nephs

What did you do about email?

If its going away now, it isn't quite long enough...

Should wealthy people be allowed to buy education to differentiate themselves from everyone else?

There's a reasonable argument for not allowing a market of education. And apparently that example is creating reasonably good education at scale 5 times bigger than the US.

By whose authority, though?

I mean. There's governments out there committing genocide despite the overwhelming population of the world being against it.

What does authoritarianism even mean, in that world we live in?

Look at how Chinese are approaching education and you can get an idea on how to do things at scale.

Your link doesn't work for me. Is this the same?

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/against-intellectual-monopoly.pdf

Keep paddling, and don't look at the people controlling the steering wheel and engine room.

https://youtu.be/ACX_VfsjkZA https://youtu.be/KGszSj0BLeg (and more)

If you want well articulated rage against the hp machines, do follow Louis Rossmann.

Right to repair matters!

There's also strong opinions if open source instances should federate with closed source instances, for reasons of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Except lemmy specifically is AGPL and it's basically impossible to monetise as a startup because they can't close the source code.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/LICENSE

Kbin too:

https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin

They'd have to create their own from scratch.

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