mgummelt

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by mgummelt 7y ago
> And the network effects can only happen because there is a tight coupling between the data (contained and scrambled within the HTML page) and the presentation. Had data and presentation be decoupled, I could have combined network infor
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by mgummelt 7y ago
> Once all the inter-actor controls are sorted out, there would need to be a system of dynamic resource distribution. The profiler/scheduler should be able to identify things like - this actor is handling 85% of traffic, distribute
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by mgummelt 7y ago
I'm unsure what this has to do with my comment.
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by mgummelt 7y ago
> This is the fundamental reason the modern internet is centralizing to a couple of entities The reason Google and Facebook dominate the internet has little to do with technology and much to do with economics, namely scale economies and
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by mgummelt 7y ago
source?
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by mgummelt 7y ago
Doesn't scaling network interfaces down to be used in local processes present all the same problems as scaling procedure interfaces up? You still have to be aware of which objects are remote and which are local.
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by mgummelt 7y ago
I'll check out the paper, but at a glance, "a few well-defined verbs" seems to just mean you've introduced a set of standard storage interfaces, right? If so, calling this REST, to the extent which that word means anyth
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by mgummelt 7y ago
> each Smalltalk object is a recursion on the entire possibilities of the computer. I've heard Kay say this a few times, but it's always seemed wrong. Self similarity is a powerful scaling mechanism, yes, but Smalltalk objects
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by mgummelt 7y ago
Can you briefly describe what you mean by "In-Process REST" and what the benefits are? I tried to read your slides but couldn't understand them. Are these new in-process interfaces asynchronous? Or are they synchronous int
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by mgummelt 7y ago
> where he claims the internet is disfunctional because it nit standalone Can you quote this or link to a timestamp? Searching these words in the transcript yields nothing.
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by mgummelt 7y ago
Especially, not exclusively. Also, are cryptocurrencies not currencies?
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by mgummelt 7y ago
Not according to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar or any other definition of currency I've ever seen
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by mgummelt 7y ago
The USD doesn't have to be stored physically (most isn't). Is it not a currency?
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by mgummelt 7y ago
Work in the morning.
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High-Concept Startups(medium.com)
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by mgummelt 8y ago
SQL is not more expressive than Turing Complete languages, no.
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by mgummelt 8y ago
The timing on this is odd. Patrick says he built the Wikipedia app over a few weeks in Japan in late 2007, which would have been soon after founding Auctomatic: https://venturebeat.com/2007/10/22/auctomatic-l
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by mgummelt 8y ago
What's a "silo". My emails exist on gmail's servers. Is that not a silo?
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by mgummelt 8y ago
> I wonder what would happen if ActivityPub was used to build Twitter/Instagram/FB alternatives with less aggressive advertising. But with the same user friendly interfaces. What path would lead to less advertising? Email is f
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by mgummelt 8y ago
As far as I'm aware, git isn't a standard. It's a single implementation.
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by mgummelt 8y ago
You're still replying as if control is binary. No, FB doesn't fully control the content on their platform. Nor does China fully control their media. But they still exert much more control than do distributed systems.
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by mgummelt 8y ago
> Secondly, the notion that by federating or centralizing, you can avoid or generate discursal control is pretty unfounded. The 2016 US Presidential election and Brexit are more than enough evidence of that. Control isn't binary. Fa
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by mgummelt 8y ago
I think you've hit on the actual end user benefit - aggregation. The article is either pitching abstractions like "compatibility" or solutions to non-problems like the risk that Facebook might vanish. Though I'm not conv
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by mgummelt 8y ago
The rub is that standards are difficult to productize because they're difficult to iterate on. They're rigid by definition.
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by mgummelt 8y ago
It doesn't operate without trust. It just makes it so you no longer have to trust banks. But you still have to trust the network.
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by mgummelt 8y ago
I'm not equating government trust and blockchain trust in the strict sense. I'm saying they're both forms of trust. You're saying trust isn't a feature of the blockchain, seemingly based on the fact that users no lo
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by mgummelt 8y ago
It's not concrete when there are many specific use cases that fall under that umbrella. Telephony is one, for instance, and it predates the internet. And do you not consider smart contracts to be non-currency trusted computing applicat
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by mgummelt 8y ago
What are you saying the mistake is?
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by mgummelt 8y ago
> Trust isn't really a feature of blockchains, nor is it a byproduct (or "software primitive") of blockchains. Bitcoin was designed to avoid a need for trust, so it really just steps around the issue of trust in a distribu
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by mgummelt 8y ago
> The potential use cases for the internet and cellphones were immediately obvious (instant remote communication) and available on day one. "Instant remote communication" is abstract. There was no consensus on the specific appl

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