In which Theodore Blackman, CTO of the Urbit Foundation, responds to the "Plunder and Urbit" piece that was submitted here yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37057471).
How is this published? On a single server somewhere? What country would you put it in? A friendly one I hope. Also one that won't block access to other countries that it might have petty disagreements with in the future. It might be a good idea for it to be replicated across a number of servers across the internet. We call those "nodes" in the blockchain space.
"...I find myself consistently reaching for the blog post that clearly articulates what Urbit is and why it is important, only to continuously be frustrated by the realization that this blog post doesn’t exist. I have yet to read an explanation of Urbit that captures the full scope of the project in language a normal person can understand.
This is very outdated and Tlon no longer operates/runs urbit.org but, in any case, the ToS says this: "The Site is owned and operated by Tlon", so the reference was to the website "urbit.org", not the Urbit project.
The claim here is not that "all of mathematics is set theory", just that sets are sufficient to describe everything else. I don't know if that's correct, but it's certainly a more defensible claim.
>In one of the (I think MIT lectures 2018) videos, btw? Gensler stated that [probably all crypto except Bitcoin, but including Ether, are moody moody most likely securities].
As recently as 2 months ago Gensler declined to say whether or not Ether is a security in front of congress.
> Gensler declined to say whether or not Ether is a security in front of congress
Whether Ether is a security is irrelevant to this case, based on an investigation which pre-dates Gensler’s term at the SEC, which is about whether Coinbase is required to register and operate as a securities exchange on account of having traded e.g. Solana. The entire argument obsessing over his refusing to come to conclusions until facts are established reminds me of creationists picking a tiny, side element of scientists’ arguments and then spending their entire time arguing with themselves over a point with zero germaneness.
Coinbase already has a license, but they're not using it.
If it's not even clear what a security is, why would you register as a securities broker/exchange?
> If it's not even clear what a security is, why would you register as a securities broker/exchange
False condition. The SEC has made it clear that various crypto, e.g. Solana, are securities. If you want to trade those, you must register. Again, if you just want to cash trade Bitcoin and Ether, the SEC has shown zero inclination of messing with you.
In 2017, the SEC issued the DAO Report [1]. It—together with guidance around ICOs—made the status quo per the SEC super clear. Investigations and enforcement take time, but the rules of the game were known; the industry had been working to change the status quo.
If you want to know whether something is legal or not, you talk to a lawyer or (less reliably) law enforcement. When Coinbase asked the SEC if it needed to register, without—to my knowledge—exception, it said yes.
A bit of a heavyhanded way to put it, but one of the strengths of Ableton in my experience has been how easily you could import third-party plugins to supplement the lackluster native tooling. If you can't bounce those plugins to the Push along with a project, that severely gimps the functionality.
"Installing new modules on an existing Cardinal binary is not possible at run-time, but we can add new modules to the build."[1]
From the original release — being able to select 3rd-party plugins a la carte is probably Rack's most important feature, both for users and developers. Apparently there's a technical reason: "Cardinal is intentionally a fully self-contained plugin, Whatever is contained in the current build is what you can use"[2], but it seems like Rack Pro makes it work so I'm not sure why that's the case.
The reason isn't technical, it's because the author thinks a plugin shouldn't be able to modify itself on the fly.
I think he has a point. But besides, the modules included in Cardinal cover an incredible range; it's unlikely there's something one can't do with what's there.
The entirety of Surge XT has been pprted to VCV and is included in Cardinal for instance.
