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  • In a sense, money represents all the future goods and services it can buy, and those goods and services ultimately resolve down to someone’s time and effort. Money was conceived as a formalization of IOU’s, after all.

    So it’s similar to asking whether there’s a limit to how much time and effort from (i.e. influence over) others one would want.


  • I’ve heard of publishing software to design photo albums/scrapbooks/cards etc. Is there a photo collection manager for archiving, sorting and filtering?

    Given access to a large set of personal photos, say tens of thousands, it should be able to group, categorize, tag, and sort along a myriad of dimensions.

    Example dimensions would be time, people and places. It would need some facial recognition/image classifier/similarity scoring capability.

    There definitely are some cloud offerings today that do similar things, but I’d want it to work locally for privacy and practical reasons.








  • I think people are being lazy, in a selfish, tragedy of the commons sort of way.

    When standing in line, they all watch the customer stand there doing nothing as the cashier checks out items. If only they’d bag their own things, we’d all be able to get on with our lives that much sooner. Instead, they continue standing there doing nothing, as the cashier now bags their items.

    Then the next person in line moves up and also just stands there, also unwilling to do anything to help speed things along.






  • It’s difficult to consider them pollution even if we were to accept the subjective opinion on displeasing aesthetics.

    The pollution we’re all concerned about tends to be:

    • Physically harmful
    • Difficult to confine/localize/avoid/reverse
    • An externality the economy doesn’t sufficiently account for
    • A burden that’s unevenly/unfairly distributed across society

    Even light pollution, which is arguably barely physically harmful, has all of the remaining qualities (or nearly) for sure.

    If these qualities even apply wind generators at all, they do so very weakly. They can be moved/unbuilt, the “free market” is pricing them cheaper by the day, and if you really don’t like looking at them, it’s not impractical to avoid them.





  • https://www.hedy.org/start

    For someone learning programming from zero, it was specifically invented to be:

    Hedy is the easy way to get started with textual programming languages! Hedy is free to use, open source, and unlike any other textual programming language in three ways.

    1. Hedy is multi-lingual, you can use Hedy in your own language
    2. Hedy is gradual, so you can learn one concept and its syntax a time
    3. Hedy is built for the classroom, allowing teachers to fully customize their student’s experience

    Adding to the points above:

    At the end of the gradual progression, Hedy becomes vanilla Python.

    An aspect of the 3rd point is having an online editor & execution environment, so you don’t need to deal with setup.

    After completing the Hedy lessons, can follow up with other learning resources like freecodecamp.org or codeacademy.com.