I am a big critic of Wikipedia and online knowledge projects, although I admit they are a net positive to mankind. Full time editor on Everipedia.org but still skeptical.
>Everything blockchain-related is at best a Ponzi scheme and usually, outright fraud, except the structures that provide technical means for these frauds, like Ethereum itself.
Oh please. Quit your whining. Yes, there are criminals and fraudsters in crypto trying to squeeze money and run since it's not regulated, but "everything blockchain-related is at best a Ponzi-scheme"?? That's like saying facebook stock is a Ponzi scheme because Peter Thiel got it 100,000x less in price than the people who bought it today on the exchange.
I don't think anyone that is well versed and highly accurate in the crypto realm calls these currencies. In fact, the proper term is token or appcoin. Not much except Bitcoin and similar forks/spinoffs (Monero, Dogecoin, Litecoin etc) are currencies.
Actually not at all different in practice. It's different in THEORY but actually almost identical in practice. In theory, SNAP stock is legally classified as a security and recognized by the United States government as providing some kind of weird, abstract ownership of the Snap Inc organization (although all classical markers of ownership are not present in the stock). In practice, my post was pointing out it's basically as bad or even worse than a token.
>I can't eat a token. I can't live in it. I can't wear it. I can't buy Starbucks with it. It doesn't promise to return me more dollars or tokens if I hang onto it. It doesn't offer me any right to the governance or management of the money raised. It doesn't offer me a claim of ownership of some portion of an enterprise.
You can't do any of that with a lot of tech stocks actually either (ex: SNAP). SNAP pays no dividends, offers no guarantee of paying future dividends, you can't vote, you can't get more dollars if you hold on to it aside from the fact that someone else might speculate on it in an exchange. In a certain obtuse sense, newer tech stocks are becoming tokens and tokens are becoming quasi-shitty securities while trying to dance around securities laws. Honestly, I am not trying to troll, but I don't think there's any real difference between SNAP stock and Kik tokens in essence aside from a piece of paper saying that the SNAP stock is "stock" and the Kik token is a "token."
Have you ever tried to make a page? Like genuinely tried to make a page? Not spammed them with bs. I am not bitter because I couldn't spam them with low quality nonsense. Just the opposite actually, I am a longtime Wikipedia editor. I love the site to be completely upfront (contrary to my username), but their notability guidelines is mind bogglingly frustrating. They've deleted pages I've tried to make for local ice cream shops, ma and pa stores that have real stories (and real citations!), and local investors/entrepreneurs who might not be as famous as Mark Zuckerberg but are notable. It's maddening when you're work gets deleted. I've given up making newer pages and let the higher ups do it and just improve the pages once they are fairly mature. There are no real alternatives to Wikipedia with the same altruistic base vision unfortunately. The only notable sites are RationalWiki, Everipedia, InfoGalactic, and Wikia (if you can really even count that), but all of these are a mere fraction of a fraction as big and reputable as Wikipedia, so back to them I keep going (and back to deleting my articles they continue to do).
Seriously right? smh. The frustration from that is where my HN username comes from if anyone is wondering...To this day there's no real alternative encyclopedia that is a legit competitor to Wikipedia unfortunately.
Whoa lobsters is really cool. Probably the best/most promising reddit alternative I've seen because it's not taken over by some kind of extreme faction of some form.
I always ask this myself. I think like you said, startups are so mainstream now that the traction bar is higher now. But the problem is that YC also seems to be getting less prestigious. As great as these companies are, I am sorry but I don't believe that 100+ a batch is the same YC as what started a decade ago. YC is now a factor, not a family.
How does one build such google contacts if you are a seed stage startup? I understand it wouldn't be the same league as LinkedIn Reid Hoffman level contacts, but even some kind of contact at Google search?
