Well said. Ideas are not scarce, only the physical realm is. Its not hard to envision the coder being paid to code; when no more code is being written, there are no more checks coming in. Nobody is owed anything based on past accomplishments. In the information age, reputation is _everything_.
I actually knew Unity/mir was doomed over 2 years ago. I can also say aptitude is doomed. Nix or a derivative renders imperative system management obsolete.
BoA gave everybody's money-substitute-government-credit away, but few have realised it (Even thou BoA says so themselves in their financial statements). So the guy is lucky in a way; he now doesn't trust the thieves. Even fewer realise that the banknotes they are so proudly holding have long ago been defaulted on. It's all running on illusions now. Sell your paper.
The problem isn't software. Let's say I have a dozen engineers to develop a mobile UI on top of BSD. What do we use? Nothing, Nada, rien. There is no real hardware. Even Linus can make a kernel, if there is hardware to develop it on! So software isn't the problem.
If I actually trusted the derivative counterparties to remain solvent, I'd reopen a trading to put a long short strategy on this. Everybody seems so have missed the glaring fact that the electric transport isn't going to go anywhere; the lucky ones will have good bi/tricycles, or horse/mules and cart. Motorized transport wasn't a product of humanity's sheer desire for it! It was only caused by the incomparably immense oversupply of energy from fossil fuels, which was a one-off. We can just pray that the transition won't destroy us. Electric lights and computer networks would be nice to salvage out of it. Did you think you'd never use a 100mhz CPU again? The suckless guys have the right idea; we need more efficiency and standardization, not bigger frameworks running on faster chips. I want a 500mW workstation with relatively fast e-ink like display. I'd sell billions of em. Sell your (e)cars, buy yourselves nice bicycles. You won't regret it.
Opium is the most beneficial plant known to man.
Your solutions are wrong:
If opium isn't banned, everyone can grow poppies and enjoy natural opium latex. Nobody would use fentanyl. It wouldn't even be produced. And, yes, it cures alcohol addiction. Ethanol is a poison, morphine is a medicine.
I agree that open/free access to opiates is a solution and don't think I wrote anything against opium? - I mentioned better replacement therapy ie the actual drugs instead of methadone/subs.
I'm also not sure that Fent/synthetic opiates would go away if everyone could grow opium. It depends on cost and scale. Fent is cheap as shit for how powerful it is. I'm not sure mass cultivation (time + resources) would be cheaper. IDK maybe I have no idea I have never grown poppies and don't know the cost.
But I do know the price for 100 grams of fent and it's insanely cheap.
If opium/naturally derived opiates were available for cheaper/free from governments than sure it would probably reduce dramatically the amount of fent produced.
I'm not sure how I feel about your characterization of poison/medicine.
I don't want to argue about it either.
But I guess I'm genuinely curious as to where you're coming from with that statement and your experience. Are you an opiate user? alcoholic/recovering alcoholic or addict? mental health? everyone's experience is different so who am I to judge or critique.
edit again don't want to argue, but I guess I would offer a simple question about the 'most beneficial plant known to man'. How would you compare say, antibiotics derived from plants to poppies in terms of benefit to man?
When the patents of the piston engine ended, the combustion engine saw tremendous innovation. So as long as the monopoly is in place, only the military will get hand held computers, and everyone else will get toys. IP is fraud.
The ICE originated ... about 1880. Innovation in ICEs and automobiles peaked around the 1920s (Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, 2016), and for aviation, jet propulsion excepted, about a decade later. Even jet aviation's progressed comparatively little since the 1960s, with most advances being in materials and control systems. Actual travel experience has declined as a function of total speed (though safety has improved).
I'm not discounting the possiblity that the ICE saw patent-induced retardation in development (the case is strongly made for steam power and Watt's extended patents, expiring in 1800). But I'd really like to see a source.
On the other hand, lack of some protection against competition, or a reasonable business model, often stop the the serious investment needed to take many products to market.
Maybe an interesting useful compromise, would be to build a patent pool(maybe between universities), where you must contribute any patent you develop, but you can use patents freely for research and small scale commercialization - but in any case of large scale commercialization, you agree to share some reasonable percent of royalties among the relevant patents of that pool , with the amount that goes towards each patent doesn't interefere with your business, and gets settled in a fair, sideway process ?
I wouldn't go that far. IP is a carrot for development. Imagine if you spend a decade and $100K developing an idea, and just when it started taking off, Oracle or somebody copied it and took the entire market. That can and does still happen, but at least you have legal recourse with IP laws.
It was originally a way to foster innovation for a maximum of 28 years, then the works would enter the public domain to be improved upon. Over the years, the copyright duration has become ridiculously long, negating the social benefits of it's existence.
The fundamental concept is sound, it's when it's perverted to help the wolves rather than the sheep that it stinks.
Even the phrase "intellectual property" is highly tendentious. It implies property right where there are none. What you get from the patent office is a temporary government granted monopoly.
Often, as with, for example, spectrum, the people holding the license tend to view the object, and not the government granted license, as their perpetual property.
Depends upon how you look at it. I find the idea of property rights a bit funny because every physical thing you can own exists because in the past someone murdered the fuck out of people to own what it's made from.
In that regard, intellectual property is the only property not built on human suffering.
Actually the BIS just had a report that put the Canadian banking sector as the riskiest, ahead of Greece. Most leveraged consumer in the world. I moved out; it's about to implode. If I was still there I'd raise some sheep. They're smarter than the legions of Govt educated 33x leveraged owners of the most expensive housing market ever.
I'm kinda amazed at what's happened in Canada. They largely missed the 2008 meltdown because their banking industry was still well-regulated and didn't participate in shenanigans. So apparently they decided to deregulate their banking sector and engage in shenanigans? Because now they look pretty much exactly like the USA in 2007.
Wow - harsh assessment! Yes its true that Canada's housing market is getting overheated, and it has been for a while. In sticking with our sheep analogy, may I ask which greener pastures have you've roamed to?
