I totally agree with what is said in the link you posted
edit: who likes minecraft actualy everyone and its about building stuff!!! woohoo who would have thought that building what you want is actually already popular
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When in doubt ask a donkey…
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Very good watch especially at the end when they discuss 5G.
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The modern day internet and the direction it’s going with social media and online communication may be viewed as…dystopian for some, and with good reason. But things weren’t always this way, in fact, there was once a time where things were far more hopeful than they are today. The internet forums, the old youtube, message boards, meme sites, and overall a much more expressive era. Perhaps there are lessons to be learned from that time period, from the golden age of the internet:
Edit, a recent example: YouTube reinstates accounts of Markiplier fans banned for emote spam 
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TV series interview talking of MaidSafe
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Mindblowing - if Musk is able to pull this off, we will be in a new space age:
(forwarded to 8min. mark in video)
And Starlink will be cheap cheap cheap! Great for Safe.
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Microsoft adopting Rust? You betcha.
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“Reluctant Rustaceans” We certainly had some of those 
It is a bigger problem than we realise, c++ programmers can immediately go to memory manipulation, unsafe blocks and worse, over Engineer simple modules into huge complex monoliths that few can understand. In fact some Engineers never forgave us for moving away from c++ and now Microsoft are saying for security critical software c++ is no longer acceptable.
How times change, some Engineers though, not so much. Luckily most do accept and appreciate change 
I am always amazed when Engineers cling to the status quo with such vigour, when by definition an Engineer is one who uses their ingenuity to solve problems. 
kinda mental, but the best always look further down the road.
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This has been on my mind for quite some time now. In theory, on the SN, we could actually recreate the old internet (or at least some of its most popular platforms), retro design included. It would be like waybackmachine, but functional.
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I have my doubts about Musk.
Something is off about him.
Maybe I’m conspiracy theorist but isn’t it odd he’s wanting to take us to Mars and also working on Neural link? Wasn’t that the plot to Total Recall?
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Well he’s admitted to smoking some weed, who knows what other drugs he’s used while watching that film! 
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Sacha Baron Cohen on the propaganda power enabled by the “Silicon Valley Six”.
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This guy gets it, finance enslaving the world.
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Fraudulent mortgages.
Not taking a side on this, just giving an alternative viewpoint on the Sacha Baron Cohen video:
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Late reply but - a rigid adherence to the proven laws of physics should form part of the mindset of any good engineer. Other rigid adherences may not be optimal…
Remember what Hans Bethe said about the young Feynmann… “that boy is both strictly logical AND very imaginative. That is not a common combination.”
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Derek McAuley on what he sees as the the real value of Web 3.0 - not economics but privacy.
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11: 30. So what can we do to prevent the return of fascism and the rise of new dictatorships? The number one question we face is who controls the data. If you’re an engineer then find ways to prevent too much data from being concentrated in too few hands. And find ways to make sure that distributed data processing is at least as efficient as centralised data processing. This will be the best safeguard for democracy.
No pressure then @maidsafe. 
Why fascism is so tempting – and how your data could power it | Yuval Noah Harari
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Ever break up a password and share the pieces for better security? You can do even better …
I wonder if there is some software out there that can do this quickly and easily?
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We had that (I wrote it) back in the c++ days. Shamir though means every piece is the whole size. So a 5 of 7 Mb secret is 5 copies of 7Mb. IDA (information dispersal algorithm) is a much better mechanism for efficiency at least
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