Commentary on your writing: I was a bit surprised by the writing style of your article at first. Then I realized: Kazeta is an art-piece and you are writing a "the arts" article on it. I think that this was the correct choice for the topic, but I found it hard to appreciate because coming from a link in the "Linux Gaming" community I was expecting a gaming or tech article instead. That would have had stats like how fast games load from "off" to "playing", some example builds and prices for making an ideal Kazeta, a review of how hard it was to make your own SD, etc.
I think the mental space I'd put this in is like a Rolling Stone interview where you're writing lyrically about Alkazar and his work while weaving in paragraph quotes from him.
Maybe with enough bribes, Apple can get the SC to just invert the whole ruling: now every Fortnite transaction has to give Apple a cut, even when its unrelated to their platform.
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I think these are good ideas. What I don't understand is how they survive in the world. Let's say you're an anarchist community of 200 people living in Palestine...?
who is it that you think should rule the entire world?
I suppose my objection is that "The Anarchist Library" seems like it's got some kind of grand vision behind it for a world without masters. But it sounds like you're saying that Anarchy is just going, "wow my masters are crap and i wish i didn't have to do their dumb shit." If so, I guess I'm an anarchist. Feels kinda lame, is all. And I empathize with the picture of text in the OP that says it's lame. |-:
I appreciate the larger-context link, but it's not very convincing. It doesn't even convince itself in the end:
Now, you might object that all this is well and good as a way for small groups of people to get on with each other, but managing a city, or a country, is an entirely different matter. And of course there is something to this.
I've gotten the exact same lecture from Libertarians. "Life would be perfect if everything was run via free-market capitalism!" But I'm similarly unconvinced because there's noting to indicate that at the inter-state level it would be anything but fantasy.
Unless your pitch is that Anarchy just means, "love thy neighbor"? In which case, cool I'm on board. But I think it's confusing to use an existing word with a meaning to mean something totally different.
I think where we're disagreeing is that I think in a capitalist society the promise of money will inevitably corrupt the government (because it's made of people). Maybe it can be avoided if the government performs additional regulatory action to stop anyone from getting too wealthy, but that sounds like beyond the limits that you want to set for government.
Do you already know some French Canadians? The best and most fun way to learn a language is by talking with people. If you know someone who speaks a language you want to learn and they're willing to struggle through talking with you, pick that language.
But this was arbitrary. It's not like "why are there only 16 colors on this video game" (because of space constraints). They could have made it 257 users and nothing would overflow. Given that, I think they should have made a human-comfortable number (multiple of 10) instead of a machine-comfortable number (power of 2).
When I read your message, I get the impression that you think of "The Government" as this independent actor. I see it as a system that is primarily controlled by wealthy people. Either directly or through their funding advertisements (including astroturfing/bot-farms) to promote what they want.
So the larger companies do get government assistance... because they are the government. And this isn't some kind of weird coincidence. It's fundamental to capitalism's operation. You can't have a system that's based on capital and then have it be unbiased towards entities who have vastly more capital!
Their "real" job was some standard cog-in-the-machine engineering work, which is why they got laid off. Just another number.
Most open-source work happens outside of corporate planning and so it's invisible to the company. When the reality is, it would absolutely be worth it to Intel to pay a 40/w salary just to maintain this little bit of code. The value is there, but the humans running the company would never be able to get over the hurdle of "he's not working very hard so he doesn't deserve the money."
Thanks for sharing!
Commentary on your writing: I was a bit surprised by the writing style of your article at first. Then I realized: Kazeta is an art-piece and you are writing a "the arts" article on it. I think that this was the correct choice for the topic, but I found it hard to appreciate because coming from a link in the "Linux Gaming" community I was expecting a gaming or tech article instead. That would have had stats like how fast games load from "off" to "playing", some example builds and prices for making an ideal Kazeta, a review of how hard it was to make your own SD, etc.
I think the mental space I'd put this in is like a Rolling Stone interview where you're writing lyrically about Alkazar and his work while weaving in paragraph quotes from him.