I would go a bit further: DAOs are absolutely terrible for EVERYTHING, and anything that remotely mentions the acronym is a scam.
Let's please, please, please not go down some cryptoscam, blockchain, rabbit hole here. Drop it, burn the remains, try to forget it ever happened. On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 3:57 AM Stephen J. Turnbull < turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > Christopher Barker writes: > > > Yes, it needs to be funded somehow, but some sort of donation / non > > profit / etc funding mechanism would be best -- but I don't think > > peer reviewers should be paid. Peer review in academic journals > > isn't cash compensated either. > > It's been done. The most common scheme is nominal compensation (say > USD50 per review) dependent on beating a relatively short deadline > (typically 1-3 months). But this is not really the same as academic > publishing. It's also not the same as movie and book reviewers who > are paid staffers (at least they used to be in the days of paper > journals). It has aspects of both. It might work here, although > funding and appointment of reviewers are tough issues. > > > I had to look that up: "Decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)" > > > > So, yes. > > Please, no. DAOs are fine when only money is at risk (too risky for > me, though). But they're a terrible way to manage a community or its > money. Too fragile, too inflexible. The history of DAOs is basically > an empirical confirmation of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. > https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/ZLBEHQGMFIA5PR26XVDQF4YAVPIOYWY4/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions.
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