Month: February 2023
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Organic systems have three states
Systems exist in one of three conditions, they are healthy, they are unhealthy because they are growing out of control, or they are unhealthy because they are self-destructive. Unbounded growth. Autonomous actors grow unbounded and overwhelm the system (a.k.a., cancer). Stable. Autonomous actors go about their business, generally getting along, generally preserving or advancing the…
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An Internet that fits my notion of what the Internet is
We are all reflections of the world that raised us, shimmering and twisting and deforming as ripples distort our surface, and so it is that our notions of what should be and of what ought be and of what could be are each derivative of this reflection. The Internet is a technology, and like any…
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1600 hours
It might be the case that the greatest change in American society we could make is to fix Federal Officer pay schedule as a multiple of 1600 hours of the Federal Minimum wage and to tax corporations based on how much greater that multiple is between their lowest paid worker and their highest. Currently the…