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by dwb 5y ago
I’m sorry but this is a consequence of the current nature of NFTs in this space that should have been obvious to any technologist. It’s just baffling to me that this stuff has got this far.
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by dwb 5y ago
Metrics are great for testing a quantifiable hypothesis, but not all worthwhile hypotheses are quantifiable, and in ignoring the latter we discount an essentially human side to creativity and that’s a big turn-off for me.
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by dwb 5y ago
I think you misunderstand. I’m talking about running apps shared over some untrusted (or partially trusted) medium, be that airdrop or whatever else.
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by dwb 5y ago
I generally lean more toward “i like that iOS is locked down”, but this offline-app-sharing feature is one of the best arguments I’ve seen against that. That said, either I’d want peer-to-peer-shared apps to be signed by an entity I already
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by dwb 5y ago
As someone who is very supportive of the current pronouns-consciousness, I agree.
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by dwb 5y ago
Cool, thanks. Good luck in any case, I think there's a lot of potential in this area!
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by dwb 5y ago
I'm so, so in for browser modernisation, I really like the look of what you're doing, I'm a devoted vim addict, and I'll be trying the demo later. But honestly $15/month is extremely pushing it, to the point that I
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by dwb 5y ago
Of course we should, but the solution is primarily politics, not technology.
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by dwb 5y ago
No, the Scots language, which is indeed part of a rich cultural history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language Scottish Gaelic would be "gla".
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by dwb 5y ago
I'm struggling to find the source for this (there is one), but it's overwhelmingly more likely constituents voted for the Conservative party, and not Rees-Mogg as the particular candidate.
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by dwb 5y ago
I would read that as an accent that isn’t a softer New England accent, but also not one that non-Americans would so easily place more specifically (Southern, New York, maybe one or two others?)
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by dwb 5y ago
> evolutionary biology is inevitably racist In the current historical context, yes, it is. If you could somehow neutrally float outside context (you can't), or we lived in a different world, then maybe it wouldn't be.
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by dwb 5y ago
I can't help but think you give Yarvin too much credit.
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by dwb 5y ago
Yes, I even tried to read some of his blog posts under that name before I came across urbit. Didn’t bother finishing any because they were interminable and objectionable in about equal measure. I’m aware of the posited connection between hi
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by dwb 5y ago
Sure, and I'm not saying it's impossible. But cults based on some deep self-improvement and/or transcendence plus charismatic leadership, I can broadly understand why they developed. Based on an open-source software project,
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by dwb 5y ago
I still think this "cult" characterisation is a bit much. Even if Urbit does inspire something like what you're worried about, we're talking about, what, some people being annoying in the comments section? The "foll
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by dwb 5y ago
He strikes me as enough of a self-important dork to say (and mean) something like this, and what I’ve seen of his politics are extremely bad to me, but let’s not lose perspective: we’re talking about an open-source VM here. There’s no lock-
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by dwb 5y ago
You could choose to not read it as a prank, then it might be more interesting. I don't doubt there is an amount of purposeful obfuscation in the naming at least, and there clearly is a desire to be different. But looking beyond the sur
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by dwb 5y ago
I find the incredulousness around urbit's differences and ambition very tiresome. I have an urbit ship, I bought the identity when it was not so expensive. I've hardly used it; I'm not a pioneer sort of person and I've n
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by dwb 5y ago
Are you able to cite an example of this particular, direct consequence?
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by dwb 6y ago
Where do we go to find out which NFT is valid according to Beeple? How is this information stored, authenticated, distributed?
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by dwb 6y ago
I have never heard of anyone claiming that modern definitions of these terms should be literally projected back into the past - only that we can analyse the past with current thought on these matters, which seems completely reasonable to me
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by dwb 6y ago
Not necessarily or directly, no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)
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by dwb 6y ago
You can indicate how wide you prefer your paragraphs to be by sizing your browser window appropriately.
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by dwb 6y ago
Agreed, but don't conflate "solving business problems" with "best solution for the customer".
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by dwb 6y ago
I don't think they're different enough to refute my point. You see Chinese characters in a great variety of typographic and handwritten styles, all able to be read by fluent people.
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by dwb 6y ago
A letter is not a picture, at least not in the way we generally talk about pictures – it can be graphically manipulated and re-imagined in almost limitless ways and degrees and still perform its function. For most things-that-we-call-pictur
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by dwb 6y ago
It doesn't matter what they say, or what has technically changed. I fundamentally don't trust Facebook, I won't agree to any terms different to the ones I'm already signed up to, and this has nudged me into completely de
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by dwb 6y ago
I cannot imagine structuring my (non-work) life like this. Nothing would suck the joy/play/freedom out of my leisure time faster. Happy for you if it works for you though.
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by dwb 6y ago
I read somewhere a long time ago (I forget where) that it was (or tended to be) "disc" where the format came from the audio world, and "disk" otherwise. So, "Compact Disc", but "hard disk". No idea if

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