freddieoduks
freddieoduks on Hacker News
This looks really good, will pitch this to my company
> You need to find a way to work hard such that your rewards are not capped artificially.
Well said!
They are transacted digtially with the force/power of lawyers. With NFTs, you can "theoretically" transact without the need for lawyers.
Best article on NFTs is this introductory article by Linda Xie
https://linda.mirror.xyz/df649d61efb92c910464a4e74ae213c4cab...TL;DR
- NFTs help prove ownership without needing a central authority (which is a big deal) e.g. have you ever been misled and bought a fake concert ticket? It's also huge for the collectibles market which is plagued with high-levels of fraud (which is a billion dollar industry).
- NFTs can also make fractionalized ownership more accessible.
So using your analogy, as an artist I release a song but I sell fractions of my song as NFTs to my audience and when I receive royalties it automatically gets distributed to all the nft song owners.
There will be meme NFTs of course (the cat that got sold for $600k), it is a speculative asset that people are experimenting with but I think eventually things will reset and the useful NFTs will remain. They can have real utility whether for a virtual or physical world.
Congrats on this project. Reminds me of when I first read both 'Algorithms to Live by' and 'What If', books applying maths/science to everyday topics. Adding to my reading list!
the only reason the dollar has any value at all is that it is issued within the context of a society full of people who have agreed to treat it as though it has value. Without that faith, every major currency on Earth would be as useful as small pieces of paper generally are
serious question, how is the democratic process different between the two? One i.e. democratic nations are a group of people on the same piece of land that. The other is a group of people on the internet.
Posted by
freddieoduks on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:53PM
from the ask-hn dept.
As someone who is a latecomer to living/actively participating in online forums, I've found some of them to be very englithening/entertaining. Particular some random technology/philosophy subbreddits. But I want to discover even more! Bonus points if the forum/community relates to sci-fi or frontier tech.
This is my intepretation, but I didn't conclude that privacy marketing added $1.3trillion to Apples market cap, what I did take from that statement is that brand strategy IS very important though. I say this because Apples privacy marketing has definitely impacted me, I was already an Apple fanboy but I've become more resolute in not buying and persuading people to not buy non-apple hardware since their privacy marketing tear. So maybe it hasn't added trillions in value but it has indeed added something!
> privacy friendly ads
Out of curiosity, can you give examples of privacy friendly ads that indie devs can use?
This is exactly the sentiment of the article! Spot on statement.
Posted by
freddieoduks on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:01AM
from the arxiv.org dept.
Posted by
freddieoduks on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:02PM
from the twitter.com dept.
Very fun game, played it just once and only managed to make it to gen 14!
Posted by
freddieoduks on Saturday October 26, 2019 @09:35AM
from the forbes.com dept.
If you ever need connections with people in FinTech in Africa (Nigeria specifically) I can intro you to people as I know a lot of people in the ecosystem. Also keen to learn more about what you're building.
I'm based in London, UK and currently working on idea for a fintech for gig workers. The idea is to be the aggregrator for gig workers and have a marketplace where we partner with the likes of credit unions for loans/savings products for example. I'm currently doing customer development and revamping the website based on the interviews so far.
Still doing this part-time as I have a day job as a Data Scientist at a UK Fintech Alt Lender. Although I have technical skills (I can code python), they aren't that great and I'm looking to partner with someone technical.
I see a big opporunity for this so very likely to go the VC route rather than the Indie route.
If anyone is interested please shoot me an email [email protected].
For more info about me, check out this talk about one of my ML projects https://youtu.be/JyITLcJSM-Q and I also ran a personal finance blog (shutdown the website) https://medium.com/@TheDailyKobo twitter (https://twitter.com/TheDailyKobo)
I mean in order to build the product it matters that you can actually build it yourself in the beginning no?
Posted by
freddieoduks on Sunday October 06, 2019 @05:21AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hi HN, so I currently work as a Junior Data Scientust for a fintech firm but one of my main goals is actually to start my own company soon. So at the moment I'm wondering whether I should focus on going deep and studying extra to keep to become a really good data scientist (currently I consider myself below average e.g I won't be able to get a DS job at a top hi-tech firm right now) or should I...
> look at a list of the companies for the past few YC batches... there are some absolutely ridiculous ideas, most of these companies will fail miserably and would NEVER have been seeded during a recession
Out of curiosity, what is the problem with people trying "ridiculous' ideas? Airbnb and Uber were considered ridiculous at the time and look how that turned out. Sometimes ridiculous ideas can turn to fantastic companies that add economic value to the world. The opportunity cost of not chasing these ridiculous ideas is worse than otherwise if you ask me.
Been a UK user of the Emma app and it is indeed one of the best financial apps out there (as a personal finance nerd, trust me I've tried them all). However, i'm still not sold on Emma Pro and hope you can improve my perceived value of it by adding more features relevant to me soon.
This just seems to me like it'll cause unnecessary distraction at work, shouldn't we be focusing on trying to create a deep work friendly environment for employees instead?
+1 I just recently read this book and i was met with gem after gem. Also made me start looking at the world in terms of feedback loops, is it a balancing, goal-seeking or reinforcing feedback loop? How tight are these feedback loops? etc. Definitely a must read!