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Bingo, I made the exact same comment. That was quite an effective way to take your credibility and shove it down the drain. They're all scumbags.
by sdfhdhjdw3 4y ago
Bingo, I made the exact same comment.
That was quite an effective way to take your credibility and shove it down the drain.
They're all scumbags.
- simonebrunozzi 4y agoThis isn't Reddit. I don't want to defend anyone, but at the same time, if I see accusations, I'd like to see substance and reference points, not just "they're scumbags", end of conversation. Please, provide some details on why you think they're like that.
- hef19898 4y agoA short search for this eyeball scanning cryoto scheme of Sam's on HN will answer that question. At least why OP thinks it.
- PebblesRox 4y agoHere's a post from 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30931614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30931614
- yomkippur 4y agoWhy do you feel the need to apologize for a well documented display of shady behavior? It just puzzles me when people jump into defend what is clearly unsavory and amoral behavior. Just because its legally grey area doesn't mean its moral.
- skinnymuch 4y agoEspecially because they could have done a basic search for what the person was talking about. Not everything needs to be cited if it’s an easy search away. Agree with not just this comment but your comments as a new throwaway (I assume?) account in general. Though I don’t care about the CCP enough to be as anti CCP as you. Tho Ofc I am anti CCP
- sdfhdhjdw3 4y agoThey were offering shitcoins in exchange to people scanning their eyeballs. That's a double-whammy of dodgy behavior. No, I don't need to provide details. If you don't see it, you're a lost cause.
- davidatbu 4y agoAre you aware that the eyeball scans are only used in a zero-knowledge proof? So they collect no biometric data actually?
- sdfhdhjdw3 4y agoNot everything is a question of "does it collect data", actually. They're collecting _some_ value from individuals, whether you understand it or not. Your comment reminds me of Facebook's disingenuous "we we're not _selling_ the data", which just a way of distracting from the real issue. This isn't about data, it's about yet another incremental stripping down of individual's control over their intrinsics.
- davidatbu 4y agoYou seem to agree that they don't collect biometric data, so I'm not sure exactly what "intrinsics" is being "stripped down" from individuals, in this case. Could you clarify?
- sdfhdhjdw3 4y agoI don't agree to anything, because I don't know enough about it. They SAY they don't collect data, they SAY it's a zero knowledge proof. Who knows about that. What I know is that they're extracting some value from people who (like me) likely don't understand the implications. This isn't complicated.
- davidatbu 4y agoBecause you so confidently asserted that they were "all scumbags" who have no "credibility", I'd expected much more certain evidence about the nefariousness of Worldcoin. I, like you, believe it is very important to remind folks that they should clearly understand the value prop of an exchange before they participate in it. But I don't think that calling "scumbags" the folks behind any proposed value exchange (like Worldcoin) that you yourself (self-admittedly) don't fully understand the implications of, is a way to achieve that.