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by nscalf 5y ago
Products don’t benefit the user? Honestly, what is your stance here? It seems like your stance is “crypto bad”. Yes, people who made a product benefited, as did investors. How is that dishonest? Audius has 5m monthly users, please explain w
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This is a pretty uninformed take. There are all sorts of projects made in crypto: collectibles, music, art, gaming, loans, mortgages, debit cards with rewards, social media, wifi networks, anti-fraud, food security, etc. And many projects h
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An honest question, how do you feel about the WHO? I personally have severe distrust in them, at least the leadership. They have show they are heavily influenced by China, and that should be enough to remove them. They really botched ear
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There are some really cool things that can be done with NFTs (concert tickets, in game items that can be cross-game, etc). The most popular use right now is art. The really interesting thing is that NFT art is really close to real world art
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No idea why vegans or vegetarians would be gloating, no one is spraying cows with roundup (yes, I know cows feed off agriculture yields). All diets have serious externalities associated with them, no one should be acting like they're
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Amazing how many people are die hard advocates of being closed minded. The net market for crypto hits over a trillion dollars, and you still say things like this declaring they are proven to be worthless. This is posted on a report by the
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A better way to look at this is that the risk presented by the Chinese government to Alibaba has increased, so that has to be discounted against future cash flow. The market cap reflects an increase in external risks.
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Intentionally misleading information is “misinformation”. Not sure how you can say otherwise. Most people don’t really care about how Uber and Lyft operate, and misinformation preys on individuals who only vaguely care. This is very real, a
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I described some of this in other comments, but my favorite use case is Vechain (I hold their coin). They primarily focus on supply chain logistics, Walmart uses them for their food supply chain. Food validation is a big issue in China, s
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I think it's probably a lot of motives, but one of them is that most of our (USA) politicians are too old, and frankly many too dumb, to properly grasp nuanced topics like these. They don't understand crypto, or the internet, or
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So we can waste it on watching porn, pumping water to golf courses, running the light in your fridge, charging your fitbit, or whatever else you choose to do with it. You can extend that argument to anything that uses power which you don&#
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"Cryptocurrency" is really an outdated name. Most of these don't claim to be currencies and aren't trying to replace standard money. Even bitcoin has pivoted to be a store of wealth with scarcity built in, akin to gold
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That may be a fair criticism of the naming. My point was more that it doesn't make sense to be called cryptocurrency, and less that it's the true next progression of the web. With regards to the cash outs, I think there's pr
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I do agree, proof of work at this point is entirely outdated. I actually don't invest in Bitcoin because I think a lot of the technology is antiquated, and there are better solutions for everything but the network affect.
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So Bitcoin shouldn't use renewables because there may be other uses of renewables? I genuinely don't get the energy use argument, this is much more of a government policy problem than a cryptocurrency problem. It feels like this
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You really seem like you're not open to having your mind changed here. You took many of the current use cases and threw it out for no reason. What would change your mind here? I'm not making these estimates, so you can call bull
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I’m not too well read into this space, but I would argue a large cause in the boom of hacking is external to crypto. The fact that so much monetary value and information has moved online would make me believe the pie was by growing regardle
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This is some of the worst junk writing I've seen on the hill. Some pretty wrong things in here, like insinuating that the only value of crypto is to criminals, and all but saying that the reason there are hackings to things like criti
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Then quit, don’t get another job, and stop complaining about it. But most people can’t, because they aren’t just blindly exploited, they’re compensated for their work and that gives them more freedom and future options. If you want to say t
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I think the concerns are 1, this is passed off without real buy in from next of kin for a person who would be against it if he were alive. And 2, I think the attention and concern is heightened because this shows it can be done at scale to
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Ofter you see what you want to see in the world. As much as I adore Bourdain, I have to admit he was undoubtably jaded and there were trips where that colored everything. For many, depression comes in waves and lasts for periods of time. He
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Waking Up is a great non-mystical type of meditation app. I strongly recommend checking this out if you’re at all turned off by the voodoo surrounding meditation.
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Robinhood is the example I use for showing that good design can be a company making differentiator. In many ways Robinhood is much worse as a trading platform, but the usability and simplicity of getting started is orders of magnitude abov
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There’s a lot of ways to be great, but part of the issue is how you’re framing it. The goal should never have been for your name to be remembered in 1000 years, it should always have been to leave an impact. That doesn’t mean you are well k
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Depends on the cause of snoring. For me, I've broken my nose a few times so it's a combination of that and mild sleep apnea---I can manage it by losing a little bit of weight. If you think your nasal passages have an issue, it&#
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Yeah, valuations also bake in expectations of future earnings. Beyond normal expectations, growth stocks like this and tech companies get big multiples. My theory is that retail investors behavior is more like angel investors with tech co
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No reason it can't be both. Obviously Elon memes helped a lot, but they are making very real and significant progress.
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I previously worked on couple of companies that flirted with the line on some of these dark patterns. As far as they go, this one is pretty benign. If I recall correctly, I was for doing this pattern. There is enough intent there (puttin
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Honest question: What do you want from the guy? Billionaire donates billions, you hate him. Billionaire doesn't donate billions, you hate him. Billionaire bails out company saving thousands of jobs, you hate him. Billionaire doesn
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So does the work load and pace stay at the average classes setting? Or does it scale up to the honors classes and leave more kids behind? Getting an A in an honors class is more valuable than an A in a regular class, just like how placing f

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