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posted by janrinok on Monday October 19 2015, @07:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the your-voice dept.

Right, so we're pondering on adding new nexuses to the site for the next upgrade (planned for December but could end up being later depending on circumstances). Why bother adding new nexuses? Primarily so you can easily filter them out from your settings page. For example, say we had added a Games nexus. Not interested in gaming? Preferences->Homepage and put a dot in the far left (X) radio button next to Games and you will not see anything from the Games nexus on the main page. Mind you, we don't have nexus functionality built into the rss/atom feeds, yet, so they'll still show up there.

Keep in mind you can also browse nexuses independently, so you catch stories only from that nexus. Independent rss/atom feeds are coming sooner or later as well. Nexuses aren't entirely about what you don't want to see.

As of now we've got Games and Liberty on the table as new nexuses to go with Breaking News and Meta. Including more or less duplicating some Topics, what nexuses would you lot like to see go live? Last note here, any nexus we create will be fair game to sub stories in that category for. Don't suggest sports unless you want to give the green flag to subs on NASCAR.


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  • (Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday October 20 2015, @12:45AM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Tuesday October 20 2015, @12:45AM (#252124) Journal

    That's a good idea. I think we'd need to define the difference between the proposed Liberty nexus and a Labor nexus. I can see ambiguities. Myself, I've entered the murky depths that separate the bleeding-heart libertarian perspective and the socialist perspective.

    Proposal: the Liberty nexus should concern itself with government intrusions into liberty (censorship proposals, patents gone mad), and the Labor nexus should concern itself with capital interests intruding on liberty (by way of the inherent monopsony of the “market” for labor in a work-or-you-starve system). Note that “patents gone mad” might be Labor nexus, but “patents gone mad” are enforced by the government on capital, so Liberty nexus for that. Unreasonable working hours and insufficient wages (particularly in IT) would fall in the Labor nexus, because those are enforced by capital owners.

    The real test is DMCA issues. Liberty or Labor nexus? Perhaps a new Technology or (Imaginary|Intellectual) Property nexus. Probably the former. OTOH, am I making it too complex? Should I return to my earlier precedent that imaginary property issues are Liberty issues? Perhaps not, because the DMCA primarily impacts the working class.

    So, we might be able to derive two tests to differentiate the Libertry and Labor nexuses. Who is enforcing the problematic restriction (government or capital)? Who is primarily impacted by the problematic restriction (capital or labor)?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2015, @12:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2015, @12:58AM (#252128)

    You have some good thoughts. Just a couple of nitpicks.

    Work-or-starve isn't what we have, at least not in the USA. You can actually be at the bottom of the barrel, and not starve (although your nutrition probably won't be the best). Yeah, I've been there. There are ways to manage, many of them run by the evil, evil goobermunt.

    However, more importantly, that doesn't make it a monopsony. Needing employment doesn't turn all employers into the same market actor. A proof of this was an interesting case in South Korea, where married women are almost unemployable for cultural reasons - and then a big company (I think Goldman Sachs, but I may be wrong) realised this fact, and started scooping up talented, educated, available, bored married women who wanted actual careers. And they started kicking nine kinds of ass because it isn't a monopsony.

    A lot of what you mention (such as the de facto boundaries of the DMCA issue) aren't legislated so much as regulated. Right now in the rich world, bureaucrats swing big dicks when it comes to their influence on daily life, but aren't elected. That may come under your suggested liberty heading.