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Problems
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18,498 - How to discover people's desires, wants
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18,504 - Is consumerism bad?
I think consumerism is a good thing
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18,504 - Personal data collection for learning
We have the means to query data in interesting ways
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18,507 - Scientific reproducibility crisis
How to ensure that code written in science is reproducible
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18,509 - Shortage of money
Your local council lacks funding, your local companies lack funding to do improvement works
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18,509 - Guaranteed Profitibility
Profitability determines whether or not some thing gets done
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18,531 - Commodification of all things except for queries
Is commodification a good thing?
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18,559 - Truly personal computation
Bill Gates wanted to put a desktop computer into every home
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18,826 - Capitalism
What's right and what's wrong with capitalism
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18,826 - Surplus value stolen from workers
Workers produce a lot more value than their pay. They should still be connected to this value somehow
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18,881 - Hierarchical society
In my country the UK and countries like Dubai, the native population has wealth but does not work hard jobs. Instead, immigrants are imported to do the job.
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18,584 - Stopping rent seeking
Rent seeking is extractive of the economy and should be discouraged, how?
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18,592 - Privacy
How do we enforce privacy?
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18,594 - Rendering engine complexity
The web is now more complicated than any individual can manage
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18,610 - Eliminating traffic
How can you eliminate traffic
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18,611 - Work is authoritarian
How to structure work so it is not authoritarian
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18,630 - Casual education
How to make education digestible without people realising it.
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18,639 - Childcare
Being a parent is hard work
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18,639 - Coordinating impacts
When a business decides to outsource everything to another country, how does the system react?
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18,643 - Deregulation
Regulation is needed and sometimes unnecessary, how to tell the difference
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18,644 - Social Darwinism
I reject social darwinism as a modus operandi, how to move on from social darwinism?
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18,644 - Missing institutions
I feel that our society exposes citizens to raw edges of markets. There must be a way to blunt the effects of markets on people. Markets are a good thing but they have unintended effects on people's livelihoods.
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18,644 - Freedom to fail
How to create a business environment where it is safe to fail
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18,650 - The Unfairness of Land
Land is owned by a small cabal of hyper rich people
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18,654 - Flexible staffing
How to give businesses access to elasticity in jobs with fairness
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18,656 - Race to the bottom
The price of music is £0. The price of movies is £0. The price of software is £0
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18,698 - Most people are underpaid
How to collect the maximum that the market can bear for work?
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18,708 - Safer spaces
Safe space for nascent corporations
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18,716 - Cross-referencing
Cross-referencing is done terribly.
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18,717 - Making money too difficult
Why does making money have to be so difficult?
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18,729 - Self hosting
How to make hosting computer systems so easy that anybody can do it?
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18,737 - Scaling software
How do you write software that scales?
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18,737 - Scaling writes
How to scale writes in a busy computer system
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18,740 - Programming too difficult
Why is programming so complicated?
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18,874 - Code complexity and poor interoperability
Addition, calculation, algorithms takes an incredibly small portion of actual code. Most code is unnecessarily there to satisfy the compiler with interoperability of methods, arranging data structures and configuration
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18,891 - Web technologies too hard to implement
A web browser is so complicated that there are over 1200 specs to understand to implement a conforming web browser
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19,189 - Writing flexible reusable software
Writing software that does a thing is fairly straightforward. Writing software that can adapt to change is difficult. It's challenging to write software that can be easily customised. It's a completely different approach to build adaptable software
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18,750 - Multimaster replication
How to keep multiple postgres databases in synchronization
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18,763 - Not everything should be free
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18,774 - Computation for normal people
What do normal people need to compute?
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18,813 - Why is it that international companies are allowed to avoid competition but individuals are forced to compete globally?
How do we replace competition for individuals with cooperation and maximum mutual gain
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18,824 - Convert work into money
How to turn work into money?
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18,840 - Funding life in a community
How does a community raise money for its inhabitants
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18,841 - Automated API traversal - program synthesis
If computers could code interactions with systems for us, we wouldn't have to write code, they could interoperate automatically
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18,843 - Worker conditions
How to improve worker conditions in the work place
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18,844 - Self actualization
Think of people as verbs rather than nouns
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18,846 - Poverty of care
People don't care about what we're doing to try improve the world, most people don't care about anything outside their own families
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18,846 - Distributed computing
Distributed computing is typically hard to get right and program for. It requires lots of manual server and client writing
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18,869 - Decentralisation with P2P software
How can we use Peer 2 peer software to accomplish distribution
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18,871 - Distributed data storage
If you have many nodes and want to store data - how do you store data?
