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http://www.adjoint.io/ is the company hes not selling me anything, but hes selling to companys who have a choice of the stuff hes making or the stuff others are making as FOSS, and…

his company makes the closed source financial infrastructure for digitising cash for multinational corporations, that is made useless by crypto becoming popular. of course he doesn…

you can make something up at the speed of thought. refuting it takes time and effort. peer-reviewing even longer.

lol maybe today on a friday afternoon i do haha :) but in general the conversations are getting exhausting and distracting. I feel like it is at a point where we will just keep bui…

> "People need to be paid to do the work". Clearly, they don't. im really not sure what you are arguing for here? It seems you just really dont want a person to give someone else m…

As I mentioned to others, remember the saying "90% of everything is shit" and make some time for the 10% maybe being legitimate, maybe having something worthwhile that is attractin…

> I have every single game ever made for every console generation from 1978 through 2002. This cost me next to nothing I think you are confusing the cost of production of these thi…

Retroactive sales have long been the way most art (and most stuff in general) is funded. Art is made and then sold, then the artist can keep making things. Someone makes them then …

People need to be paid to do the work, so they can eat and pay rent. We dont actually live in a post scarcity star trek world. So we find a way that people can be paid yet the info…

> "Information doesn't want to be free anymore" “Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive....That tension will not go away” - Stuart Brand Think about t…

fwiw lsd is very cheap compared to other drugs/medicines. i can get enough for a year for $30. (ten tabs as $3 a tab, 150/250u == ten strips per tab, 100 microdoses spread over the…

> I am aware of the existence of Layer 2 solutions, but I'm not too sure that by making a somewhat complicated layering solution to solve scalability concerns on the network that i…

yes, im a big supporter of thing like proofofhumanity ubi, also $400m was donated from crypto to the india covid relief fund over the past 6 months. These initiatives are great and…

fine, i cant be bothered with hn anymore. so you can say ok its discord and twitter. but crypto is fun. people will keep having fun. we can ignore that and write it off as has been…

Not anonymous, team is very public. because of US law this is the practical way of actually doing it, the alternative seems to be not doing it and thatd be boring. theres been long…

from his blog: >No, the crypto bit absolutely doesn’t do anything useful None of this would have happened without 'the crypto bit'. People are just annoyed that crypto is happening…

its fun. and it demos how these tools can be used for rapid mass coordination.

show me how this would have happened without crypto. in less than a week going from being a joke in a group chat to a registered organisation with $25m funding and a clear mission …

it has previously been in a private collection, and without constitutiondao would end up in another private collection. the intention of the dao is clear, display it in a public mu…

Lots of daos have forums and token voting where you voice opinion, and also have 'rage quit' functions where you can exit and take your share of the dao bank balance with you. They…

it'll be interesting to see if constitutiondao raise enough funds to buy the constitution this week (one of the eleven first editions). i think that is an interesting example of so…

or https://ipfs.io/

iirc: originally brave embedded metamask but with their own branding, metamask then changed their license so that other companies couldn't do that without paying a license fee, so …

buy other assets, which then "increase in value" compared to $ prices and then you get charged on capital gains.

sure, if that works for you then you dont need it. its useful for the co-ops i work with. allows easy group ownership of repos and also basically gives us a group bank account and …