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by timdaub 5y ago
To me that's a surprising premise and an even bigger surprise in the conclusion. What makes you think A16Z wants to create a financial system without democratic oversight?
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by timdaub 5y ago
The problem that I see with some of the HN crowd and that becomes obvious when e.g. compared to lobste.rs is that HN has become quite political and non-technical. To see the difference, just regularly visit both HN and lobste.rs once a day
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by timdaub 5y ago
From the HN Guidelines in section "In comments": > Don't be snarky.
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by timdaub 5y ago
How does it work? See https://oceanprotocol.com What kind of data? Check on https://rugpullindex.com for a summary ("Data Set" column) Who is buying? There's speculation. I don't think there'
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by timdaub 5y ago
See what I wrote here: https://github.com/TimDaub/ERC721-wallet#note-from-2020
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Best Data Sets on Ethereum(rugpullindex.com)
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by timdaub 5y ago
Shameless plug, I run a website that lists data sets by their markets' performance: https://rugpullindex.com Damn it would be cool if I could rank this data set too...
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Existential Challenges of Dapp Builders(timdaub.github.io)
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Reasons to not ship a PoA network (2019)(timdaub.github.io)
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by timdaub 5y ago
Sure they can upgrade and whatever. But from my experience, usually the projects that compromise on decentralization principles never ship anything useful in that direction anymore. Once an architecture is put in place and people are hired,
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Why Smart Contracts are not feasible on Plasma(ethresear.ch)
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Honeybatcher, a Strongly Consistent Rollup(rugpullindex.com)
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by timdaub 5y ago
Polygon's ETH bridge is behind a proxy smart contract that is controlled by a 5 of 8 multi signature contract. Polygon has repeatedly made confusing statements towards their tech. In their FAQ, Polygon clearly states that they're
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When Scope Blows Up(timdaub.github.io)
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by timdaub 5y ago
brilliant comment :D
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Introducing Honeybatcher(rugpullindex.com)
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Meet Rug Pull Index, an Index Fund for Data Sets(timdaub.github.io)
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by timdaub 5y ago
I try to never write a comment about anything that I've already written in code. I only add information that is necessary to know to run the code but is not in the code. I do it like this as I think that conceptually duplicating code l
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by timdaub 5y ago
Recently I needed a simple chart for my startup. I looked online and all I could find was bloated libraries that were increasing the bundle size by many KBs. But then they also started rendering in the browser. Considering that it was possi
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by timdaub 5y ago
What's even worse is when you start to compare your phone with the operating system of your laptop. Then you'll realize how much of our lifes are in the hands of a few designers from Silicon Valley. Sure, you can "disable not
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by timdaub 5y ago
Again, I think this is a rather theorerical argument. Retirement is not solely coupled to the amount of money you have. I personally have aspirations and enough money to not having to work for a few years. And still I work lots of hours to
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by timdaub 5y ago
That's a rather theoretical argument. If you were the sole owner of the world's land, then people would probably resort to kill or capture you to redistribute the land.
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by timdaub 5y ago
Re: Intrinsic value: I'm annoyed that the intrinsic value argument is constantly being brought up even by economists against crypto currencies. I have a similar understanding of the concept as you have, in that the value derives from t
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by timdaub 5y ago
Fair enough. I think it's also worth considering that in terms of technological progress, BTC has been rather shit such that this thesis of "earlier adopters" becoming the new overlords is a quite speculative argument. Sure,
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by timdaub 5y ago
Surely if you look via godmode on earth, you can even ascribe intrinsic value to it in the case of complet societal collapse where there's only tribes fighting for tomatoes. But is that a useful view?
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by timdaub 5y ago
OK but then considering your definition, I'd disagree. Bitcoin but more importantly general purpose blockchains (e.g. ETH) give rise to digital economies where real people can participate and earn money through work. Since 2019, I&#x27
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by timdaub 5y ago
no?
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by timdaub 5y ago
The intrinsic value argument is a funny one. What's the idea behind it? Assume you have asset X but then one key assmption fails. Now, is asset X still valuable considering the failed assumption? For land, you can say that even in the
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by timdaub 5y ago
Hey, somehow I once did an internship at a subsidiary of Bosch. It's a super cool company structure! Check it on e.g. Wikipedia, it's such that Bosch's profits are sent to a non-profit that spends it on e g. education.
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by timdaub 5y ago
I can have empathy with the Replit CEO. I've had projects where strangers from the internet started to "friendly-copy"/fork things I either had talked about or that I straight out did. I didn't speak up and I ended

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