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by okwubodu 4y ago
The last few weeks (months, really) has highlighted an incredible lack of discernment in the VC-verse wrt the thing we call web3. Now. I have no experience doing what YC does and don’t claim to, but the jig here was so transparent that the
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by okwubodu 4y ago
At some point I realized this is why my girl friends almost never play online games without us queued with them :(
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by okwubodu 4y ago
I think iPhone users skewing younger is likely to be the culprit.
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by okwubodu 4y ago
There’s more than 25 billion on the line with the merge so it’s not like they’re stalling for fun.
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by okwubodu 4y ago
How ironic would programming getting automated before truck driving be?
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by okwubodu 4y ago
There's too much talent being wasted by a lot of the "sports" being slight variations of the same core game mode (e.g. 5v5 shooters, MOBAs). Imagine Lebron James and Steph Curry playing in different leagues because one has a
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by okwubodu 4y ago
I understand that. But if we have no problem hand waving discrimination away as self-selection when the exact same conclusion is drawn for other groups, I don’t see how this is suddenly different. Half the top comments on this very thread
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by okwubodu 4y ago
I’m glad I scrolled far enough to catch one of the few thought-provoking comments in this thread.
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by okwubodu 4y ago
> exercising their own agency and choosing different fields. If we accept this as true, fields dominated by women should receive the same grace.
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by okwubodu 5y ago
Until you need funding and find out you don’t fit the profile of a successful founder.
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by okwubodu 5y ago
Any claim about the future needs backing. That’s the only thing separating a thesis from a magic 8-ball. > Blockchain is cold fusion for tech bros. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...
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by okwubodu 5y ago
There's no debate to be had most of the time. Something about this particular topic makes people so prone to decide they're right first, then debate as if making the smallest concession means defeat. Any discussion on the basis of
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by okwubodu 5y ago
The Apple Watch can stand alone as a wireless wrist-mounted music player. It almost reminds me of an iPod nano but that’s maybe still too many frills.
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by okwubodu 5y ago
Would you say there are people whose financial gains depend on preventing the things “Web3” claims to do?
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by okwubodu 5y ago
They did use some of the fake weETH to trade for 430k SOL, valued at a little under $40 million. https://explorer.solana.com/address/CxegPrfn2ge5dNiQberUrQJk...
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by okwubodu 5y ago
This isn’t the quite the scenario he was talking about. The Wormhole exploit is just a bug that could’ve occurred even if the bridge didn’t cross chains. Despite being large, it was still an isolated incedent compared to the multi-chain hei
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by okwubodu 5y ago
Correct.
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by okwubodu 5y ago
This is true. I don’t doubt that they could move the money but their bigger problem is a single misstep between the wallet and a bank account immediately putting an end to the scheme.
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by okwubodu 5y ago
Probably a bad time to say blockchain solves this, but spinning up a (very) basic swap contract is trivial. He doesn’t need to trust them.
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by okwubodu 5y ago
The future of finance btw. I do think the exploiter takes the $10M deal. As it stands, attempting to cash any amount out is somewhere between very dumb and life-threatening.
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by okwubodu 5y ago
If you count carbon offsets: https://solana.com/news/solana-foundation-carbon-neutral-202...
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by okwubodu 5y ago
Front page of HN yesterday: Facebook/Google/PayPal/Apple/Whatever took down my page/email/account/app and irreparably harmed my business. Front page of HN today: Why Web3 is a scam and has zero real world
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by okwubodu 5y ago
The episode dropped in 1992 (the dub in 2008). I imagine $30 was egregious at that point.
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by okwubodu 5y ago
Lucky. Mine started at $15 + tip and slowly creeped up to $20 until New Years 2020 when every decent barber seemingly unionized and went to $40/cut. [something something it wasn’t like this under the XYZ administration]
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by okwubodu 5y ago
> The solution is selling standardized contracts to small hold farmers that pay out automatically And how easy do you think that is in Kenya? You and I being able to take stable banking and government for granted says more about our own
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by okwubodu 5y ago
Blockchain Climate Risk Crop Insurance: https://www.climatefinancelab.org/project/climate-risk-crop-...
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by okwubodu 5y ago
No, the claim is that the schools named colluded to fix financial aid to avoid bidding wars over students that need aid. This is legal so long as their admissions process is need-blind. However, the filing repeatedly mentions that the defen
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by okwubodu 5y ago
> Method and apparatus for adjusting volume levels in a multi-zone system - https://patents.google.com/patent/US8588949B2/en Is this why I can’t change the volume on a Google Home speaker group anymore?
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by okwubodu 5y ago
Oh wow that’s actually a better distribution than the stock market [1]. But maybe Wall Street’s a Ponzi scheme too. 1. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-...
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by okwubodu 5y ago
You would download the game from the same place you’d get updates if you bought a physical copy off a friend. The purpose isn’t decentralized downloads. It’s retaining the ability to virtually press the eject button and put the disc in a di

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