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The irony is that they are defending the right of a manufacturing cartel to limit the options of what these valiant freedom fighters can do with stuff they own (with the "hard-won"…

A repairability index is about as objective as can get: a list a components and their modes of failure along with a checklist of: * what can be repaired by the owner using spare pa…

Very interesting find, even though not their target: "Interestingly, there is in fact a noticeable downward slope in average sentiment over time for those topics as well" I would s…

"right to Repair is incredibly popular because it’s common sense—at least to those who aren’t manufacturers. Society works best when we are empowered to fix our stuff" here is the …

Python is now bigger than what even its most keen friends ever imagined might happen. This is not automatically solving the issues, nor make it more likeable to those who dislike i…

Something I noticed about all these projects (and they are quite a few) is that they are quite old (some going back ~2 decades or so). I wonder what is the dynamic behind that long…

I think what you are asking for is for an abstraction layer that is on top of what the current systems do. LaTeX is a very good analogy, as it is a set of macros that hide away the…

Excellent storytelling, fluidly integrating geospatial data and other visual elements and statistics in a smooth flow. Who knows, maybe one day such a "visual space" inside a brows…

One day humanity will recognize that people have divergent tastes in programming languages syntax that have no obvious rational basis. Me curly brackets, you no curly brackets. Etc…

Thats a rather incomplete business model description of banking. There are at least three distinct elements and largely unrelated to core banking: payments infrastructure / gatekee…

Any references to narrow banking been tried and "not working"? Separating the issue of private money from providing commercial credit risk insurance (ala CDS) should be possible.

There should be more of this. Much more. From different angles and view points but with the same clarity and directness. Banking is in a deep, existential crisis for decades now an…

Is there some sort of citizen science we could engage-in with these datasets? When zooming in on Euclid’s view of the Perseus cluster of galaxies I see some very strange stuff :-)

Landed gentry owning the political process reminds of feudalism, not democracy.

The city's residents don't live in autarky in an island or some remote planet, they benefit greatly and in countless ways from being part of a nation state (and even more abstractl…

Sorry to bring you the bad news, but your lifetime is (likely) finite and each brush stroke takes away a bit of that precious finite time. In contrast, while digitally reproduced c…

The GIS in Godot vision talk a bit unlucky, but amazing food for thought nevertheless. The combinatorial repurposing of open source platforms, apps, libraries etc for use cases bey…

There seems to be currency with debunking tulipmania but reading this [1] it seems people play more with the semantics, i.e., what kind of market behavior do you admit into the "ma…

> almost completely strange but true, scarcity comes in different sizes. Is the infinity of NFT's the same as that of paintings? How many types of infinite junk are there? Or is th…

Would be cool to have some sort of well defined "bubble-mania-meter" but it is unfortunately quite subjective. The role of scarcity is something interesting to consider as input. S…

More economic title: "Holy wars are coordination problems". As an uncanny cosmic coincidence would have it, today is an anniversary of the Third Council of Constantinople , counted…

Pretty much the blueprint for any and all bubbles. There might be a sense in which bubbles are getting more ridiculous over time (e.g., NFT) but it would be hard to prove it in any…

There are so many moving parts, indices and measurements in economics, anybody sufficiently familiar with the data landscape can "prove" any (typically political) point they want b…

We have so thoroughly lost the art of oral information transmission it is hard to even have a gut feeling as to how it may have worked over generations. For example did people dist…

An immutable blockchain record would seem to be appropriate? I will let you come up with a suitable name for such a chain (and the corresponding coin).