Notices by lain (lain@lain.com), page 42
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@shmibs @bot @p @parker it would indeed reduce the scamming and cutting because customers could insist on a lab report and customer reviews. This isn't a theory either, see european legal lsd (1v-lsd) or US legal thc variants (delta 8, delta 10)
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@p @bot @parker > We’re not trying to overthrow the establishment and collapse the nation-state here.ummm
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@p @bot @parker > Street drugs involve a lot of violence and extortion because they don’t have a central authority to keep things in order. okay that triggers me. The reason that street drugs involve lots of violence is not that there's no strong enough state fixing this. It's that there's too much state / police. If you made a (safer) store for selling your drugs, they'd bust it.
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oxford style debate between cjd and me about why exactly we need to destroy the system
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> Play mtg after a year> There are a trillion new mechanicsHow does anyone play this game
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@shmibs @nik pizzicato five were the only japanese band i could buy cds of in germany (back in the day...)
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you hate NFTs because it's exploiting people and killing the planetI hate NFTs because I want artists to starve.We are not the same
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@heretical_i hey, i just saw this one linked by gargron
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@cjd there's a real revolution going on with artists being able to support themselves in completely new ways, a lot of very small time artists too. But people are too busy laughing at right-clicking memes to notices.
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@aven @cjd case in point, a grab bag of 'i hate this':- it's money laundering- it's scammy because people steal art (i'd agree, that's a scam if not communicated)- ALL is a scam (because some people scam)- It's not an investment (can be true or not true, depends on the NFT, and isn't really relevant to the people who are art collectors)
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> There is the claim that especially Bitcoin mostly uses renewable energy (it does not). But even if it did: Should we spend that medium sized country’s worth of energy on a casino for nerds or should we use it to power hospitals, transportation or heating houses? idk, should we use your computer science master's salary to buy funkopops and steak dinners or should we use it to stop child labor in third world countries?
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and the issue with this line of thinking is the "we". It's not "we" who buy dinner or who give to charity, it's individuals.
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@Mitsu not thanks to covid but thanks to soap eaters
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sweden is silly place
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100 squid
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@JSDorn @wowaname @aven > if we want to live in a traditional society we will need a lot of force to build it in this current world.Is that why the Amish are stockpiling tactical nukes?
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@shmibs No, I don't think so. I think NFTs have nothing to do with IP, really. In an IP-less world, you could still do signed copies of your painting, and if people like your stuff, they'd probably rather buy it from you in a 'special edition' than getting a generic copy done by somebody else. Most importantly, there's no aggression involved. The NFT data is there for everybody to see, and nobody comes to your house to take your stuff away because you 'right clicked'.
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@shmibs a few ways to think about it:1. There's no scarcity involved with ideas, in contrast to pretty much every other resource. Rivers will get polluted if you just let everyone put trash in them, but a book doesn't get worse because more people read it.2. It's hard to get to 'intellectual property' from first principles. It's easier to see how homesteading, mixing labor with resources or free trade can lead to regular property rights, but how do you 'own' an idea? You can clearly be the author of an idea, but where does the ownership come from? Even if you don't agree with the idea of normal private property, intellectual property should be even harder to justify.3. There's a utilitarian argument for IP that says that if we didn't have it, ideas wouldn't be produced. This doesn't really seem to be the case though, at least people have been writing, composing, painting before there were copyrights and they are still doing it now that there are copyrights. Disney's first big animation film was "Snow White", a non-copyrighted story.
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Guys puts his software under agpl until someone pays for it, then it'll be MIT.> https://lwn.net/Articles/878759/One comment:> That's capitalism. If we all lived in a magical communist utopia, then these licenses would not need to exist in the first place. I don't think it's that obvious that licensing is because of 'capitalism'. The concept of intellectual property is very strange and many hardcore free market people would reject it. At least as it exists now, copyright (and patents for that matter) are a government enforced monopoly. "Artificial scarcity" enforced with guns.
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@pry @rizzo it's simple but hard to follow through
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