jonwalch

These are my favorites from the batch.

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 about how terrible Tether is and then completely ignores USDC. He also claims that none of the popular blockchains can scale, but Solana is frequently in the top 5 most popular cryptocurrencies.

It seems to me that people that do an hour of research are polarized hard. Either love it or hate it. The more time you spend understanding the space the more nuanced it becomes. Many are using the technology to facilitate scams and overpromising, but that doesn't make the technology fundamentally useless or bad.

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 much gamers in the future care about their items being NFTs or not.

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 (NFTs) as collateral for a loan, or lend it to other players to use while you retain ownership. Game devs could build all this functionality themselves, but they get it for free if they don't take the walled garden approach.

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."

You can make a ton of money doing that. I personally don't find a ton of value in this as a consumer. I want to see how the clothes look on me, not on a model.

I can see people wanting to throw together pretend outfits on a model, but I'm not sure how you monetize that.

What sorts of companies were you applying to?

Yes, of course.

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 "total in print".

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 game developers and look "cool" (show off their status) while doing it.

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 would come in, criticize your design, but offer no alternatives. Process can't fix poor culture.

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.

I think your last point is far bigger than just on HN. I think most people are this way, unfortunately.

AFAICT Clerky is another example.

Investment banks and trading shops are always looking for new grads for C++.

Totally agree with this. I used to be solely in the latter camp and my teammates pulled me in the deep direction.

Yeah I would change your home page to put your "rate" with some way to denote that the interest rate + EV is better than competitors, instead of putting just the base rate.

This is the best fintech app I've ever seen. If y'all could get the interest rate up, there would be no reason not to use this. I'm not using this today because I get 1.05% with Marcus.

Any thoughts about maintenance? My personal journey with learning AWS is/was very painful, but now that I understand everything that I need at a high level, it is quite a bit more manageable. I can't imagine having to make minor tweaks to my infra if I had no idea what it was doing.

Constructive criticism if the author is in here, I find multiple bold sentences per paragraph to be taxing on the eyes.

Their product is (or at least was, when I used it back in late 2018) bootstrapping a K8S cluster on bare metal with "one command". Obviously this is an extremely aspirational claim.

There are parts of the Mission that are extremely nice. The Tenderloin is far worse than the Mission and parts of SoMa rival the Mission for grossness.