SESSION, the chat program that runs over the Oxen network (a Tor alternative) is much better to my mind. Voice, text, chat, all e2e encrypted and not requiring a phone number like Signal.
Why stay in SWIFT when it's been demonstrated that they can be cut off from global supply on the whims of the US administration? That one decision did more for the death of the American empire than any other.
I understand the impulse however the cost for submitting a patent is around the half-million US dollar mark (or so i have been told by patent lawyers) so I think improving the process and helping genuine innovations get some protection would be better
Thank you for the great response. Yes, I can definitely see how mechanical or physics based patents would be beyond the AI's remit at the moment. As someone who is considering going for a software patent sometime in the near future I was pretty disheartened by the patent process - both submitting the patent (the expense can be up to $500k I was told) and also defending the patent from larger companies seemed impossible. Perhaps an AI can start with easily understandable patents like software, or primarily word- or keyword based patents, and go from there to an ML approach for physics and such.
The patent system seems like it is a ripe subject for the kind of automation and disruption that we have seen lately in the legal sphere. Where you can fight your parking ticket and work within the law to defend your rights based on advice from an AI or similar system.
Has anyone done that for patents? You could have a section for proper writing of the patent, an accurate search function that runs in parallel and searches existing patents, an easy submission system that integrates with the world's patent database.
Have you considered routing through or utilizing the Session network as well? It's an improved version of Tor and you could possibly build this into a dApp on the Oxen network (oxen.io)
Good article. A similar thing happened here when the Australian Federal Police enacted an operation in Cambodia and similar areas to shut down the production of safrole, extracted from the root of the Sassafras tree (also the flavouring in root beer and sarsparilla). Ecstasy became much harder to get on the street and pushed users towards harder drugs like meth and heroin (resulting in a large number of addictions and increase in overall crime).
Additionally, operating costs of a semi truck that's going to remote areas are incredibly huge - not only safety equipment, driver pay, but fuel costs as well - that you might be surprised how competitive airships are. Have you looked at the numbers for that? What about building your own lightweight carbon fibre container that is filled and emptied at your location, instead of dropping off the entire package?
One of the issues with getting that high is that the higher you go, the less buoyancy the airships have, and you'd need bigger ships with more gas to haul the same loads. But the sky is very big, so it might just be an economics of scale problem
That is a great domain name! You're right about the room size, I suppose you would have to keep it either in the air or parked in nature when it's that size. Damn it, I want one even more now!