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Yes, it’ll be much easier to put the surveillance measures they’ve been trying so hard for into EU-based companies.

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 pro…

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 …

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 us…

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 lon…

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 criti…

Which part of my response do you read as asking for a litigation?

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…

> 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 …

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 t…

The views of an employee who left the company years ago and has been completely uninvolved since should hardly be treated as canon.

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 Fun…

Why would you think he spent a lot of effort? The second sentence literally says that he did not.

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 disapp…

Reminds me of this essay: http://paulgraham.com/newideas.html

Just reach out to support@urbit.org if you want to get this figured out. They're very helpful.

> 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 h…

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 …

Really? How do you figure?

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…

You should try out Urbit. I hear they have a community like that in there.

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 …

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…

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 ass…

Whoa! This is great! My compliments to the author.