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@mcc Yes, they have different reactions to feedback. By this argument malice and incompetence are distinguishable at low degree but converge in extremis.
"Every renderer that works contains an even number of sign mistakes"
@mcc AT-ST
Encouraging the youth to watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) to radicalize them against private sector sabotage of public transit options
@mcc The details are replaceable, and other cryptocurrencies do replace them. Replacements remain harmful because they are constrained by simple principles:
1. a currency cannot survive if there is no barrier to inflation.
2. designers of crypto reject the "responsible steward" barrier to inflation as fallible, demand a mechanism that provides a natural barrier.
3. wasting a real resource to produce the currency is the only mechanism that can meet this requirement.
@mcc Capitalism is the idea that managing a business is proof of wisdom, and I doubt this idea will be banished from society so long as they have enough money to attract flatterers. However the circumstances and preferences of the business executives change, so long as the system presumes they are trustworthy, that system is a capitalist one.
@krishean @megmac @mcc I believe if the stub finds the tool it should forward the tool's return code. Otherwise errors would be suppressed.

@mcc I think I often observe designs intending decentralization lead to precarious centralization. email wasn't supposed to be dominated by gmail, but it is. Google exploits gmail but limits visibility of that exploitation, likely because they understand their grip on e-mail to be weak.

"The more you tighten your grip, the more users slip through your fingers" appears to be a rule of all systems, but some systems leak faster than others.

@mcc Mining comets is easy because you just need heat and everything makes heat, you can't stop things from making heat. Mining asteroids is easy because ice-tipped drill bits are really good.
@mcc We learned how to synthesize diamonds but did not start building things out of diamond because being harder than steel does not allow diamond to hold up a building better than steel. I suspect no rigid crystal is going to beat metals.