DagAgren

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by DagAgren 7y ago
That would go against the goals of the Urbit project, which is to appear mysterious and inscrutable to make the creators feel a sense of superiority. It's pseudointellectual wanking, and that is the start and end of it. Don't both
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by DagAgren 7y ago
In electrical engineering, there are practical reasons to do this. Here, there are none, except to be contrarian. Being contrarian is not the same as being clever, and this is very much not clever.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
It's mostly nonsense, so don't waste too much time trying to understand it.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Of course I draw lines. Any sane person draws lines. And the current situation is far, far beyond that line, as should be blatantly obvious to anyone with a functioning sense of empathy.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
No, it does not mean that. It means you would rather let OTHER people die with your privacy. You are literally valuing your privacy higher than the life of other people. And yes, that is sociopathic.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
No, there is no fallacy. There really isn't. You privacy is NOT more important than a human life, which is exactly what is at stake here. Claiming otherwise is utterly sociopathic.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Yes, that is the tradeoff you are making to keep actual human beings from dying painfully. You can afford to give up a few days of your privacy for that. Really, you can.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
But it's not. There are far better ways to do that, if that is the path you're going down. This is specifically designed to make that kind of thing much harder.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
It does not transmit "an ID". It transmits random IDs, that cycle often.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
That is not a possible.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Why not just ask telecom companies for all their data? Quicker, stealthier and much easier. There is not NEED to use this scheme in such a convoluted way. There are far better ways to spy, and the way to protect against it is through politi
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by DagAgren 7y ago
But are any of those at all realistic attack scenarios? A government can do much more with less effort using other means. And it's hard to see the value of making that kind of attack as an individual.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
This system goes to quite some lengths to preserve privacy. If you are going to attack it, you need to actually address what it does and explain why you don't think that is sufficient.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Well good news: This system does not assign an identifier to everyone, so it works.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
None of which is anything like the utter nonsense you just sprouted. Time to get off the conspiracy theory addiction, dude.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
> Bill Gate's ID 2020 program is a underskin implant that holds a vaccine record that he is proposing that all will have to get to do just about anything in the future. This is complete and utter nonsense. It is a fantasy made up by
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Crises are far, far more often NOT used by despots to seize power.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Are you really expecting any sane person to take you seriously when you say shit like that.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Of course it will. These companies could already track you far more efficiently than this allows them to. This system makes tracking LESS efficient, not more. It serves no purpose other than what is stated.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Or, it's just what it says. It's a way to implement test and trace, something that is absolutely needed to stop a pandemic like this from killing hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. Everything isn't a slippy slop
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by DagAgren 7y ago
What, so you can more effectively spread a dangerous infectious disease?
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by DagAgren 7y ago
The point of social distancing is to bring the number of cases down to a point where other measures are possible, such as test-and-trace. Social distancing is step 1, not the whole process.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
I'm not sure I still see the value. The boundaries shown on modern maps are very strange and complicated shapes, and seem extremely arbitrary. Does it really help me in any way to know inside which convoluted an non-intuitive shape a s
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by DagAgren 7y ago
They moved away from the gold standard for some pretty good reasons. And countries don't use other currencies unless they are in a very bad position and have no other choice. Bitcoin is gleefully copying all the bad features of these k
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by DagAgren 7y ago
What, exactly, are "constellation boundaries" good for? They seem to just be weird visual noise that doesn't really help with anything.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
It is not that it is USED by a country. It is that it is an INTEGRAL PART of the country's economic policy. The country can, as part of managing its economy, also manage the currency. Bitcoin is not managed this way. It has rules set i
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by DagAgren 7y ago
No, this can not be changed. It doesn't matter how many people use it or not. It very deliberately, by design and implementation, does not represent anything at all. This would not change even if an entire country used it (putting asid
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by DagAgren 7y ago
The dollar does not exist on its own. It is an integral part of the US economy. The two can not be separated. The dollar represents, in some sense, a unit of the US economy. Bitcoin has nothing like this.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Those are not two different things. They are one and the same, in a regular currency. Bitcoin implements only half of it, and pretends this is just as good. It is not. It is just gambling.
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by DagAgren 7y ago
Currencies do not exist in a vacuum, like bitcoin, it is an instrument of an entire country's economy. There is wealth created inside that economy, unlike bitcoin.

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