There is a big difference between an open central repository like teambox, and a truly decentralized system. A decentralized system has rules, but no rulers. The order emerges from the independent actions of the members - like a flock of birds or a free market economy. This is hard for people to wrap their head around when centralized human government is so popular (vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism).
It is nice that you could set up your own teambox like server - but even better when there is no server at all.
For another political analogy, I find that many collaborative applications benefit from a minimal central server - that provides only a directory service of some kind. Like a SIP registry - lets you find peers, but all the work is done peer to peer. This would be a minarchy (minimal rulers) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minarchy .
In general, fully centralized approaches don't scale and become progressively less efficient with growth (socialism). But consider google. They built a decentralized application (with many, many servers at many locations) under central management. This is like local government with a federal head (the US). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism
The author discovered that she was not in fact enslaved to proprietary solutions (packaged milk and nut milk in stores), but could find recipies for making her own. While this is pretty basic common sense, a suprising number of people are shocked to hear this.
Government regulation of food is the last thing we need. Government standards (which are useful as long as they remain voluntary) are based on old science (what we know about nutrition keeps growing) and industry lobbying. Get your calcium from vegetables.
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There is a big difference between an open central repository like teambox, and a truly decentralized system. A decentralized system has rules, but no rulers. The order emerges from the independent actions of the members - like a flock of birds or a free market economy. This is hard for people to wrap their head around when centralized human government is so popular (vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism).
It is nice that you could set up your own teambox like server - but even better when there is no server at all.
For another political analogy, I find that many collaborative applications benefit from a minimal central server - that provides only a directory service of some kind. Like a SIP registry - lets you find peers, but all the work is done peer to peer. This would be a minarchy (minimal rulers) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minarchy .
In general, fully centralized approaches don't scale and become progressively less efficient with growth (socialism). But consider google. They built a decentralized application (with many, many servers at many locations) under central management. This is like local government with a federal head (the US). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism
The author discovered that she was not in fact enslaved to proprietary solutions (packaged milk and nut milk in stores), but could find recipies for making her own. While this is pretty basic common sense, a suprising number of people are shocked to hear this.
Government regulation of food is the last thing we need. Government standards (which are useful as long as they remain voluntary) are based on old science (what we know about nutrition keeps growing) and industry lobbying. Get your calcium from vegetables.