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On iMessage, this causes images to be pasted twice

Read the book Ticket Masters. Explains how they've basically formed a monopoly via their merger with LiveNation - Ticket Master controls all major venues and thus all ticketing systems.

https://www.amazon.com/Ticket-Masters-Concert-Industry-Scalp...

Great application of GPT-3, fun and light-hearted!

Not a bad thing - new users are already used to the navigation.

This is standard verbiage in financial docs of this sort

Fails to address that users on centralized Web3 platforms have ability to exit platform, which isn’t an option in Web2.

I can transfer out an NFT from OpenSea ecosystem. I can transfer BTC out of Coinbase.

Wonder what Fred thinks about having a single-shared database (Ethereum) vs. having multiple shared databases (SOLUNAVAX).

Valid criticism.

Axie may not be the end all be all, just a start towards a new future of digital ownership.

Incorrect

A lot of HN hate on Web3... is the alternative to lay down and let big tech win?

Axie is built on Ethereum, meaning in-game assets (NFTs) are technically transferrable off-platform.

Vitalik (creator of Ethereum) attributed one of his reasons for creating Ethereum to Blizzard taking away one of his in-game items in World of Warcraft in 2010:

"I was born in 1994 in Russia and moved to Canada in 2000, where I went to school. I happily played World of Warcraft during 2007-2010, but one day Blizzard removed the damage component from my beloved warlock's Siphon Life spell. I cried myself to sleep, and on that day I realized what horrors centralized services can bring. I soon decided to quit."

Merry Christmas

wagmi

If anyone is looking for a gift card provider to send gift cards via email, try out Tremendous! We use and love them. Nice APIs and super simple to integrate.

Have new changes affected anyone else's Play Store Explore traffic?

Would love to chat if so. We've seen a significant decrease and can't figure out why.

Odds are Jack does something in Web3 next?

China will invade Taiwain.

Wash trading much more common on international exchanges.

We're still in the first inning of Web3.

Was at Coinbase in 2017 - am now waiting for more dev tooling to come out before jumping back in to the industry. The existing infrastructure is abysmal - equivalent of programming at the network layer.

Google and Amazon were built 2 decades after the invention of the internet. No need to FOMO in when the first programmable blockchain (Ethereum) is only 6 years old.

Smart move on trying to create a self-regulating body like FINRA for crypto.

Code is law.

Another reminder that text-based 2FA is not secure.

How many of us read this as Naval (Ravikant) Architecture?

Both my cofounder and I are technical and code - helps save a lot on costs!

Thanks!

$1 is actually significantly cheaper than industry average. Most providers charge upwards of $5. We're able to cut costs by connecting you directly to end respondents and cutting out middlemen - our proprietary panel is over 1M respondents large now.

Personally, I'm happy building a smaller company.

We're an LLC, so we're allowed to take draws at the end of each year vs. having to wait for a liquidity event (IPO or acquisition).

Not making the argument that VC is bad across the board - companies that require a large amount of startup capital (fintech, space, deep tech) wouldn't exist without VC funding.

We've actually grown entirely through word of mouth. 0 ad spend after 2 years. We also happen to be a late entrant to the market. Companies like Swagbucks have been around since 2008.

And to our employees!

Yes, fragmented, but not a big enough market to make it worth it for a large entrant to spend blindly.