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by natrius 11y ago
IPFS alone is usable for the public web, but is not usable for private sharing. You need a social identity-oriented public key infrastructure with a good UI. That is Keybase, and it's incredible that we have this now. Sure, we should i
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You have a pocket computer that's really good at storing random bytes. Store a decryption key there, and get it into your random browser's memory via QR code or encoded mnemonic phrase. The UX is hard, but probably solvable.
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The pressure described in this article is the pressure of the stream. Email has this problem too: there are time-sensitive discussions happening, and your brain knows that there might be a cost to missing something. Seize opportunities to t
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A basic income doesn't remove variable rewards for work. It just sets a minimum. Very few people reading this could continue their current lifestyle on a basic income, so how is this going to make people stop working?
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> They will ignore financial disclosure laws just as they ignore laws prohibiting them from operating large scale drug and murder operations. I am not suggesting financial disclosure laws. I'm suggesting that everyone stop accepting
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Money's power relies on its transitivity. Bob accepts Alice's payment because he can use it to pay Charlie. Charlie's decision to accept that money is what gives Alice power. If Alice runs a violent cartel in Mexico, Charlie
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You can buy goods with it, but you've sacrificed liberty to do so. Governments derive their power from the consent of the governed. Since our society is governed by money, accepting anonymous money is consenting to everyone's powe
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The cartels in Mexico murder lots of people. They're so difficult to stop because they have money. The solution to gridlock is to enforce fewer laws. I'm not out to increase the number of arbitrary laws. I'm out to eliminate
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Everyone's different, but as a black person, it doesn't offend me at all.
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> What would you think of a system that instead tracked materials and manufacturing process? I think it's a great idea, and people are building it. https://medium.com/@jutta_steiner/using-the-global-trust-mac...
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Didn't you read the dystopian prophecy above? It's caused by the inability of anyone to mind other people's business. Most people find that to be an undesirable world. Today, your business is minded by the government and larg
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I appreciate the cynicism. I've never been called a pessimist, so I might have a rosy view of things. I think it's not that hard, though. Technologically, it's very straightforward. Convincing people that they should sacrific
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It turns out that there's a pretty easy fix for this. People have to start caring how the money they're accepting has flowed through the economy. You don't need a government to sanction bad actors. The people can do it on the
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"Colored" isn't offensive, it's just old-fashioned. Words become old-fashioned all the time.
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Ride-hailing apps will eventually take on urban storage as well. Want to avoid carrying something around? Press a button in an app. Want to use the thing you left? Press a button in an app. Want your stuff to head home with you? Press a but
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The reason we find ourselves so helpless in this fight is because our society's money has shackled us. Think about it: the rich only have power because people submit to their power. People accept their money to do harmful things becaus
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> This blames poor people for being poor. No it doesn't. A claim that most rich people are driven doesn't imply that most poor people are lazy. The portion you quoted makes this distinction clear: "Variation in productivit
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Okay. Most people prefer reading and writing JSX, and haven't found it to be "insane" or a "disaster." I'm glad you found a library you prefer!
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> all vdom libraries do this. Most developers have never used a virtual-dom library, especially those that find JSX offensive. Your sales pitch for your library is coming off pretty aggressive, and it's a bit off topic. No one is ta
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React is a different way of building user interfaces. Instead of finding the right UI element to update, you write functions that generate a description of the entire UI from the state, then the library calculates the differences to update
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> At that size how can any employee have enough information to make a good decision as to what role in the organization needs filling right now? It's not necessarily about finding what roles need to be filled in the whole organizati
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Holocratic organizations are not flat. It's a common misconception. Holacracy is just agile redirected towards defining roles in an organization rather than building a product. You take on roles when you can help the organization by do
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You're right that a Merkle tree is sufficient for censorship resistance when the criteria in your linked comment are met. (I read that comment earlier and enjoyed it!) So I'm changing my argument: I think key succession is very im
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> As soon as that certificate is published, everyone sees it immediately. PGP key servers can refuse to relay your revocation. Blockchains are censorship-resistant. They also let you define your own authentication, revocation and backup
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The most popular identity programs in the early days will have no backup or centralized backup. As more people establish identities, decentralized backups will be more feasible. As the ecosystem iterates on identity programs, we'll con
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Ah, I forgot about that blog post. Thanks for digging up the link! (The video is only tangentially related to identity.)
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Your identity will be a program on the Ethereum blockchain. That program has an address that will be the unique key for your identity. That program will indicate which keys can act on its behalf, and will provide a mechanism to revoke keys
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On blockchains, your identity isn't just controlled by your key. It's controlled by a program . That program can grant access to a particular key, but it can also encode a backup mechanism: as long as three of five of your closes
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Blockchains are better than anything at key revocation. Publishing public keys isn't enough.
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If you believe in the mission behind Persona—identities controlled by users, not social network silos—then come help us rebuild Persona on top of blockchains. Blockchains never shut down, and you'll be able to keep your identity even i

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