And government in general. Populist demagogues capitalize on the misperception that one man can just make all the "easy" fixes. DOGE was a good example of that.
From my perspective, there is such a thing as "too much democracy." I don't know how to quantify the exact right amount for a given situation.
In the case of companies, a benevolent dictatorship is fine because employees, customers and investors can all exit and find other companies. It's at the nation state level where you need more structural veto points. (Arguably true for towns/counties/states too, but you still have the right to exit so...)
Wow, this brings back memories. Way back in the 2000 I worked on a concept to charge “postage“ to big senders and remit payments to receivers (hosts, not end users). I also looked at hashcash. I ultimately abandoned the project because I realized I would be spending all my time convincing big senders why they should pay and I knew I would hate that job.
Previously I was the spam cop for a big sender and saw up close all the ways our clients would try to weasel around it.
I'm building an identity verification platform for age verification. I set it up as a nonprofit because I think this is a public good that should be provided by governments. It's mostly a proof of concept right now. My long term goal is to get state DMVs using it (or something like it).
In theory yes, in practice it requires lots of different government services to get on the same page. How do you verify a state ID? Usually the DMV. Have they released an API endpoint for that? Almost certainly no. What if instead you're using a passport? Then the federal government needs to do it. What if your passport is from a country with weak government that doesn't have a lot of capacity?
And of course governments attract hackers because they tend to not be up to date on security best practices.
A single abstraction layer on blockchains allows more developers and security experts to contribute and innovate.
There are also SNRIs, which don't have the sexual side effects. I've done mostly SSRIs but in the last few years I've been on an SNRI called Pristiq and it's the best by far.
I agree with this on a subjective level, but it also makes me think of blacksmiths at country fairs. I'm sure they deeply enjoy the work, but industrialized CNC and other technology replaced them long ago. It's a craftsman's hobby now.
I've thought for a while that I could get a good sense of someone's potential if I could just read their email. I noodled on the idea of an oauth (Gmail) based AI to evaluate email but the privacy issues make it a nonstarter.
Thanks for your input. Once we launch the the product itself we will make no mention of crypto for exactly this reason.
Lofty.ai used crypto as the back end for their fractionalized property platform, but there is no mention of crypto. I used it to sell a portion of my rental property. Here's a video I made about the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgPLXFwhZbY&t=2s
This is something I should use but am not at all knowledgeable about. One thing to consider as a feature is creating an llms.txt file that explains all the details so its consumable by an LLM
IMO the value of AI coding is less about what we're seeing now and more about what will happen once anyone can program their phone, watch or smart speaker just by feeding it a prompt.
I think that, broadly speaking, hard work and talent strongly predict success. But the circumstances can dramatically affect the magnitude. I have no doubt that Zuck would've been successful in 1880, but not one of the richest people who ever lived. The leverage that comes from being an introverted hacker type was not as great then.