Linus Torvalds, imo, is the reason we have open source, through Linux & Git. He’s the open source philosopher king.
I think he’s put enough in to know where his allegiance lies, over a 2010 US citizenship - a very different world.
There is also 0 chance, US/MS government hasn’t put a lot of pressure on him over the last 34 years of creating and spreading, at least the OS form of socialism
"hey," is a project I've been developing over the past several years, exploring a question that feels increasingly important for distributed systems:
Can identity, topology, and communication emerge directly from information itself — without configuration, without fixed IDs, without ports, without keys, and without a discovery service?
In "hey,", every node starts from the same initial bytes (ROOT) and evolves a recursively defined structure by folding in every event it experiences:
- success or failure when binding a port
- messages received
- local input
- the state projections of other nodes
This evolving structure is not metadata.
It is the node’s identity, its history, and its behaviour model.
From that single structure, nodes deterministically derive:
- their network port
- their next fallback port
- how they interpret peer messages
- how they respond
- and how they integrate into the mesh
There is no configuration.
No bootstrap server.
No membership protocol.
No global routing.
Yet nodes still discover each other, stabilise into a mesh, form communication channels, and maintain a shared symbolic dataspace — what I think of as a “symbol economy,” where meaning emerges naturally from entropy and interaction.
The system is minimal, but the implications are larger:
it hints at distributed systems driven by number theory and information flow rather than named identities or predesigned roles.
This could form the basis for:
- self-assembling P2P networks
- identity models rooted in informational history
- new forms of symbolic deduplication or superposition
- topology that emerges mathematically rather than being configured
- communication layers defined by entropic deltas instead of message schemas
The project is still early, but the underlying idea feels promising, and the current implementation already shows coherent (and sometimes surprising) emergent behaviour.
Alternatively, who would you trust with your data, an Ad company run by a McKinsey executive, or an NPO with a direct revenue stream partnered with Apple?
I’m not sure they need to coordinate, except for the state of US Politics. Take the hit now, then seek a long term better deal elsewhere, with more stable policies.
Out of curiosity, would you still need to pay the full tariff, if the cost of an item that was shifted to a token/smart contract, that only enabled a right to purchase, but reduce the device cost to like a dollar or shipping.
It’d be pretty cool if someone derived a legal smart contract solution. One could argue that, the tech enabled products are two things a digital service, and a manufactured product. Those costs could be potentially be seperated.
Interesting, I’d like to understand your argument. What exactly are you trying to say? I’d say what you see as kindness and generosity, was not so much that as a tool, to create and maintain an American economy that far outweighs its actual importance. Aid, Commoditised people, Petrodollar, Reserve currency.
One thing, I’d like to understand is do regular Americans think that the country, following an isolationist policy will out compete the rest of the world?
I’ve become a bit of fan of it over the last few years. That said, I don’t think the UK can be replicated.
It wraps ultimate power up in a contradiction, you have it but you can’t use it. Sure, technically you could but it would be your last act.
Another important aspect, the for and against is currently split between parties, so there’s somewhat of unification factor between parties on that divide as well.
It gets a lot of hate, because it is imperfect, but I don’t think it gets its fair shake. My views more of, if it ain’t broke is it really worth the risk changing it.
Linus Torvalds, imo, is the reason we have open source, through Linux & Git. He’s the open source philosopher king.
I think he’s put enough in to know where his allegiance lies, over a 2010 US citizenship - a very different world.
There is also 0 chance, US/MS government hasn’t put a lot of pressure on him over the last 34 years of creating and spreading, at least the OS form of socialism