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		int_19h on Oct 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democ... It's less efficient, sure. But it's eminently practical if your goal is to avoid hydraulic despotism long term.

MichaelZuo on Oct 14, 2022 [–]

It would be so less efficient that you could simply buy a 1000x more water pumps for the same price. No one sane would choose a water pump with a million switches over 1000 of the same pumps with 1 switch each.

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