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otherprob · on July 20, 2020

The bigger problem is that technology advancements gravitate at the demands of the noisiest, with the most social gravity.

Yes there are a lot of smart people at FAANG and Cloudflare corp.

There are a lot of just as capable folks not driven by job addicted meme.

Technically there’s no reason the web couldn’t be replaced with 1:many via Wireshark key sharing based access control to local content.

But via Wall Street, along these very particular rules, is how we are told to trade information. How is that not a planned economy?

Not just by doing what we’re clearly interested in doing naturally.

Make no mistake: big corp isn’t making us login at gunpoint. “They” didn’t do this. “We” did this.

dang · on July 20, 2020

Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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