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ameliustoday at 11:03 AM2 repliesview on HN

Freedom is never absolute. What gives one person freedom may limit another person's freedoms. Therefore you will have to weigh the pros and the cons of a technology that promises freedom.


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ethbr1today at 11:38 AM

I'd extend that a bit, in the same vein as TFA: you should always be aware of who you're taking freedom away from and who you're giving it to, in practical actual terms, when designing or deploying revolutionary technology.

If you deploy a non-government fiat monetary system... most of your users are going to be people who want to avoid government currency controls.

Consequently, without a counterbalance, they're going to skew the industry towards their needs.

In the same way that allowing the largest advertising company in the world to own the most popular browser in the world has some conflicts of interest.

Money sets strategic direction over the long term.

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Dilettante_today at 11:35 AM

There is a difference between "Freedom to do something" and "Freedom to not have something happen to you".

If we keep curtailing the former to serve the latter, we will end up perfectly safe from interruptions, doing nothing at all(aside from what the government dictates as 'serving the common good')

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