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by krrishd 5y ago
It's because it's somewhat of a stretch to draw what he did to the actual history of the NFT ecosystem in crypto (and no one in crypto considers him a "co-creator" of NFTs).
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by krrishd 5y ago
> Imagine a 12-16 year old happening upon HN and becoming a regular. Do you see this person coming away with a positive view of higher education and being encouraged to pursue it? Or are they more likely to develop a cynical, contrarian
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by krrishd 5y ago
I wouldn't personally buy an NFT for those purposes, but tons of NFT owners buy them to be able to use them as profile pictures. Yes, you can put any arbitrary JPEG as your pfp including an NFT owned by someone else, but it'd feel
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by krrishd 5y ago
Ah, thanks.
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by krrishd 5y ago
What's the context of this?
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by krrishd 5y ago
Not to suggest that this is the best way to do it, but that’s already happened on Ethereum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)
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by krrishd 5y ago
I don’t disagree with you, but I think the only fallacy here is that it’s an extremely zero-sum way to look at things. Are we perhaps better off for many — maybe even all — of our status quo legal contracts not working like software progr
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by krrishd 5y ago
TIL, thanks for the explainer.
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by krrishd 5y ago
The fascinating thing about this spatial audio wave to me is that it was basically available almost a decade ago (because "binaural audio" has been available and fairly trivially usable for a while now). I remember one of the firs
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by krrishd 5y ago
Reminds me of David Chapman’s “ Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution” https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
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by krrishd 5y ago
Totally agree on Jai Paul, I'm a big fan as well :)
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by krrishd 5y ago
pretty cool, i’m tangentially reminded of https://jaipaul.bronze.ai/ > This version of Jasmine by Jai Paul is created using the BRONZE AI engine. On each listen, Bronze performs a unique and infinite playback of the piec
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by krrishd 6y ago
Posted this here a few times already: http://write.itskrish.co its defining features being: 1. you choose a fixed duration of time within which to journal (i choose 15 minutes even though it is initially tough to spend all of) 2
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by krrishd 6y ago
OTOH, i think you can actually measure the quality and accessibility of tooling based on how abundant the long tail of mediocrity/low-quality output there is. in music’s case, one of the replies to this comment describes decline in mus
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by krrishd 6y ago
> Some people around me felt that my experience bootstrapping my last business should be enough to close seed funding, but the only thing that helps close funding is the fear of missing out on your deal. I witnessed this first hand after
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by krrishd 6y ago
Not management consultants specifically, but I get the vague sense that it'd go not too different from this Deloitte situation: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-m...
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by krrishd 6y ago
The Gervais Principle (which this article is a riff off of) covers what you’re looking for (and what the author here left implicit): https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-... specificall
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Ask HN: Is it still possible for an individual to quit the internet?
7 points by krrishd 6y ago|10 comments
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by krrishd 6y ago
Yeah: I'm not religious, but I really enjoyed his writing style & his angles on things as simple as "rules" or even children's fairy tales. Definitely spurred a lot of re-thinking of my own biases/priors, and an
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by krrishd 6y ago
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
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Ask HN: Are you active in any offline communities? Which ones?
7 points by krrishd 6y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: What internet communities do you participate in?
1 points by krrishd 6y ago|0 comments
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by krrishd 6y ago
I mean smartphone apps are literal brain plugins designed to minimize choice in favor of passivity, where the passivity serves no other "value system" besides profit. Disciplined adults can maybe resist control; kids are super mal
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by krrishd 6y ago
yep, i'm usually into dark mode but this one wasn't really working for my eyes right off the bat
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by krrishd 6y ago
Sure, but J.P. Morgan being inherently political doesn't mean it's a net positive for them to start to take public stances on cultural issues, and it only serves to conceal their real political impact. I think there's a stron
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by krrishd 6y ago
“On average, UX changes have a smaller impact on quantitative metrics [since 2006]” does this actually imply UX advancement any more than the possibility that people have become more familiar with/adept at using UIs since 2006?
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Ask HN: What are some non-tech schelling point locations?
5 points by krrishd 6y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: Where are you? Do you plan on staying?
5 points by krrishd 6y ago|2 comments
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by krrishd 6y ago
Am I the only one that finds this astounding? Not to mention the inability to take an aux cord. It's one thing for phones to have these lock-in properties, but not being able to aux in audio into a speaker feels wild to me.
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by krrishd 6y ago
i've found it helpful realizing that in procrastinating, my mind tricks itself into the nice, subconscious feeling of passing on the task to someone else who's more likely to do it. basically worth reminding myself when i procra

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