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Probably worth reminding that this is the project where the backing company is centered around crypto/blockchain, but they pinkie promise it will never affect t

Probably worth reminding that this is the project where the backing company is centered around crypto/blockchain, but they pinkie promise it will never affect this work! https://radicle.xyz/faq https://radicle.xyz/faq Radworks, the organization that has been financing Radicle is organized around the RAD token which is a governance token on Ethereum. It gives off the same odor as Tea did, for me personally.

john_alan 2y ago
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- mtndew4brkfst 2y ago
  I'm doing my part!
j_maffe 2y ago
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Vegemeister 2y ago
If you meme yourself into getting the ick around libertarians, you cripple your ability to defend liberty. Imagine that.
- phatskat 2y ago
  No memeing necessary - most vocal and visible (eg mainstream or platformed) libertarians are…a lot, and not in a good way. I’m sure it’s very similar in nuance to democrat and republican - the faces and voices in the media aren’t necessarily representative of the average people who use the same labels.
- BobaFloutist 2y ago
  Libertarians call themselves that, that doesn't mean that they're inherently the primary defenders of liberty. Much like how the difference between Republicans and Democrats aren't an argument over whether the United States is better run as a Republic or a Democracy.
- kmeisthax 2y ago
  Money is an artifice used to track the payment of taxes. It happens to be useful for tracking other kinds of scarcity, especially with people you do not know, so societies in which the use of money is imposed tend to move the rest of their economic relationships over to it. In other words, Bitcoin is not valuable because it is scarce, it is valuable because you can pay data ransoms to cybercriminals with it. If, tomorrow, every ransomware vendor demanded payment in POGS or Beanie Babies, you'd see the value of those skyrocket as every IT professional went and hoarded them. Satoshi Nakamoto saw the state, with it's coercive taxation and central banking, and thought the answer was to make decentralized money you couldn't shut down. Hence, Bitcoin and it's millions of forks. The problem is that Bitcoin's valuations are based on the same coercive taxation, just carried out by the illegitimate criminal underworld rather than the legitimate state. That's not liberty, that's just changing who wears the jackboots.
  - Vegemeister 2y ago
    That is an interesting perspective, but it doesn't actually change my point, which is that if you want to build a distributed system that cannot be shut down, you have to be willing to collaborate with distributed system that cannot be shut down enjoyers.
aiw1nt3rs 2y ago
You understand that their work is fully open-source right? So there is no need to believe any promises, just fork the code and move on. But yeah, Microsoft, with its myriad of cases against it, is an organisation to trust. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation)

john_alan 2y ago

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mtndew4brkfst 2y ago
I'm doing my part!

j_maffe 2y ago

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Vegemeister 2y ago

If you meme yourself into getting the ick around libertarians, you cripple your ability to defend liberty. Imagine that.

phatskat 2y ago
No memeing necessary - most vocal and visible (eg mainstream or platformed) libertarians are…a lot, and not in a good way. I’m sure it’s very similar in nuance to democrat and republican - the faces and voices in the media aren’t necessarily representative of the average people who use the same labels.
BobaFloutist 2y ago
Libertarians call themselves that, that doesn't mean that they're inherently the primary defenders of liberty. Much like how the difference between Republicans and Democrats aren't an argument over whether the United States is better run as a Republic or a Democracy.
kmeisthax 2y ago
Money is an artifice used to track the payment of taxes. It happens to be useful for tracking other kinds of scarcity, especially with people you do not know, so societies in which the use of money is imposed tend to move the rest of their economic relationships over to it. In other words, Bitcoin is not valuable because it is scarce, it is valuable because you can pay data ransoms to cybercriminals with it. If, tomorrow, every ransomware vendor demanded payment in POGS or Beanie Babies, you'd see the value of those skyrocket as every IT professional went and hoarded them. Satoshi Nakamoto saw the state, with it's coercive taxation and central banking, and thought the answer was to make decentralized money you couldn't shut down. Hence, Bitcoin and it's millions of forks. The problem is that Bitcoin's valuations are based on the same coercive taxation, just carried out by the illegitimate criminal underworld rather than the legitimate state. That's not liberty, that's just changing who wears the jackboots.
- Vegemeister 2y ago
  That is an interesting perspective, but it doesn't actually change my point, which is that if you want to build a distributed system that cannot be shut down, you have to be willing to collaborate with distributed system that cannot be shut down enjoyers.

aiw1nt3rs 2y ago

You understand that their work is fully open-source right? So there is no need to believe any promises, just fork the code and move on. But yeah, Microsoft, with its myriad of cases against it, is an organisation to trust. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation)