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Comment by rmbyrro | Hacker News Reader

If the rest of the world were like the software industry, we would see news like this on Facebook:

"KayaCar, a distributed kayak with wheels to drive on the streets of San Francisco"

I would consider using facebook if there were articles like that. Not sure why you consider this a problem... "Because I can" is a good enough reason to do anything that doesn't cause harm to others.

> "Because I can" is a good enough reason to do anything that doesn't cause harm to others.

It's hard to tell in advance how any action may impact others. The extreme example: jumping off a bridge doesn't physically harm others. But having to look at, examine, or otherwise interact with your corpse may inflict trauma on others.

Isn't there also an environmental cost for all things blockchain because of power consumption? That doesn't directly impact others but might eventually.

"proof of work" is the computationally expensive thing... a block-chain is simply a data structure with many uses outside of cryptocurrencies.

did you just compare releasing a new OSS project to suicide?

Are you advocating for suicide on a crematory?

I did not make any judgement, just noting that this mindset is quite peculiar to the software industry.

Might be because of my ignorance of other areas of human activity, though...

I think if someone made a KayakCar, we would still hear about it on HN not Facebook.

I'm not on Facebook but from what I hear this is an article you are likely to find on there.

> a distributed kayak with wheels

ahem... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHpCEUSWt7Q&ab_channel=BeTRI...

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