yellsatclouds

that's the essential (mobster) insurance business, though if done by predefined criminals it's called a protection racket, if done by legal obligation is ccalled 'liability compliance'

the world is run by a mafia all the way to the top.

your statement has way too many relative references, you speak of the latter, and the former, and the alliances between the opposition of the former against the alleged plans of the latter in a scenario where one invades a soon to be allied 3rd party

my point being is that in trying to sound serious and formal you've imposed on your reader an extra layer of unacking your point which you also had to needlessly pack so you'd sound like I already said (see: I did it again, put in a reference instead of repeating cuz it makes me sound more serious and 'deep')

could also jump straight into the code that generates so much of that 'unlimited' html (them web frameworks)

so do I, but my ISP after getting eaten by another larger ISP made it impossible to access remotely.

long live the free market. free for institutional-entities to step on individual humans.

I somehow suspect they wouln't fare any worse.

agreed 100%. a black hole is a physical object unlike infinity. thanks for not letting me get away with being 'sublty wrong'.

my larger point was about how language 'creates' such real abstractions; sometimes with terrible names (your original complaint).

> A hole is not something, it is a cavity in something else

this reasoning also applies to "infinity". it literally means NOT-finite. it refers to the lack of a thing: namely a biggest number.

then again, freaking language and maths sure make us able to think about these 'lack of [blank]' as if they were actual things (to the point that abstractly they are as real as it gets)

this person seem to not understand how microsoft's business stays on track.

they seem to really think that individual contributions truly affect Microsoft's fullfilment of their self-appointed mission; but I highly doubt this. Microsoft is really huge. No single individual can really detract, nor add too much, to the company's overall mission.

they are a business, of course they must seek to increase revenues.

that their business ruins peoples lives is not their fault.

\snark

nah, the people on such a hypotehtical unkown level work without money constraints; they will print more if needed.

at least they did it before...

maybe some government issue with visas?

I'm have this paranoid supsicion that some powerful shadow (i.e. unkown) actor within the USA political landspace really wants to take Facebook/Meta down.

I suppose they did not go along somebody's political plans? so little trustworthy information sure makes my imagination take off

we cerntainly have the technology... just not the social-political will to do it.

first we should clarify what we mean by 'power'

in this context, 'energy over time' is not what we are talking about.

I'll leap to say ultimately, it's probably quite like mass and gravity; the end observed effect of mass lumping together is like this 'observed' effect of power agglutinating. but which is the mass? and which is the gravity?

I'm beginning to understand, how is it (and thus, why is it) that decentralization is doomed to fail under our current culture.

decentralization, like what you describe in cab services, dilutes power. that's it. that's the only reason necessary to explain why it'll never be allowed to stay decentralized (and decentralizing). in many countries/cities, cab liceneses are quite a corrupt business; it comes down to who you know that can hook you up with one (kinda like drugs but without the raw illegality). typically the driver does not own neither the cab nor the licence; they're just some poor employee without many options.

>It would be fully decentralized, except for the payment part. If you have everyone on your platform you don’t need to issue tokens and other bullshit. Just build something useful and they will come.

sounds naive, you know who will also come if you start to get popular with your platform? the government/police who really act quite like a mob. them people who want/need/like to be powerful. because any such platform which is popular has power, power ripe for 'centralizing'; just say it's for safey and legality instead of 'centralizing'.

it sure does look like such a thing

then again, everything we see is majoritarily 2 dimensional (with a whisper or soft hint of depth)

and their bosses care about both developers and designers being replaceable cogs in their company... else the bus accident test fails

ah, so training to trigger people's fears from a young age... you know, for safety.

how long until there's an AI advanced enough to give psychological evaluation to other programs?

/joke

one of the driving patterns behind the whole internet (in concept) has always been to have dumb pipes and very smart edges/endpoints

so this is merely re-asserting one of the (now taken for granted) ideas that make the internet what it's become.