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by tern 4y ago
A partial salve would be a search engine that only returns results from websites where the people writing cannot make money from their content. It's quite interesting to ponder the implications of this.
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The author alludes to subscription services, and I think this is bearing out to some extent. Twitter accounts like https://twitter.com/grimhood are passionate generalist SMEs who take money from Patreon and deliver deep div
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by tern 4y ago
Potentially we can't build nuclear fast enough to replace fossil fuels https://youtu.be/O0pt3ioQuNc 22:19
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by tern 4y ago
It depends. There's a utility to accurate takes and bite-sized concepts.
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by tern 4y ago
I love tweet threads. It's a great way to write, forces concision, and as a reader, a quick way to get the gist of a complicated subject. I learn a tremendous amount from Twitter and vastly prefer it to needing to buy a book that I the
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by tern 4y ago
I doubt it, because it's global. The frog will heat slowly enough that it won't notice until it becomes necessary for global competitiveness—and for the United States, ongoing dominance. It will also be a game of whack-a-mole. We&
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by tern 4y ago
It's all in Timothy May's email signature from the cypherpunks mailing list: Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero knowledge, reputations, information markets, black mark
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by tern 4y ago
These problems and many others related to security will be addressed in coming years, along with performance. Urbit recently reached feature-completion more or less, so they can focus on this now, or soon. See: https://youtu.be&#
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by tern 4y ago
The same is true of Facebook, Google, Twitter and your ISP. The difference with Urbit is you can switch providers if you're censored, or reciprocally if you want a censored experience, you can virtually move to somewhere with a blockli
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by tern 4y ago
> Rigidly hierarchical, rent-seeking obscurantism isn't, uh, popular. What is the current state of the web? Rigidly hierarchical All internet governing bodies wield absolute power. Most of the computing experience is completely co
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by tern 4y ago
Yes. It's modeled after a republic, in contrast to today's dominant models, which are, in fact, either feudal or corporate (monarchical). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_governance
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by tern 4y ago
Urbit is an attempt to fix all of the major issues of networked computing in one single system. Security, spam, maintenance, up-time, software complexity, identity, network governance, etc. The system is now reasonably complete and achieves
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by tern 4y ago
Off-White[1] is a fashion brand started by the late Virgil Abloh[2]. [1] https://www.off---white.com/en-us [2] https://www.instagram.com/virgilabloh/
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by tern 4y ago
I would strongly prefer someone who takes mushrooms and MDMA occasionally behind lethal weapons. It indicates I can trust them to reflect on their own decisions. In fact, I have little trust in people who don't take psychedelics, unles
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by tern 5y ago
I've heard from multiple people now that a dose of LSD brought their smell back. Reasoning theoretically, any 'neural annealing'[1] or 'neuroplasticity-promoting' activity may have the same effect. Try engaging in s
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by tern 5y ago
This problem is easily solved with cryptography and proper decentralized identity design
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by tern 5y ago
Is there currently a way to create a fake identity from a photograph of an iris?
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by tern 5y ago
Worth noting that the only thing centralized here is identity. Once everyone in the world has a trustworthy unique identifier, any number of currencies and services can make us it. The rub is: what to do about newly born humans, and about d
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by tern 5y ago
Crypto only really makes sense when it's tied to sovereignty. Using passports ties it to nation state sovereignty. It's worth keeping in mind Timothy May's email signature from the cypherpunks mailing list, which gave birth t
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by tern 5y ago
This project faces a few risks: - Abuse of orb operators by Worldcoin, as outlined in the article. This is basically equivalent to abuse of Uber drivers by Uber. They are offering a job and they need to be good employers. - Abuse of orb ope
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by tern 5y ago
It's a lot less than 1%, but best to take psychedelics with (1) a deep knowledge of what's actually happening[1] and (2) confidence in your support network both during the experience and after. A bad trip is not necessarily bad—it
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by tern 5y ago
Other advice here is good, but I think it's worth pointing out that psychology, spirituality, and religion contain the tools for working on problems like this. Fundamentally: you are afraid, so you will want to work with tools that wor
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by tern 5y ago
Other advice here is good, but I think it's worth pointing out that psychology, spirituality, and religion contain the tools for working on problems like this. Fundamentally: you are afraid, so you will want to work with tools that wor
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by tern 5y ago
I suspect it's a combination of the intense passion people feel to work on this problem and the small user-base needed to support a small team to do the work. I'm not so good at ballparking operational expenses, but Supernotes 2 p
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by tern 5y ago
And a product like this will die quickly without constant feature iteration. The space is incredibly competitive.
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by tern 5y ago
Because running multiple versions of a SaaS app is prohibitively complex. A way to get both the advantages of SaaS and desktop + mobile apps is yet to be invented and popularized to my knowledge. The only architecture approaching this that
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by tern 5y ago
The opposite may be the case in the long-term. Cryptocurrency ownership may shift global power and non-participation could be harmful to the state, in the same way participation in the global economy may weaken the national economy, but str
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by tern 5y ago
I love this analogy. On its face, my assumption would be that keeping this trail ritual would be of immeasurable value to the society merely as a shared challenge, myth, and meeting place for all members of the society. At the very least, i
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by tern 5y ago
Just to expand on this, the key feature is thus: - Read emails in the inbox are automatically archived. If you want to see them later, you must set them aside, star, snooze, whatever - Mail that's not from trusted contacts is automatic
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by tern 5y ago
I dearly hope you take some ideas from Hey, especially multiple inboxes with individualized behavior. I recently set my Gmail up to work as closely to this as can be achieved and it has completely changed my email life after years of trying

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