"For example, Indonesia can not be allowed to engage in uncontrolled burning the way it is now."
The peat in Indonesia has accumulated there naturally, so essentially its a carbon-neutral sink. Its a sovereign country as well, and they can do whatever the hell they want.
"We have to genetically engineer hyper efficient algae, have it soak up atmospheric carbon, burn it for energy and sequester the carbon emissions on a massive scale."
This is the only good suggestion that doesnt smell of statism.
I second this. US backing religious and right wing groups caused the deaths of half a million people in Indonesia, if not more. The stronger the empire, the more evil it must be to maintain itself (as much as we delude ourselves by viewing it from perspectives of higher productivity and comparative advantage).
Not to say that this is only applicable to US. France at the height of its power committed similar things in Algiers (destroyed a third of population). France, Russia and Germany divided up Poland, later on Germany sent her jews to death camps outright.
Thats exactly why I mentioned an application such as a casino - the vm will provide guarantee of a payout. People will pay for that, but they won't pay for you to run 3D games on the thing.
Ethereum is a distrubuted JVM basically? Guess its alright if you wanna run a casino that can't get taken down, otherwise I dont know what kind of uses you can find for this thing.
The biggest democratic state in history grabbed Hawai and occupied the Philippines. But now in the 21st century, since the world is "civilized", lets change the rules. Awfully close to patent trolling.
Anyway UN is doing its work fine. Its somewhat useless, but better than nothing.
>Because guns are expressly designed to kill.
And whats wrong with that? There are always two sides to every situation, a party that is bend on taking away someone's assets (possibly life) and another party defending that.
Mass shootings are a small price to pay for real freedom. Imagine the type of societies that could evolve in Russia/China/etc... if the population was heavily armed. Corruption/Cronyism? Less likely since there is a real chance you might be shot by an unhappy citizen.
There are comments from current and ex yahoo employees floating around the web and the consensus is that basically MM burned it to the ground. Its game over for yahoo, let it serve as an example to others of what happens when people doing the actual work get the f out.
Lots of discussion but no simple solutions.
If somebody really wanted to help, there is an elegant way to correct this problem - airdrop AK47s and ammunition and let democracy take its course. Something similar to what the brits did over France in WW2 with small crude pistols.
Thats true, but did you read the article though? It addresses tech industry in several paragraphs at the very beginning. The older tech industries might be CAD-orientied, but any new startup aspires to be global and charges in USD.
Meh... article is pushed by special interest groups. Their concerns could be addressed very quickly by raising their employees salaries. Especially since vast majority of companies sell services to the US, and get more CADs than before with the current exchange rate.
Do they have any professional privilege checkers on the line? I might need one of those as well.