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Re:What Urbit is by Rusky on Thursday June 02, 2016 @02:04AM (#11820654)
There are plenty of people working on this problem who aren't self-inflated racists. For example, https://sandstorm.io/ tackles a lot of the same questions without any of the deliberate obfuscation or insular community of Urbit (and, I might add, without a completely insane and un-optimizable VM underneath).
Re:What Urbit is by lhnz on Thursday June 02, 2016 @03:33AM (#11820930)
They recommended it themselves but are solving more:

> If you're interested in that approach, I'd encourage you to check out sandstorm.io. This solves the problem for applications like a blog, email, or gitlab. What it doesn't do is make decentralized applications easier to build.