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Show HN: Accountability tool that puts your money on the line

Show HN: Accountability tool that puts your money on the lineHi HN!I built a tool on Optimism (an L2 rollup) on Ethereum that helps help you ACTUALLY stay accountable for your tasks/goals.Pick an accountability buddy and lock some in the contract.If you complete the task, you get your money back. If you fail, it’s donated to @khanacademyMore details here:...

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Re:Patterns in Confusing Explanations on Saturday August 21, 2021 @06:29AM (#28255802)
I think it’s usually less of a “I’m not smart enough” and more of a “this may take significant time to understand well.” Topics that are deemed too complex usually just require a significant amount of previous knowledge that you may not already have, and you just need to spend a lot of time thinking and learning about them. More on this here - https://www.benkuhn.net/thinkrealhard/
Re:Patterns in Confusing Explanations on Saturday August 21, 2021 @04:19AM (#28255192)
My default mindset used to be “I’m not getting this -> I’m stupid”, and I’ve been slowly shifting my mindset to “I’m not getting this -> this is probably not being explained well”
This is so freakin cool
Re:Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:23PM (#28158981)
This is so dope - creating good generators is so hard, great work!

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