āIf the users donāt control the program, the program controls the usersā - Richard Stallman
Currently learning about the origins of Hacker Culture documented by Aaron Van Wirdum in The Genesis Book
Iāve been conditioned to believe hackers are criminals who want to wreak havoc but the original hackers or āHacksā as they referred to themselves were a passionate group out of MIT who figured out how to access and edit the source code of the TX-0 and challenged each to make the computer perform increasingly difficult tasks.
They were well aware of the impact computers were going to have on the world, they developed a philosophical and ethical framework and were passionate about the necessity of open source software.
They could see the dangers of closed source software very early.
Proof-of-work #JiuJitsu
Kade Ruotolo is going to cause some serious issues in MMA and Iām here for it š
āWhile Keynes argued that governments should play an active role in managing the economy , Hayek maintained that the free market was best left to its own devicesā
In other words, letās go into the forest and start re-organising nature to suit our current whim and ignore the spontaneous sacred order at play.