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Tue Sep 22 02:13:44 UTC 2015 <assbot> So this Urbit thing... on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1LJxM1j )
Tue Sep 22 01:54:29 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 21-09-2015 16:57:27; ascii_field: 'Broadly, the design difference between Urbit and a blockchain network is that blockchains are "trust superconductors" - they eliminate any dependency on social, political or economic trust. Urbit is a "trust conductor" - engineered to minimize, but not eliminate, dependencies on trust.'
Mon Sep 21 18:33:46 UTC 2015 <phf> it's interesting to see how fast urbit "turned" both politically and on technical questions. markdown jet? choosing markdown is a copout in itself (there's a naggum rant where he says that plaintext markup languages are designed by people who don't understand NLP), but why would you outsource something so traditional as a text blob parser? seems like an opportunity to showcase your language's text manipulation facilities, etc.
Mon Sep 21 16:57:27 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> 'Broadly, the design difference between Urbit and a blockchain network is that blockchains are "trust superconductors" - they eliminate any dependency on social, political or economic trust. Urbit is a "trust conductor" - engineered to minimize, but not eliminate, dependencies on trust.'
Mon Sep 21 16:53:06 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> '... And jets do not have to be correlated with built-in or low-level functionality; for instance, Urbit has a markdown parser jet.'
Mon Sep 21 16:50:59 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> 'With this mechanism, Urbit can update a distributed system (such as our own :talk network), upgrading both applications and protocols, silently without user intervention or notification. ' << itching to try this yet ?
Mon Sep 21 16:48:41 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> ;;later tell mircea_popescu lulzy: urbit's bastard gossipd: http://happut-fopnys.urbit.org/home/tree/pub/release-0/materials/whitepaper#a-ames-networking
Sat Sep 19 15:07:54 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> technologically urbit, managerially dogecoin, practically ripple.
Sat Sep 19 14:47:08 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform seriously, it seems like this thing aims to be ~ urbit. made by people of the same exact ilk ("got some usg payola") but who understand EVEN LESS of computing.
Fri Sep 18 23:40:45 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 18-09-2015 23:09:29; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278666 << this is the true problem. and ultimately the reason urbit was nonsense (iirc alf actually even said this at some point, on his blog).
Fri Sep 18 23:09:29 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278666 << this is the true problem. and ultimately the reason urbit was nonsense (iirc alf actually even said this at some point, on his blog).
Wed Aug 12 21:18:23 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> urbit ?
Tue Aug 04 21:44:17 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/urbit-dev/RoQrSFJ_M9o/ca3-nbSuIc0J << moar, for aficionados
Tue Aug 04 21:35:38 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/urbit-dev/qgxfZ-I-nJ4/q6mKVUA7b1oJ << obligatory, the mega-flamefest that followed
Tue Aug 04 21:34:46 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/urbit-dev/for$20sale/urbit-dev/PvXo1t7uNrY/ik5e-9b-cNwJ << where i sold mine
Tue Aug 04 21:29:06 UTC 2015 <danielpbarron> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/urbit-dev/KNkFS_34P_I << this is him also selling his thingy
Tue Aug 04 21:28:38 UTC 2015 <danielpbarron> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-08-2015#1224509 << I was trying to figure out what this urbit dukedom thing was, in in so doing found this -> http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xB36AE9849D961AC9 << I met this guy at porcfest / he was the only one there who also had his GPG fingerprint on a business card; we signed eachothers keys :D
Tue Aug 04 18:46:53 UTC 2015 <decimation> yeah I've read it. I even attempted to learn urbit, before much good documentation was abvailable
Tue Aug 04 18:28:30 UTC 2015 <decimation> where he was gonna talk about urbit
Thu May 14 16:31:14 UTC 2015 <ben_vulpes> there's also the urbit style naming convention for keys