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by visualradio 5y ago
Getting rid of patents would probably help. With stuff like phones there's probably plenty of options for mass production of open source hardware modules purchasable from electronic hobbyist stores anonymously with cash which would all
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by visualradio 5y ago
> Previously, you’d be able to go to a store and buy a thing without giving any information We can still do that, it's called paying with cash. Paper money is the people's money. > Your examples of loan, licence etc are not
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by visualradio 5y ago
Break room and cafeterias can be bugged, company phones and email addresses can be bugged or monitored. With externally controlled neural implants I'm not sure if there is any means of avoidance, the majority of the human race may simp
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by visualradio 5y ago
I think the only long term solution is to establish or work for a cooperative which does not patent ideas or which only patents ideas defensively to protect the free use of ideas for its members, to establish public banks, to levy distribut
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by visualradio 5y ago
If augmented reality leads to neural implants it can potentially lead to an even worse dystopia if the technology is not open source. Limited access to resources may result in the coercion of workers into accepting patented neural implants
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by visualradio 5y ago
A more materialist approach would be to say that it is the artists and authors of such books which are influenced by cosmos and the three body problem is an error detection code for repairing memory errors in collective consciousness to pre
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by visualradio 5y ago
Hopefully anyone with some understanding of projective geometry, analogy, cognitive science, and physics can grasp the overall system.
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Principles of Federations(reddit.com)
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by visualradio 5y ago
> Another layer of federated content publishing doesn't solve any problems. HTTP is a request-response rather than content broadcast or publish-subscribe protocol. Presumably you could develop a publish-subscribe protocol with low-l
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by visualradio 5y ago
Well this already happened and we're still using it, but it's called ARPAnet. Instead of building a hypertext website they could finance an ARPA-E program to develop new federated content publishing protocols. Then have the Depart
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by visualradio 5y ago
Eh, governments could probably take a supply-side approach and throw money at new ARPAnet protocols for developing federated content publishing networks to grow competing networked application ecosystems without resorting to heavy handed au
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by visualradio 5y ago
> then there is the weaker threshold where these theories rule in that they should be taken as serious explanations for the alleged “advanced technology” demonstrated by UAPs No, it doesn't really do anything to weaken the threshold
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by visualradio 5y ago
If we are concerned with nuance, there's probably at least 2 different conservative arguments. There is the hyper-libertarian argument which says that if someone arrives at a hospital unconcious, and the hospital bills them the maximum
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by visualradio 5y ago
Price transparency regulations could also be used to implement public price controls or public fines on monopolies engaging in price discrimination. For instance if a provider billed a patient over 100% of their stated price or over 120% th
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by visualradio 5y ago
With the proposal for continuously increasing maintenance fees on ownership it is necessary to establish some public mechanism for determining the relative value of patents upon which the the maintenance fees are levied. One possible soluti
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by visualradio 5y ago
> What can the USPTO do with the information, other than just not hand out patents in that area? They could require the IP holder to declare the price at which they were willing to permanently release the discovery into the public domain
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by visualradio 5y ago
Well suppose the valuation mechanism for determining the relative value of patents that the escalating fees were levied upon was implemented by requiring IP holders to declare the price at which they were willing to permanently release the
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by visualradio 5y ago
The question should be how do we eliminate unnecessary transaction costs and overheads associated with license negotiations, legal fees, and courts costs, and ensure new public inventions can be immediately manufactured by a large number of
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by visualradio 5y ago
> I'd think a more reasonable approach could be, you have a patent for 15 years (or whatever arbitrary number is reasonable) or until the patent holder makes some multiple dollar amount from things that use whatever is patented. Th
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by visualradio 5y ago
> The first kind of magic, which we shall call “Human”, is driven by the desire to extend one's power over the world, while simultaneously minimizing one's dependence on the world ... The second kind of magic, which we shall ca
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by visualradio 5y ago
> I think that there are not enough jobs at the moment for the western people. So we create them, and handout "fake" rewards for them. What nonsense is this? The purpose of work is to generate material wealth, so that the popul
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by visualradio 5y ago
> I would think the issue is we have to start with what are we solving for exactly? In order to avoid a civilization collapse we need to maximize net-product, the material surplus which society produces after deducting the cost of mainta
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by visualradio 5y ago
Classically political economy was the study of the accumulation and distribution of material wealth. The first part of this study involves figuring out how society produces a social surplus or net-product above cost of maintaining labor and
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by visualradio 5y ago
Well human labor is a somewhat renewable source of energy. And when people perform work for us it saves us the energy of performing the same work ourselves in the future. And when people perform work to produce artifacts such as planted cro
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by visualradio 5y ago
Ideally a system of credit based on proof of work is based on proof of productive work embodied in artifacts which competition can increase the supply of without restraint. A proof of productive work system can be implemented by having publ
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by visualradio 5y ago
The concern is likely over whether supply creates its own demand. In other words will the commodification of state surveillance technology encourage suppliers to manipulate the environment to create more purchasers in a manner that transcen
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by visualradio 5y ago
> The major innovation from feudalism is that now the peasants actually pay for the land up-front too, and they pay for any improvements on it, and then higher rent for the improved property If the replacement cost of the home is $200,00
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by visualradio 5y ago
In some areas it may be possible to increase average density of single family home developments using land value tax plus an occupancy deduction to discourage leapfrog development and excess vacancies, to bring commuter neighborhoods closer
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by visualradio 5y ago
Centralization of money creation at the national level is not ideal. There are 3142 counties in the United States. If during the process of national credit allocation we forget to send money somewhere, we could accidentally destroy a small
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by visualradio 5y ago
> The USA created a democratic government in the hopes that the troops could be withdrawn and the local Afghan government would maintain its own affairs Democracy in the USA is based upon directly elected local government and a local pro

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