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Ironically github is sort of the exception that proves the rule: decentralized in the one way that really matters (decoupled development on individual systems),
by ajross 2y ago
Ironically github is sort of the exception that proves the rule: decentralized in the one way that really matters (decoupled development on individual systems), but centralized for easy interaction in the way the market demands.
- TZubiri 2y agoSimilar thing that happens with crypto exchanges, also swift transfers and federal states for that matter.
- eru 2y agoYes, subsidiarity is a great principle.. in-principle, but in practice it often gets the curb. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity So far, having individual small countries seems to keep the centralisation at bay for longer than just having states in a federation. (Look at Germany, Austria, Australia, the USA for examples of the latter. Interestingly, the UK is legally not made of federal states, but in practice they have granted more autonomy to eg Scotland over the years. And everyone knows that Scotland would secede and get away with it, if there was a power grab by London. In that sense, they are more federal than the US, where secession is very much verboten.)
- nine_k 2y agoBut it demands both. The ability to develop in a parallel, decentralized way, and the ability to integrate things at a central point, an authoritative source and a blessed official destination. It's similar to how databases allow to begin parallel, concurrent, even contradictory transactions, and also guarantee serialized, consistent database state, and rejection of invalid updates, at commit time. Both aspects are utterly important.