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A resilient decentralised computer network -- first realised as ARPANET, which later grew into the Internet -- was a solution to the (at least perceived) pre-ex
by CRConrad 5y ago
A resilient decentralised computer network -- first realised as ARPANET, which later grew into the Internet -- was a solution to the (at least perceived) pre-existing problem of a military (nuclear) threat to the USA from the Soviet Union.
TL;DR: You're wrong.
- darawk 5y agoOh, you mean like how cryptocurrency was the solution to the (at least perceived) problem of centralized control over the money supply? What did you say the difference was again?
- CRConrad 5y agoThe difference was that the nuclear-war threat was somewhere between at least plausible and imminent, whereas the "problem" of centralized control over the money supply never actually existed; it's a delusion based on a fundamental misapprehension of what money is. HTH!