openfuture

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by openfuture 4y ago
Oh we definitely still have Ted Nelsons, what we don't have is a way to find them. Right now people are lost deep in some social media private groups and the surface level information is all war, disease and drugs.
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by openfuture 4y ago
Obligatory "elixir+phoenix is supposed to inherit ruby on rails" remark
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by openfuture 4y ago
Unique identifiers are the antithesis of content addressing since they garble the advantage (digital commons or "torrents"). If you want a graph then you can just encode it in the data by having `n` content addresses and ca. `n^2`
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by openfuture 4y ago
Some people are talking on matrix about how to fix it (i.e. how to go fully p2p)
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by openfuture 4y ago
Bureaucracy (which is when whatever is written trumps reality; so if it is a rule that it doesn't rain then the bureaucrat will stand in the rain, soaked to the bones, and deny its existence because the rules say it can't be there
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by openfuture 4y ago
I'll give it a read. Central coordination is obviously the problem, it's a brittle monoculture in an everchanging reality. The sooner we wake up from this delusion, the better.
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by openfuture 4y ago
Yep. Also don't have a smartphone. Also experience coercion due to it.
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by openfuture 4y ago
Not me. I am building http://datalisp.is . I am also a douglas adams fan but younger than you by more than a decade so I think we can trust this perception we share. My objection to the current state of things is absolute. So I&#
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by openfuture 4y ago
Surprising how many people take the stance that they don't have to do anything. It's not that I disagree or anything, it is totally irrefutable, but many people have a sense of responsibility nevertheless and they feel a lot bette
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Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?
13 points by openfuture 4y ago|66 comments
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by openfuture 4y ago
In my opinion you are senior once it doesn't matter what language is used. Until then you need to learn paradigms that are unfamiliar to you so that everything becomes familiar and you feel comfortable working with anything.
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by openfuture 4y ago
Very good pointers, match my thinking on the topics I had considered. One thing though is that I'm not a fan of uuids, I think content addressing is sufficient if you build everything around that. Actually I feel all IDs can be content
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by openfuture 4y ago
I am basically in the "change or die trying" camp, I have become completely and absolutely incapabable of accepting a job creating problems for ordinary people. Mostly it's because I have a pretty clear vision for what needs
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by openfuture 4y ago
Hands to keyboard
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by openfuture 4y ago
For me this is just as ridiculous as everything else being discussed.. why can anyone ever find out about an arrest that leads nowhere? Why all this dancing around? Because not even the police databases are secure! No one has trustworthy co
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by openfuture 4y ago
croatoan is the one I am using
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by openfuture 4y ago
The thing is; people can clearly see that the internet is going to be the foundation of our societal communication infrastructures (such as money, politics and other governance). Therefore technologies that enable that are somewhat inevitab
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by openfuture 4y ago
This thing you are talking about is called the oracle problem. The solution to it is to move away from centrally coordinated definitions. This also means central currencies built on on a decentralized computation of some kind (i.e. blockcha
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by openfuture 4y ago
Lots of good points raised, necessary discussion. My take is that we know a lot of this already but refuse to accept the solutions. The way to exchange data and the way to relate and query data is both known to a large extent; canonical S-e
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by openfuture 4y ago
There's a nice TUI lib for cl that I am using for tala (my take on this "TUIs will eat the web" thing... datalisp.is).
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by openfuture 4y ago
Hey man, you are right, the legitimacy of many coordinators is at an all time low. The simple way to move on is to just move on. Please help me: datalisp.is.
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by openfuture 4y ago
The assumptions I'm working from: https://sr.ht/~ilmu/tala.saman/ We need to find games that people will want to play.
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by openfuture 4y ago
Definitely true if the intentions of said diva are good. Although, if they weren't then they'd probably be classified as an asshole rather than diva.
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by openfuture 4y ago
Yea I'm also im the never again employed camp. Trying to build myself a sustainable solution to this problem of eating and sleeping though.
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by openfuture 4y ago
Learn how to program and head into theorem prover territory, the undergraduate math curriculum and beyond is being built in those tools so you can watch it unfold and learn it as the material progresses. You will understand it since it will
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by openfuture 4y ago
"stupidity" I'd rather think of this as "wasted potential" the reason you reach for this pejorative label is due to frustration. A wise man once said that there is nothing more common than wasted potential, in that
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by openfuture 4y ago
I believe that people should be a lot more trigger happy when it comes to writing stream of consciousness and sharing it.. but at the same time we should be structuring our communication tools around iterative refinement so that the reader
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by openfuture 4y ago
So you trust that a conspiracy is less likely than people just replicating and getting the same results (within tolerance). If you are unsure you can convince yourself by replicating and then others can trust easier because you're prob
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by openfuture 4y ago
Science is built on trust, no one reproduces every single finding and in the first place we measure the likelihood of some conclusion holding up in reality so we have probabilistic measures of trust in our conclusions, turns out that we can
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by openfuture 4y ago
The chinese five element system is made from the generating and overcoming relations (pentagram, pentagon, resp.) if the labels you put on this structure don't produce a nice "story" when you traverse along either cycle (such

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