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Hi HN, My name is Brom, and I'm the founder of Empath Ventures. I made the linked RFS out of frustration - most psychedelic startups we're seeing are all crowding into the same pro…

"if we simply could have used a smart contract where money is automatically deposited upon project completion, we would have ensured payment." What? I didn't know this was currentl…

Weird. I’ve been using ProtonMail for years as my primary email, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a captcha. This includes when I visit ProtonMail over VPN’s or in a private window…

I kind of hate the idea of encouraging young people to pursue speculation instead of building. Post-IPO investing doesn't create a ton of value for society.

This seems to be a great ‘intro to defi’ read. Can someone with knowledge of defi point out any deficiencies or inaccuracies here? Are there better ‘intro to defi’ papers that newc…

Missing: psychedelic therapeutics

It seems like you could use this to upload a piece of media to an S3 bucket, create a link using MintGate, and boom - now you have paywalled content. This is incredibly ergonomic c…

To what do you attribute this decline in social skills?

I've spent quite a lot of time learning online, both through ad-hoc self study, and through degree programs (Georgia Tech OMSCS). I have my own list of problems, but I'm curious to…

Thanks for the feedback. I agree that having a better example on the main page would be ideal! I will work on the topic adding interface to make it more intuitive :)

Self esteem is attacking the is-vs-ought problem. Sure, in the cold, social Darwin paradigm, those without ability have no worth - but this is not how things SHOULD be. I think it’…

This is slick! I could see using this for one of my own projects. How do you get the data? Are you using the official apis or are you 'scraping'?

Serious question. How does one know that any secure communications provider is secure? I use tools like Signal and protonmail, but this article has me thinking that those might as …

thanks for the feedback!

TLDR: On Topic is a Chrome extension that tries to help you focus. Specify topic(s) you need to focus on, and as you browse the internet, our NLP analyzes the content of each page …

thanks for the feedback! RE picking the most effective action in your to-do list: this is something I've thought quite a lot about, and is a product I'd like to make. easier said t…

this is interesting. theoretically, more liquidity should lead to more efficiency in the distribution of a commodity . in practice, there are obvious exceptions to this (the hunt b…