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you can't know if I'm overconfident or not, you have far too little information, including a lack of details about what I'm envisioning. also I am an experience
by mkramlich 12y ago
you can't know if I'm overconfident or not, you have far too little information, including a lack of details about what I'm envisioning. also I am an experienced programer. More importantly I'm a systems thinker. Also I'm well aware of the need to do thorough analysis, testing and then a gradual roll-out. I also have no illusions about whether such a thing would ever be applied by the US government. I do think it could be used by a small experimental organization, micro-state or virtual nation. It can be overlaid on top an existing government's domain, but just tailored and camouflaged to be compatible legally with any "host" country. Obviously test and tune and critique before making drastic changes to an existing system, or start having large amounts of money pass through it. That should be obvious to any careful, experienced, intelligent person. But you made the rude mistake to assume I didn't. You could have framed your concern as a question instead, and that would have been more constructive, less acidic. Acidic comments are too common on HN. Let's all try to elevate the game.
- normloman 12y agoI still think you've got too much confidence in your plan. The fact that you're already talking micro-nations as a possible solution shows that you've already abandoned reality for cloud kookoo land. (I've been interested in micronations for a long time. Study their history, and you'll see the difficulties in making one last.) I don't think you've done enough research to make such a bold pronouncement, and I'm just warning you to be cautious before recommending a total overhaul of a long entrenched system. I don't intend for my comments to be acidic. Unless you consider criticism acidic. If you haven't guessed by now, Hacker News trends towards self congratulatory circle-jerks. Taking criticism in stride is important for staying grounded.