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by newuser88273 12y ago
The whole setup is also about transaction cost; basically a legal cartel to standardize routine consumer transactions, reducing cost (of evaluating and constantly re-evaluating complex contracts for routine business) and risk for all partie
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by newuser88273 12y ago
So T-shirt spec is like the written law of Urbit; strangers can read it, we can't help that. But of course there are the unwritten laws and rules of polite speech, here in Urbit just as everywhere else. There are special occasions (you
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by newuser88273 12y ago
A given Nock implementation is intimately coupled to a matched Hoon compiler. Attempts to write anything just to T-shirt spec and run on a given Nock-based platform are almost certain to fail. The real spec you'd be required to write t
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by newuser88273 12y ago
This goes even deeper. Let's just go on and assume that Urbit's spec-bearing T-shirt includes everything you need for IO. Now consider this promise from Mr Yarvin, found in the older Urbit thread someone linked to: "And actua
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by newuser88273 12y ago
The project is based on a fundamental insincerity, which makes me suspicious. All material about Urbit makes a big point of their minimal spec, again so in the linked piece: "The spec fits on a T-shirt and gzips to 340 bytes." Wha
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by newuser88273 12y ago
Lemmesee. Catch Ebola... or have to read three interweb comments seriously lacking in sensitivity? Tough choice. Good luck, Ebola-Chan.
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by newuser88273 12y ago
Do you trust Google to remain just an adware company forever? Or will they (a) sit on your children's data for all of their life and (b) within a decade or two break out of the adware niche with Google Services for Health and Life Insu
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by newuser88273 12y ago
Except for Google, who will (eventually) actively mine all of it, likely by way of some plausible universal search feature.