Re:New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
by dpatru on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:19AM
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> It is quite shameless, here is an awesome volunteer run basic service project, and this is a Blockchain rent-seeking VC startup.
You're implying that there is something shameful with providing a market for connectivity which allows for people who can't afford to work for free to participate. What is shameful about this?
Re:New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
by robert_foss on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:53AM
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Taking attention from a free community project to market your for profit company certainly isn't a purely altruistic thing to do.
Re:New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
by Matticus_Rex on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @11:24AM
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Taking attention? I have enough attention for both. Who cares if it isn't altruistic? 99.9% of human interaction isn't, and most of it is positive.
Re:New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
by strider12 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:32AM
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theres still a monthly fee for free. weird right.
Re:New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
by Matticus_Rex on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @11:26AM
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"The 100k investment they took on is peak rent-seeking," said the commenter on news.ycombinator.com
Ironically I went back to the 2015 thread and found much the same "shameless plug", minus the Blockchain.