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    Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 1 Dec 2019
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    I will never understand why people don't immediately dismiss Urbit as the crank nonsense it obviously is.

    11:07 AM - 1 Dec 2019
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      2. Theodore Blackman ~rovnys-ricfer‏ @rovnys 1 Dec 2019
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        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 Outdated infrastructure (e.g. TCP has no identity or security) Our thesis is: these are related and need a technical solution.

        3 replies 15 retweets 67 likes
      3. Theodore Blackman ~rovnys-ricfer‏ @rovnys 1 Dec 2019
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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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      2. John Regehr‏ @johnregehr 1 Dec 2019
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        come for the bizarre technical work, stay for the racism?

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      3. John Regehr‏ @johnregehr 1 Dec 2019
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        or was it the other way around

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      2. punished pilgrim ian‏ @sathside 1 Dec 2019
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        it seemed interesting and cute when I first heard about it, have they gone full bizarro?

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      3. vaibhav sagar‏ @vbhvsgr 1 Dec 2019
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        they were always unforgivably bad, if anything they've scaled back (but are still terrible)

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      2. whitequark‏ @whitequark 1 Dec 2019
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        it's the equivalent of weird conspiracy theories your uncle sends you on facebook

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      3. Symbo1ics Ideas‏ @Symbo1ics 2 Dec 2019
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        and equally r a c i s t

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      2. Graham Sutherland (Polynomial^DSS)‏ @gsuberland 1 Dec 2019
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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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      3. Graham Sutherland (Polynomial^DSS)‏ @gsuberland 1 Dec 2019
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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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