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  - Explains my opinions
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About
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This is a dump of ideas which seem worthwhile to work on. At first
every idea appears to be a novel idea, and even a good idea. As the
available options change, or knowledge of available options increases
the ideas will be classified under one of the following:
#open – No experimental evidence to suggest with confidence that it
 works or not.
#closed – A dead end. Does not work.
#solved – A working product exists, exactly or closely matching the
 requirements.

Contact
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CEO of Capitalism. This blog is written by me.
Prosperity arises as a result of voluntary exchange of products of specialised efforts 👍
Email: nly@disroot.org
Mastodon: https://lor.sh/@nly
Git: https://codeberg.org/nly
Federated E-commerce: https://shop.play.ai
Matrix: @mly:disencord.disenthrall.me
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Adding products using curl
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Since I am just working with Http and Json. It makes things simple and
I don't require a graphical client. I'll try listing Mangoes on the
shopping site.
First off I need to install curl command.
$ nix-env -iA nixos.curl
I can test if it works like so:
$ curl https://example.com
I see a lot of text that looks like Html so it's working :)
I just ran curl with no flags, and by design it does a Get request on
the url. But, I need to post some data to a url so i need these flags:
$ curl —request POST —data ''
I also need to tell the server that i'm sending Json data and not
something arbitrary:
$ ... —header “Content-Type: application/json”
And, the url is https://xopow.cyka.cf. So the final query looks like
this:
curl —header “Content-Type: application/json” \
  —request POST \
  —data '{“id”:“234bhdutest01”,“name”:“Mango”, “stock”: 10, “price”: 1, “shortDesc”: “Delicious indigenous fruit of India”, “description”: “Yellow, pulpy fruit of India”}' \
  https://xopow.cyka.cf/products

Federated E-commerce
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End violence with free trade. There is fighting over who owns what. No
argument can make someone else give up what you want. There will be
conflict. The only path forward is to make it easy to trade, so that
people have motivation to give away their wealth, maybe not for free,
but in exchange for something else. E-commerce could be as simple as
using social media. Physical businesses being ripped out by
regulations will serve as the fertile ground where online and smaller
businesses can thrive. Whoever builds an open source, platform for
e-commerce should probably use Federation to link up stores into
store-chains.
A world where everybody is a business owner would be awesome. You
could have your own shop, if you want. Trade should be so easy that
you could live in a house for a few months, sell it and move to
somewhere else in the winter.
#open

Prosperity
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How does one arrive at prosperity? I submit that prosperity arises
from a free and voluntary exchange of goods and services, all products
of specialised labor.  In a free market, prices send the correct
signals to the individuals to make decisions on what should be
produced. From “What should i make for dinner today?” to “Should I
re-locate my business?”, all can be provided very good answers for, if
the prices in the market reflect the reality.
In everyday life, we miss out on the benefits offered by this model of
society. This had been a consequence of not having the medium to set
such prices. However, that can now be changed only if we wish for
it. With innovation in money and currency, the social realms which had
not progressed at all will see great progress, atleast for those who
wish to accept such changes.
Specialisation will create efficiency and trade will distribute the
benefits far and wide.

Break down the Monolithic Web Browser
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Modern Web Browsers think of themselves as the “Operating System” of
the internet. Whether the browser runs on Windows, Linux or some
mobile device is a minor detail. Browsers are also developed by small
unified teams. Working on similar ideas or the same language. By not
allowing the use of Python, or GCC they shoot themselves in the foot,
and have to redo all the work of building new programming languages
and features. Someone willing to accept that there could not be a
single monolithic program to do all of this could move much faster and
overtake the web browser duopoly by building on what's already there.
It will be cool to have support for new protocols, and experimental
features. The web browser is stagnating otherwise. The web could see
tremendous innovation from such an experimental platform.

Moving forward
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What would I do if cryptocurrency was banned? What if regulations
prohibited peer to peer trade? Answering these questions takes time
away from current problems. The only way to move forward is to assume
that solutions will exist once such problems arise, since there would
an incentive to fix them. Restrictions would only push people towards
more resistant alternatives.
Who would handle logistics? Someone would develop a peer-to-peer
logistics system for delivering goods. What if cryptocurrency was
banned? Money that cannot be censored or blocked would be
invented. What if servers were shut down? Distributed computing,
server-less computation that cannot be taken offline would be
developed.

Go make a cryptocurrency, really!
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Print Money! No, really! Make your very own currency.
This will be the last time that amateurs will be able to build their
own currencies and gain any reasonable userbase before the market
settles on a 'standard' and then I as an innovator will have to
support that 'standard' currency through conversions to/from that
currency.
Money had been in-accessible to innovators for a long time. There is a
sharp demand for a easy to use, censorship resistant currency that
treats it's users right. Look at what people are willing to pay for
some of these digital assets. The crypto market is in a bubble,
because of a mix of inflation and demand for 'good money', and in a
market it's impossible to force a wedge between the two.  There is a
very high demand for sound digital money but not remotely enough
supply of it.
Some of the things I might want to consider are:
1. Starting from a blank slate.
2. Supporting niche markets, markets that otherwise would not be able
to use regular currencies.
3. Micro-transactions.
4. Offline usage.