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Why is Proof of Stake bad for the planet?

I find it strange that people keep promoting that YouTube documentary. Ignoring tone issues, there is a lot of cherry picking and other logical fallacies. For example, he talks abo…

Your white paper isn't loading for me. Is there somewhere else I can read it?

I missed the intrinsically unfun part. Grinding is definitely fun for many people.

My bad, I assumed we were already talking about on chain games. I agree that on chain loot drops are more difficult to implement than the traditional way. We'll have to see how muc…

Most of my gamer friends don't like grinding and usually stay away from "grindy" games.

I don't think you're missing a ton. Getting game developer buy in is definitely the biggest challenge. I think "GameFi" is the most compelling use case. Use your in-game items (NFT…

Makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the reply!

Based on your demo, I would suggest going this route "clients have also expressed interest in using our services to generate photoshoot images to forgo expensive studio photography…

What sorts of companies were you applying to?

Yes, of course.

Secondary question: Have you had trouble bringing on devs that didn't want to learn a new language? i.e. "I don't want to work in Clojure, thanks anyway."

This author's argument is poor. Anyone can drop a copy of SMB in the toilet. You can produce more. You cannot produce more of the $660k copy. Rarity depends on more factors than "t…

Andrew runs Tiny Capital. They buy internet businesses similar to a private equity fund. They do very little traditional VC investing.

I wish he went into more detail. I don't really understand what he's trying to communicate.

There's tens of millions of people that disagree with you regarding cosmetics in games. Gamers largely have disposable income and are happy that they can support their favorite gam…

I worked at a unicorn that implemented the RFC process. I found it extremely useful for solidifying my own thinking. It didn't work well at the organization because gate keepers wo…

There are many factors that go into stock market prices besides the strength of the dollar. With interest rates this low, there's hardly anywhere else to invest one's money.

This is already a problem on Twitch. Cyberpunk 2077 claimed to have a "streamer mode" where no copywritten music was played, but they didn't actually ship the feature.

Are there machine learning parts here the actual voice generation? Writing the vocal parts, and that note interface don't require ML AFAICT.