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19,194 - Eventual consistency strategies
Eventual consistency is database state that eventually looks the same everywhere. It assumes a multiple replica database. Each replica is available during a partition. So updates can occur to the same data. You need some way of resynchronizing changed that interfere with eachother
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19,200 - Synchronize Postgresql databases
Imagine issuing a COPY TO query for every table in a database and then syncing the resulting CSV with other nodes. We can add a version column to every table so we avoid syncing unnecessarily. Conflict detection could be implemented by showing multiple copied and marking one as active.
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18,871 - Write undistributed code that runs distributed
It's often useful to have an abstraction that lets us write code to one way to be silently executed in a different context. Such as writing synchronous code that actually runs asynchronously or concurrently.
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18,848 - Autonomous agents
What work can autonomous programs do for us?
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18,851 - Nature friendly cities
Why are buildings so anti nature ?
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18,854 - Trouble free transportation
If you have no battery on your phone and there's no schedule or map at a bus stop - what do you do?
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18,869 - Life is hard or life is complicated or life is suffering or life is difficult
Is life hard? Is life suffering?
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19,196 - The Predicament of Having Nothing or society is terrible
To survive, you need money, to get money you need to provide services to others or provide value, to provide value you need money, to get a job you need to provide value, nobody pays you before you work a month, for things to be easier for you, someone else needs to do work on your behalf, every man carries his own burden, nobody is willing to extend a debt to someone else unless they're rewarded for it, Life is difficult if you have nothing.
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19,196 - Active investment gives poor returns
Actively managed investments rarely return more than the whole market. It's almost as if intelligence doesn't help Active investment is the act of researching companies and initiatives and deciding what to invest in. Unfortunately the returns from this activity are less than investing in index funds. Index funds represent a bit of everything or the whole market. Ironically an index is actively decided upon, the criteria to be included in the index is a decision. Some companies enter or leave an index based on revenue or other criteria.
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19,196 - Front offloading risk strategies
Everything entails risk of failure, we can manage risk of failure by front loading terms so that losses from failure is limited, insurance is an example, it protects against adverse effects, there are funding strategies that offload risk from the attempt, such as Pipe which exchanges subscribers for capital
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19,177 - Money as a function
I want to write an algorithm that takes a numerical amount and turns it into a set of purchases that optimise a function of some property. In effect you can say how much you want to spend and you get a set of fulfilments from that.
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19,196 - How to get people to do things for you - worker escrow
I think o2oo.io should have a jobs section with numerical amounts of money attached to them. I can pay people to work on something for me.
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19,197 - Unlimited upside debt and debt tax autopayment
The risk of debt is that someone can default on their debt, but that person shall eventually earn money, we can guarantee repayment of debt by taxing that person after essential expenses and repaying the debt without the debt growing unsustainably
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19,200 - Funding-Work-Revenue cross dependency
To get something created and sustainable you need money and customers, to get customers you need something created. To get something created you need worker. To get funding you need something you're going to create. It's such a vicious cycle that has no obvious opening. If people could get together to create a product, they could all profit in excess of a salary.
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18,876 - Software development doesn't scale
Adding more people to a software project doesn't necessarily improve productivity this is from the mythical man month or known as Brook's Law
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18,877 - Waste of human life time
Many activities that humans partake in are a waste of time. They could be automated to save human life.
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18,881 - Photosynthetic human
We should make our own food in our bodies
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18,881 - Irreconcilable differences
People have different opinions. How do we avoid tyranny from the minority or majority?
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18,882 - Software principles
What do you think software should have?
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19,182 - Responsively fast software
Computers shouldn't lag, ever. I am interested in ideas how to speed up the perceived performance of computers.
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19,184 - Maximising use of the CPU
Imagine a 2 dimensional diagram where each Y is a separate thread and X is time. You want work to fill the 2 dimensional diagram. Unfortunately most people's for loops look like a sequential row on a table, rather than a column. You want rows and columns to be filled. can we write an algorithm that fills the rows and columns with work and coordinates communication automatically?
