chrischen2

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by chrischen2 15y ago
People are just angry that the experiment didn't go the way they had hoped.
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by chrischen2 16y ago
Just wanted to point out that this doesn't seem to be his first post (maybe he forgot): http://hackerne.ws/item?id=823325 . If it means anything, I still personally think he's legit. Oh and I'm guessing it's a porn site.
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by chrischen2 16y ago
Sorry, what was my analogy? I'm saying distributed social networking should work like email and you just described it. However what I don't think it should be is decentrAlizing down to the user level. Another problem with standardizing the
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by chrischen2 16y ago
Well one benefit of increasing population is that we increase the chances of geniuses being born, and increase the diversity of the population.
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by chrischen2 16y ago
Of course it is, I'm not saying you're wrong. Although usually one company has access to all your email. As far as the user is concerned it's still centralized. That is, our data is still stored in a centralized place. The protocols for t
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by chrischen2 16y ago
Wave's stuff isn't part of the standard right? So if I were using some other mail service/client I could only use the intersection of both services. Please correct me if I am wrong, I haven't had much exposure to wave (except a brief stint
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by chrischen2 16y ago
I meant in practice. You could, but do you? Does anyone? What happens when your computer shuts down for the night? Email is centralized in that individuals usually register with a provider, rather than use their own machines. I think social
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by chrischen2 16y ago
Email is also pretty featureless. An open standard will always innovate slower than a proprietary site.
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by chrischen2 16y ago
I think all this decentralized social networking is unnecessary. All we really need is an easy way to switch social networks. Something like a list of UUIDs as your friends list which can be imported into your social network of choice, and
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by chrischen2 16y ago
It only takes one person to do that to expose it to everyone.
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by chrischen2 16y ago
I thought he went out of his way to emphasize that it's not necessarily big government that's the problem, since full transparency in government would serve to reduce the problem as "not buying the product" does the same in the private sect
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by chrischen2 16y ago
They could make it so that it doesn't automatically load all flash on page, and only ones you activate.