bloomingfractal's comments

I do believe that if there are internal company reports that their activities are causing global warming and the board decides to go with business as usual, it's a criminal activity [1].

It's indeed a blow against property rights, that's why I'm saying it's a measure of a total war economy, which is something reserved for the most dire circumstances. The reason for expropriation is that it's not enough to have a single or a couple measures against global warming, we need all of them. We need as much carbon to stay in the ground as possible [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/28/shell-kn... [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30709211

Agreed. To rephrase, I just think that people spend too much time arguing what they can do on an individual/moral level (i.e. veganism, etc) and too little time discussing political solutions, and I believe this is mostly a political issue.

I do feel guilty about my carbon footprint and have been trying to decrease it. For instance, I would love to not drive to work but there's simply not good public transportation where I live, what can I personally do about that?

If, for instance, a corporation dumps toxic waste on a river because it's cheaper than the fines, what can I do about that besides political action?

IMHO, there's no point in individual action, we need collective political action in the form of massive government intervention, pretty much like in a total war economy. The free market clearly has failed here:

- Carbon tax.

- Carbon tariffs.

- Expropriation of all oil fields, the oil has to stay in the ground.

- Criminal prosecution of executives and shareholders of Oil companies much like what should have happened to the Tobacco industry.

- Job program (right to employment) to re-train the workforce in green technologies, specially in areas that will be affected by the aforementioned measures.

Assuming they work correctly the benefits are clear.

If they can ever be made secure, it's what I wanted to know from the researchers.

I see the authors are hanging out here so would like to make a question :)

Do you believe that with the proper audit systems in place (e.g. open-source, open-hardware, not rolling your own crypto, etc) it would still be possible to have a secure electronic voting system?

and that's why governments should hire software engineers that can be in the loop and understand not only the technical but the policy side. Hiring an army of contractors earning 300k/year to deliver "something" in the waterfall model is a recipe for disaster.

On a side note, does anyone know if there's a way to self-host osm? Basically have my own google maps?

I see, Thanks for the insightful answer! Regarding machine learning it would be nice to be able do the training in your desktop/laptop when it's idle or something like that.

But it's very good to know this is a technological issue (as opposed to a business issue). Well, hope you smart folks solve this. Meanwhile, I'll keep tinkering with my raspberry pi and raspberry pi camera :)

People, remember how many successful companies have been founded by immigrants (Sergey Brin comes to mind). This is not a zero-sum game, if innovation doesn't happen here in this country it will happen eventually elsewhere. The US is actually very lucky of having hard-working qualified people wanting to immigrate and contribute to the local economy.

Recall that crime rates in the US among immigrants are lower than in the general population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_crime#United_S...

That being said, the H1-B system is broken and needs urgent reform, I suggest looking at the point-system used in Canada.

What about doing all processing locally and storing only end-to-end encrypted data in servers?

Hacker news is definitely not the best place to engage in discussions about medical papers.

Do you guys know of any other projects of networks where the infrastructure is owned/crowdsorced by the public?

Thank you, that was incredibly interesting!

For me that kind of story gives extra justification to abolish copyrights in the way they currently are. Our culture is being held hostage by all these games and the real artists get paid very little.

Meanwhile, we technologists should just torrent stuff to make a point and continue to innovate with systems that make copyright obsolete.