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Didn’t the founder of Urbit (Curtis Yarvin) leave the project last year? My impression of Urbit has always been that Curtis was fundamental to the vision of the
by meter 7y ago
Didn’t the founder of Urbit (Curtis Yarvin) leave the project last year? My impression of Urbit has always been that Curtis was fundamental to the vision of the project. Does anyone know how the project has changed since then?
- mushufasa 7y agoyes, wikipedia says he left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbit seems like the whole project has been mired in controversy because of the alt-right / anti-egalitarian political views of the founder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin if urbit got $1.2m seed from thiel in 2013 (listed on wikipedia), they should be out of that money by now even if they had stretched it.
- ttul 7y agoYarvin sounds like a loon.
- Apocryphon 7y agoOr, at least, a hoon.
- blotter_paper 7y agoNock off the name calling!
- dang 7y agoThat was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18908051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18908051