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Confusingly, it seems there really are people out there who believe rules and laws are only created because somebody is power hungry, and not because they're ac
by dale_glass 5y ago
Confusingly, it seems there really are people out there who believe rules and laws are only created because somebody is power hungry, and not because they're actually useful.
Yeah, if you're 5 idealists with the same dream you probably won't screw over each other too much, and whoever tries to set rules for everyone else probably will turn out to have some unpleasant ulterior motives for it. But large groups are very different from small groups, the dynamics are very different, and far more structure is needed for things to actually function.
Some people just have to learn that the hard way I suppose.
- prox 5y agoAh that reminds me : “The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” (Restaurant at the end of the Universe - Douglas Adams)
- lottin 5y agoIt seems that the whole crypto pitch is predicated on this idea: black markets are better than regulated markets.
- Bancakes 5y agoLegal limitations are inherently anti-engineering and not useful.
- dale_glass 5y agoCopyright is a social and not an engineering issue. It can't be solved by just code. Also, a NFT marketplace can't just ignore it forever. It's a .com, it's connected to a real person who can get in trouble. Also, no, engineering is ultimately in the service of people and has to work with human constraints in mind, including economics and law. Like they say, “Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.” -- working under such constraints is why we have engineering, rather than just piling up bricks until there's no way for the bridge to collapse.
- Bancakes 5y agoI'm not saying it's unnecessary but forcing me to run DRM, HDCP, kernel level malware, and abide by arbitrary EULAs/copyrights is beyond the scope of the machine. My machine understands memory manipulations, not someone's-protected-memory non-manipulations. It is incorrect to burden our computer science with such trivia.
- dale_glass 5y agoI don't think anybody said anything about that. It's just that a marketplace based on at least theoretically selling unique copies of artwork can't really exist in this particular manner. Who made a given piece of art, and who has the right to sell it isn't an engineering issue, and makes no sense whatsoever to do in a decentralized manner.