Urbit is now in open developer beta

Re:Urbit is now in open developer beta by _m19m on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:29AM (#11854728)

Just a reminder, you can learn more about the folks behind Urbit, their objections to democracy, women's suffrage, and general agenda at http://thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiavellis

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Re:Urbit is now in open developer beta by toy_car on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:51AM (#11854873)

It should be noted that:

- the other members of the urbit team are not Curtis. 'Folks' is incorrect.

- this is an extremely biases article whose publisher's political views are directly the opposite of those being written about. This is not an objective primary source by any measure.

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Re:Urbit is now in open developer beta by defen on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @11:36AM (#11855182)

So if you were around in the 50s, would you have argued against using transistors because Bill Shockley was a racist and eugenicist?

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Re:Urbit is now in open developer beta by notthemessiah on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @12:25AM (#11860011)

Transistors aren't a technology for eugenics. Urbit is a technology for neocameralism.

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Re:Urbit is now in open developer beta by TruthAndDare on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @11:08AM (#11854996)

> objections to democracy

I'm afraid that doesn't say much. Are they striving for more centralized power (a dictator holding the power over everybody) or less centralized power (no one having the right to decide over other people)?

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Re:Urbit is now in open developer beta by trbvm2 on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @12:18AM (#11859982)

They did name the network leader Zod

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