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by sophrocyne 4y ago
Welp - TIL. Thanks for the correction. Any idea on how to count forks of a downstream fork? If anyone would know... :)
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by sophrocyne 4y ago
While AUTOMATIC is certainly popular, calling it the most active/popular would be ignoring the community working on Invoke. Forks don’t lie. https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI
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by sophrocyne 4y ago
I have no particular animosity towards Nvidia, and while I'm critical of the ignorance/mistakes made regarding crypto, I think they're doing incredible work and running an insanely difficult business as best they can. It&#x27
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by sophrocyne 4y ago
Completely unaware of this line. Thanks for sharing. Frankly, doesn’t paint a better picture for an Nvidia…
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by sophrocyne 4y ago
ASICs probably. The point you responded to is also fair; the fact they tried to lock miners out was a de facto acknowledgment that crypto had an impact on their sales, and is more critical evidence they handled it poorly.
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by sophrocyne 4y ago
Great question, and perhaps at the point where decisions were being made, it'd be hard to argue a different path internally (hindsight being 20/20). However, it seems clear that the business built both insane prices and the crypto
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by sophrocyne 4y ago
As an observer, I never got the sense that there were strong commitments being made on timelines until A) beacon chain was live (running in parallel), and B) testnets started getting merged successfully. The moment of Genesis for the beacon
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by sophrocyne 4y ago
Couple of comments to this point suggest that it couldn't have been predicted since the official timing of the merge was only announced in 2022, and silicon supply chain requires planning in advance of that. But that point is ignorant
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by sophrocyne 4y ago
Stable Diffusion is wild - the space has been quickly developing and watching the pace of development makes me reconsider what I consider "staggering". I've been blown away. The accessibility of this technology is even more i
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by sophrocyne 4y ago
If you find yourself to be a vocal person, use your voice to make sure that even the quietest ideas are heard and considered.
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by sophrocyne 4y ago
Your note on Lido being responsible for validating 99% may have been hyperbolic, but just for reference - https://beaconcha.in/pools There's an argument to be made that there is a centralizing force in the role of the
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by sophrocyne 4y ago
And based on the Ritz crackers ad that just played when I opened the link, she’s not opposed to monetizing her moral outrage.
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by sophrocyne 4y ago
Reminded me of https://www.around.co/ , but they’ve clearly grown beyond the simple “fun video calls” value prop since I last saw them and raised venture. Fun idea!
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by sophrocyne 4y ago
Understanding the tech sufficiently and effectively rallying the team around the actual business/user justification for work are literally the job of a product manager who owns tech product development. While they may not be common,
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by sophrocyne 5y ago
I agree with you largely, except for one thing - Doing the right thing for their team is the right thing for their career, whether current management sees it or not. There are hundreds of companies who will happily have you be a great PM or
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by sophrocyne 5y ago
I've led product teams at early stage and through growth into unicorn valuations. The unfortunate truth is that communication challenges are often not the result of any one single PM. A couple of larger "failure modes" drive
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by sophrocyne 5y ago
I’m not arguing that both systems (PoW and PoS) don’t have their issues with some measure of aggregated power, but it’s just a false narrative to say that staking and mining aren’t equally decentralized. The migration to PoS isn’t some rug
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by sophrocyne 5y ago
I'll bite. > centralized enough to allow for transaction reversal You can argue that the developers held outsized influence over the consensus mechanism early in Ethereum's lifecycle. You can also debate their recommendation &a
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by sophrocyne 5y ago
Are you envisioning homogenous L2s, or those more specialized in nature? I envision the latter, which would mean the number that any individual entity is exposed to would be limited. But your point does highlight the UX implications of too
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by sophrocyne 5y ago
Aside from the difficulties in operating effectively without passing any PII (which includes identifiers ) across international/org lines, the reality is that recent EU regulatory action has come down not on where the data is stored,
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by sophrocyne 5y ago
Doing my part with lighthouse!
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by sophrocyne 5y ago
Certainly a possibility, but this is one reason I’d be inclined to believe there will be some significant demand for direct L1 transactions, and a diverse set of L2 layers.
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by sophrocyne 5y ago
I suppose that’s fair. You could theoretically argue for some “integration” between an off-chain centralized database and on-chain wallet - but unless it were just an untrusted pointer, there would need to be some asset managed from a contr
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by sophrocyne 5y ago
This turned out to be longer than I intended. Apologies. I view Ethereum as a value network, connecting disparate sets of transactional use cases around a set of core services (like Address, asset records, and transaction functions) To beli
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by sophrocyne 5y ago
For those interested in data supporting diversity comment (~82% geth) - https://www.ethernodes.org/ Re: GP comment - From a "trust" perspective, there is a distinct difference to call out between the integrity of
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by sophrocyne 5y ago
It's a fair point - Especially when you consider that modern nationalism and political ideology is a religion unto itself.
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by sophrocyne 5y ago
This was a great read. There was a series focusing on the underlying problem driving people to seek these types of communities - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY The series touched on Gnosticism, and how it develop
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by sophrocyne 5y ago
For anyone deeply interested in philosophy, the evolution of religion from a cognitive science perspective, or escaping a nihilistic perspective, this series has it all. I can’t recommend it enough. https://m.youtube.com/wat
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by sophrocyne 6y ago
Enterprise B2B is my go-to example of when product quality is not correlated with success. Distribution and getting through procurement processes is much more important. As to your other points, Product-led matters when good products matter
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by sophrocyne 6y ago
Moreso, I’m trying to emphasize that the Product teams job is to know what factors go into effective prioritization decisions, and work across the boundaries you just mentioned. They are an integration function for decisions about value gen

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