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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by zzzcpan on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:25PM (#17222690)
> Centralization has an undeniable fundamental attraction. Everything, really, seems to naturally trend towards centralization

How so? Centralization is merely enforced by the government and incentivized by the system it exists in.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by stupidcar on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:26AM (#17225652)
If centralisation only occurs due to government enforcement, then how did government itself come into existence? It's the purest example of centralisation, after all. There must be something that incentivised centralisation even in the absence of government.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by danso on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:16PM (#17223031)
Many humans are social creatures and like to congregate.
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