jlehman

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by jlehman 8mo ago
Yes, it’ll be much easier to put the surveillance measures they’ve been trying so hard for into EU-based companies.
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by jlehman 4y ago
As annoying and ill-formed as your takes usually are, the central point of this one seems correct to me. Using an in-group reference on a page designed to onboard new people is probably ineffective, so thanks. We've removed that.
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by jlehman 4y ago
You've given zero justification for this assertion. Pointing to the years-absent founder's background and your personal speaking relationship with him (?), whom none of the people that worked on the content in the OP have EVER wor
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by jlehman 4y ago
Your central point is "A is a cult, because X is a characteristic of cults and A has X characteristic, therefore A is a cult." By that reasoning, all domains that have a need to use precise language to describe their concepts are
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by jlehman 4y ago
We shipped a proper mechanism for software distribution last October. If you haven't booted up since then you might want to. Discovery still requires word of mouth (but not for long...), but sharing them is now as simple as sharing a l
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by jlehman 4y ago
It has enough users to be useful now, which number in the thousands. It's also not a service that anyone maintains on behalf of others, so there's no one that needs to have a critical mass for it to be useful. Nearly everyone runn
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by jlehman 4y ago
Which part of my response do you read as asking for a litigation?
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by jlehman 4y ago
Ideas are cheap, and Urbit isn't just an idea any longer. It's a working system that's been built by dozens of people over the years, and it's only picking up steam. In Ron Garrett's words: > The mere fact that U
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by jlehman 4y ago
> An especially admirable thing about the way Garrett has approached this mess is that he's managed, as far as I can tell, to reliably avoid taking the bait on the drama about the project's founder... Well, your link shows that
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by jlehman 4y ago
For anyone out there that's not content outsourcing their views to a mob with a bone to pick: Urbit is not intentionally obfuscated. It's intentionally different from the rest of the modern software stack, because that's the
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by jlehman 4y ago
The views of an employee who left the company years ago and has been completely uninvolved since should hardly be treated as canon.
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by jlehman 4y ago
Disclaimer: I work on Urbit full-time. There are some good write-ups on the technical decisions here: https://urbit.org/blog/precepts https://urbit.org/blog/precepts-discussion Funnily enough, mos
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by jlehman 5y ago
Why would you think he spent a lot of effort? The second sentence literally says that he did not.
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by jlehman 5y ago
You mean "after spending just a few hours poking around it"? It's a big, ambitious project that's been worked on now for nearly two decades. It seems more likely that you're disappointed by your understanding of the
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by jlehman 5y ago
Reminds me of this essay: http://paulgraham.com/newideas.html
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by jlehman 5y ago
Just reach out to support@urbit.org if you want to get this figured out. They're very helpful.
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by jlehman 6y ago
> He didn't understand how someone could have such disregard for the value of human life and democracy... Maybe he hasn't heard about Tiananmen Square[1], since in China it never happened[2]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.
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by jlehman 6y ago
I don't know who "centimeter" is and never claimed to agree with their viewpoints, so I'm not sure what the other viewpoint is that you're referring to. The Chinese language looks extremely arcane to me, but that do
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by jlehman 6y ago
Really? How do you figure?
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by jlehman 6y ago
Canvas is pretty cool: https://github.com/yosoyubik/canvas There's a bittorrent tracker you can read about on the mailing list too which is pretty neat. There are a couple of folks working on supporting ship-to-sh
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by jlehman 6y ago
You should try out Urbit. I hear they have a community like that in there.
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by jlehman 6y ago
Apparently it's taken us ~30 years to come close[1] to this number of users on the current internet. Seems like not an issue for a very long time, and if it becomes one, it can be amended. That said, anyone can get on Urbit for free as
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by jlehman 6y ago
The problem of the technological cage posed by reliance on cloud services is one of the reasons Urbit is being developed. It's a personal server that operates on a P2P network. You own your own data, and your messages are encrypted.
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by jlehman 6y ago
A significant aspect of Urbit is its use of the Ethereum blockchain (called UrbitID), but not to produce any form of cryptocurrency—it's used to produce a form of cryptographic asset that more closely resembles property, since ownershi
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by jlehman 6y ago
Whoa! This is great! My compliments to the author.
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by jlehman 6y ago
That concise, plain explanation exists in someone else's words four sentences into the above link: "Urbit is a new OS and peer-to-peer network that’s simple by design, built to last forever, and 100% owned by its users. Under the
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by jlehman 6y ago
The term "operating system" is far more precise than "fully featured"; in other words, the accretion of a certain number of features does not constitute "operating system" at some point. From Wikipedia: "A
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by jlehman 6y ago
"Urbit is a clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century." The best way to get an idea is to read this series https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/ . This is also a great high-level introduction that skips
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by jlehman 6y ago
As an active user (completely unaffiliated with Tlon), I can say that communities are truly booming on Urbit right now. Their newly released OS1 is pleasant to use and quite functional. The discourse in the many notebooks and chats I'm
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Urbit Is for Communities(urbit.org)
16 points by jlehman 6y ago|19 comments

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