After discovering a music player actively removed Russian translations and silenced discussion about it, I got angry enough to fork a 20-year-old C codebase. Here's what that taught me about FOSS, authority, and why 'just fork it' is terrible advice.
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We all know fridges preserve food. But why do we need giant ones? On car-dependent sprawl, the feedback loop that trapped us, bulk buying we can't escape, and how we're stuck with humming boxes because we designed cities wrong 70 years ago.
The ideas are appealing, but can it actually work at the scale of a nation? On the information problem, tragic trade-offs during scarcity, human nature, and why every economic system sucks, just in different ways.