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Show me a FOSS license where a commitment to indefinite maintenance is promised.

Social contracts are typically unwritten so the license would be the wrong place to look for it.

> Social contracts are typically unwritten

Maybe this is the case, but why is your presumption of entitlement to free labor of others the assumed social contract, the assumed "moral" position, rather than the immoral one?

Why is the assumed social contract that is unwritten not that you can have the free labor we've released to you so far, but we owe you nothing in the future?

There's too much assumption of the premise that "moral" and "social contract" are terms that make the entitled demands of free-loaders the good guys in this debate. Maybe the better "morality" is the selfless workers giving away the product of their labor for free are the actual good guys.


If it's neither written nor explicitly spoken, then it's not a contract of any kind. It's just an - usually naive - expectation.

A social contract isn't a legal contract to begin with, but even for those "written or explicitly spoken" is not a hard requirement.

A social contract still has to be explicit in some way to be considered such. Otherwise it's just an accepted convention.

That's not what a social contract is you are thinking of a legal contract, something very different. A social contract is by definition, implicit rather than explicit.

It was not expectation when they started, did a lot to lure many into the ecosystem. When you release it free, wait for the momentum to build, then you cut off, it is something else. And the worse is they did it in a very short time. Check out elasticsearch, the same route but did not abandon the 7 release like this.

I know all about ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Redis, etc. Yes, what they did sucks. No, it doesn't make the maintainers bad or anything. It's still on the user to know that anything can happen to that spiffy project they've been using for a while, and so be prepared to migrate at any time.

Is "singularity" the new 'rapture' or 'end of the world'? Who are the new nostradami and prophets?

> danger of mixing politics, ideology and architecture.

Like there's architecture that doesn't mix politics and/ideology? I sense conservatism in your comment which is a perspective/ideology (which i share btw). Ultimately I feel that taste drives a lot of these takes, not ideology or politics.

I've enjoyed the public areas of the barbican many many times - my only complain (its been many years I haven't been) is it doesn't have a lot of people sharing that space. You'll see that as argument that many people dont share my taste or the actual ideology/politics that led to that style is rejected by the public. I say: the barbican sits in the middle of one of the most depopulated (as in residents not office workers) of London. The areas around it are among the most expensive real estate in London. We all know how many European capitals and London in particular have become a piggy bank for the wealthy so I'd argue most people just cant afford to experience the barbican as well and as often for being pushed out


> not result in societal collapse within a short few lifetimes?

Seems like you're more conditioned by apocalyptical Christian logic than you think


No? That's the opposite. Christian logic dictates that we don't have to care about societal collapse, because it's prophesied and it's actually a good thing because that's when believers are raptured into heaven. There are accelerationists who actually hope this happens faster.

The population went from 1 billion to 8 billion in the last 226 years. So my question to you is: how many more billions do you really think our planet can support? How long can we support 8 billion?

According to the MAHB, the world's oil reserves will run out by 2052, natural gas by 2060 and coal by 2090. Maybe those estimates are sooner than reality, but still, I'd love to hear about how a solution to running out of fossil fuel energy abundance in the next 25-200 years involves growing the population.


1. What you describe already happens (has always happened?) in some blue collar jobs, its just the agencies dont call them gold or platinum plan, they call them "mandatory traning sessions" or "medical checks" that has built in admin fees.

2. Even linkedin upsells their plans "to increase you visibility"


But humans have evolved to socialize thinking, haven't we?

What is representative democracy if not that?

One reason - the main reason? - we live in groups with different roles and skills is to rely on others to think for us.


> But humans have evolved to socialize thinking, haven't we?

An overwhelmingly large number of people keep saying that socialism is bad, individualism is where it's at. I trust they're right.


But shouldn't it be the prosecution proving the video is real?

They have to prove the case to the jury "beyond reasonable doubt". The jury are at liberty to decide that they don't believe an unsupported claim by the defence, and that the evidence provided by the prosecution is sufficient. As judges sometimes say at the start of a case, the standard is beyond reasonable doubt, not beyond all possibility of being wrong.

I'm not sure they have to bother. The video could be fake, and they still committed the crime. People certainly use AI and other tools to "enhance" video.

The article mentions evidence placing them at the scene of the crime, wearing a matching outfit, and they can probably find witnesses.


Yes, but only if the judge who gets the case believes in silly things like "Federal Rules of Evidence."

Umm, no? In a criminal trial, a defendant cannot just claim an alibi like: "I was in another country", without showing some form of documentation like airplane tickets, credit card charges to hotels or restaurants, etc.

So, what prevents site to do dynamic pricing for bots checking sites for prices?

Of does affect you, it has always done. Not using social media has been a marker, placing some negative incentive on joining social media will help normalize people like you

This Zuckerman[0] would like a word

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


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