Show HN: Ponzi.es – Startup sticker ponzi scheme

Re:Show HN: Ponzi.es – Startup sticker ponzi scheme by fortytw2 on Friday December 11, 2015 @08:35AM (#10716960)

This is awesome in every way. Talk about a fantastic project

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Re:Show HN: Ponzi.es – Startup sticker ponzi scheme by cwilkes on Friday December 11, 2015 @10:16AM (#10717523)

This is an Internet age Ponzi scheme.

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Re:Show HN: Ponzi.es – Startup sticker ponzi scheme by leereeves on Friday December 11, 2015 @01:31PM (#10718894)

It's not a Ponzi scheme if startups donate stickers for them to give away.

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Re:Show HN: Ponzi.es – Startup sticker ponzi scheme by Piskvorrr on Friday December 11, 2015 @11:13AM (#10717892)

Not really; while it does use some of its mechanisms, it lacks the crucial one: recursion.

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Re:Show HN: Ponzi.es – Startup sticker ponzi scheme by mikeash on Friday December 11, 2015 @11:44AM (#10718094)

How so? Each new "investor's" sticker goes to "pay off" a previous one, and then they are in turn "paid off" with the stickers from two new "investors."

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Re:Show HN: Ponzi.es – Startup sticker ponzi scheme by pforpineapple on Friday December 11, 2015 @12:52PM (#10718581)

Seems pretty recursive to me.

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