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19,184 - Computer errors
What should we do of computer errors?
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18,882 - Energy crisis
What if we run out of energy? So no more efficient fossil fuels
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18,882 - Sustainable distribution
We are an incredibly dirty species. We pollute our environment. Meat, milk, bread and other foods come in plastic packaging - which we attempt to recycle poorly or throw to landfill
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18,883 - Desired Software
Infinity family has a number of software engineers as members. We need to communicate what we need from eachother so we can build upon each others work. But it would be nice to put together things that people want so maybe a following of people can build them
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18,884 - Smart ontologies
The semantic web technologies introduced interesting ideas like RDF and semantic reasoning with OWL. We can produce new facts from old facts.
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18,885 - Convenience
How would you make life more convenient? I'm interested in what would make your life easier
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18,893 - Resenting God
I was created as a spirit to be a unique verb before God. Like God is I am I am also a doing verb - I do things uniquely to other parts of creation. Be it invention, writing or art. I am a knife who resents being expected to cut things.
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18,894 - The Great Stagnation
Society's laws and expectations have stagnated. Nobody really considers what the future should hold. There's a couple of science fictions that consider the future but culture and society in the west is stagnated
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18,894 - Nobody can agree on change - or change is suppressed by those in power
Pick any societal law or change and there will be a sizable group of people who oppose it for any reason. Consensus is impossible in society.
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18,897 - Mechanism of existence
If God exists and there is nothing outside of God then what am I?
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18,900 - Increasing the amount of love in the universe
I believe love and language (the basis of reality) are cornerstones of existence. Increasing love in the universe makes the universe grow.
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18,914 - Integrating education and industry
Education and job hiring should be integrated. We have a complicated endeavour - rocket science, food and industrial logistics, browser engines, search engines - people should be funelled into positions from school. No job interviews
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19,074 - People twist
People in different companies across organisations are running according to some plan or set of instructions - how do we change behaviours across organisations and groups to achieve common goals
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19,077 - Rewarding and tracking good
Why is the only unit of measurement money? Why are we not measuring love or good done?
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19,081 - Community personality types
I invite you to take a personality quiz and post your responses here so we can match together people who would work well together
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19,086 - People decide how to do their work
Work is often boring and people secretly believe it doesn't need to be done as David Graeber found out. This puzzle is to find out how to cause work to be free and independent of outside requirements so people are empowered.
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19,086 - Advert overload
We live in a world of too many advertisements for our time and attention.
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19,090 - Wrong people doing the things and right people doing the wrong things
We have cars and smartphones and yet have poverty and difficulty of being, mental health problems - surely poverties and mental health problems are more tractable than building an advanced robotic car factory, smartphone or launching things into space.
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19,092 - Some people are takers and don't give back
When I look at publicly provided services that are free is that they are underfunded and exploited. As people take advantage of what can be taken for free. Free and fair things benefits everyone as it raises the tide of all boats. But some people take advantage.
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19,100 - Raising awareness of Infinity family
How do we bring people toward Infinity family?
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19,118 - Work aggregation and work pattern matching
Everyday 7 billion people do something in their average day. Someone needs to decide what these people do and some of it is intellectual and some is physical. Why isn't customer service perfect? Surely there is enough people to do the work. Why can't I phone government or my bank and my problems be resolved instantly over the phone. There must be a system that everyone could use that allows the work that each person does to satisfy the needs of multiple people. I propose work items are created and matched to others that have similar patterns. We could combine jobs and information together so that someone on the way somewhere also does other tasks that help others that have similar problems. If I am doing some work on a computer, this work must match patterns of someone else's work on the computer.
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19,121 - Non fungible numbers
Multiplication and addition that is no longer commutative
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19,122 - Database technology
Storing data and querying it and scaling it is a problem that many individuals and organisations experience. Let's talk of databases
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19,122 - Document based databases
How should we use document based databases?
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19,122 - What to spend resources on
How should I spend my money?
