Real life as food for thought. Reading you all I'm reminded of the part in Nick Cave doc 20,000 Days where he basically repeats the "every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief" trope -- I'm wondering why artists are so much more ready to admit to this than technologists.
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Ah! Publicly - or intra-group?
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Good Q! To me those count as public - but I also acknowledge the bubble effect. What do you think?
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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants” is the credo of any honest technologist or scientist
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Agree
@sonyaellenmann 's thesis - I've been coding for salary for 25 years and we don't say things like "I'm a thief" because no one is ever in doubt FOR A SECOND that we're writing a 0.01% layer on top of a massive stack. You can read our code and see the API calls!3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
A lot of it is written under a license which explicitly says “in return for all the code i have stolen, you may steal this, but only if you allow others to steal your changes in turn”
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yep.
related, in another tab I've got @slatestarcodex arguing in favor of Georgism
" Capitalists deserve to keep the value they create, but they also owe rent on common resources which they enclose and monopolize "
synchronicity !
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