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So much work, energy, and time has gone into creating a trustless distributed consensus mechanism, but virtually all clients that wish to access it do so by simply trusting the outputs from these two companies without any further verification. It also doesn’t seem like the best privacy situation. Imagine if every time you interacted with a website in Chrome, your request first went to Google before being routed to the destination and back. That’s the situation with ethereum today.
My First Impressions of Web3
moxie.org
By charging market rents for these apartments or leasing land for private development, the Singaporean government uses its land bank and market rents as a source of government revenue — what Haila calls “fiscal rent” — which can then be spent on public transportation projects, welfare benefits and other important social programs.
Rents Are Skyrocketing. Let’s Buy Back the Land. | NOEMA
noemamag.com
But data governance can be helpfully reconceptualized as the law managing the terms of social data relations: the way data’s collection and use puts people (or entities) into relation with one another.
Data Governance for a Society of Equals
lpeproject.org
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