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0 pointssteve_adams_868mo ago0 comments

I feel like this describes so much of the tech industry.

A lot of what we do might be sophisticated in some far corners, but at the end of the day the end results can be trivially explained.

"Taxi ordered from a phone app, "Sleep in other people's homes", "Restaurant delivery service with GPS tracking", "Exercise bike with a screen showing workout videos", "Someone else shops for you", etc.

Unfortunately with crypto, a lot of it is trivially explained as "obfuscated scam"

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ipdashc8mo ago

> "Taxi ordered from a phone app, "Sleep in other people's homes", "Restaurant delivery service with GPS tracking", "Exercise bike with a screen showing workout videos", "Someone else shops for you", etc.

I don't think anyone ever claimed these were complicated or sophisticated, though? They're straightforward user-facing apps. A more comparable example might be cloud services or a good chunk of security products.

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0 pointssteve_adams_868mo ago0 comments

I feel like this describes so much of the tech industry.

A lot of what we do might be sophisticated in some far corners, but at the end of the day the end results can be trivially explained.

Unfortunately with crypto, a lot of it is trivially explained as "obfuscated scam"

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ipdashc8mo ago

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