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I agree that owning the user experience is very valuable but to the extent that this leads to long term profits it seems more about scale economies than network effects. Network effects at the app layer don’t command the same type of pricing power they do in web 2. At least that’s my running hypothesis. Taking a step back, agree coinbase has huge potential upside
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Disrupted in the sense that they may no longer lead to long term differentiated returns, not that they don’t exist
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Of Helmers 7 powers network effects seems like the one most disrupted by crypto In other words, do network effects in crypto accrue to the company or the protocol?
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What needs to happen for coinbase? In a world where crypto is really working, what’s to stop competitors from eroding their margins?
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What company worth under $100b today is most likely to become a $1t company?
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The prior paradigm of personalization required company models to learn about the world and about their product. Now LLMs have off the shelf world models and so companies only need to go the last mile. Dramatically levels the playing field
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Huge wave of purple nostalgia seeing the return of the arch
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I want to buy a MacBook Air for coding side projects while traveling for work. Have a beefed up MacBook Pro at home so it doesn’t need to be my main machine but wanna be future proofed. What specs should I get?
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Who is creating the best AI content on FC?
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Back to say hi to my warplet
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Will take a look!
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Prototype or tool to help me do my job better
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We’re in the fsd beta era of coding agents but waymo full self driving is just around the corner
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Pretty much averaging 1 end-to-end build a day at this point using Cursor+v0
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Incredibly interesting technically and going to be very useful. I agree, everyone will have this capability soon. We're in a Moores law of context window situation and 100M is going to look small in a few years.
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Anyone in NYC or SF interested in "renting" their Nikon Z camera for a few weeks? Going on safari and would love to bring a second body.
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Yeah that’s been my take so far as well
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Writing a personal blog (ever just for yourself) is seriously underrated
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What’s the best plug in hybrid crossover? Or just crossover in general?
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