if you disagree, write some code

unstated assumption: and do so quickly enough for it to influence the discussion before it slips off HN

Post it on your own blog and tell me when you do. I'll certainly upvote it.

Deal: I want to investigate the case where everyone is bullied into quitting their job, by thugs who don't want laziness to stop being a social norm

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A couple of important distinctions between axioms and beliefs:

1) axioms are assumed to be logically consistent with each other, at least when the word "axiom" is understood strictly; it's possible that someone may believe two things that are inconsistent with each other

2) belief is an involuntary mental acceptance that a particular claim is true. You can't make yourself believe something that you know to be false

This is just rent-seeking, right?

Get rid of files, and data is easier to lock up in a single application - it becomes harder to write programmes that interoperate without the co-operation of the authors of the original app, who might have a commercial reason not to play ball.

We don't have to speculate: the web world shows us exactly what happens without files. Locked down walled gardens with little interoperability and users not having any control over their data. If things are accessible at all programatically they are behind a proprietary API.

The Emperor has spoken.

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