Hi HN: I've been around HN since 2011 and this is my first dive into gRPC. This tool is still in beta, but I'm happy to share it with everyone, it's been an amazing learning process. I'm happy to answer any questions or take any suggestions. Also, follow our progress on github!

"...governments can be counted out of taking the leadership needed to solve this within 12 years."

This is the issue.[0]

Governments are the middlemen between citizens that we the people decide to put in power through voting to represent us and our issues like climate change.

But democracy has been hijacked by putting additional middlemen between we the people. The second middleman is the capital election, specifically ~132 Americans who donated 60% of the SuperPAC money.

So our representatives spend a significant portion of their time in office calling these people to get funding for the next election cycle and when they vote on issues they think of these donors. Follow the money.

Yes we can fix data centers or cargo ships or deploy nuclear power or utility regulation, but at some point regulation for these as well will be dependent on the people we vote to put into power to represent us.

At the end of the day, corporations have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to maximize profits and shareholder value. If leaders lead, companies will follow.

I have an idea!

Why don't we, the very large community of Hacker News with 3-3.5M+ monthly uniques[1] petition one of the most innovative and powerful institutions to fund more projects that will fix broken governments around the world? "Government" is only mentioned one time in the YC RFP[2], maybe it should have it's own category.

Send them an email: hn@ycombinator.com or http://www.ycombinator.com/contact/ or contact your friends who are in the YC network.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219581 [2] http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/