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Printed money is decentralized and anonymous in the cash form.
Anonymous yes, decentralized no. The bill in your hand is printed by a central authority, is given value (or taken away, at their whim) by that same central authority, is protected by law, and is technically not even your property. It's the opposite of decentralized.
Domain: decentralize.today. Published on: Medium. Seriously, it isn't THAT hard to at least host your blog outside the centralized disservices. You could argue that reach is negatively affected. It probably is. But if everybody (and that includes the outlets promoting decentralization) just swallows the bait, how can things ever change? (Wo)man up!
Maybe the author should give a look at https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ - there are a lot of decentralised blog engines around.
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> If you were willing to ignore English grammar and definitions, and several centuries of precedent, and many many other things, you could interpret it that way. Wow, talk about being uncharitable. I'll just ignore your insult that I'm an ignoramus talking out of my ass and just address the content: the Supreme Court has ruled only twice on the interpretation of "the people", but there is still considerable debate ov…
I'm not being a dick, you're being uncharitable. >The declaration of independence also makes a broad statement that all men are created equal with unalienable rights. So? The Declaration of Independence is not part of the laws of the United States. Its statements have no bearing on them. > This is precisely how constitutional protections have been interpreted in other countries, for instance. Luckily, we're not talki…
Excuse me, but tons of hoopla is made about the intentions of the founding fathers. The declaration of independence obviously has direct bearing on this question, and therefore obviously has direct bearing on interpreting the constitution.
> Luckily, we're not talking about other countries.
That's a weak reply. The point you've failed to grasp is that a constitution requires interpretation, and interpretations change, even despite contrary precedent. The Supreme Court has changed interpretations on fundamental rights multiple times over the US's existence. The US constitution can be interpreted in the same way as other countries have done.
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I'm not being a dick, you're being uncharitable. >The declaration of independence also makes a broad statement that all men are created equal with unalienable rights. So? The Declaration of Independence is not part of the laws of the United States. Its statements have no bearing on them. > This is precisely how constitutional protections have been interpreted in other countries, for instance. Luckily, we're not talki…
> So? The Declaration of Independence is not part of the laws of the United States. Its statements have no bearing on them. Excuse me, but tons of hoopla is made about the intentions of the founding fathers. The declaration of independence obviously has direct bearing on this question, and therefore obviously has direct bearing on interpreting the constitution. > Luckily, we're not talking about other countries. That…
Insofar as the intent of framers of the Constitution (a set distinct from, though overlapping, the drafters and signatories of the Declaration of Independence) has relevance to interpreting the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence has very little value in establishing that intent, not only because the people are different, but because it is separated by fairly critical events from the drafting of the Constitution, which was, after all, not a response to the conditions that the DoI was drafter in response to, but a response to the perceived failures of the system of government adopted under the Articles of Confederation.
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Maybe the author should give a look at https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ - there are a lot of decentralised blog engines around.
You could also checkout https://cloudron.io we do try to make it a lot more user friendly and approachable to self-host your blog and lots of other app categories. I think once self-hosting such apps doesn't require much technical knowledge anymore, it removes a lot of friction for users.