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OH PLEASE. I guess Hacker News is the new Tinfoil. Decentralized systems are much more stable in the long run than top-heavy centrally-planned ones. Only the

• sho 18y ago
  Oh yes, decentralised systems like Europe in the 20th century? We've just had 60 years of (relative) peace precisely because there was a top-heavy single-superpower (well, two superpowers for a lot of it, but still). There are so many counterexamples to your argument it's not funny. Are societies with single governments less stable than those with several parties all pulling for control? Do trade agreements make regions more or less stable? These are all self-evident. Not sure what you mean by "tinfoil", I assume it's meant to be insulting, but I really don't see the controversy.
  • anamax 18y ago
    Some of us don't assume that the good guys will always win and have figured out that bad is stable too. The first version of "centralized Germany" was pretty much a disaster. The first version of "centralized Russia" (aka the USSR) wasn't a lot better. You don't get to assume that the dominant power will always be a force for good.