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  • That’s less a problem with cloud flare it self and more just a issue of anything the scope and scale of what they have become. Even a better company would face the same issues.

    It’s fair to argue that they we should spread things out more to make them more resilient.

    But that’s more a knock against centralization than the service at hand. It’s also fair to show that they’re good enough that they were able to reach this point. Or more accurately. Everyone else was worse so they reached this point.

    It always feels like blaming cloudford at this point is much like blaming the horse for its Rider.




  • Over a long enough time scale, a different economic system would have pressures towards different goods and services.

    Why there would be definitely some similarities. A modern economic system such as capitalism and communism would result in two very invastly different things.

    While baseline technology would probably look, if not be the same, what is then used for and developed for would be different.

    For example, it’s more likely in a communist system that AI would be developed far more rapidly than we saw under capitalism.

    While capitalism pushes towards something like ads and monetizing information. Communism would push towards the acceleration and simplification of outmoding the worker entirely.

    For capitalism outmoding the worker is just a side effect of saving money. It’s not the goal. Under communism, it would be the goal since it would create the best possible circumstances for people to be able to live a equal life given the highest benefit of the communal progression.

    Different systems have different goals to argue that the same things would be created in the same order is just bad faith. Even arguing that things would be created exactly. The same is bad faith.

    A quick jump through the history books and even a service level understanding of History can prove that. The concept of simultaneous invention shows as much. The printing press is a fantastic example.

    Invented hundred years apart in two entirely different parts of the world. One barely used and quickly forgotten because their system of governance, economy and society did not see much of a point to it. While the other is what revolutionized the world.

    Different systems invent different things because they have different goals. Even when they do invent, the same thing doesn’t mean it’ll be used or even valued and thus never improved on.


  • But capital is. Both Russia and China are fighting for capital.

    With the space race the capital was military research, propaganda and money.

    In China it’s just money military research and propaganda

    No different than the United States where the capital is money, military research and propaganda

    End of the day it’s all just capital. How it’s controlled and what the capital is changes.

    But it all still the same thing being fought over.



  • Iv yet to see a single volunteer system that doesn’t require capital. Even unpaid volunteer labor requires capital to sustain the ability for people to volunteer.

    Go work with any non profit ever. Hell go just start trying to do anything at all. Capital is required even if free labor is used. :/

    Just because the retiree does something for free doesn’t make it free. Every system requires input for output.


  • Before capitalism they still used capital. Barter systems are still capital based.

    Equal exchange and cohabitation hunter gather groups are still capital based.

    Capital is just time. That’s all it is. What ways you quantify that is meaningless and pointless and every system is just a different way to quantify time. Capitalism uses currency debt as a trade standard for time. But it’s still just time.

    We compound it and trade cast quantities of other people’s time around this devaluing the individuals. Communism instead removes the ability to do so and tries to make it so each person’s time can only be traded by them. So the only way to get cast quantities of time is by working together.

    Even in a post commodity environment capital will still be the way trade with others. It would just be in time.


  • You can’t get the same product tho. And it’s not the only thing.

    The actual man power is only a fraction of what went into it.

    Connections, property, minerals, education and many many other aspects went into it.

    To design it with out capital you would need to find people who with out capital educated themselves

    With out capital find individuals who have the minerals and resources

    Lastly you need a way to connect all these people after you have found them

    None of this requires actual money to do in theory, but now you need to find a way to justify to these people to provide their fancy rocks and knowledge into a project that doesn’t actually benefit them unless a pre existing system that relied on capital existed to push development to the current state.

    The fundamental flaw that gets over looked is different economic systems push towards different advancements in technology.

    So to argue that a different system would be better suited is just a fallacy. You don’t get capitalist products and goods in a communist system.

    A system that optimizes for the worker would produce goods and services that improve the workers existence for example.

    You might get some over lap but the implementation would also be so wildly different. Hell for example in a theoretical non corrupt communist system LLMs and AI systems would be lauded as amazing by everyone.

    They are the ideal improvement of a system that shares resources to stream line and reduce the burden and quality of life of the working class. Since everyone would equally benifit from them and it would drive the hobbies artist out of a job but instead freeing them to make more personal art instead of art for the community.


  • So you just massively showed you have almost no actual knowledge of historical Christian sects.

    Plenty of non-trinitarians sects don’t believe Jesus died for our sins. Some don’t believe Jesus was real at all. Others believe that God and Jesus is the same thing while others believe Jesus was God taking mortal form.

    And plenty of them don’t agree that Jesus even died for our sins.

    Christadelphaisn, Jehovah witnesses, oneness Pentecostals, universalists, to just name a few example of how varied things can be.

    That’s not even getting into old old stuff back around like 300-400CE.

    If there is literally any defining aspect of Christianity is that it never agrees with any other aspect of Christianity. It’s one of the single most fractured religions in our history.

    Also your a God damn moron you ARE using a no true scottsman fallacy. Go read the god damn wiki page on the fallacy. Holy fuck man.






  • There shouldn’t be. The entire fucking point of a religion is to deify and be a follower. To obey and follow the rules and tenants of the word of the leader or God in which you worship.

    If you don’t know your scripture, then you arnt part of the religion. Full fucking stop.

    Your an idiot at best. At worse your literally being a cultist. To claim to be a member of a group with out knowing the very thing you worship or the teaching.

    That’s literally by definition a false member, a cultist.