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I’m definitely on the street-food end. Ideally serving up a “locally world-famous” unique signature item under $5. But not super unique. Something like my spin on a well-known thing. Like a dosa cart with a unique filling.
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“Locally world famous” is not a joke. It describes many street foods. Locals take out-of-town visitors there, who become new fans. And people who leave retain strong memories and try to get it shipped to them worldwide at great cost. It’s a good metaphor for subcultural capital.
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The locally world-famous food metaphor btw points to unique distribution as an angle. There’s often a story to the story of food getting out if local neighborhoods. For eg. friends hand-carrying it on flights, then dividing and mailing the stash as part of care packages.
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Now that’s an NFT among chips. Once when I randomly found a few bags at a Home Goods in the Seattle area, I was elated like I’d discovered a Picasso at a garage sale. They really are very good. If you’re a potato chip connoisseur, seek them out.
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Wonder if this could work digitally. A blog post that’s only findable in a network neighborhood (set of whitelisted requesting static IPs?) but also randomly posted on sites elsewhere. Can you in fact impose such a terroir on a network topology?
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Maybe the real innovation needed here is a digital network embedded in a continuous metric space with digital geofencing and exponential drop-off in trust as you retreat from a node. That would be a canvas for NFTs par excellence.
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How hard would it be to make a computer network with embedding geography as an explicit topological feature? Like gps on every host and a cryptographically signed location tag on every packet? Otherwise exactly like tcp/ip and interoperable with it as a subnet.
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