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Do you want a happy life, or a worthwhile life? I think they're probably correlated, but I don't think you can guarantee one without risking the other. In that light, optimizing fo…

This conversation plays out every time the topic of taking notes comes up, especially if roam research and friends are involved. It's "the Dropbox thing", but instead of being too …

Discord isn't on your side. They're an unprofitable (so far) VC-backed company whose only customer-facing product is a well-designed chat client. They're clearly trying to build a …

I guess I should have said: what's the advantage of democracy over some more authoritarian scheme, if not a higher degree of "power to the people" as you put it? If diffusion of po…

Isn't diffusion of power more-or-less the point of democracy?

Sure, but that wouldn't have prevented the "cancer" from moving to decentralized networks. If anything it'd probably accelerate the process. I think the important point is that mos…

I thought the article made a reasonably convincing case that decentralized networks provide better tools for good actors to control the spread of disinformation. What does it mean …

Could site owners freely decide who's allowed to post to their site without 230? Seems to me the ability to ban unwanted users would enable a decent degree of moderation without di…

Is there a set of earphones that's repairable? Not full-size cans, but earphones? Most of the ones I've had have that have failed did so at the cable connection. Without the cable …

I think this has a lot to do with the platforms vs. publishers issue, and the Section 230 dustup we're about to see. IMO any platform whose owners have enough editorial control for…