He even mentioned blockchain and NFTs and how it sucks to buy digital items and having them locked into a single platform.
Zuckerberg most likely is suffering an existential crisis, he's said before he doesn't know if he'll ever top what he achieved with a project like FB. He knows he's not very liked and he's looking for historic legacy.
However, the way the metaverse is developed cannot come only from them, there needs to be a consortium of institutions to debate on open apis, it has worked out so far for the web with W3C.
I wonder if there are already any efforts for standard open Metaverse protocols.
You put forth very good examples of legal transactions that most people would prefer remain private.
I think the DETAILS of all your transaction history have to be private.
I also think privacy is not a synonym for anonymity.
As long as the record of transactions remains secure and private, I can still be me and transact, and use my identity to my advantage in terms of creating trust.
I'd add to your sentence:
"People need privacy and trust in trade to be free."
"Only a sense of honor can lead to commerce. Any commerce." -Taleb
It's easy to see that those with non-anonymous identities will be able to build trust way faster than those with anonymous-identities.
Anonymity can only protect you from being related to parties that would tarnish your reputation or put you in a undesirable, perhaps even dangerous situation.
I think in the scale of possibilities we're trying to create, privacy and identity will be more valuable for the majority of trade on the network, anonymity will serve a very small percentage which I know is going to be taken care of to some extent by developers such as yourself, however, I think we can't ever promise anonymity as a feature, unless there's integration with a cryptocurrency that can somehow promise this, along with other layers of anonymity protection.
In my world view (also OpenBazaar developer) I think OpenBazaar shouldn't make false promises on delivering anonymity, not even Bitcoin can do that.
I believe that OpenBazaar's initial motive was to distance itself from DarkMarkets as the opportunity to directly link people worldwide for trade without intermediaries, or barriers of entry to the market outweight the needs of those looking to trade anonymously.
I foresee market forces killing off the sellers that prefer to remain anonymous and misterious unless they're selling special items.
In practice I believe people will be less scared to transact with someone who has an identity, who can be accountable. Honor and trust are necessary for all kinds of commerce.
If it were up to me, I'd build OpenBazaar to work flawlessly on the OpenInternet, if anybody needs to use the technology in a different way the code is open and I'm sure they'll find a way to try to hide themselves, but I think it's a fool's errand, no amount of Tor will hide you from the authorities if they want to get you.
I think the size of illegal markets as big as they can be are minuscule compared to the new era of trade I envision, never in our history we have been able to directly trade with anybody else out there. Centralized ecommerce outfits like ebay and amazon have only given us a glimpse of what's possible, but as good as they are, they can't scale to 100% of the planet, I believe a great p2p solution can do this and the consequences of this will be of historic importance.
Worrying ourselves with pleasing users that want to be on Tor, at this point in time, I believe is a waste of time that draws the wrong kind of attention to the project. There's a much bigger opportunity to be seized, a truly world changing one.
Probably due to licenses on libraries they use which would be in conflict with open source libraries.
Some company needs to buy the trademark and intellectual property from winsome, get rid of open source-incompatible libraries, open the source code, start a community, clean it up from all the nags, and release, release, release.
AOL if you are reading I'm willing to make an offer before you completely toss it to the trash. Perhaps we should start a kickstarter project to come up with the necessary capital to make a serious offer.
Probably due to licenses on libraries they use which would be in conflict with open source libraries.
Some company needs to buy the trademark and intellectual property from winsome, get rid of open source-incompatible libraries, open the source code, start a community, clean it up from all the nags, and release, release, release.
AOL if you are reading I'm willing to make an offer before you completely toss it to the trash. Perhaps we should start a kickstarter project to come up with the necessary capital to make a serious offer.
no threads... (WebWorkers to the rescue, still no threads)
counterintuitive variable scoping (poor new programmers that keep plaguing the web with bug after bug and shitty global riden code, until they eventually understand enclosures and functional scope), just so shitty.
can't really use all the language because it's broken in different places depending on the runtime (see "JavaScript the good parts" to learn the safe subset), it's like walking through a landmine coding in javascript, too many "don't's"
a=[]; //length is zero.
a[0]=1; //length is one.
a[23]=2; //length is two.
a.length //ask javascript for the length? outputs 24. SHITTY "LANGUAGE"
This is a language that has been stretched thin for a lot of things it wasn't meant to do.
Can we has script type="text/python", or script type="text/ruby", have some decent languages running on everybrowser once and for all, can't believe we're trying to rebuild everything that's already been matured in so many really powerful languages in this messy language. The fact that there are so many, so many frameworks for doing the same things, or that nobody knows for sure how to organize large amounts of code in a standard way show how weak this thing is.
can't wait for the javascript madness to end. in the meantime, until we don't decide to hack Chrome, and Firefox to include a virtual machine that can run the language of your choice we're stuck with this piece of shit.
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high-level general-purpose language != scripting language.
the fact that the language provides a few new services doesn't mean it's become a 'scripting language' and I'm sure you probably know that and the title was just looking to stirr some s#it up.
can you use it for scripting now? sure you always were able to do so, it's just a little more comfortable now to do so, you can use any programming language to script.
however, you can't use a scripting language to do all the things (as well/efficient as) a real programming language can.
i guess one of the main requisites to consider a language a "scripting language" is that you don't have to recompile it to run it, it's read as a script and executed by a runtime (that may perform some JIT compilation and what not), far from the case.
I guess the right title to your post would've been
or maybe you left an openbox installation on another computer and you don't remember, and whoever has that computer likes to snoop on your .doc files, specially the ones named "passwords"