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>choosing who has to pay those CPU or bandwidth costs is a political decision. Well sure, if you put it that way, we could reframe almost anything as politica
by jasode 11y ago
>choosing who has to pay those CPU or bandwidth costs is a political decision.
Well sure, if you put it that way, we could reframe almost anything as political decisions.
"costs" == "politics"
"adding server racks to service the API" == "politics"
etc, etc.
Should a coupling hosting a party at home ask their guests to bring potluck? Structuring the cost of food and deciding whether it's the host or the guests funding it is ultimately a "political decision".
I was reading author's essay while holding a narrower concept of "politics" in my head. I now get your expansive perspective on "politics" and while I understand where you're coming from, that larger framework is not helpful to me.
>"Politics" is simply what we call the process by which we humans come to an agreement on
Sometimes, the API is just "published" with no process for "agreement". It either exists, or it doesn't. It may have come into existence because it was an easy technical solution.
- rumcajz 11y agoThe term "politics" is not as all-covering as it may seem at first. It refers to the process of people and human groups reconciling conflicting interests.
- pdkl95 11y ago> almost anything as political decisions "Everything is political." That's kind of the point - if there is debate, we use politics (debate, argument, various decision-making methods such as voting) as the means to solve it. Your potluck example is exactly the point. It is a political decision to have a potluck vs the host providing the food (which can have a variety of consequences in some situations). The very nature of an API is to make that kind of choice.