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by sprafa 5y ago
Getting a loan with a bank is hard. Takes days/weeks. Getting a loan on DeFi takes minutes.
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by sprafa 5y ago
Decrypt is pretty good too.
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by sprafa 5y ago
This is 100% true and the reason why made this post. I think people are missing the signal for the noise - the noise being all the absurd people and ideas the space has indeed attracted. The signal being - dApps are huge.
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by sprafa 5y ago
You can get a percentage every time the user runs your code. That’s part of the smart contract. So a. You have no server costs and b. You get paid.
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by sprafa 5y ago
Huh? Are you not familiar with uniswap? That’s a fully decentralised exchange running on blockchain.
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by sprafa 5y ago
For anyone who’s saying - where’s real world - real world exists in Decentralised Finance applications. You can now get a loan through DeFi - look into Compound, Balancer and Yield Finance.
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by sprafa 5y ago
DeFi is real - you now have multiple protocols for decentralised finance, where you can “be your own bank”. So those applications exist. Look into Compound, Balancer and MakerDAO.
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by sprafa 5y ago
How do you run an Uber replacement app at no cost to the developer ?
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Ask HN: How aware are you about building decentralised software on blockchain?
41 points by sprafa 5y ago|129 comments
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by sprafa 5y ago
not in this forum, they were rubbing their hands in glee at insane AI valuations.
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by sprafa 5y ago
Amazing how this was never an issue when other “AI” systems use other people’s data to learn how to drive cars/write text. But man you start messing with developer data and suddenly there are ethical issues! Amazing turnaround. Face it
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by sprafa 5y ago
Bitcoin will eventually fade away, since the only significant thing that's actually happening in crypto space is actually smart contracts, and BTC will never implement that. In 10 years it it will be a historical curiosity. Also - shit
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by sprafa 5y ago
read above about people who engaged in state sponsored tech theft for the early US industrial revolution. UK had laws agaisnt it too.
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by sprafa 5y ago
well - those people.
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by sprafa 5y ago
Bitcoin is technologically irrelevant at this point, since it has abandoned the idea of smart contracts. My guess is it'll be eclipsed by the smart contract platforms - ETH, DOT and ALGO. And eventually just go away.
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by sprafa 5y ago
people are sleeping on China. Sure they copy everything now, but so did US, japan and everybody in the beggining.
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by sprafa 5y ago
... complete lack of understanding that crypto is moving to proof of stake which reduces energy use by something like a few orders of magnitude.
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by sprafa 5y ago
only rich people say this. For poor and middle income, yes universities are vocational. at least in my part of the world. But I've heard lots of privileged people say this, and only them... which is true for them is not true for the po
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by sprafa 5y ago
Maybe not everyone, but definitly a majority. I'm not talking about learning assembly language, but learning some HTML/CSS/Javascript (if properly taught) seems pretty simple to me. With enough effort and youth (ie malleable
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by sprafa 5y ago
Psychology is basically applied neuroscience. They are both in their infancy and we are using the best information we can, but I wouldn't call the body of work comparable to other sciences.
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by sprafa 5y ago
A lot of this stuff applies more to bad scientists, of which there are many.
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by sprafa 5y ago
You should read more about IQ and it’s failure to predict success. Like Nassim Taleb has said - IQ just shows you’re not dumb, not that you’re smart. Which you are a perfect example of, I’m sure.
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by sprafa 5y ago
Have you ever been in a wildly corrupt and centralised country? That frame of reference changes everything about what you just said - ie there are no “FSB contractors” that could possibly be independent under an authoritarian frame of refer
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by sprafa 5y ago
Design has become mass-produced at an internet scale. Minimalism was introduced to better deal with - vector design tools - visual stability across multiple sizes, including small/tiny smartphone app icons. We are likely going to see a
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by sprafa 5y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean about Boer type war? For someone who’s not familiar with the history.
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by sprafa 5y ago
Everything you’ve written makes you sound slightly deluded about your chances or your life atm. I think you might need a therapist.
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by sprafa 6y ago
Nobody makes any decision, stop being a douchebag. But there are places that try to classify this stuff and you know where it is.
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by sprafa 6y ago
Lisbon.
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by sprafa 6y ago
The incredible thing is Big Tech has convinced us the solution is "too expensive" when they are making hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue. Here's the truth - if you own a social media platform and you allow for microt
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by sprafa 6y ago
People are waking up to this slowly. Globalization of capital is destroying the ability of local populations to purchase real estate in the places they themselves live. Multiple cities in Europe, even outside of London, are suffering from e

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