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曾嘉俊 Zeng Jiajun

Fapcast making waves

https://x.com/zengjiajun_eth/status/1925541393738383410?t=qDAJFaFGbXwbR9uPzIquuQ&s=19p

Made an encrypted mutual crush identification mini-app to celebrate the Solana launch! Was super fun writing this one and making it secure.

Front-end + API + Onchain Program: https://github.com/jc4p/mutual-match-frame

https://mutual-match.kasra.codes/

Cameron Builds

Trump admin just revoked student visas for all 7000 foreign Harvard students bc the school has “accepted boatloads of cash from foreign donors”

If this had happened in 2010 we would’ve deported John Collison of Stripe fame

https://apnews.com/article/harvard-trump-foreign-student-457d07268fba9c1f6f7f32fe0424bc3b

America deciding to shoot off its kneecaps in the middle of the race.

If there's one thing that solana does far better than eth is in the realm of BD and founder support

Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 are here.

Opus is really powerful, but my PAID PLAN credits ran out in 3 prompts.

I had already unsubscribed from Claude but my plan continues for a few more days. I'm not regretting. Anthropic became a joke. o3 is the way.

Me summoning deepseek to drop another model.

politics

DAOnarcho-cybersyndicalist ☠︎hyperpunk ☭ /𝖘𝖈𝖚𝖒☠︎ https://alkohlmist.mmm.page/scum

Actually no,   The lead tank rolls over and crushes him / her?  Somewhere between 100 and 1000 demonstrators were killed in Tiananman Square.   

I was working at City of Hope in ‘89 with Chinese post docs.   They were so excited about the student led pro democracy demonstrations.   They were in tears.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre

Gotta remind folk that the tiananmen square started off originally as an anti-black riot.

Gotta remind folk that the tiananmen square started off originally as an anti-black riot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_anti-African_protests

Chat I’m going on the BBC World Service in 45 minutes to do my regular spot on the show Business Matters, and the producers want us to talk about bitcoin’s record high. 

What are some smart things I should say about meaningfulness of this milestone?

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yeah just ran into that too, and the login page for Codex is broken for me :/

whenever you ping @toly about the terrible dev experience. he just calls it a business opportunity but I cant imaging crypto devs paying for tooling.

personally I would love to get paid to develop good dev tooling, I very much dislike anything consumer facing.

fc-updates

We’re planning to launch a new, optional “Pro” protocol subscription

1. At launch, subscribers will have a Pro badge on their profile

2. Subscription will be onchain and part of the protocol. 100% of the proceeds go to casters / developers in weekly rewards. This in addition to the existing $25K+ a week in rewards. 

3. Planning to add longer casts (10K characters) and up to 4 images per cast for pro subscribers (needs a protocol change). Additional features over time.

4. $120 a year / $10 a month 
Why are we doing this?

- The protocol needs to find long-term revenue source that can continue fund caster and developer rewards beyond any one company.  
- We originally thought storage fees could be that, but we’ve realized that storage fees should be essentialy free to help growth. 
- So we’re trying an opt-in pro subscription as another model

Why now?

- Figuring out a long-term revenue model that works will allow us to double down on investing in growth

rip paragraph, another company made into a feature.

its been almost 5 entire months since a new frieren manga chapter came out.

hold that thought just a lil bit longer :p

People yearn for how the internet felt 15-20 years ago — a wilder place where you could meet kindred spirits

Farcaster is the closest thing I’ve found to that experience now and I suspect that’s why so many of us are compelled to be here

no more accidently viewing beheading videos like the good old days. (well maybe today's elon twitter comes close to this vibe).

I’m pretty sure old-school reading is just over. When people have a long article or even a book to read they’re just going to ask ChatGPT to bullet point it for them anyways. I already see this happening. The problem is that reading had important neurological and psychological effects that were upstream from democratic society and politics in general. We are going back to premodern oral culture.

Prose is going to matter much more in the near future.

Something that’s been bugging me today:

At a previous company, I was given a total compensation estimate based on an equity value per share that was significantly inflated. I’m talking more than 3x the actual value. On paper, the offer looked strong. In reality, I was severely undercompensated while being sold an unrealistic dream.

Taking a risk on startup equity is part of the game. But when the numbers are manipulated to inflate your comp package, that’s not risk. That’s misrepresentation.

If you’re joining an early-stage company, ask detailed questions.

What is the current 409A valuation? 

When was it last updated? 

What is the strike price? 

How many shares are outstanding?

And how do those numbers translate to your real, present-day compensation?

Equity should be a reward for taking a chance, not a smokescreen hiding a weak offer.

DAOs >> startups. Basic info is easily viewable onchain. Easier to understand and less likely to get screwed over.

And so it starts. I don’t think I need to tell people here, but don’t call or text any of the numbers in these text and email scams.

Users treat exuberant fees as a defacto liveness failure. To those users Ethereum was down for all of 2021.  Ethereum fees were so bad that 99.5% reliability but guaranteed low cost was better, and thats how solana managed to get pmf.

Cohost of /gmfarcaster, a live stream Farcaster news show.  Engineer. Mom x 3. I love to share the wonder and beauty of daily life.

But casts get deleted when storage runs out

smol trick. Indexers keep those casts. like @buoy

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Great talk. Didn't know about the differences between harddrives and ssds and how your code should be designed around the hardware.

Great talk. Didn't know about the differences between harddrives and ssds and how your code should be designed around the hardware. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUh2NPxE16E

HH

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