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19,125 - Safer world
We can change the world to be safer
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19,150 - Slow life
In the world businesses are expected to borrow money and pay interest on the money as return for the use of the money. You owe more than you were given. As a result you cannot fail as then you shall be out more than you received. I have sutained motivation for a few days and then I am tired and I want to relax but if I start a business I cannot relax
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19,127 - Visualize or visible demand
How to cause demand to be visible to others in society
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19,130 - The Paradox of the Economy
Everything you buy needs to pay for all the salaries and costs of and needs of everyone involved in producing the good. This relationship is recursive. As they each need that from everyone they buy from. So how can there be enough money for everyone? And others need you to do things for them as part of your work
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19,134 - Who pays for your human rights?
Everyone needs shelter, food and to pay their costs of bills. But are these a human right? But surely that doesn't mean they are free as they aren't free to provide
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19,136 - Life scalability
The paradox of the economy means that a large portion of society shall be poor as they won't provide more benefits than they cost. The capitalist system means that you need to provide a lot of value added benefit to lots of individuals to profit. In other words there is a scalability problem to providing for yourself
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19,158 - Monoculture
For some things such as crops and software there is only under the authority of one entity
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19,158 - Browser monoculture
Google and Apple and Firefox effectively owns the browser market, there are very few competitor browsers with their own engines.
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19,158 - Dream browser
What should a browser provide? What APIs should be provided?
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19,159 - Optimising software
I am interested in ideas for optimising software
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19,170 - Decentralised automated organisations
How do we create a decentralised automated organisation
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19,179 - Coordination problem
How to solve problems as groups of people
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19,191 - Conway's law
The structure of software resembles the communication between organisations or individuals. There is a homomorphism of software component to component.
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19,197 - Human block hotel
There is an affordable housing shortage. Imagine a crane and a building that is filled with capsules for human sleeping, when you want to go to sleep, you get into an empty capsule and the door closes and then you are picked up by the crane and put onto a pile of capsules. When you want to get out, you press a button and the crane moves boxes around to get you out. People at the bottom wait longer to get out but they do get out eventually. There would be emergency failsafes too, in case you get stuck.
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19,203 - Invention code
Imagine there's a list of attributes that you can design something to have and there's a list of implementations to those attributes. This looks like a nested list of numbers [[1], [3,2, [0, 2, 3], 3, 2]]] where each placement corresponds to a known property of that invention.
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19,209 - Scaling trust
There's spam, scams, lying, malware and thieving on the internet and in the world for material gain. How do we scale security and trust?
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19,219 - Distributed command and coordination
How does a loosely organised group of people get work done?
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19,266 - Benefitting everybody as much as possible
How can we benefit everybody as much as possible? Shouldn't our aim in society to benefit everybody?
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18,580 - Boredom
Boredom is a menace, stealing joy from people since the beginning of time
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18,475 - Conflict of Interest
How to solve conflicts of interest
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18,874 - Window/tab merge
Why do you have multiple tabs open? The answer is that you're cross referencing in your head. Why not let the computer do it?
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19,191 - Metaphorical programming
I feel that abstractions in programming are not powerful enough. What we really want to program with is metaphors. So I imagine complicated systems visualised a network of pipes like a circuit board. And I can introduce the metaphor of cars driving around a network. A loop is a depot that produces cars around a circuit. You can have visibility and observability of a system by rendering dataflow visually.
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18,471 - Sharing Digital Resources
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18,573 - Post Kubernetes world
What does the post kubernetes world look like technologically?
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18,889 - Resilience to the worst of humanity
The average person is selfish, greedy, not very intelligent and an emotionally stunted illogical thinker. How can any economic system win the support of the majority if these things are true
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18,513 - Ethical advertising
We should want to advertise what we do to eachother
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18,419 - High Incomes
How do we create universally high incomes?
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18,645 - Hierarchical society
Minimum wage staff cannot afford their own jobs
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19,088 - An economics that solves the finiteness of money
The problem with money is that it is so finite. There is never enough of it in the same place where it can do good
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18,558 - Eradicating commuting
How to remove commuting from most people's frame of experience
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18,575 - Overpopulation
How to avoid densely populated areas
Ideas
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19,393 - URL powered computer
Installing software is so 1990s-2000s. Let's configure and install software by giving URLs or taking them away. Everything is a URL
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19,266 - Benefit inbox
A website that lists benefits or advantages, that you can subscribe to with one click
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19,244 - Imaginary auction shop
Why not a shop with imaginary products and services in it? And you bid the price that you want to pay for that product, you also commit to long term spending on the product, you actually stake money, so if the product is created, you are obligated to pay for it
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19,235 - Using the CPU efficiently
This idea is ideas on how to use the CPU efficiently, to use CPU to solve problems and use the resource what it is capable of
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19,221 - Money valuation as a continuous wave function like the stock market
Imagine being capable of affording something really expensive one minute but not the next? This is how dynamic production could be
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19,219 - Skill and Command allocation system
A list of people, their skill profiles and then a button to allocate and offer of work to them, based on their skills. Another section of the app, which is a list of problems, and a report on the problem from many people's perspective's such as Google Doc.
