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For anyone interested in social systems that help avoid this top-down, centralized failure mode, I cannot recommend RFC 7282 enough: https://datatracker.ietf.o
by NateEag 5y ago
For anyone interested in social systems that help avoid this top-down, centralized failure mode, I cannot recommend RFC 7282 enough:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7282 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7282
A whole lot of wisdom is captured in that document, including a deep understanding of the differences between unanimity, majority rule, and consensus.
If you're involved in standardization efforts in any way, whether it's deciding where your team will put braces in source code or running software architecture for a Fortune 100, it will well repay your reading time.
- svilen_dobrev 5y agointeresting. For long time i've found that negative logic is more powerful/overarching than positive one - #ifndef NOT_THIS is more powerful than #if THIS .. and this article applies that even to agreeing vs not-disagreeing.