An addictive game that teaches basic economic principals.
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#102A web based programming IDE.
This could be great for beginners; they could start coding without having to install anything.
Maybe add some collaboration features to make it usable in school, e.g. students can send their code to the teacher for review by the press of a button.
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#103Universal language...there's no reason why people speak different languages anymore, they only create barriers now. In our newly technologically connected world, our languages we speak should not be getting in our way anymore...
I think it's rather probable that speakers of different languages think different. So a unified language might lead to (more) unified thinking.
I'm not sure if that would be a good or bad thing.
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#104Universal language...there's no reason why people speak different languages anymore, they only create barriers now. In our newly technologically connected world, our languages we speak should not be getting in our way anymore...
I think it's rather probable that speakers of different languages think different. So a unified language might lead to (more) unified thinking. I'm not sure if that would be a good or bad thing.
I believe that's called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf_hypothesis), which I generally agree with. A universal language would change the way people think about stuff -- it's a very interesting thought experiment.
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#105Re: Ask YC/HN: What's a problem you'd like to see someone solve?
#106The rising cost of education. I've yet to receive a response from my institution or others that I've considered, of why it is they keep raising their fees, tuitions, etc.., especially in a recessed economy. It seems to me to be counterproductive - folks are losing their jobs, therefore losing their finances, and now possibly finding out that they need more training or they need to enter a new field, thus requiring ed…
Move to France or Germany. They hacked Education to the point where it is free, and in some cases you will get money for books,etc...
Obviously the teachers in France and Germany aren't paid, and the buildings and furniture just felt down from the sky.
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#107Universal language...there's no reason why people speak different languages anymore, they only create barriers now. In our newly technologically connected world, our languages we speak should not be getting in our way anymore...
We already have English.
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#108An addictive game that teaches basic economic principals.
A few years ago there were games such as Rollercoaster Tycoon and the like (see http://mises.org/article.aspx?control=772 )
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'd better hope someone benevolent is in charge of minting that global currency.
Currencies are currently horribly manipulated, and individual currency crashes (like Iceland) can completely devastate a population. Maybe centralization could be better? It seems to be working well for the EU.
The euro actually is a disaster for most european countries. It's nothing but a fixed-parity system and as such it's likely to break down soon.
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#110- Internet advertising that doesn't suck. Adwords doesn't count. This would make it easier to monetize websites.
- Micropayments.
- Cheap, accurate simulation of protein folding and other biological systems. This would be a step towards greater control of our bodies and easier, more powerful development of medical treatments.
- Affordable whole genome (and other ome) sequencing, with the result that there's lots of data freely available about people's omes cross-referenced to various facts about them (such as height, blood pressure, diseases, etc). Anybody with a computer could then be a scientist, trying to figure out what it all means.