of wants problem.
  - dubswithus 4y ago
    But not useful enough to justify the current price. And not a smart investment according to Warren Buffett.
  - selimthegrim 4y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31816193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31816193
    - dubswithus 4y ago
      I don't have any teeth filled with gold. It's not necessary unless you are Post Malone.
  - astrange 4y ago
    Gold is useful as a unit test of physics theories, since most of them until the modern day couldn’t explain why it’s yellow.
- lmm 4y ago
  > Javascript is cool but no websites really need it. You could build a website without javascript. There's really no reason for it to exist other than to enrich the pockets of consultants. It's not solving any problem on the internet. That was a perfectly reasonable position to hold until, like, Google Maps. Meanwhile we're 10 years and counting into the crypto hype and still zero legitimate use cases where it adds value.
  - dubswithus 4y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31825723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31825723
UncleEntity 4y ago
The only difference I can tell from the Plain Jane Web is they pay you out of the premine coins they held on to at the beginning. I assume, maybe people donate also. I’ll have to poke around later and see if I can quit my day job while getting paid to solve real problems.

dubswithus 4y ago

Javascript is cool but no websites really need it. You could build a website without javascript. There's really no reason for it to exist other than to enrich the pockets of consultants. It's not solving any problem on the internet. You can make this argument for any technology at this point. If people like crypto it will exist. It's the same with a lot of other things I think shouldn't exist like gold.

UncleEntity 4y ago
Gold is kind of useful aside from its human invented use as a store of value and solving the coincidence of wants problem.
- dubswithus 4y ago
  But not useful enough to justify the current price. And not a smart investment according to Warren Buffett.
- selimthegrim 4y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31816193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31816193
  - dubswithus 4y ago
    I don't have any teeth filled with gold. It's not necessary unless you are Post Malone.
- astrange 4y ago
  Gold is useful as a unit test of physics theories, since most of them until the modern day couldn’t explain why it’s yellow.
lmm 4y ago
> Javascript is cool but no websites really need it. You could build a website without javascript. There's really no reason for it to exist other than to enrich the pockets of consultants. It's not solving any problem on the internet. That was a perfectly reasonable position to hold until, like, Google Maps. Meanwhile we're 10 years and counting into the crypto hype and still zero legitimate use cases where it adds value.
- dubswithus 4y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31825723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31825723

UncleEntity 4y ago

The only difference I can tell from the Plain Jane Web is they pay you out of the premine coins they held on to at the beginning. I assume, maybe people donate also. I’ll have to poke around later and see if I can quit my day job while getting paid to solve real problems.