Things I still can't do in November 2014
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Things I still can't do in November 2014
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#2"Liked"
6. Get somebody to come to my house, pick up my dry cleaning and drop it back off the next day (Amazon "Clean").
There's actually a new Swedish startup (I'm not a part of it) that does exactly this! https://twitter.com/LaundryOnlineSE
"LaundryOnline is a swedish startup created to make ur day more awesome by taking care of ur laundry. We pick up and deliver ur laundry fast and easy." Seems cool!
Re: Things I still can't do in November 2014
#3first world problems of somebody living in the silicon valley ?
sorry but most of those things either stems from politics or lack of market development.
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#4first world problems of somebody living in the silicon valley ? sorry but most of those things either stems from politics or lack of market development.
Or just dumb ideas.
Call the police from an app? Your phone is still a phone ...
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#5I remain frustrated that world financial systems are unable to handle instant money transfers between institutions. There seems to me to be no good reason that I shouldn't be able to transfer money between my accounts without waiting until midnight for the funds to clear. Worse, the routine seems not to run on weekends. Why is this? Is power unavailable on Saturday night?
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#6I remain frustrated that world financial systems are unable to handle instant money transfers between institutions. There seems to me to be no good reason that I shouldn't be able to transfer money between my accounts without waiting until midnight for the funds to clear. Worse, the routine seems not to run on weekends. Why is this? Is power unavailable on Saturday night?
I'm pretty sure this is to enable an acceptable level of fraud protection. Within some countries (UK) it is more or less instant most of the time.
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#7"Liked" 6. Get somebody to come to my house, pick up my dry cleaning and drop it back off the next day (Amazon "Clean"). There's actually a new Swedish startup (I'm not a part of it) that does exactly this! https://twitter.com/LaundryOnlineSE "LaundryOnline is a swedish startup created to make ur day more awesome by taking care of ur laundry. We pick up and deliver ur laundry fast and easy." Seems cool!
Washio does this in SF as well (I've been a happy user)
12. Get a qualified guitar / piano / cello teacher to come to my house without randomly calling people on craigslist or doing general google searches.
13. Keep track of where everybody in my team is physically right now.
Both of these are possible with the right apps~
Re: Things I still can't do in November 2014
#81) Make everyone else do what I want, for free.
2) Discount the cost of other peoples investment (capital and social) to zero.
3) Never have things go wrong.
4) Magic.
Re: Things I still can't do in November 2014
#9All of these score 1 on one of my favorite HN comments, the Yudkowski Ambition Scale[0]. That's OK, but it's a bit disappointing for a post that clearly tries to come off as visionary.
Re: Things I still can't do in November 2014
#10first world problems of somebody living in the silicon valley ? sorry but most of those things either stems from politics or lack of market development.
Or just dumb ideas. Call the police from an app? Your phone is still a phone ...
While it's easy to call emergency services by 911, it's more difficult to call, say, the local sheriff's office for something that's not an emergency especially when you're traveling. An app could help solve that and resolve the best non-emergency number for you in your current location.