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It's unfortunate so many people come out of the woodwork to tell people their ideas are terrible or won't work. I think it's far more interesting to ask how a thing might work, which uses cases might be dramatically underserved today and serve as a beachhead, or the tradeoffs being made rather than just say something is a "bad idea." Dropbox launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 Coinbase launch: https://n…
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Thanks! DIRT is a fundamentally different approach because it removes the middleman and there is no central moderator. Our goal is to move the trust from a central party to a system of rules that anyone can participate in. I think verified identity could be a registry on DIRT. Adding reputation on top of voting is something we're exploring.
I think you misunderstand the point. The idea was that the data would not be on dirt. Not in a verified registry on dirt. How would I remove my personal data, or any proprietary data, if someone uploaded that to DIRT?
> if someone adds your personal data to the blockchain, your options for removing it are very limited.
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Avoiding politics is basically impossible, everything is political to some degree. For example, even if you just focus on the most boring maths, is it overwhelmingly just male mathematicians' work cited? That's political.
Truth is genderless. Historic gender imbalance in scientific work is only political if you have an axe to grind.
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"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sorry, I should have put more thought into how my comment would be received by others. Thank you for the reminder