AMerePotato

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by AMerePotato 4y ago
Ideally everyone would only get the job that they verifiably deserve. Society does not scale to the level of the individual. We can't have an entire jury to judge whether vague criticisms like "They were good but too xyz" is
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by AMerePotato 4y ago
Discriminating in favor or certain minorities is as close as you can get to balancing the injustice. Consider how many covert ways there is for biases to systematically screw over people, and how impossible it can be to definitively prove.
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by AMerePotato 4y ago
> Doesn't loan forgiveness just encourage MORE lending? Does a rational person base their lending decisions on a chance of politically precarious one-off presidential forgiveness? The average person has more loans than were forgiven
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by AMerePotato 4y ago
I didn't say it's preparing them for adulthood. It's a start in preventing predatory lenders from trapping 18 year olds in loans they'll never get rid of.
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by AMerePotato 4y ago
Nah, the changes made today are a decent start. I'm glad moving out at 18 and working a minimum wage job worked well for you. It works out alright sometimes but I wouldn't want that for my kids
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by AMerePotato 4y ago
22+ wasn't mentioned in the quote...?
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by AMerePotato 4y ago
Kids are heavily pressured to go to college. Some kids are in fact under the threat of going to college or getting kicked out of their home at 18. That kid doesn't really have a "choice". They can't live off the minimum
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by AMerePotato 4y ago
There's a ton of opportunities to work anonymously in blockchain. At my last job, we were paying 10k for a bounty to someone I was surprised to hear was a teenager. It's very accessible. The only challenge is you'll need a wa
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by AMerePotato 4y ago
At my school, everyone was tested... but you needed a recommendation along with a high score to get in. I scored highly on the test year after year but was never given the recommendation necessary. I can't for sure say it was because I
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by AMerePotato 4y ago
Ha, it's fun seeing this topic on hacker news. I've been in the extracting MEV for a while now. It's really fun and complex. MEV isn't going anywhere and not all MEV is bad. Some protocol owners solicit us to make bots f
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by AMerePotato 4y ago
I'm one of the oldest of generation Z born to parents who are the youngest of the boomers. I had completely unregulated access to the internet since age 7 because my parents weren't sophisticated enough to restrict me. I understan
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by AMerePotato 5y ago
Yup it's more like risk of investment. Someone wealthy can risk a lot more than someone poor can without worrying about putting food on the table. They can afford many more lottery tickets and the poorer person is probably gonna have t
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by AMerePotato 5y ago
In my opinion, the amount of risk taken on has a large role to play in the vast difference in outcomes. Starting a company would be like buying a bunch of lottery tickets. For every winner, there's a huge number of people who lost a to
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by AMerePotato 5y ago
It's the fact that decentralization is now an option for those things when centralization used to be the only option
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by AMerePotato 5y ago
There are some very interesting technical challenges that NFTs are being used for. Stuff like baskets of assets, appraising and taking out loans on assets, and certain distributed games like aavegotchi. At the end of the day, representing n
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by AMerePotato 6y ago
Maybe the US needs to change it's regulations. It's handling of cryptocurrency is hostile to legitimate use of the technology. The current tax situation being the worst of it in my opinion
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by AMerePotato 6y ago
And the school's gonna eat that 20 million dollar lawsuit for it. Witch hunts on social media are one thing. Forcing students out on on a rumor of something that happened years ago is another
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by AMerePotato 6y ago
It's really incredible that the adults took a rumor so far without hearing all sides of it. Sounds like the boys had their whole lives upended for a picture of some stupid green face mask they didn't even intend to share publicly
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by AMerePotato 6y ago
I had been working on this project https://github.com/Fluffy9/Zenbase . I've been trying to figure out what it's good for and making an Agar.io like game is one thing I've started on. Combined with the nt
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by AMerePotato 6y ago
I'm your age :) I started my current one in college. Since high school I had every intention of making a living starting my own business, so that was the plan all along. I've been on hacker news since my early teens (different acc
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by AMerePotato 6y ago
I'm not sure why this article is so controversial. Whether her app deserved funding or not wasn't what the main point of the article was. No one is saying they are obligated to fund a startup because a person is black. If VCs want
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by AMerePotato 6y ago
I'm on hiatus on my main project due to the virus. I came up with https://unirender.io in my spare time. It does prerendering of React/Vue/etc SPA similar to https://prerender.com . It functions as a cd
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by AMerePotato 7y ago
I just recently added some features and fixed some bugs. I think it's good enough to show. I'm also doing Startup School for this project
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6 points by AMerePotato 7y ago|1 comments