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This is by no means an exhaustive list, just a smattering of some of the bigger projects doing neat things. The graph protocol - decentralized blockchain indexing feeding a network…

This interview with Tarn Adams (one of the creators of dwarf fortress) is amazing and gives a good idea of the depth and pace of development. It’s pretty bonkers TBH, I’d love to u…

The thing I never understand about this argument is that there’s a much higher likelihood of significant injury or death (getting shot) robbing the houses with guns, no? Guns may b…

This I think is where a lot of the "leave your politics at home" falls apart. People's identities are basically a collection of the things they believe in and advocate for. People …

> When the "activist" types push politics into workplaces they are not doing it so they can talk about what they feel. They are doing it so they can find the people who disagree an…

I disagree, having migrated multiple family members away from shitty plastic laptops full of bloat ware and ads and shitty Android phones full of the same they are much more able t…

A “planned leak” with 0 demonstration of legitimacy is nothing more than creative writing on the internet. When planned leaks like this occur for real (or black hats are trying to …

I absolutely love speed runs and think they’re a great expression of the hacker mentality. To take a subtle bug in something like a physics engine and bend it to your will to eek o…

Netflix is also down 66% YTD, Tesla down 41% while BTC is down 37% over the same span. Clearly Tesla and Netflix were speculative assets without intrinsic value too by that logic.

Anecdotally I’ve personally seen a lot of “Bitcoin accepted here” signs while traveling around America. It’s not ubiquitous , but it is there. Hell, I bought a plane ticket with Bi…

The theory generally goes that what convinces people to use the USD is that it’s backed by the full faith (and more importantly, full military force) of the US government. The Bret…

There’s a pretty clear logical contradiction in claiming definitively that no protocols are actually decentralized or work better than their centralized counterparts in crypto worl…

This is an interesting write up! The only question I have is around your point on monorepos - every monorepo I’ve seen has been a discoverability nightmare with bespoke configurati…

I understand that contract law and notaries are a thing, but people’s signatures are easily forged and a huge amount of the legal system is currently dedicated to resolving conflic…

Right, people in the crypto space also feel like "If you don’t see it then you’re blind", which was the point I was trying to make. > What is the use case for crypto. Do you have a…

Nice blog, I'll preface this response with the fact that I'm not an economist, but I am an engineer and a technologist at my core. I also work in security so that's usually a lens …

> I can't see anything useful from crypto other than laundering the proceeds of criminal activities. I think it's a pretty arrogant stance to say that just because you don't see th…

Of course, happy to help! The unfortunate reality is these scams are designed to be believable, and without there being similar sophistication on the part of Google to fight them t…

Proper treasury management for raised funds is something that needs done by everyone regardless of the business they’re in. In the non crypto world orgs usually hold short term t-b…

Yeah there’s a lot of examples now a days unfortunately. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/07/10/crypto-giveaway-... I work in the security/user trust space and it was amazing …

Replace your arguments for crypto with arguments for the internet, and zoom back to the mid 90s. There were a ton of shady internet companies capitalizing on this sort of hype and …

You know, I think if you take a time machine back to the early 90s you’d see similar sentiment about the internet and internet based companies. “You want to put CREDIT CARDS on the…

What you’re describing is a popular scam where a scammer rebroadcasts a previously run live stream with famous people and instructions to send crypto to an address for a “giveaway”…

I echo this, I come from a highly technical background (security) and the 1,000 hours thing is true - I think most people can do most things that have a large group of humans do th…

I highly recommend the solo founder + consulting path. Look around you and find a problen you want to solve, and try to solve it well. Maximize for being able to spend time on that…