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by leppr 6y ago
I think it's 2 factors. First, indeed the sentiment changed radically between now and then. For some reason, this subject has always attracted irrationality on HN. Back then any comment vaguely positive about cryptocurrencies would acc
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by leppr 6y ago
Well that's the very nature of ponzinomics. How would you preserve social class otherwise? This is all working as intended.
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Unreal Engine is a pretty big and successful one. In the cryptocurrency space: Metamask[1], and the upcoming Uniswap V3[2]. Of course, given the choice, myself included, users prefer the more permissive license. The question is what strikes
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by leppr 6y ago
Yes, so the first step is to stop demonizing projects that opt for alternative "source available" licenses, and stop idolizing one canonical definition of capital O "Open-Source" licenses. Despite most everyone implicitl
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by leppr 6y ago
Missed opportunity for a series with different patterns to collect, instead of those random renders.
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by leppr 6y ago
Nothing is stopping you from creating a new cryptocurrency either. That doesn't mean other people will give you $60k for your custom bitcoins. Only the original NFT (which has a unique address) is cautioned by the artist, that's w
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by leppr 6y ago
The commute doesn't have to tire you, if you do it only 2-3 days per week. Increased workspace flexibility might be one of the biggest wins from this period of forced WFH. I know the thing that tires me most is the boredom from a fixed
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by leppr 6y ago
The service in itself is alright, but the 35% cut Deliveroo and Uber Eats take is just too much. It's a very inefficient business. My orders are very often wrong, and they simply refund the whole order. Then the next time I order they
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by leppr 6y ago
Since most governance schemes favor entrenched players, there's a natural tendency for policies resulting in pyramid schemes to emerge. The first step is to educate enough people around this issue, so that some opportunistic countries&
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by leppr 6y ago
Good point. In most modern cities, the only individualistic solution to escape eternal rent-slavery (forgive the strong word) is to become rich. A collectivist solution would be to coordinate with other citizens to abolish the building&#x2F
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by leppr 6y ago
Flow is centralized though so the point of using a blockchain is lost. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26357520
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It is ready, the low throughput is organically priced in by the network, thus the valid usecases are also organically, and "correctly" constrained. On experimental chains you pay a fraction of the cost for transactions, but the ri
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by leppr 6y ago
> The parent point stands: it's possible to release that on other chains, for lower gas fees and ecological costs. No because the whole point of a secure, permanent record is lost if it's on an experimental chain. We have gre
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If you followed their recent mainnet release, you would know it's still in its early phases and not exactly ready for widespread usage. Same story with most of the other smart contract platforms.
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That's a different service than "Binance Smart Chain" which is the subject of the article. On "DeFi Staking" users lend tokens to Binance that they then stake on actual decentralized chains like Ethereum for instan
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by leppr 6y ago
Changpeng Zhao himself called it "CeDeFi", "Centralized Decentralized Finance" while talking about it on Clubhouse. As to the point of it, it's mostly about recycling the existing Ethereum ecosystem of dApps and all
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by leppr 6y ago
You seem to mix-up "smart contracts" and the platform on which they run. On BSC, Binance effectively controls all smart contracts, since they control the chain itself. And given that all bridges with the outside world are also c
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by leppr 6y ago
What would you think of a smart contract that acts trustlessly 99% of the time, but has an escape hatch governed by a set of more or less decentralized/authoritative entities in a multisig? We already have an escape hatch for generaliz
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by leppr 6y ago
Doesn't diminish your point in itself, but NBA Top Shot is a bad example since it runs on a centralized chain (Flow) and even recently had drama about a user being locked from withdrawing their funds [1]. There are tons of ways trust a
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by leppr 6y ago
The branding is not just the literal logo. The typical visual elements peculiar to Peak Design are present in the Amazon Basics version. Compare the two products in their black version, I know if I had seen the Amazon version in the wild I
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by leppr 6y ago
That's not true. I own many Peak Products and also (used to, won't be doing it anymore) buy Amazon Basics products simply because they're usually better value for price than most. You're not wrong that there are some s
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by leppr 6y ago
So Amazon isn't just handling counterfeit products anymore, they're now doing the counterfeiting themselves and putting their own branding on it? This is absolutely despicable, I hope this story gets the attention it deserves.
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by leppr 6y ago
That corresponds exactly to my experience when I tried it a few years ago. Very disappointing to learn nothing changed on that front. The "just works" aspect of Flutter is what attracted me to it initially, and it took me a few we
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...that run only when the tab is loaded. Non-issue.
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> It's sort of the perfect expression of consumerism On the other hand, the finite supply/deflationary aspect of it is also the perfect antithesis of consumerism, in that it favors hoarding (spending less) instead of spending
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by leppr 6y ago
You're right, amended my comment. Doesn't change the argument though.
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There's nothing about Bitcoin that incentives mining with green energy sources more than dirty one. If coal electricity is cheaper, then bitcoin incentives burning coal. The only somewhat valid rebutals to the energy consumption argume
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by leppr 6y ago
Given that humans are the most successful species on the planet, if this is "an innate part of human psychology", then this trait is probably useful. Beware of survivor bias.
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Right, and it's not just neat little experiments. There already is big money on Ethereum's DeFi: billions lended, transacted between assets, leverage longs/shorts taken. Add to that experimental unpegged stablecoin projects[1
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by leppr 6y ago
They are still going strong. More of them even thanks to the wave of dumb money that flooded in recently.

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