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Anarchism can never even exist, let alone work, because it defines itself in a fundamentally nonsensical way. It distinguishes itself on the principle of 'non-coerciveness'. But co…

Always good to see a zero-CSS website. The true zen-master style of web production ‒ many tacitly aspire to its purity, yet few are able to shake off worldly temptations to attain …

https://www.hxa.name/ ‒ lightweight, handmade, maybe a little bit of unusualness of design, quite a few writings, some software, other oddities, and almost 20 years old.

Software is not all made up out of thin air -- you do not 'choose your own gravity'. The equivalent of phyical laws in software are computational/algorithmical, logical laws. For e…

This is, well, shallow propagandising guff. It promotes an agenda but diverts criticism with mythologising illusion. Markets fail in various ways. Should we just let that happen? -…

What is this 'theory' Naur talks of? It is not a nebulous feeling or sensation, it is something complex, articulate -- something 'built'. But how can something with logical structu…

Naur's article is based on a contradiction: On one hand, a 'theory' is described as something completely internal and irreducible: "the theory, is not, and cannot be, expressed" (q…

That argument, commonly associated with Hayek, quite trivially does not make sense. If the information is unknowable, then it cannot play any role economically. If it is unknowable…

As Landes and Posner say in 'The economic structure of intellectual property law' (Conclusion, p422, s3) (2003): "Economic analysis has come up short of providing either theoretica…

If plenty of music is being made, so what? If certain businesses cannot make so much money, tough luck on them -- they should get out of business. That is the market. The purpose o…

The copyright industry has been 'crying wolf' for ages. No-one should listen. We do not even know that very large amounts of piracy would be bad -- the market would probably reconf…

That question has been answered: we have had plenty of piracy for years now -- and do we still have plenty of film/TV/music/book production? Yes! So piracy (at least, as we have kn…

And if you like that (spheres only), you might also like this (general triangles-based), in 444 lines of Scala (and OCaml, Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, C++, and C): http://www.hxa.na…

This is quite pointless because it essentially cancels out. To get a cooperative structure you have to give away surplus -- that is, people with more have to give it to people with…

If they made lots of money, good: they offered a service the public wanted. As far as that basic model goes they added value into the economy. Anyone who wants to claim there is so…

> That's what's so stupid about the entire article. You could just as easily make a case that everything we have today is the result of gentlemen scientists from the renaissance Or…

Let's not confuse product with implementation. Someone still needs to choose and arrange data-structures and algorithms to fit available resources. That is engineering. Just becaus…

What precisely is wrong with people copying things for free? Since these are non-rival, non-finite goods -- that is, as many people can use or reproduce them as want to without obs…

Why? If you want to measure energy, measure energy. The point of currency is something else. Currency/money is a data-structure for a kind of cooperation algorithm . That is the wa…

What makes using an honesty-box moral? It is not that one side has dictated the terms. Imagine finding an empty car-park, parking your car, approaching the honesty-box and finding …

> people have decided that they have an intrinsic right to content They do -- people do indeed have pretty much exactly that: an intrinsic right -- to copy and share intellectual/i…

Your 'publication of ideas' argument applies only to things that can be hidden. But the patent system applies to a super-set: things that are plain, too. Therefore, by your own arg…

The program get shorter because the author learned more and improved it each time, not mainly because of the languages. Mainstream programming languages do not seem to vary much in…

While that is certainly a nice and well regarded model, it does not say much about what actually happens. It really only amounts to a proposition, and cannot be read as indicating …

Copyright is not justified by it being a way to maximise producers' revenue. Such principle would set no limit to laws that restrict people in general to make money for some few. T…