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I think this is a really good idea and would probably make for a good small startup idea. For example, setup a charity where people directly donate to people and have the charity document everything with video/images and so on. People would definitely donate just so they can have the video/images of it (for social media) and for just overall feel good aspect of it. Just imagine how cool it would be if you could buy a goat for a rural impoverished African and get to see a picture of the goat and the person you helped. That would be pretty cool to me! I don't know why charities wouldn't already do this. Lots of people donate money out of personal benefit (the ego stimulation of knowing you're helping to make a difference in the world).

I think it has more to do with companies wanting to IPO when market conditions are healthy...as in good economy and investors willing to overpay for shares :)

100% this. I think half of my undergraduate degree simply consisted of taking waste of time classes that have absolutely zero benefit to my career. Those courses should be replaced with this: general skills (like reading skills and math skills to algebra level) and then general career skills. These are skills which your field of study specifically requires - public speaking, laboratory report writing, technical writing etc. It varies from major to major.

For the general skills stuff, that is all remedial stuff that should be obtained prior to entering formal college. Students should have mastery of those subjects before even being admitted. Have community colleges do remedial course exclusively (or some way to self-study online and test out).

For those 60 units of old "general education" replace it with 30 units of general career skills and 30 units of applied career skills. So the course track would go like this - first 30 units is exclusively your 30 general career skills then the next 60 units is the traditional academic track that most people take currently for their major. The last 30 units is exclusively used at applying those skills to various project-based work.

For all those old course that are currently considered general education, make them all optional, not required courses.

I've always wondered about this as well. Get independent hobbyists to setup micro wifi networks. Run all traffic through a vpn or some sort so the operator doesn't risk their IP/ISP banning their service. Monetize the whole thing on a pay as you go service. $1/gb and give 70 cents of that to the independent operators. The big telecoms already have these little mini-wifi networks in bigger cities that you can get access to but only if you are a subscriber to their services.

For me personally I would definitely pay the $1/gb to get access to such a network. Right now, I only use my cell data for e-mail and light web browsing. The cost of 3g/4g data is simply too expensive for me.

Sounds like a genius idea to me. In theory at least.

The old adage should be reduce & reuse. Not reduce, reuse, recycle.

We have this in California and it provides a basic income for many homeless people (at least they're doing something positive by picking up the aluminum/plastic bottles).

I think there will eventually be a public outcry since now based on the research, it appears that plastic has made a full loop into the human food chain. Plastic fibers are being found in human sewage...which basically means we have plastic in our diets.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/news-...

because the IRS benefits from people basically overpaying their taxes out of fear of being prosecuted for underpaying their taxes.

Modern water plants can clean it.

It does but most of california has been destroyed by pollution, toxic waste and trash.

I felt so sad that the butterfly's habit was destroyed by so many people here.

It did have a positive impact though because AT&T and Verizon started actually building out their fiber networks more aggressively when they saw google entering the space. I live in Orange County, CA and AT&T out here started building out fiber when they saw Google building in Irvine, CA. AT&T knows that if they could just "rope off" google to a small area then their initial investment wouldn't really be worth it.

Works good and well polished site. Bookmarked.

Just have multiple "save as" options.

Jackson, Wyoming

No income tax, need I say more? and amazing outdoor activities.

I'll take Wyoming, thanks :)

Well yeah, if you're going to sell how great California is then of course you are going to point to the place that basically puts California on the map in recent years.

That used to be the case but it is changing now because potential employees are saying they aren't as interested in bay area because of the cost of living. I've seen more companies offering remote working arrangements. Work from home in vegas, reno, phoenix or some other small town within 1,000 miles from the bay area and then one day per month, fly into SF to attend the monthly meeting.

That's why companies like wework and regus are becoming so popular these days. I've seen a decent amount of tech companies signing deals with these companies to basically be able to offer remote working as a work benefit.

Of course, if employees don't want to use the remote working benefit then they can still live in the bay area.

You can still take advantage of the network effect and not be located in California. Reno,NV to SF via southwest is under $100 one way and the actual flight is around 90 mins or less.

I ordered a bathroom rug and they shipped it in a box that would fit the rug unfolded....lol.

Whoever made that promo video. Wow, great work there. Love the visualizations.

Yup, that write up definitely hit the nail on the head. I could work on more lucrative side projects but there are just some side projects that you have to do because it just has the potential to be great and do real good in the world. Mostly what I see these days is a void in the educational market - you have a traditional educational system practically resistant to changing and then you have all of these emerging technologies. The emerging technologies go on to change other industries....but education, nothing changes, or very slowly. That's where my side project ideas some into play. I'm working on making a course right now in a traditional college level subject then adding a bunch tools (student data analysis, simulation games, interactive lectures etc.) to help students learn the subject better. Simply put, I want to take traditional college courses and then apply the latest technology to teach that subject. Let's create the world's best online course, create a bunch of really useful tools to learn the subject then scale it up and give it away to everyone for free.

Also I looked at your game and I really love it. It is so much fun (even though I don't know much about quantum physics). Now just imagine if we have a traditional college-level subject, such as quantum physics, and then use tools like your game to help people learn better. You still learn all the usual topics but the overall learning experience is made SIGNIFICANTLY better by having these extra tools to use to learn. Your game is an educational game but using the same technology used to create that game could also be used to create all sorts of things - experiment simulation, interactive graphics etc.

I'm also working on an education related project. With projects like this....the truth is, it is mostly a labor of love or passion for the subject that drives you. There isn't much money to be made (even to just support yourself) in creating free courseware. If you want to make money you are better off just working for a traditional university.

You can even see it for yourself. This guy started this project 3 years ago. Fast forward to today we can see that his youtube channel has 500 subscribers and most of his videos have around 1k views...this is after 2-3 years of each video being uploaded. Basically, no one is using this site. It is no surprise that we see so many of these education type projects being half built. The developers eventually toss in the towel.

Personally I think we need a combination of both to really change education though - open educational resources and the associated tools to learn the subject better. Preferably free but also low cost might work or supported by donations.

Right now the big publishers pretty much control the entire market. They own the content and they create the tools. Then they spoon feed it to university faculty (by making tools to basically "drag and drop" the content for teachers) and the student/taxpayers ends up footing the bill for it.

Just because some people choose to get distracted doesn't mean the whole technology is worthless.

I view it from a different approach. The city centers are the most expensive because that's where all the good paying jobs are. Thus if you want to solve the housing crisis, you simply need to shift the density of where these jobs are located. Personally I like the circular city model where you have several CBDs on the outer rings of the city.

The current model basically has all the good jobs in the CBD. The further you go from the CBD - the less jobs and the lower paying they are. So of course you get a housing crisis the closer you get to the CBD.

Completely agree and it also punishes people who pay with cash because we all have to indirectly pay for the processing fees of others.

Square is probably the biggest game changer here simply because they also have the POS systems in place to just replace visa/MC if they want. They also have a bunch of apps like cash app....which apparently is going to be integrating bitcoin lightning network soon.

Don't fly delta then.

Absolutely horrible idea. Ethically bankrupt to say the least.