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I remain unsure whether Urbit is a real thing or simply an incredibly long-running satire. Their missives do nothing to clarify this point.
by jff 10y ago
I remain unsure whether Urbit is a real thing or simply an incredibly long-running satire. Their missives do nothing to clarify this point.
- callahad 10y agoWell, you can run it and it does things, which effectively puts the question of "real" or "satire" into our hands. At this point, it is what we make of it.
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- 5ilv3r 10y agoThat was gloriously poetic.
- Dylan16807 10y agoYou can use an onion article as a force to motivate activism, unleashing a very real effect upon the world. But it remains satire. Your post is more about real vs. not real, while I think the question was supposed to be satire vs. not satire.
- ncallaway 10y agoThe parent post from jff was explicitly framed as "real vs satire" and not as "satire vs not satire".
- Dylan16807 10y agoIt used the word "real", but I'm pretty sure it was a synonym for "not satire", not the more philosophical meaning that callahad took. It's very common to use the word "real" that way, for something that isn't just extant to demonstrate an idea.
- Avshalom 10y agoI've said this before but one of the very cool things about programming is that it can easily be both.
- mbrock 10y agoThat's how I feel about Unix, too.
- lhnz 10y agoI get the feeling that they are going to work on it come hell or high water until it lives up to their intentions. So while it might read like satire today, it probably won't in the future. But yeah, I don't have a non-costly use for it today despite reading the docs...