theworstshill

"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.

What a shithole. Hope you got out there with some sanity left.

Hilarius response.

Good? Pretty much none.

Try searching on developerWorks.

Very true. Gadaffi stirred too many pots at once, his plan to establish a gold backed currency was the final straw.

Funnily enough the first target NATO bombed was the man made "river" to the desert aquifers. So much for bringing democracy to Libya.

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.

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.

Great news for refugees in Germany, they'll finally be able to go back home.

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.

Nice appeal to emotion here.

At most its 50% environment, 50% genetic. Its really all about what degree of self control you have. Of course I agree with you in an instant that a poor, less educated society tends to be more violent but environment never paints the whole story.

Not even going to try it on principle. Amazon is a big tentacled octopus thats tightening its grasp over any and every area it can. Lets leave Amazon for ecommerce and AWS.

Money and congestion are to blame. The car still gives you incredible freedom and saves a lot of time.

Its kill.

http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/nor/#Exports

Edit: yeah Norway is definitely going to go to the shatter unless they invest in high tech right now. Compare this with Canada for example.

http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/can/#Exports

Nor: >50% of exports are crude and petroleum based products Can: ~25% of exports are crude and petroleum based products

Its going to come sooner or later though. Maybe this could be a good kick in the butt for nations that lived off selling their natural resources for so long that they have never bothered doing anything else. Middle east is the biggest offender, followed by Russia and a few in Latin America.

A few locals are already voicing concerns on that, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvvvomANbRo

Sounds like you already made up your mind and are just trying to justify it to yourself. If Amazon is better - then of course the answer is yes.

Very funny. Solutions to relative poverty in the first world are different from solutions to absolute poverty everywhere else.

Duke Nukem - how Pig Cops came to be.

The very best? Never.

This is my feeling too, if anything China is about to breakout and become wealthier and more powerful than it already is. Good work ethic + common sense is a wonderful combination. The "west" largely lacks the later, while the rest of the world (except for a few countries, including China) lacks the former.

Jokes on you, taxes in Russia are a flat 10% last I heard.

Edit: why do you think its that small? Yes, because noone paid it when it was larger.

I like you.

Smith's invisible hand in action.

thats hilarious.

Its probably not the ancient religion they want to defend, but the way of life it allows them. Imagine someone barges in to your home and starts creating rules for you - e.g. from now only you only pee sitting down on the toilet. You also need to go to bed at 9pm sharp. All for your own good, etc...