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Just like Hollywood once compared Netflix to the Albanian Army, the US establishment doesn’t yet understand how much better Satoshi Nakamoto or Vitalik Buterin is than every apparatchik they have in the Federal Reserve system. And they don’t understand that upward deviation is creating a more competent group of global leaders than the American esta
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Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Making the internet safe for individuals again, in my view, is the most compelling use case for Bitcoin and every other cryptographic method or technology. Companies that build politics-free solutions will be the future of the internet. Not because such products have the right opinions about their users, but because they have no opinions at all.
Preston Byrne • Bitcoin Doesn’t Take Sides: Why Apolitical Solutions Are the Internet’s Future
When I heard a bit about the site’s method of extracting such good results—it relied on sort of a web-based democracy—I
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
When we hear “lowering the cost of ownership of knowledge” most people immediately assume we’re talking about copyright. But as Stratechery writer Ben Thompson and ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin have both rightly pointed out, the scarce resource online isn’t copyrightable content itself - it’s people and their ability to bestow legitimacy on the ... See more
Joey DeBruin • Coase's Penguin is learning to fly: Building the Wikipedia of the future
The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture
A recent surge of human-curated guidance is both a reaction against and an extension of the tyranny of algorithmic recommendations.
By Kyle Chayka
October 30, 2024
Illustration by Ariel Davis
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In the 2010s, affiliate marketing became a dominant strain of online business models. The Wirecutte... See more
A recent surge of human-curated guidance is both a reaction against and an extension of the tyranny of algorithmic recommendations.
By Kyle Chayka
October 30, 2024
Illustration by Ariel Davis
Save this story
In the 2010s, affiliate marketing became a dominant strain of online business models. The Wirecutte... See more
newyorker.com • Unnamed Document
The final limitation appears in crypto’s externalities,