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Maybe the areas affected don't actually benefit anyone in power? Probably not enough graft coming out of the timber industry.

They tried this in Italy 2000+ years ago. A wealthy city will spawn from the mine, but since bitcoin doesn't appease the gods like physical gold does, the city will be buried in ash.

Probably. The historical origins are beyond me, but anecdotally I thought the 1994 movie PCU must've dealt a mortal blow to the political correctness movement because I stopped hearing about it and no one around me treated it as a real thing. In hindsight, the resurgence of mom jeans in the last decade should have planted seeds of worry in many a gen-xer.

The Roku's inability to display non-latin characters is what soured my enthusiasm for them. If it turns out that it's a trivial problem that is easily addressed once it's time to target international growth I will become bitter.

This is where government could perform a useful function. Content creators selling to the government and the government reselling full access of all that content to distributors is a realtopian dream of mine. It seems win-win all around to me. Consumers could go with the provider that has their favorite interface/content/price, creators would have a choice to sell to the govt and receive full draconian protection or sell on the open market and forgo legal protection of their works, and govt could feel good about running such a snappy program that serves all its citizens.

I still believe in the ideal but also recognize that the dream is most likely over for now, and I think rightly so. Superficially the situation looks like what cattle ranching went through in the American West with free grazing [0]. The internet is no longer a handful of small ranchers that can come to low cost solutions with the people they might impact. Even if there were no Facebook type ranchers, there'd be enough small time guys to warrant fences and collective action.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_range

Universal media access should be a thing. The government could demand access to entire digital catalogs, compensate and resell to front-end streaming providers.