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Are you really implying money cannot solve poverty, because that's genuinely hilarious but I cannot imagine it to actually be true
The US government has spent trillions to fight poverty for over 50 years, but poverty rates are the same as back then.
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Regarding your "Direct training-to-employment pipeline" I've been thinking about a very similar idea. Do you think people would actually pay upfront to join on the promise they'll be refunded if they complete the course syllabus successfully? I have assumed you'd have the offer the course for free and then make your money by placing successful "graduates" with employers who pay a commission for each one.
I think the upfront + refund + commission structure balances the incentives. It's something that is missing with ISA structures, which unevenly optimizes the school incentive. An upfront cost is table stakes. The trainer is incentivized to perform because the collected tuitions might only represent a fraction of what could be earned. The commission is where the profit is. I would personally be super motivated to sign…
Living in a US city that has no cars for personal transport
- Fully-guided health plan: diet, supplements, exercise, preventative measures, etc... SelfDecode gets very close, but I'm thinking of those reports analyzed by an assistant that would schedule and plan medical interventions, meal plan, provide accountability, be an advocate, etc. - A system to build knowledge more effectively than whatever it is that people do now. This would go along with some sort of training to i…
> A system to build knowledge more effectively Assuming you are "people", have you tried roam[1][2][3]? > health plan If you do end up figuring something out for this I'd be very interested. SelfDecode's privacy policy gets very close to being acceptable for me, but sadly 23andme-level genomic analysis is either prohibitively expensive (I simply cannot drop thousands on it) or it's actually 23andme and will sell you…
Regarding SelfDecode, I literally had the tab open on my laptop and my phone for months before I signed up. I would revisit it every once in a while but the dystopian terror of my DNA on someone else's server kept winning.
My wife then got me an ancestry.com test, which I was hesitant about too. A month of being nagged finally got me to submit it. With that seal broken, SelfDecode wasn't such a leap. I submitted my ancestry stuff to them and I can honestly say that what their reports revealed has been life changing. The major revelation I'm still trying to accept is a marker that indicates I may soon develop an untreatable degenerative disease, the symptoms of which are beginning to show.
Anyways, if you can find a lab that has a policy you trust, there are genetic databases online that you can manually reference your results against. It's tedious, and requires interpreting piles of obscure research papers.
Electrician work, plumber work, mechanic work, tree trimming, etc. Skilled trades where once you need them, they have you over a barrel!
It seems the key is some level of gatekeeping from doing it yourself. Need a MD degree to get medicine prescriptions, need the town to sign off on electrical work permits, tree cutters need insurance and have up-front cost of equipment, etc.
When my phone rings I want to know, with a high degree of confidence, who is calling me. The only way I can think to do this well is by giving everyone a different phone number, like many of us do with email addresses. Implementing this would require a way to create and vend phone numbers quickly, similar to creating a password with a password manager. There would need to be a way to associate each number with who I…
(1) if it's a blocked # or a # from a known blacklisted source -> straight to voicemail, and we notify you by text if a message was left (or we transcribe it)
(2) new # you've never discussed -> you can set up the options here, e.g. if commercial or otherwise, go to VM or enable to "ring" for you
(3) if the call a known caller to you -> pass through
Would you use something like this?
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I think the upfront + refund + commission structure balances the incentives. It's something that is missing with ISA structures, which unevenly optimizes the school incentive. An upfront cost is table stakes. The trainer is incentivized to perform because the collected tuitions might only represent a fraction of what could be earned. The commission is where the profit is. I would personally be super motivated to sign…
I notice you mentioned trainers. I was thinking of using the free, publicly available course on sites like edX, coursra etc. and then providing mentors to help and support students. Any thoughts on that?
Just this week, I had a recruiter tell me that they won't tell me the end client, until after the interview happens. They are expecting candidates to interview with them, without telling them who they would be working for (also, pay is shit).
Another recruiter sends a ridiculous legal document that I am supposed to sign (it was a long, scary document, I didn't understand most of it), before even revealing who they are hiring for. Yet another recruiter wanted to edit my resume and lie, before they'd proceed with the process.
Those are just a few examples. In case you are wondering if these are for high level positions, they are not. These are run of the mill, ordinary developer jobs.
I do not want to deal with recruiters, at all, ever. Even a 5 min phone call with these upstanding people is enough to ruin one's day.
So yeah, I'd pay for this "privilege"
A wearable head massager/tickler. It's possible to buy head massagers which are hand-held, but that completely defeats the purpose. I'm aware this is a male-dominated community, but as a woman, I know other women would pay a LOT if this product existed.
Completely getting rid of online ads for life.