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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
>Everything blockchain-related is at best a Ponzi scheme and usually, outright fraud, except the structures that provide technical means for these frauds, like Ethereum itself. Oh please. Quit your whining. Yes, there are criminals and f
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
I don't think anyone that is well versed and highly accurate in the crypto realm calls these currencies. In fact, the proper term is token or appcoin. Not much except Bitcoin and similar forks/spinoffs (Monero, Dogecoin, Litecoin
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Actually not at all different in practice. It's different in THEORY but actually almost identical in practice. In theory, SNAP stock is legally classified as a security and recognized by the United States government as providing some k
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
>I can't eat a token. I can't live in it. I can't wear it. I can't buy Starbucks with it. It doesn't promise to return me more dollars or tokens if I hang onto it. It doesn't offer me any right to the govern
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Have you ever tried to make a page? Like genuinely tried to make a page? Not spammed them with bs. I am not bitter because I couldn't spam them with low quality nonsense. Just the opposite actually, I am a longtime Wikipedia editor. I
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Seriously right? smh. The frustration from that is where my HN username comes from if anyone is wondering...To this day there's no real alternative encyclopedia that is a legit competitor to Wikipedia unfortunately.
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Whoa lobsters is really cool. Probably the best/most promising reddit alternative I've seen because it's not taken over by some kind of extreme faction of some form.
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Correct. Glad someone has heard of it at least on hacker news.
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
I always ask this myself. I think like you said, startups are so mainstream now that the traction bar is higher now. But the problem is that YC also seems to be getting less prestigious. As great as these companies are, I am sorry but I don
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Hey now, I own millions of dogecoin still from mining them in my college dorm when the electricity was flat rate. :P
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Interesting article. The african american screenshot when searching "american inventors" is particularly clear as daylight there's an agenda. Wow.
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
How does one build such google contacts if you are a seed stage startup? I understand it wouldn't be the same league as LinkedIn Reid Hoffman level contacts, but even some kind of contact at Google search?
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Ya, that's not a bad way to execute on the idea, however it does not perform one of Patreon's chief functions that make it so successful: discovery of projects on one, unified platform. Essentially the main setup that Patreon has
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Ya the idea itself would be so neat. In fact, a super meta way to do it is to have the campaign to build the platform be the first campaign on the MVP version of the platform itself! What better way to demonstrate your software patronage pl
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Oh very cool. That's actually really legit and some of them are great projects/talented people. Patreon is definitely not for entertainment or the arts itself, but it does sort of have that vibe and the software's intuitive u
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
I'm thinking of getting a team of friends to make a Patreon platform but tailor made for software devs/code projects/open source projects rather than creative content. As someone that's on hacker news and has a patreon b
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Oh very cool. So coders do use patreon but they are a minority? Maybe that itself is a good startup idea.
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Do you mean coders on patreon itself? Any links to coder patreons I can look at? Or do you mean a new startup that's patreon for open source/coders? It would be really interesting to build a patreon platform tailor made for coders
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Is there a patreon specifically made for open source or coding projects?
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
That site is a wiki site, similar to Wikipedia, meaning anyone can propose an edit. Although Everipedia has a pretty good reputation for being really reliable, I'd still analyze information about things like racism/sexual harassme
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
The link cited is to a wiki site, meaning anybody can add information to it. Although specifically that site, Everipedia.com, has a pretty good reputation for being unbiased similar to Wikipedia, I'm just trying to point out that it&#x
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Your first source is to a wiki site (albeit a large one with a known good reputation), but still a wiki site (it says at the top of that very page anyone can add any information to it). And your second source is the Washington Post so I don
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
>If the only people in your orbit you feel you can connect with that way are at work, that's a sign your personal life needs some development. Then a very, very significant portion (quite possibly close to half of the population, or
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
An article that quotes a random reddit user by username as evidence and the godfather of truth-tellers Chris DeRose. How damning of an analysis. /s
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Very interesting. I find the rise of all these cryptocoins really difficult to discern the gems from the mediocre. But tezos (and EOS) seem like one of the better ones.
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‘Nobody Is Perfect’: Some Uber Employees Balk at Travis Kalanick’s Exit(nytimes.com)
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
That's crazy. I can't imagine how that must be. To have so much demand for your token that people pay 35m in 30 seconds to you for it. There were reports that people paid $6,000+ just to cut in line to get to buy some before the I
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Prediction market tokens seem to be really popular. I am sure they will rise in value with the rising tide, but I am not extremely interested in them personally. I am not sure they can deliver on the utopia-like vision they claim to be able
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
This definitely feels like a bubble. But if anyone is interested in investing in some potentially cool tokens and projects, I personally think the most interesting ones are: 1. Tezos (not part of ethereum ecosystem) 2. Golem (part of ethere
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Yik Yak on ethereum?

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