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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 17-Feb-2022 11:50:30 UTC Aral Balkan

   Hey, maybe startups aren’t the wisest way for society to fund critical technology… 🤔

   https://mstdn.io/@deutrino/107813074882437085

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   • Harald Eilertsen (harald@hub.volse.no)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 10:30:13 UTC Harald Eilertsen

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     @ar.al And the sad thing is, this would be so easy to regulate. If you're making medical equipment (especially anything implanted into the body,) you have to submit full and complete documentation, schematics, software, mechanical designs etc into a vault, standards body or even (ghasp!) the state to be given a license to sell this stuff.
     
     While I would of course prefer it to be free and open source all the way, we don't even have to go there. Just some neatral institution that is able to pass on the designs if it at some point becomes necessary. Like a security upgrade to your eyes or heart rate control unit, or something...
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   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 10:30:16 UTC Aral Balkan

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     Almost as if temporary high-growth baby corporations obsessed with their exit aren’t the best vehicles for guaranteeing the long-term welfare of the species or something.

     🤷♂️

     #startups #theSiliconValleyModel

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 10:30:27 UTC Aral Balkan

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     • Harald Eilertsen

     @harald Regulations, standards bodies, the state… dude, what are you, a communist?

     ;)

     (I don’t even know where to start with these people these days. Not sure if it’s possible to cleanse the US of right libertarianism at this point. Heck, don’t know how fact the infection goes in Europe, even.)

   • Harald Eilertsen (harald@hub.volse.no)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 10:30:27 UTC Harald Eilertsen

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     @ar.al
     dude, what are you, a communist?
     Hehe, the only valid explanation of course :)
     
     But yeah, the US is lost, but we could imagine a future where the rest of us grew governments that could act on their own people's behalf instead of the US big corps.
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