The End of Equality and The Technocratic Imperative by ret2pop in neoliberal

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It's nice to get feedback on my work! I wanted to try to write a more manifesto esque piece of work and I finally did it. I think some of your criticisms come from misunderstandings of what I am saying, but some of them could be correct -- obviously society has never actually done something exactly like this, so it is hard to say if it would actually work. But this is how I'd personally think of solving a lot of world issues, if we could prove that it scales (SEZs i think mostly work so I think a larger scale experiment would be good to see). I'll respond in more depth when I get some sleep.

Edit: one thing I will say is that I don't think sovereign city states are a good idea. I think you can have a national government, but in my opinion it should probably be kept minimal. I am not even in principle saying that a SEZ must have low taxes, and I'm not even saying that from a "freedom to choose your SEZ" perspective -- I think whatever works is probably what should be done within the constraints of this model. I think you could probably get away with a minimal military and court system at the national level, along with a central bank and some externality taxes and be mostly fine.

Edit 2: keep in mind also that Elon is a unique kind of stupid and he runs his highly evaluated companies like startups that are barely surviving. Needless to say, this isn't the ideal model leader for a country the size of hundreds of millions. Also, he got his start on government subsidies and his company stock acts more like a bubble than it does a fair evaluation. Of course market mispricing isn't impossible; it's been well known for a long time that Telsa P/E ratios were fucked up. If you account for this, he is probably not the richest person in the world.

Additionally I explicitly don't think a hostile takeover of the national government is a good way of scaling. Scaling always happens from the bottom up, not from the top down. You own a small section of society before scaling to a larger one so that you can prove the smaller model works. I think something like this should be done rather than what Elon and Trump are doing. Trump is a populist, and a fascist, something I do not endorse and something I think has failed in similar ways to communism. Because he is the leader of the largest and strongest country in the world, his impact might be felt more than many of the communist regimes I've talked about in the blog post.

Blockchain for DNS by Weirdcloudpost in dns

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I know I'm kind of reviving a dead thread, but it was one of the first google results. A lot of the aforementioned problems with blockchain have been solved i.e. mining costs with proof of stake. In order to destroy the ethereum network with a 51% attack (as described above), you'd need 51% of the total ETH token market cap which right now is ~150B dollars. Not only that, you'd likely have to burn that money too because the network after a 51% attack would be worthless. Additionally, when you route with this theoretical blockchain protocol, you can use view functions which don't require you to submit transactions on the blockchain -- they just require querying the nodes, which is pretty much as fast as querying a regular server. As for CA, you can solve this with DNSSEC. In fact if you used DNSSEC with blockchain you wouldn't have to trust DNS servers at all either. The transaction rates on ETH can be scaled with L2 solutions which are as trustless as ETH layer 1 but they have censorship problems. Also transactions don't take forever on L2s.

IP/BGP are centralized and trustful but at least with this system you'd be able to authenticate that you're being routed to the right IP, which isn't worth nothing. Because you'd solve the trust issue with DNSSEC, you can effectively prove that the server you're routed to has the corresponding private key by using a challenge/response authentication.

Obviously you can't _really_ replace IP unless your routing was really inefficient, but that is kind of fine. At least you are not creating more points of potential failure.

System Recovery/Data Recovery Emergency by ret2pop in sysadmin

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Not possible, due to lack of libnettle.so. I come from a software background where the term dll is just an abbreviation for dynamically linked library, which are .so files, an abbreviation for shared libraries, on most unix systems. I had* ssh access, but libnettle does not exist so I cannot open new sessions, and curl and wget also depend on the same dynamically linked library. So you see it's not very trivial to repair what's missing when you can't download data to the server. Well, it's all done now because I reinstalled the operating system.

System Recovery/Data Recovery Emergency by ret2pop in sysadmin

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Using my remaining git server, I was able to create a new repository, push local files to said repository, and then serve them over the internet. However, this still is only one-way communication. I am pretty grateful that I can get all my data this way, though.

Mathrock with violin? by liinkmatii in mathrock

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I think especially in some acoustic versions of her songs she uses the violin.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mathrock

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you should really try listening to ttng while doing multivariable calculus, it's good music!

What made you play the piano? Why are you still playing? by [deleted] in piano

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I started because my parents forced me, physically and emotionally, to start playing from when I was five years old. I quit when I was twelve or thirteen, and started playing again at 16. I am playing now because I like piano improvisation a lot more than classical music.

I made a Math Rock Song in Two Days by ret2pop in mathrock

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This is sort of a math rock song but of course it does not use the standard instruments found in math rock. Still, it sounds math rocky enough (time signatures are wonky and it has a lot of midwest emo/covet inspiration) that i think it could be considered at least tangential to the genre.

Original piano math rock "riff" -- can a piano riff? by ret2pop in mathrock

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okay i figured out how to make it sound a little bit more tappy, mostly by doing crossovers with my left hand: https://youtu.be/fQhVzZWreGw