eoxenford

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   by eoxenford 7y ago

   No, Urbit is named after urbs, urbis , the Latin word for “city,” together with the computer term bit . https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9677378
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   by eoxenford 7y ago

   I don’t disagree with most of the points you make. Stallman was defending Minsky using rather dubious arguments. But he was not defending Epstein, and he did not say Epstein’s victims were “entirely willing.” And yet, those last two poi
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   by eoxenford 7y ago

   Throughout this whole brouhaha, I’ve been astonished at how nobody in the mainstream press, nor any of those in tech calling for Stallman’s head, ever challenged the statement that Stallman said Epstein’s victims were “entirely willing.”