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You're describing planned and unplanned economies, which aligns somewhat with capitalism and state communism but is not the defining feature of them.

The main difference is ownership of the means of production/companies by the workers or by a separate group that might not work at the company at all.

No, software licensing often gets in the way.

The difference is that a government or company can't ban you from using a cryptocurrency. They can only make it more difficult by banning your access to certain exchanges or something similar.

And then coal mining will be highly paid work, as it should be.

How will market forces force a redistribution when they can just invest their wealth and keep growing it even more?

People mostly use descriptions like "dictator" or "murderer" for Putin, not wordplay based insults.

Real time chess is a similar example of making a known game more dynamic and completely changing which positions are seen as strong or weak.

As if Trump cares about precedent. It makes no difference.

It is censorship but it's not widespread or a violation of the first amendment.

I only know of Wukong, are there other ones worth checking out?

TikTok wasn't being supressed and Communist doesn't originate from China.

Could also have a minimum duration (for example 3 years) where you pay even if you go over the original loan amount.

That would mean people that get great paying jobs right out of college would pay more than they even borrowed, but it would be justified because the degree would likely have had a big impact if it was so soon after finishing the degree.

Apple users tend to be people that don't value customization as much as users on other platforms and mostly stick with the defaults or whatever Apple solution is already provided.

That makes it so Safari has a huge advantage over Firefox which is only the default on Linux, which has a tiny Desktop/Mobile install base compared to iOS and MacOS.

Google doesn't fund Mozilla because it is in the browser market, it does it so it can keep the search engine dominance.

Google also pays Apple for the same reason.

Now it would probably be paying the Chrome company as well.

It might not make as much money as live service but it might work like halo cars for the auto industry, giving them lots of press and attention and higher status as a game developer.

Russian democracy did die with a grand take-over event, the 1993 coup, with literal tanks shooting at government buildings.

I'm shocked that you would use Russia as an example of a slowly dying democracy.

If by industry you mean exclusively the already giant tech companies.

What priviledges are those?

Inventors could just license their inventions, no need to produce themselves or transfer them.

But isn't the burden of proof, and thus most of the litigation costs, on the patent troll?

The court can't just assume that you're violating their patent because they say so, they have to prove it to a reasonable level, right?

Except it doesn't apply to patent trolls at all. They don't go after big companies, they mostly go after small ones that they don't expect to fight back, and they mostly use broad and vague patents that shouldn't even have been issued. That's what makes them patent trolls, they're patents are BS.

Signal clients are open source.

IPFS is a network that solves your coordination problem, compared to torrents it allows you to decide which chunks you want to store and it will even de-duplicate automatically across different "torrents" that happen to include the exact same byte-identical file.

Tesla's have been hacked multiple times in the past as well.

Let's be real, GPS is much more accurate than whatever boundary for the national park that someone might come up with, where the park starts is really ambiguos unless there's a physical man made divisor like a fence.

That lasted less than a year, I don't think it even registered as part of the culture or tradition.

Firefox can definitely download very large files with no problem, JS doesn't even need to be involved, downloading a file is ancient browser functionality.

The server sends an application/octet-stream response and a few other headers and it works.

Steam isn't an unimpeachable monopoly, their competition is just so much worse.

Russia is not a superpower if it can't even have air superiority on its own land and struggles to push beyond 150km from its own border, it's just a very nuclear armed nation thanks to the Soviet days.

As for the NATO enlargement narrative I don't know why people still try to push this when it's clear as water that Russia wants to annex more and more territory, even their conditions for ceasefire are mostly about Ukraine ceding territory to Russia.

Many of them should be treated to non-violent home theft, adjusted for the value of the fraud.

Defrauded people out of 10M? That's about as much or more than 1000 home thefts, which would probably land you in prison for life.