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Eric Harris-Braun
Personal blog · eric.harris-braun.com/blogprogrammingculture
Eric Harris-Braun writes flow, a personal blog at eric.harris-braun.com about programming and culture. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a reference in HN threads on public banking, where one commenter cites a 2007 post about the MetaCurrency Project. Other comments link nothing and don't assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
It's all about the pattern
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2007/05/14/id-532 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-22
What Hacker News says?
There are many calls for public banking by people such as Ellen Brown [1], as well organizations such as the MetaCurrency Project [2] and Positive Money [3]. [1] https://ellenbrown.com/what-are-public-banks-and-how-do-they... [2] http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/05/14/id-53 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCegQVljdY
Comment linking /blog/2007/05/14/id-53
on “Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees”Glad you enjoyed it! I'm convinced we've just taken the industrial age economic and banking system and copied it into the digital age, but we haven't accounted for the near-zero marginal cost of information creation, storage and transmission. So the actual scarcity vs. the artificial scarcity of things is off. I think we can get there by valuing knowledge differently: subsidizing the cost of knowledge production and…
Comment linking /blog/2007/11/05/id-55
on “Why my book can be downloaded for free (2014)”With the maturing of the Holochain framework (a novel data integrity engine for fully distributed applications [1]), Valueflows/hREA and Holochain apps will start taking off. My hope is that this will rewire our society in two significant ways: 1) Through hREA and REA accounting in general, we will start having better wealth acknowledgement systems and a new grammar for different types of wealth [2],[3]. 2) No more…
Comment linking /blog/2007/11/05/id-55
on “Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?”> For an advanced country that actually has to create new things, the cost:benefits shifts in favour of more IP then the earlier stage. This is a myth; a very destructive myth. To quote professor Mazzucato: ”According to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the dynamic entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the way. But what if all this was wrong? What if, from Silicon Valle…
Comment linking /blog/2007/12/07/id-58
on “Was Germany’s 19th century industrial expansion due to an absence of copyright?”> federation is dependent on domain names which can and are regularly seized by governments This is exactly what Arthur and Eric from the MetaCurrency Project aimed to confront. Protocol Cooperativism (not Platform Cooperativism) means direct, fully transparent, distributed, and mutually-sovereign protocol negotiation in all areas of our new digital world/life [1], making invisible the dogmatic legacy 'wealth acknow…
Comment linking /blog/2007/11/05/id-55
on “Radicle-Link: Extending Git with Peer-to-Peer Network Discovery”> In exchange the United States act like the world's rent-a-cop, keeping shipping lanes open and getting rid of those who stand in the way of global commerce (sometimes violently) "sometimes violently" is a bit of an understatement. With the use of our current system we are literally making the world uninhabitable for human existence. We are systemically destroying mother earth's carrying capacity through ecological…
Comment linking /blog/2007/05/14/id-53
on “Central Banking for All: A Public Option for Bank Accounts (2018) [pdf]”> a custom DHT called rrDHT (RedRibbon?) [1]. Which apparently they patented [2]. Like, WTF guys. yes, i agree it initially sounds counterproductive. their (imo legit) reasoning for this strategy though is protection from patent trolls: "Holochain in an open-source project - so why would we spend the time and money to file for a patent? The reality is that projects can be stopped in their tracks while using their ow…
Comment linking /blog/2007/12/07/id-58
on “Reflections of knowledge – Apps and APIs on the decentralized Web”Thanks, I realize I was not as clear as I wanted to be in my comment above 1) I wrote: > What would a F/LOSS world, without IP enforcement, BUT with authorship claims and a shared record of 'who was first', look like? I'd evolve this to: What would a F/LOSS world look like with a system that rewards copying and giving attribution (by being able to find, and getting to work with, other humans that have complementary…
Comment linking /blog/2007/11/05/id-55
on “Bill Gates - "IP is the incentive system for the products of the future" [2005]”
