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because 'knowledge' on its own will not work to wield power over others just by itself. there are other ingredients in ensuring that knowledge can be used as power; these usually l…

I absolutely despise the ancient traditional ways they practice: referring to their techniques of 'mystery', secrecy, and occultation of knowledge (which they do in order to constr…

but how do you prove that? seems like in practice it would boil down to whose lawyers are better which is just a proxy for which party has more money.

there's definitely something deeper and more significant between start at zero and start at one. something which mathematics alone is not sufficient to uncover, it requires more fo…

they're running a business, after all.

that's a fine example of capitalism driving costs down and making things cheaper.

because go big or GTFO? I posit this as an explanation. I think "go big or go home" is a terrible mindset.

worker owned companies being the norm rather than the exception would be nice

I completely disagree... on the trend you back up, I see a future where you cannot cook your own food unless you've become a professional specialist of cooking (for food safety). g…

I consider it morally wrong for a system (this system) to expect people who essentially embody a company to not be considered to own the company. This means that such people do not…

FOSS was never about open source, it was about freedom and liberty. It is supposed to advocate a lack of restrictions upon what users can do to the software to balance against what…

IMO, such a viewpoint about "learning" is limited to learning 'knowledge'; i.e. this sort of 'learning' is limited to repeating (replicating) facts external. I wonder, if learning …