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by leppr 5y ago
You'll make your money and in a year or two you'll turn cynic. That's always how it goes with the smart people in this field. Enjoy the trip.
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by leppr 5y ago
They aren't. Try to find a single case of censorship in Bitcoin or Ethereum to substantiate your claim.
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by leppr 5y ago
Noble goal, but I really don't understand what advantage you gain from selecting contributors with NFTs. To be honest, I hope it fails. Developer communities are one of the very few places in crypto that aren't totally infested by
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by leppr 5y ago
Uncensorability, mostly. Stripe is an American company. Why should Iranians be bared from participating in the decentralized web?
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by leppr 5y ago
The problem with "traditional" federated networks is the lack of fungibility. The network effects around nodes is too great, which encourages centralization over time. Cryptocurrencies allow formalizing and automating the incentiv
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by leppr 5y ago
Filecoin is a cryptocurrency that is used to incentivize IPFS pinning in a decentralized way. There, you have a reason.
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by leppr 5y ago
You plan to make learning resources more accessible by gating them behind a limited supply NFT? Interesting.
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by leppr 5y ago
Scientific consensus didn't change on masks. It was known very early that they best prevent the spread of Covid. When Western governments lied to get around supply issues, while distracting people with quasi-religious rituals around ha
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by leppr 5y ago
This is a zero sum game where the winners are determined by their ability to get cheap debt. Sure, you can win from that. But, in % terms, you win less than people already richer than you. Inequality is only increasing.
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by leppr 5y ago
Rich people with significant asset portfolios can borrow more and at lower rates than young people. They have been doing so. Forcing young people to take more and more debts to buy assets at now over-inflated prices has no happy ending.
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by leppr 5y ago
The rise of passive investing and FIRE is just a natural consequence of the "infinite" bull market and resulting widening equality gap. Whether it goes down in a gradient to common people like FIRE folks, or is strictly restricted
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by leppr 5y ago
You're cherry picking the top of the previous inflation scare-fueled gold bullrun (it's up 7x since the year 2000), and the one asset that's heavily manipulated to the downside (demonstrated by the huge premiums in physical d
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by leppr 5y ago
It's convenient but too low on insights and synthesis to justify the asking price. Bringing it to half the length would increase its value. For $2k I can get an expert on a Zoom call to explain it in detail, answer my questions, and ge
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by leppr 5y ago
> who is buying all the SLPs ‘players’ farming this for $? Novice traders looking at the SLP token price chart and thinking it has to mean-reverse (instead of looking at the marketcap chart as they should).
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by leppr 5y ago
One thing that's striking with their "roadmap" is how they seem to plan on doing seemingly everything you could think of in the field of crypto + video games. L1, DAO, DEX, social platform, fun-in-its-own-right game, user con
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by leppr 5y ago
There's the entry fee and speculators buying the SLP and AXS tokens. > If it's new players or new inflows into crypto then it's basically a convoluted pyramid scheme, and I can't see how value is being created which
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by leppr 5y ago
The reason it hasn't fallen against those other currencies is that the other currencies' supplies have increased more during this period. The printing was global, and the US not a leader on it. Against everything else than other u
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by leppr 5y ago
It's not needed on Hacker News since it displays comments in order based on score, and greys-out comments with negative scores.
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by leppr 5y ago
Many people probably felt the same with Google Reader or any feature Google killed. If you read the comments in detail you will see that people describe how they used the dislike count. It's therefore not useless.
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by leppr 5y ago
Bubbles of this magnitude are not caused by irrational sentiment. There is irrational optimism about market returns, but that's only a second-order effect from mechanisms such as low/negative borrowing rates and scheduled asset pu
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by leppr 5y ago
Because poor people have their networth in assets? No, the lower class depends on salary from employment, which hasn't recovered[1]. What the Fed interventions did to the economy is inflate assets, that's it. Real GDP, productiv
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by leppr 5y ago
It's open-source software.
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by leppr 5y ago
Not agreeing to it, but that's what media and politicians mean when they talk about "the economy".
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by leppr 5y ago
With many of these big anti-bot services like Google ReCaptcha, it's not even specialized anonymity tools that can cause shadow banning, just unusual user-agents. All of these have independently caused me to get into endless ReCaptcha
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by leppr 5y ago
Stock market valuations
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by leppr 5y ago
I pay for my VPS, VPN, and Netflix subscriptions with BTC. I bought my camera, and various other gadgets with BTC at BicCamera in Japan. I sold my VR kit for BTC. I save and spend my RAI anywhere that accepts Visa with an Eidoo debit card.
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by leppr 5y ago
Both the Android and web clients are promising, it's clear there's been a lot of work put into it, but they're also way too buggy and unpolished to recommend. As such, I'm really not eager to use this feature. I would pa
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by leppr 5y ago
The company shouldn't have your plaintext data in the first place.
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by leppr 5y ago
I don't think it's such a big contributor, but there are also regular and dedicated Brave shills in many tech communities which traditionally favored Firefox (not necessarily funded by Brave directly, they may be independently inc
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by leppr 5y ago
Your only criticism of Firefox is that they get money from selling the default search engine spot to Google, but then your alternative recommendation is a browser that's fundamentally dependent on Google? The day Google stops open-sour

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