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19,219 - Minimum flow rate minimum pay
The problem with minimum pay is the Iron Law of Wages is that everything leads to 0 over time. Imagine a flexible pricing system where the pricing is set to set a minimum break even for the supplier
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19,219 - Non exhausting labour
The funny thing about workers is that they pay their own bills AND the bills of the employer (assuming a company is cash flow positive), whereas the employer only puts up an initial set of funding, which gets expired, and they rely on workers for income, so why do capital owners get paid again and again for the same funding but workers don't?
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19,197 - Capped debt
The problem with debt is if something fails, the debt provided an unlimited risk, we want failure to have a minimum cost.
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19,197 - Coffee shop queue
A large room arranged with efficiently arranged chairs and tables, to be used as a queue, people are called out in turn
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19,197 - Guaranteed return
From an investors perspective, if someone wants to do something and they think it shall create lots of money, I kind of want to give them money in return for a guaranteed return of whatever they earn. We need some form of economic obligation to return this return. The current mechanism is debt, but this doesn't really work in both parties' interests due to the punitive effects of debt
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19,195 - Virtual GoodReward thank tokens/shares
Issue tokens to people when they do something good for you, can be redeemed for favours later
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19,188 - The irreversibility of commitment
If you decide to do something, you need to exist with the fact you did it. You cannot get egg from a baked cake. In other words, when you get a job or start a business you are committed to it. I want to remove this feeling that I cannot relax due to commitments..
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19,184 - Errors have resumable error codes
I was told how to get the Nth product on Stackoverflow, he also told me how to get the product number from a product! Which you must understand how useful that is. Error messages can be completely retried and resumed with this information. I only need to log or print out a special error code and the user can retry from where they left off!
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19,179 - Recursive coordination portfolio
Portfolios are really effective at managing bets and risk. You own a little bit of everything to return as much as you can. What if we could manage our coordinations with others as a portfolio. People could decide to change their behaviour to benefit someone else. Such as writing documentation how some of their code works. Or adding an API
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19,177 - Money to scalability
How much compute, storage and network does $5 get you, how about $15, or $100 or $1000 or $100,000
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19,163 - Business welfare
Most companies such as restaurants fail. I propose we cause businesses to be radically simpler by having common infrastructure for business operations so it's not all private. Everyone benefits when businesses provide services to people.
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19,160 - Object removal
Can we remove subobjects an replace them with direct memory access mappings?
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19,159 - Invariant optimisation code movement
Imagine I have a nested loop and I do lots of work in this nested loop. Wouldn't it be more efficient to do some of this work incrementally such as when objects are created?
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19,140 - Needcoins
Issue two currencies. The regular currency stays the same but issue a minimum standard or basic income of needcoins when you spend money in a shop the money for needs is taken from your need budget. Anything that you don't particularly need such as coffee or luxury garments is taken from your other account.
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19,132 - Transitive Pull model - impedence of work and profit
Every action of work should benefit the employer and by extension employees. How to algorithmically identify cost effective work tasks so everything a worker does pulls towards profit? I think this is an algorithmic problem. Effects of work can be represented as a graph of cause and effect. If you don't do administration or what causes your business to earn money, you go out of business. Work done is not priced unless you're a billable employee. Need some method valuing work and estimating compexity in terms of time used to calculate price
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19,130 - Can A* be used to generate algorithm sourcecode?
I thought of an idea to use a* algorithm to "walk" toward a solution that solves a programming problem. Each neighbour can be a weighted list of programming tasks such as if statement, for each, assignment, recursive call. How do you map example data structures transformations to code that fulfils the changes to the data structure? You need a cost function that decreases when the output gets nearer to the solution. What does the cost function for code solving a problem look similar to?
