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Debit cards aren't cash. They're credit cards that get instantly paid off from your bank account by direct debit. But you're right to laugh at the idea that cash is dead. In China,…

> it performs some utility like companies do. Pipes perform utilities, not companies. What companies do is manage the social and financial infrastructure around making, or deliveri…

> Albert, another partner as USV has been evolving his understanding and has been working on a book called World After Capital It's probably no reflection on the rest of his thesis…

I'm guessing you all believe in bridges too, right? I've got one to sell you if you're willing to drop that $100 in a bank account for me ...

> It is a supply and demand curve. Where they meet is the equilibrium. Academic economists like Steve Keen have totally demolished the classic supply/demand curve: https://unlearni…

> Just look at what happened to online gambling 10 years ago. And not a moment too soon. Gambling games are designed to be addictive, to bypass the judgment and decision-making cen…

I think that would be more like SolarCoin: https://solarcoin.org/

Those who are concerned about this have three options: * make the effort to learn how to set up and maintain your own instance of your chosen federated social app. You get to decid…

Is it possible to do revocable private messages in a decentralized system. My understanding it that the Zot protocol (used by Hubzilla) deals with this by keeping private data on t…

It boggles the mind that people still have the blissful trust in the security chops of giant corporations. I could give you a long list of well-funded corporations whose servers ha…

It might also have its own agenda about what news it wants to be considered "real" or "fake".

> Do you believe it is fundamentally wrong for a government -- even with significant public support -- to interfere with one anonymous man's Galtian quest to sell radium toothpaste…

I agree there is a middle ground between policing everything and no guidelines or accountability at all. Every decentralized social networks that's pulled in a user base beyond the…

Yes, UX matters, especially when you are a new platform trying to establish your initial user base. But nothing matters in social software as much as network effect; people want to…

> Why do you draw this distinction between "instances" and "peers" I understand why you ask this, but the word "instance" has come to mean the server running something like MediaGo…

The Year of The Linux Desktop is certainly coming sooner than the Year of the Windows Mobile ;P

Sure, thinking about user experience and designing user-friendly UI is important. But multi-million dollar UI and the ability to scale without losing performance (due to deep pocke…

You do realize Whatsapp is owned by FB, right? so it's a "creepy digital relationship with our grandma" in exactly the same way messaging Grandma on FB is. The key issue here is no…

Doesn't sounds like the Diaspora team have any plans to implement AP, which is a shame. Here's a fairly scathing write-up on ActivityPub from a prominent Diaspora dev: https://schu…

Very roughly: * AP is a decentralized protocol, like email or XMPP, that standardizes federated interactions from server-to-server, and interactions from server-to-client. Sharing …

> That is just a problem of offering good filters. True, and this is a solved problem in the fediverse. Mastodon dev team have been particularly good at implementing filtering tool…

Yeah, only tech heads will understand the importance of decentralized media like the internet and the web. Casual people who make up the bulk of media consumers won't, they'll stic…

As the Diaspora* community learned the hard way years ago, the first rule of Replace FB Club is; don't talk about replacing FB. FB is different things to different people, some of …

> I'm a facebook kind of guy and I'm not sure what the solution is when everyone else is on facebook. Somebody was the first person you knew who was on FarceBook, otherwise, from w…