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I'm honored that you dug into it. I'm working on decentralization, which I think is a very socially important goal. The cloud is not my ultimate objective, but
by Taek 10y ago
I'm honored that you dug into it.
I'm working on decentralization, which I think is a very socially important goal. The cloud is not my ultimate objective, but it's one of the very few short term use cases I see where a decentralized system seems to have the potential to utterly dominate a centralized one.
Decentralized tech is very new. It's very hopium, and it's very poorly understood, both by zealots and by non-believers. I think that decentralization is going to change a lot of things in fundamental ways, and I think I can move the field forward faster by building a tangible, provably working, provably superior use case for decentralized tech.
Cloud storage is not as glamorous as starting a new world order, but the most important engineering is often the most mundane. People probably felt similarly about the Internet back before the world wide web was invented.
- t4nkd 10y agoYou may want to visit with a mental health professional and explain your behavior and motivation...
- sctb 10y agoPlease don't make personal attacks like this on Hacker News.
- webscaleizfun 10y agoWhat are you specifically working on decentralizing? Do you have an end goal in mind for what a perfectly decentralized world would look like? Eg. a SBC in every home & office running a mailserver, webserver, etc Edit: I think decentralization is great (like say IPFS), but I would not risk health or put off others to dedicate all my time to working on it, social interaction is an everyday need!
- Taek 10y agoUltimately I would like to see that people are allowed to maintain full control over their access to money and information. As tech improves, those things are getting more important, and right now the trend is to increasingly outsource the control (especially for information) to centralized entities that likely don't have your well-being as their primary objective.
- webscaleizfun 10y agoThere are a vast number of things that fit under the umbrella of tech that needs to be decentralized to give you full control over your money and information. What part of that stack are you working on? Blockchain currency, low level networking, distributed filesystems, p2p websites, ...
- beejiu 10y agoI'd give up now.
- markatkinson 10y agoHari Seldon of decentralization, I tip my hat.