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by cam0 5y ago
So don't build on FB and Twitter? You do realize you can build an application and very easily host it for the world to access on AWS/GCP/Azure - unless you're doing something illegal or highly unethical the cloud service
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by cam0 5y ago
I should have clarified - of course it's stressful and expensive and exhausting, but only to the person/family experiencing it. Assuming that the rest of the internet cares about your move... no, they do not. But clearly it provid
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by cam0 5y ago
I first started seeing these blog posts and Twitter threads documenting reasons for leaving SF at the start of the pandemic, and they tend to get a significant amount of engagement/comments/likes. I had never before seen anyone wr
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by cam0 5y ago
Regardless of the divisible nature, it's still an asset - not money. Poor people don't have enough to invest in assets. They live week to week with enough cash to buy shelter, food, and the bare necessities. If they do have enough
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by cam0 5y ago
I don't disagree with the problem statement. I just disagree with the proposed solution. How is an expensive asset supposed to help poor people?
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by cam0 5y ago
Absolutely, but the bitcoin maximalists (including Jack Dorsey) should stop evangelizing it as the solution to so many societal problems when it's indistinguishable from any other asset at this point.
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by cam0 5y ago
I think the same should be said of Chris Dixon / a16z / pretty much every VC-turned-cryptoEnthusiast. I hate hearing them talk about making things better for people in 3rd world countries and helping starving artists - it's a
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by cam0 5y ago
Just because there weren't early VCs into bitcoin doesn't mean that most BTC is distributed fairly amongst a large portion of people. Most BTC seems to be owned and controlled by a fairly small concentration of wealthy people at t
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by cam0 5y ago
Agreed, and while SF certainly does have a fair amount of old money, I'd argue that most of it is new money. From my point of view, most of the homes selling in my neighborhood over the past year (average sale price of $2.2 million) ar
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by cam0 5y ago
Despite the dubious "tech exodus" there are still a lot of insanely wealthy people in this city. One recent example being a house in a not-particularly-desirable neighborhood selling for $1million over asking price: https:/&
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by cam0 5y ago
I mean.. my simple but privileged answer is that I avoid the handful of bad neighborhoods. I have no idea why anyone would choose to live in the Mission and certainly not the Tenderloin unless that was the only place they could afford, in w
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by cam0 5y ago
This is a seemingly harmless albeit embarrassing incident. But more broadly I'm really curious as to how the Coinbase product is still so bad. Half of the time I try to 'trade' on the app, the transaction will fail and I&#x27
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by cam0 5y ago
They give people the feeling of being "cool, rich, smart, part of an exclusive club" with the click of a button while they sit on their couch doing nothing of importance.
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by cam0 5y ago
You don't (or shouldn't) join an early stage startup with the expectation that you'll get rich by any measure from the equity. You join an early stage startup because you likely want to eventually found your own startup in wh
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by cam0 5y ago
Listening to privileged successful and wealthy people has gotten boring. Everyone feels like they're a "creator" these days, and there are far more non-sophisticated and average people out there than the typical successful Si
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by cam0 5y ago
> Sadly, this does seem to be true for the majority of junior folks. They just can't code. I don't really know how you get out of a degree program without that, but they somehow do. I don't know if this applies to the top
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by cam0 5y ago
I think it's poorly named. It's not a new major version of the web. Forget the fact that the vast majority of the web's users don't care about decentralization vs. centralization even a single bit. People will continue t
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by cam0 5y ago
It takes a special mindset to work that hard / that many hours at any company of which you aren't a majority owner.
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by cam0 5y ago
Any SF resident will tell you it depends on which neighborhood you're in... it's pretty nice over here in Noe - tons of young families pushing strollers and hanging out on the sidewalks in front of homes and cafes. Some parts of S
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by cam0 5y ago
Anecdotal but my neighbor (in SF) owns an apartment building, and he said he's renting units for ~$100-200 below pre-pandemic level which was $2,995 for a 1-bedroom and $3,995 for a 2-bedroom.
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by cam0 5y ago
The Castro is certainly not dying. I live in Noe and I walk through the Castro quite often - it's still a lively neighborhood.
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by cam0 5y ago
You don't even live here. Your twitter bio says you live in Germany... "Homeless literally everywhere" - no, not literally at all. "Trash piles lining the gutters" - you don't even know what you're talking
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by cam0 5y ago
I've lived here for over 5 years and can absolutely confirm there are a few parts of the city that are dirty and have the feces/needles that people who honestly can't afford to live here love to talk about when they're d
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by cam0 5y ago
Uber/Lyft was such an important factor in my daily equation during my 20s (2010's). I remember those black car rides for $8. Haven't opened the Uber/Lyft apps in about 2 years. I can imagine using it again for business t
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by cam0 5y ago
Bram Cohen + record high cryptocurrency prices in general
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by cam0 5y ago
I think it's exciting too, but I'm also a little weary of making these complex financial instruments more prevalent. I see more of a downside to the increase in these instruments overall. Still fascinating to watch unfold though.
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by cam0 6y ago
I get your point, but I think it's worth considering the sheer beauty of a Van Gogh painting. Have you been to MoMA and spent 30+ minutes looking at The Starry Night. Compared to Beeple https://www.beeple-crap.com/archi
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by cam0 6y ago
"A fool and his money are soon parted"... This is a great way to part the early, non-sophisticated but luckily wealthy bitcoiner and ETH-holders from their rapid and "easily" won windfall.
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by cam0 6y ago
How do you think it's been incredibly costly and destructive to society?
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by cam0 6y ago
And the bragging typically manifests by hanging the physical work on the walls of your home(s) so your guests can view it and be impressed as if they're at a museum or gallery. I'm wondering how the bragging rights for NFTs will m

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