Urbit is a solution to several design constraints that, frankly, nobody else is taking seriously. 1. Stack is too complex 2. Surveillance capitalism 3. Outdated infrastructure (e.g. TCP has no identity or security) Our thesis is: these are related and need a technical solution.
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So we have two major components: 1. A PKI based on a globally consistent, Byzantine-fault-tolerant database (currently ethereum) to prevent abuse by single-party cabal 2. A minimal VM that can be moved from machine to machine, implementing a personal server
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come for the bizarre technical work, stay for the racism?
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or was it the other way around
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it seemed interesting and cute when I first heard about it, have they gone full bizarro?
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they were always unforgivably bad, if anything they've scaled back (but are still terrible)
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it's the equivalent of weird conspiracy theories your uncle sends you on facebook
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and equally r a c i s t
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I read the Wikipedia page, which I guarantee was solely authored by the devs, and still didn't understand what the hell the whole thing was meant to be other than yet another "attach blockchain to a problem that doesn't need blockchain" attempt.
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From the looks of it, it's Freenet-style distributed hosting except ludicrously power inefficient and written by libertarian conspiracy theorists who have a penchant for espousing purity rhetoric?
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