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This is really cool! It'd be great to have a tool that tracks all editing/curation/censorship on hacker news.

> "The One has variously been called the Good, God, the Cosmos, the Mind, the Void, or (perhaps most neutrally) the Absolute. No door in the labyrinthine castle of science opens directly onto the Absolute. But if one understands the maze well enough, it is possible to jump out of the system and experience the Absolute for oneself."

http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2012/08/01/memories-of-kurt-g...

Named after Bayard Rustin??

Do you have some back of the napkin counter calculations? Or critiques of their methodology?

IPFS might suffice, it might not.

It also does happen to be Blockchain based . . .

Sounds like you're expressing cynicism more than an alternative pathway for achieving censorship-resistant blockchain-based app stores

That would only drive things more toward censorship-resistant blockchain-based app stores after Google and Apple's behavior with apps in Hong Kong.

How do we realize this freedom in practice though?

What ended up happening to you after you got expelled?

What's the name of the book? What's the name of the bishop?

Precious metal commodity money is held to have emerged as a consequence of this, at least by Graeber.

Where did you come across this curious legend??

>"‘We cannot hide from my lord that, with all the money and animal stocks consigned to my lord, nothing is left at my lord’s disposal save our persons and our farmland. Let us not perish before your eyes, both we and our land. Take us and our land in exchange for bread, and we with our land will be serfs to Pharaoh; provide the seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become a waste.’ (JPS Tanakh, 2000)

“Smoothing out the ravages of the business cycle” indeed. What Mr. Ruby ignores, and what the text devotes many verses to emphasizing, is that central planning of the kind undertaken by Joseph and Pharaoh ultimately leads down a Hayekian “road to serfdom.” Here, what starts as a grain shortage brought on by natural cycles in the east wind and the Nile’s ebb and flow is leveraged by a government with authoritarian ambitions to utterly enslave the people – better yet, to have the people beg the government to enslave them! This much is clear: the more the coercive power of the state is deployed in the name of preventing individuals from making bad decisions about how to arrange their own sustenance, the greater will be the eventual loss of individual liberty."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-road-to-egypt-job-creators...

It's a source, whether you deem it credible or not.

The Second Great CryptoWar: https://reason.com/2013/03/12/the-second-great-crypto-war/

> "The proponents of this process use fear tactics to win support, what the four cypherpunks dub "The Four Horsemen of the Info-pocalypse: child pornography, terrorism, money laundering, and the War on Some Drugs." In other words, laws passed to go after child pornographers, terrorists, money launderers, and drug dealers end up chipping away at everyone's privacy. The classic example is the PATRIOT Act, passed to prevent terrorism but soon used to expand wiretapping and National Security Letter powers in other contexts."

Could it be that privatization works as desired in some cases and not in others?

It's not a counter, people pay bitcoin to upvote.

1) It's an experiment. Perhaps it will be abandoned.

2) Curation/Upvotes via transaction needs to be on chain.

Looks like this crowd would love BSV Maps. It puts crowdsourced map data onto the Blockchain:

https://twitter.com/justicemate/status/1144481701290078209

Idk, some hackerspaces are like public libraries. cf noisebridge which is open to the public at no charge and has a library:

http://noisebridge.net

Most people don't know what they're talking about, they're easily swayed by crowd dynamics, you should look into it dang and see for yourself. Bitcoin (sv) is Bitcoin. That's distinct from an assertion that it is superior to what currently trades under the BTC ticker. But it's probably that too.

There's a really high noise to signal ratio right now, I'd love to see how this comment ages over time.

Meetings Are Legalized Robbery ~ https://www.yegor256.com/2015/07/13/meetings-are-legalized-r...

What's the 'black Eegyptian hypothesis'? That Egyptians in fact are not/were not ever Scandinavians as they are portrayed today?

How are you able to ascertain Jesus' complexion?

"What Did Jesus REALLY Look Like?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPRnrfTHeL4

"How Jesus Became Widely Accepted as Being White": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfJCyDmTwyg

"There Is No White Jesus": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APMu32sC2nM (This one is the best!)

I'm detecting bias . . .

I don't know about that. There's a flurry of open protocols being built on Blockchain and maybe there's a golden age ahead . . .

> "Historically many key protocols, such as TCP/IP and HTTP, have come from researchers. Subsequent iterations of these protocols were often handled by nonprofit organization that tried to wrangle with more or less success the various commercial interests that sprang up around this protocols (the companies that were making and selling software and hardware based on them). The more money was involved the harder this became.

> "Now, however, we have a new way of providing incentives for the creation of protocols and for governing their evolution. I am talking about cryptographic tokens . . .

> "I can’t emphasize enough how radical a change this is to the past. Historically the only way to make money from a protocol was to create software that implemented it and then try to sell this software (or more recently to host it). Since the creation of this software (e.g. web server/browser) is a separate act many of the researchers who have created some of the most successful protocols in use today have had little direct financial gain. With tokens, however, the creators of a protocol can “monetize” it directly and will in fact benefit more as others build businesses on top of that protocol. Given this new incentive I expect a lot of resources to be devoted to protocol innovation."

~ https://continuations.com/post/148098927445/crypto-tokens-an...

Have you started a company and made it successful?

Well, this is a request for a startup!

It actually wasn't Uber + Lyft (or their class better UXs) that convinced me. It was a taxi cab driver turned Uber + Lyft driver who looked at me incredulously when I asked him if Uber/Lyft was worth it.

"You bet ya!", he said, "I'm on vacation!" he said. He went on to talk about how the taxi cab industry was a dirty industry and uber/lyft reformed it.

Meanwhile one of my journalist friends declaims the "tyranny" of Uber/Lyft. It's not hyperbole its simply inaccurate.

Any chance YC's amazing events will not be on Saturday for the (admittedly small) minority of hackers who observe the Sabbath?

Yeah, that's a great idea. I may do an analysis myself. I love that the mental models for both c:// and b:// are so much simpler.

b:// — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20026014

I'm asking how he assesses their capacity, not asserting that he is not able to.

Not a statement hiding in a question :|

How are you able to assess what they are capable of?

web.dev appears to repackage google's website optimization content in a more "narrative" format: https://web.dev/learn