It's a governance concept based on the idea that votes should be tradeable. The concept is quite simple, but it leads to some truly hairy game theory problems. Code here: https://github.com/evronm/marketDAO
I'm no fan of e.g. Jeff Bezos. But here are a few things he doesn't do with his money:
- Kill People
- Torture people
- Lock people up
So I'd much rather have him keep his money than have to hand it over to people who will use it for these purposes. Yeah, I know, I know, they build roads and it's absolutely impossible to build roads without extorting the entire population.
Am I the only one having DNS issues with this site? For some reason, no matter which DNS server I query, it resolves to my router, yet it seems most everyone reaches it without issue.
Really short answer: They want back doors to all this stuff, including your cc info. As long as only the "good guys have" this ability, what could go wrong?
Wow! The last 4 would have been my entire list. I'm unfamiliar with the first four, but given the end of your list, I have to imagine we have really similar opinions about documentation. I'll definitely keep that git book in mind should I ever want to learn more about git.
I took a class with Professor Carse in NYU circa 1990. It was definitely among my favorite classes in my entire college experience even though he insisted on holding it early in the morning and I was invariably hung over and tired.
It's really nice to see quotes from this book come up from time to time. Seems it's finally finding its audience decades after publication, which is gratifying. Great book; great thinker and lecturer.
Amusing(ish) anecdote: After college I worked as a live audio engineer and once did sound for his sons' band, name "Urban Blight." Sort of a funky, 90's NYC band. Nothing spectacular, but pretty good stuff.