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Comment · 6 years ago
It would have to be done by an automated drone firefighting systems. ... Wildfires cannot wait for offices to open
Comment · 6 years ago
They should have banned campfires and open grill cooking in known fire-prone areas, during fire-risk seasons. System design WILL require determination of 1] Smallest satellite-detectable fire sizes; 2] Size of fire-stopper bombs needed for various fire sizes; 3] system processing times for fire location, size, direction detection; 4] system response time to launch firefighting drone/s; 5] drone travel time. ... These delays can be estimated right now, and then established empirically in a short time. ... Fire-prone areas are probably known already. These system response time estimates, verified by trials, will determine how many drones / drone-stations will be needed
Comment · 6 years ago
Ask Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison ... Interesting that a guy with your background would even need to think about going to a college ...
Comment · 9 years ago
I think the question really is: can the tech community come up with do-able ideas that can a) reach the population at large, b) use crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence to identify and tag/mark fake news and unfounded opinions c) possibly use blockchain for tagging/marking crowd-classified news....So that fake news, divisive propaganda, trolling, etc. are quickly identified and indelibly marked as such....This will not entirely solve the problem (artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity), but it should contribute towards reducing its effects

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