For those not yet on the single-stream craze, imagine a cool recycling thing that accepts, let's say, glass, paper, cans and plastic bottles. You remember those cool sorting coin banks they used to have? You put a coin in and it sorts it into the right compartment? Sort of along that same vein, you put something to be recycled in the top, turn the crank and it shreds, smashes, or flattens the item and lands it in the correct bin. This has many advantages. 1-it's fun. 2-kids will love doing it. 3-it takes up a lot less space for apartment dwellers. 4-it takes up less space in recycling bins saving more energy. 5-it looks cool.
Electronic voting. Yea, even internet voting. Really shouldn't be impossible. Tom Scott says this is a terrible idea, but I don't think it's so unsolvable. The ways to cheat are: - stuffing the ballot box with bogus votes - counting or recording the votes bogusly - voting more than once or voting for someone else Voter confidentiality must be preserved. Here's my solution. - every voter must authenticate with some non-government system that 1) ensures user ID uniqueness 2) contains a method for contacting the voter (can be a form obscuring contact details) 3) creates a random code which is not retained by the system. This is easily done by Google, Facebook, or any tiny NGO. They would need to register and be subject to audit. - when a user votes, the data is logged in two public registers. 1) a voters register showing the person's user ID (or a unique variant from the authenticator) 2) a vote register showing the random code and how they voted
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