Let’s go one further and compel Apple, Microsoft, and Google to open source their entire operating systems. :)
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Let’s go one further and compel Apple, Microsoft, and Google to open source their entire operating systems. :)
Laughs nervously in a Boston accent….
I think it’s because you’re an actual leftist trapped in a place that has two Republican parties.
I’m looking into using NOSTR on a project that was originally going to be a Lemmy fork that allows retailers to broadcast their inventories to decentralized aggregators (or even run their own).
Sneakers is one where a remake might actually be welcomed. I adore the original but spycraft has changed so much. It’s a fascinating genre too. Probably my favorite.
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I read somewhere that he wrote it. It was a reliable news article actually…aaaaaand it disappeared.
Anyway, he certainly was instrumental in helping write it. I think you’re trying to downplay his role in it. He was THE champion of the bill and Hunter got $250,000 paycheck from MBNA the following year. Explain that for us.
Here’s some quotes from an article on this subject:
But it passed anyway, with 18 Democratic senators breaking ranks and casting their vote in favor of the bill. Of those 18, one politician stood out as an especially enthusiastic champion of the credit companies who, as it happens, had given him hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions – Joe Biden.
Despite his protestations, it is indisputable that Biden was an avid supporter of the 2005 bill as a whole and of its overall thrust of tightening up the bankruptcy code largely to the benefit of lenders at the expense of distressed families who would find it harder to file for bankruptcy.
“Biden was one of the most powerful people who could have said no, who could have changed this. Instead he used his leadership role to limit the ability of other Democrats who had concerns and who wanted the bill softened,” said Melissa Jacoby, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill specialising in bankruptcy.
https://jacobin.com/2022/04/joe-biden-student-loan-debt-bankruptcy-democrats
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mbna-paid-bidens-son-as-biden-backed-bill/
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/us/politics/25biden.html
https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-releases-evidence-of-direct-payment-to-joe-biden/
https://www.propublica.org/article/bidens-cozy-relations-with-bank-industry-825
https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/08/senator-mbna-byron-york/amp/
Ps. But he’s a decent man™️©️
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I’ve been thinking a lot about this. Another way might be for a Lemmy instance to run a stake pool from the same machine. They could offer perks to users while also not requiring donations directly. Perhaps even reward users with the pool’s native tokens for every post they submit or something (this is a great place to bring up the drawbacks and very real issues that offering a perverse incentive can have: Cobra Effect).
The mere use of the chain (in this case Cardano would be my recommendation LITERALLY because I prefer the tech) because that stake pool could mint native tokens and use those as a currency for use on their instance. Native tokens on Cardano are super cheap to use and mint. So it would allow that instance to have it’s own native currency,
Look at Kbin’s old code. There’s some mention of Cardano wallets on there so I’m guessing that the creator of that was interested in this idea.