drewmcarthur

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by drewmcarthur 5mo ago
How is the on/offramp handled? That’s always been the biggest pain point of crypto from my perspective.
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by drewmcarthur 1y ago
i just picked up an edition of “The Evolution of Cooperation” that has a foreword by richard dawkins. was cool to see his take, from writing the selfish gene, on axelrod’s contributions to the study of cooperation. by any chance, did your
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by drewmcarthur 2y ago
> democratic governance rather than ownership yes and no, i’d call the distinction collective ownership. you can sell your shares (by quitting), or you can stay and participate democratically. but you can’t do both, and that protects y
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by drewmcarthur 2y ago
the problem with comparing these things by their ticket prices is that markets don’t consider externalities. making and fueling a plane might allow me to sell tickets cheaper than a train, but only if we ignore the cost of the carbon outpu
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by drewmcarthur 2y ago
I would support patents that could only ever belong to the actual inventor.
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by drewmcarthur 2y ago
> "Enshittification" describes the process by which something becomes degraded or corrupted. I feel like many get this wrong, it’s not just “when things get worse”, the term was coined specifically around the phenomenon of inve
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by drewmcarthur 2y ago
this is what i’m thinking. HTTP itself only overtook Gopher when it was released into the public domain, to compete with Gopher’s proprietary licensing.
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by drewmcarthur 2y ago
that’s incredibly silly
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by drewmcarthur 2y ago
signed, thank you for posting!
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by drewmcarthur 2y ago
public means public, if something is paid for by tax money, it should be licensed for public use
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by drewmcarthur 2y ago
exactly, the only reason to hire someone is because you’re making money off their work.
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by drewmcarthur 2y ago
I appreciate this reply - you’re right direct democracy is inefficient, and that our governments aren’t exactly a model of efficiency either. that being said, and I think you agree this is important when it comes to government, I think we
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by drewmcarthur 2y ago
good point. why did all these countries become democracies in the first place? we should revert to autocracy /s
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by drewmcarthur 2y ago
i agree companies shouldn’t have political sway, but why shouldn’t the place you spend so much time and effort for be democratically governed? what’s the argument that government should be, but industry shouldn’t? that’s the whole basis of
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by drewmcarthur 2y ago
well, only if you ignore the court rulings by the ICJ
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by drewmcarthur 2y ago
> your corporate job isn’t a democracy why not? shouldn’t it be?