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Re:Ask HN: Jaded about the internet? by nkkar on Sunday November 28, 2021 @07:26PM (#29374834)
> when you think about the idea that everything up until now on the internet has been copyable and we are just starting to figure out how to actually give a digital thing ownership, that will change how we look at just about everything on the internet

That everything has been copyable is the accident that keeps giving. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature! Digital scarcity, albeit through a novel mechanism, seems antithetical. Very confusing.

Re:Ask HN: Jaded about the internet? by krapp on Sunday November 28, 2021 @07:49PM (#29375020)
>That everything has been copyable is the accident that keeps giving. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

This must be the hacker culture version of hippies watching their children grow up to be Young Republicans and yuppies.