thulecitizen

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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Fuck. I wrote this before and then edited, without realizing that now my main argument has become for the opposite of what I intended it to be for. Now I can't edit it. Original post: "Wow very selective mind you've got there
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
> why would you ever trust Huawei? Why would you ever trust any US corporations? Snowden, Intel Management Engine etc. (Corporate) backdoors everywhere... I think RISC-V, open hardware and OSS has to be the future.
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
I hear you. And yeah I see what you mean about the magical solution.
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through t
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Mutual credit means everybody can extend credit to another peer, and there is no centralized issuance of credit. The agreements themselves are fully p2p without any 3rd party. Using mutual credit (which the Holochain pattern/framework
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
> I never claimed this was a sustainable strategy for most Americans. Where did you ever get that idea? Maybe because this is a website for American venture backed corporations who use the American intellectual property system to create
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
I’m arguing that they are creating an IP/patent war-chest and slowly but surely creating a fatal monopoly. I’m saying corporations are abusing our common inheritance by plundering the commons and not contributing back to it. “Informati
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
To clarify: are you talking about equitable policies used by other countries (not the US)?
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Filecoin's Proof of Replication sounds similar to Valueflo.ws and Holochain's asset backed currencies. Let's go full distributed computing and use mutual credit while we're at it. Otherwise we're just going to carry
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
This.
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Sounds like a Graeberian Bullshit Job then https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/25/bullshit-jobs-...
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
"It must be tiring to read everything so trigger happy." That's not a personal attack? Hypocrite. Stop being a fool.
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
This. For anyone who doesn't see it, please check out the film The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013).
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
I see a beautiful symphony here. The fact that this is discussed is to me a sign that enough people are feeling pressured and stressed, and sharing how the current systems don't work for them. Through sharing we can reveal our hopes an
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Are AI startups just a business model built around some proprietary code/software?
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
http://developer.holochain.org http://dat.foundation http://scuttlebutt.nz
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
"Hero myths like the ones surrounding Musk and Jobs are damaging in other ways, too. If tech leaders are seen primarily as singular, lone achievers, it is easier for them to extract disproportionate wealth. It is also harder to get the
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Learn about distributed computing patterns and Protocol or Open Cooperativism? https://ceptr.org / https://developer.holochain.org , https://dat.foundation/ , https://scuttlebutt.nz ?
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Honestly, I don’t believe the current systems can deal with the complexity. Like, it’s an unsolvable shitshow until we start using better tools. https://medium.com/metacurrency-project/the-future-of-govern...
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
So fun when it’s all our there to learn from. I can’t wait for the web to be an archive of torrented Git-versioned repositories à la Ceptr.org.
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
“ …today, a tiny minority of people and corporate interests across the world are accumulating vast wealth and power from rental income, not only from housing and land but from a range of other assets, natural and created. ‘Rentiers’ of all
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Owning technology and infrastructure is not liquid, is that what you are saying? Or are you talking about operating costs?
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
All I read is: “blah blah blah, i think it’s obvious and intuitive so it must be the truth. Period!” In my experience; just because something is in use today does not mean that it can’t be critiqued, and evolve.
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Ceptr.org - protocol cooperativism
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
> conversational prostitution Do you grow your own food? If not, you are partaking in prostitutional farming. Do you make the write the books you read? If not, you are paying for prostitutional authors.
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
> We are just apes, ffs. > every last human stands more to gain from defecting than cooperating. Is it human nature, or is it the design of money? [1][2] [1] The Future of Money by Bernard Lietaer [2] http://ceptr.org
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Honestly, your comment and prediction terrifies me. Do you have kids? What do you tell them? If you believe what you write, what still gets you up in the morning? Do you by any chance have Savant syndrome/autism/aspergers (I ask t
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
I am curious why nobody has mentioned where all this money comes from in the first place, namely: Intellectual Property. Corporate programmers get access to monopolized technologies, improve them for the owners of the 'intellectual pro
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
> Tax code is a failure of government. Is tax avoidance a failure of business then? What about the billion dollar lobbying inudstry? “[Rentier capitalists] assert a belief in ‘free markets’ and want us to believe that economic policies a
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
From the same article: "The idea of “great men” as engines of change grew popular in the 19th century. In 1840, the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle wrote that “the history of what man has accomplished in this world is at bottom the

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