Ya, that's not a bad way to execute on the idea, however it does not perform one of Patreon's chief functions that make it so successful: discovery of projects on one, unified platform. Essentially the main setup that Patreon has over all the "tip jar" or decentralized methods that have been tried but never reached critical mass is that the entire patronage ecosystem has a home on the web rather than simply living inside everyone's browser extension or something. That's why a dedicated site for software patronage could really take off because so many open source projects and software ideas are floating around with really just donations or VCs as the only funding mechanism in the valley.
Ya the idea itself would be so neat. In fact, a super meta way to do it is to have the campaign to build the platform be the first campaign on the MVP version of the platform itself! What better way to demonstrate your software patronage platform by using it to build said software patronage platform. I truly think a dedicated patreon for coders could really change the entire VC hypergrowth stress cycle that is Silicon Valley and instead usher in a new era.
Oh very cool. That's actually really legit and some of them are great projects/talented people. Patreon is definitely not for entertainment or the arts itself, but it does sort of have that vibe and the software's intuitive usage is built around content patronage instead of software patronage (understandably so). I wonder if patreon model can be disrupted for coding/software projects or if it's already too big and enough coders are happy with the current way it is.
I'm thinking of getting a team of friends to make a Patreon platform but tailor made for software devs/code projects/open source projects rather than creative content. As someone that's on hacker news and has a patreon but isn't for software, do you have any suggestions for someone like me that wanted to develop a patreon focused on software?
Do you mean coders on patreon itself? Any links to coder patreons I can look at? Or do you mean a new startup that's patreon for open source/coders? It would be really interesting to build a patreon platform tailor made for coders if the market for it is not already taken by patreon.
That site is a wiki site, similar to Wikipedia, meaning anyone can propose an edit. Although Everipedia has a pretty good reputation for being really reliable, I'd still analyze information about things like racism/sexual harassment etc with a critical eye.
The link cited is to a wiki site, meaning anybody can add information to it. Although specifically that site, Everipedia.com, has a pretty good reputation for being unbiased similar to Wikipedia, I'm just trying to point out that it's still a wiki site. Anyone, including you or me, could edit that page and for sensitive topics such as racism, we should probably take things coming from places like Everipedia, Wikipedia etc with a grain of salt.
Your first source is to a wiki site (albeit a large one with a known good reputation), but still a wiki site (it says at the top of that very page anyone can add any information to it). And your second source is the Washington Post so I don't know how unbiased either of these links truly are.
>If the only people in your orbit you feel you can connect with that way are at work, that's a sign your personal life needs some development.
Then a very, very significant portion (quite possibly close to half of the population, or approaching thereof in some fields) have personal life developmental problems......or....it could just be that your world view or definition of "appropriate" is a bit off. Which one of those situations is more likely?
Very interesting. I find the rise of all these cryptocoins really difficult to discern the gems from the mediocre. But tezos (and EOS) seem like one of the better ones.
That's crazy. I can't imagine how that must be. To have so much demand for your token that people pay 35m in 30 seconds to you for it. There were reports that people paid $6,000+ just to cut in line to get to buy some before the ICO time ran out.
Prediction market tokens seem to be really popular. I am sure they will rise in value with the rising tide, but I am not extremely interested in them personally. I am not sure they can deliver on the utopia-like vision they claim to be able to deliver. If I were to buy something right now, I would purchase tezos, ether, and 1-2 of my favorite ether contract tokens. I am very weary though that this is a big bubble.
This definitely feels like a bubble. But if anyone is interested in investing in some potentially cool tokens and projects, I personally think the most interesting ones are:
1. Tezos (not part of ethereum ecosystem)
2. Golem (part of ethereum)
3. Litecoin (they are pioneering the lightning + SegWit protocol first, before BTC, the price could rise dramatically if it's a success)
4. Dogecoin (this one is just fun and has been a cult classic since it came out, don't recommend anyone buying, just fun to add it to the list, much wow)
Disclaimer: I own no position in the above nor am I affiliated with any of them. These are just my opinions.
At some point that's just going to become a subreddit with a very, very loose sense of geography built into it that's more of a hindrance than an asset. For this type of thing, you either go all in like yik yak did with the geo or you go all in with the idea of the community and non-geo (reddit).