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by itistoday2 11y ago
This is Mike Hearn. https://lobste.rs/s/82pz7r/curated_links_to_understand_dange...
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by itistoday2 11y ago
> Oh sure. I didn't expect an immediate answer to the question. I do hope you get back to me on this, though. :) Sure, I can do that off of HN if you contact me via email or twitter. My contact info can be found on that site I lin
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by itistoday2 11y ago
> To apply the first bullet point at the end of the essay [0] would necessarily mean the end of the US's Federal Republic. Do you disagree? It totally depends on whether groups/states decide to remain part of it. To the exten
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by itistoday2 11y ago
Apologies, reading your comment was like going down a choose-your-own-adventure maze. For footnote [3] my reply is that representative democracy is one of a vast variety of possible systems you could use. That ratio of yours becomes much le
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by itistoday2 11y ago
> From what I understand, there's a whole raft of really good, reproducible research on how to tease out what people mean from what they say Having a game of telephone for a government... sounds like it would result in the sort of
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by itistoday2 11y ago
That's a fair point, but from what you've shared it sounds more like an invasion of sorts than an actual secession movement. Do you know how much of a majority they had? If it was on the order of 51% of a tiny town that just doesn
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by itistoday2 11y ago
> So, it is physically impossible to even pay lip service to what you propose in either fourty-six, or fourty-eight of the states in the US. lol, that is the opposite of my proposal, and your post (thank you for it btw) just further so
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by itistoday2 11y ago
Replying just to the last part of your edit: > Witness the neo-Nazi group that tried to take over a town in North Dakota as an existence proof of the phenomenon. That's the kind of thing you'd explicitly have to allow, if you p
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by itistoday2 11y ago
I'll copy a reply I wrote to a similar question elsewhere. This is a reply that was written in response to a comment on this post: https://fixingtao.com/2016/01/lunatics-terrorists-and-the-th... And is copied
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by itistoday2 11y ago
> Withdrawing consent is withdrawing from the system to which you no longer consent. You haven't actually defined "withdrawing consent" there, you've just repeated the phrase "withdrawing consent". > P
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by itistoday2 11y ago
> Show us what you've done. My C.V.: https://fixingtao.com/cv/ EDIT: just noticed you stealth-edited this in: > And I mean what you've done about withdrawing the consent, not about tech projects. Te
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by itistoday2 11y ago
I am saying that if a large group of people feel they are being abused by a system that does not represent them, they are always free to reject that system and adopt another one that does work for them. If you walk into a casino and notice
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by itistoday2 11y ago
So go ahead and create your own country. You won't be the first (nor the last) to have done so.
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by itistoday2 11y ago
> Rejecting the entire concept of having leadership and structure because these particular leaders aren't perfect... That's not what I'm suggesting at all. I'm saying pick a structure and leaders that really do repr
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by itistoday2 11y ago
> Paying fines and/or avoiding jail (within the system) are not free as in beer. Well, in terms of copyright law it really depends. People violate copyright law all the time (see torrents) and vast majority don't pay anything
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by itistoday2 11y ago
lol @ HN downvoters who can't handle reality. That's OK, I understand and respect that you've chosen to subject yourself to rules you don't like. Just less whining and complaining, OK?
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by itistoday2 11y ago
> No, actually you are not free to do that. You can declare it, but it doesn't change anything in practice. Sure you are. People do it all the time.
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by itistoday2 11y ago
Look, if as per the article you need an army of lawyers to fix your tractor, that should be your first—no probably 10th—clue that your problem is not copyright law, but the idea that copyright law is something that you need to respect and o
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by itistoday2 11y ago
Ethereum is going to do that in about a year.
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by itistoday2 11y ago
Thankfully you're right, Facebook is not—yet—capable of disempowering the entire world by its mere existence. But it does disempower its users, and the more users it gets, the more it disempowers even those who don't use the syste
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by itistoday2 11y ago
With Mark, saying and doing are two completely different things. Example: "Helping poor people in third world countries get online" turned out to be: "Deceiving poor people in third world countries into using something called
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by itistoday2 11y ago
They can monitor, that's fine, and the correct/ethical thing would be to inform the employees about it and show them a little thing in Chrome to indicate they're being monitored. Informed consent, in other words. pdkl95 also
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by itistoday2 11y ago
The article replies to that argument, and you are welcome to respond to it.
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by itistoday2 11y ago
Did you miss the part of the article that responded to that link?
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by itistoday2 11y ago
Sure. We'll post a followup review with some of the ones we missed (including Matrix and Kaiwa).
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by itistoday2 11y ago
> I wish that someone would build an easy-to-use layer on top of an open protocol like IRC or XMPP. They have: http://getkaiwa.com
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by itistoday2 11y ago
> It's trivial to make a bot that sits in a channel and logs it. And it's trivial to hook up a search engine to that bot. I have actually done that, and I know it's not trivial. Few want to spend time tinkering with bots
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by itistoday2 11y ago
> eh... slack has consistently said that large communities shouldn't use its services. That has nothing to do with Slack-like apps, and everything to do with Slack. > Go talk to the hundreds of FOSS communities that use IRC. t
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by itistoday2 11y ago
Rocket.Chat does have an open issue with discussion about this: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/36
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by itistoday2 11y ago
IRC simply lacks important desirable features, making it poor for community building (given the existence of better alternatives). The two biggest missing features are persistence and search. Other important missing features are ease of use

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