The question is whether we have the capacity to solve large-scale problems.

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True, DIY predates punk, but it is absolutely integral to the punk ethos, and it is absolutely integral to entrepreneurs taking on large-scale social problems.

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From my experience, privatization has very limited possible benefits when it comes to concerns that have collective interest, and it is certainly not a solution to large scale public education problems or issues, unless, of course, the intent is to leave most everyone out in the cold, which gets me back to why I worry about comments like these.

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The lack of progress has led a number of Baltic countries to consider technological interventions, or so-called "geoengineering" ideas (large-scale solutions to environmental problems), such as pumping oxygen into the water, and using chemicals to bind pollutants in sediments, in a bid to save the Baltic.

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has now moved into the forefront of many significant global organizations as a way for the collective force and resources of a large scale company to make significant inroads to tackle these problems.

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But large-scale efforts to computerise health records tend to run into bureaucratic, technical and ethical problems.

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Europe's problems are that it has greater cultural homogeneity and lacks recent experience of large-scale immigration.

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There are a variety of problems associated with masking IPv4 address space behind network address translation technologies, especially Large Scale NAT (LSN) or Carrier Grade NAT (CGN).

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