On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 01:38:16PM +1000, [email protected] wrote: > On 2020-08-23 13:16, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 10:31:26 +1000 > > [email protected] wrote: > > > >> On 2020-08-23 03:35, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > >>> On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 04:50:25 +0000 (UTC) > >>> jim bell <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> www.Tesmanian.com: SpaceX is getting closer to offering Starlink > >>>> Internet. > >>>> https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/starlink-sats > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Why don't you explain how that will affect human freedom? > >> > >> The space internet will be controlled by Musk, while the ground internet > >> is controlled by the state authorities > > > musk is just a figurehead and facade for NASA-NSA-jakobo-goldman-sachs > > and the-rest-of-govcorp. > > None of which were able to get a man to the space station and back, > despite trying for many years. > > True, Musk has no power. And I have no power. But if all goes > according to plan, he will have power. > > If Musk builds a space internet, he will have built a space based > powerbase that is physically resistant to the control of existing > states. If he settles Mars, the settlement will be physically resistant > to the control of existing states. > > In time, there will be corporations on the internet that derive their > cohesion from a proof of stake blockchain, where instead of shares whose > property rights are enforced by the state, and instead of the > corporation being an entity that derives its one-ness, its corporate > nature, from the identity bestowed by the state, there will be stake in > the corporate blockchain, and oneness derived from the paxos algorithm > enforced by cryptographic protocols.
What is "paxos algorithm"? > A proof of stake blockchain will be a sovereign corporation, and the > stake is shares in the corporation, while existing corporations are > creations of the sovereign. I look forward to sovereign corporations in > space. > > > >> It will also pass through with a much shorter ping time, which makes > >> teleconferencing more viable, thus enabling people in flyover country to > >> teleconference, whereupon it becomes a lot easier for members of the > >> elite to exercise power while in locations isolated from physical > >> violence by other members of the elite. Antifa and BLM is not going to > >> show up at your door, nor will the cops arrest you for suspected thought > >> crime, if you are located at your hobby farm in Oklahoma. I expect > >> massive relocation of members of the the elite to Texas, Oklahoma, and > >> Kansas. > > > you can live in a relatively remote and hard to access place and> have > > a ground radio link to the closest ISP. > > > Teleconferencing does not work very well, in large part because of the > long ping time. And it works considerably worse for members of the > elite because the main question that they are interested in is whom to > believe, and what the other member of the elite is really up to. > > Which is part of the reason why power tends to wind up concentrated in > the centers of certain cities - which cities are becoming more dangerous > as politics becomes more violent.
