Leif Eriksson (c. 970s – c. 1018 to 1025), was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to set foot on continental America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.
I find that most regulations today is to either increase government power, or, it is used by corporations in teh form of regulatory capture in order to block new entrants from the market.
That's why deregulation is to abhored by politicians. It weakens them. But when it is tried, usually in a country that has tried everything else first, the results are amazing, and quickly hushed up by the rest of the world.
This is a great business opportunity. If you can create such a thing, based only on european components, let me know, and I will introduce you to some people who pay a fortune for these devices today. Logically, they should then be willing to pay you half a fortune for it! ;)
Yes! Imagine having to send data, one direction only, and making sure with 100% certainty, that all the data got there. You cannot send back any ack or checksums. Another challenge in that situation.
I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than me has an answer, but the best I could think of is some kind of statistical approach.
You send the data N times, checksum on the receiving end, and then choose the set with the most matching checksums.
That's still not foolproof though.
In terms of transfer itself, I wonder if choosing some specific technology such as a laser would increase the certainty somewhat over others technologies (without taking
Yes, I think it can be visualized as a continuum of power between the individual and the state.
It's almost like a zero sum game. The more power the government has, the worse for the individual, and the more power the individual has, the worse for the state.
Add to that the ethical problem of the state being based on violence, which makes it an unethical institution no different, at the core, from a maffia gang.
I think government can best be compared with cancer. It grows until it gets too big and kills the host, and then it collapses.
If that does not happen, the host, that is we the people, live sub-standard lives, feeling ill and getting depressed by all the medicines we need to take to keep the cancer in check.
Either way, governments have killed way more people throughout our history than private companies, which are based on voluntary informed consent, and
Ahhh... this is interesting! I agree with you that rules are needed in a community, in a market and within a government. 100%.
I do however believe, that it is 100% possible to create and enforce these rules in a private way, and that this in fact, has happened (and is happening) around is every day.
Therefore I do not think we need the government which in my opinion is morally indefensible. All we need is market dynamics and individuals.