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Hi - We're hiring at Pulley( https://pulley.com/ )! Pulley is building a platform to make it easier to manage equity. Our mission is to make it easier for anyone to start a company…

Pulley | Engineering & Design| Remote or Bay Area Pulley helps startups manage their cap table and equity. We're a small team of former founders (4 of the 8 are YC founders). We're…

I thought that insurance fees were capped at $7 - 10k even with high deductible plans. Even if the bill is split over two years, it's $20k. How does the insurance bill end up being…

What are the applications for this?

The rate of business travelers who fly business class is not 100%, but it's very high for most airlines. For US and European carriers, it's around 75%. Since the cost is 4 - 7x hig…

The TL&DR I'm getting from the thread is that everyone should stop flying because it's so bad for the environment.

On a commercial plan, business travelers accounts for >70% of an airline's profits. My read on the article is that Boom is targeting the business customers on a commercial flight a…

The technology around Supersonics has existed for nearly half a century. The Concorde supersonic plane was flown in 1969 - nearly nearly a half century ago. At the time, one of the…

Congrats Tracy!

Lots comments are focused on the funding structure, and that misses the point. Pioneer takes the risk in funding early projects not companies. They explicitly call out that they wi…

Hi there - We are auditing our smart contracts prior to launch and plan to open source them. If you are interested in trying out the protocol on launch, send us a note. Per GDPR sp…

Climate change is an interesting example. An example of a DIRT registry, would not be the question of "is climate change real". It's unclear what defines "real". Rather a registry …

Whoever stakes the most tokens also has the most to lose. There is other side of the moderation - anyone can challenge incorrect data and earn tokens for their work. Currently, the…

Curating trusted data for narrow-focused markets is a feature for DIRT. Before Amazon sold books back in the day, it was hard to buy a specialty text book at your local bookstore. …

Two parts: 1. Economic - you stand to lose the tokens. Similar to mining on bitcoin, the cost to spam the network is proportional to the value of the network. If there are a lot of…

Thanks for the comment! Transparency would be the third benefit. With the blockchain, you can see the entire history of votes. Every transaction is recorded. Today, if a website ac…

Before Wikipedia, the idea that an openly edited online journal would be better and more accurate alternative to Encyclopedia Brittanica would be surprising to most people. There's…

Thanks! DIRT is a fundamentally different approach because it removes the middleman and there is no central moderator. Our goal is to move the trust from a central party to a syste…