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19,128 - Stack pattern match
Imagine you have a reference implementation of a btree and a reference implementation of a locking manager and a security manager and you want to tie them together. You could add code calls from one to the other but what if there is a better way? The better way for extensibility is to match stack function calldepths to code snippets that run whenever the pattern is matched. For example when a btree is split you might want to acquire locks or release locks in a certain order. We can do pattern matching around the callsite of a btree split and return values and do the right locking and security behaviours without needing to change the API of either. Essentially you have parallel multiple return values.
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19,127 - Failure due to not enough critical mass
For some thing to be successful, it needs critical mass. If a company doesn't get enough customers, it shall shut down. Same with websites and blogs, if they don't get visitors the creators or author loses interest or loses money for long enough they stop.
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19,127 - Geographic wants and needs app
Ping server with geographic location of wants, be matched to providers of wants, view wants of others on app. Like Foursquare for wants and needs
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19,127 - Commit to buy & crowdfunding
Imagine you want something that doesn't exist. What do you do? It should be possible to commit to buy something at a price. Market research and product development is expensive, you need a guarantee you buy something at a price, buying signals are currently invisible.
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19,123 - Forever tape abstraction
With computers we often have different places to place data that determines how fast or how large the data is. For example, we have the stack, main memory, virtual memory, page files, disk files, buffers, heap, S3, SANs, NFS. Can we create an abstraction that captures the differences of each of these kinds of storage and allows efficient management of each of them and switching between them so that there is an illusion that memory is infinite but efficient. For example, you might want to load chunks from S3 efficiently into main memory and cached on disk.
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19,123 - Schools, Universities and Colleges are business umbrella organisations
The purpose of a school, college and university is to educate. But what if students want to provide services to the general public or other businesses? As parent category attests it's too difficult to start a business. There is so much administration to be done when all you want to do is a job. I propose schools, colleges and universities have umbrella organisations associated with them and provide an ERP and administration software for running of businesses. So the education organisation acts as a sort of bootstrap organisation for providing products and services.
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19,122 - Money packages
Ask a computer what you can get by putting in a money amount in and it shall tell you a package of goods and services that when combined offer something useful to you in return for that money.. so if you put enough cash for a home renovation it shall show you ideas for a house renovation and be fully costed. If you have certain electronics it shall recommend what electronics to buy based on what you have such as accessories.
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19,122 - Dynamic bus routing
For a bus service to be profitable it needs to have a certain number of customers or users of the bus. The bus also must service people where they need the bus. I propose an app where people can use the day before taking a bus journey and they can can say at what time they need to be somewhere before then a algorithm plots a bus route to pick up all those people.
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19,088 - Everyone is their own currency
You often see companies advertising cashback or money off products or you get a gift for purchasing or they donate money to charity. It is ultimately meaningless as it is simply money off the sticker price. We need a unit that is gained when you purchase some thing. When you buy some thing you cause lots of good things and work for people which is good. It gives people things to do and it coordinates society. You should always be capable of buying food and energy. Your currency of yourself should guarantee this for exchange. So I can go I to a shop and buy anything with chronological or Sam coins. Then the seller gains a marginal benefit based on my labour creative output in return for holding chronological or Sam coins. They have a claim on my output
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19,086 - Attention agents
One company knows every product of every other company and uses algorithms and reasoning and quizzes to decide who is suitable for which product.
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19,086 - Work interface
As a user of someone's work I don't need to care how it is implemented I just want some thing satisfied. Similar how computer programming interfaces work, I want to depend on someone else's implementation or work that they do and use it
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19,080 - Good social credit system
Define good behaviour, account for good behaviour, people set minimum good behaviour for entry to buildings and things
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18,887 - Protocol context manager
In big microservice based systems or systems with lots of protocols, you often need to make a change that ripples out through the entire system. If you have X services you send a message between them you have X message schemas. Let's manage the schemas centrally
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18,885 - Accommodation app
There is short term, long term accommodation..I want to change my place of residence on a whim without having to worry about contracts or moving lots of stuff
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18,884 - Query everything
I should be able to search my entire computer and all data connected to me from one search box
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18,882 - Standardised reusable produce container and socket
Our model of shopping relies on N people individually going to a distribution point (shops) and collecting produce to take home and then manually place in a refrigerator or cupboard. What if houses had a standardised socket for produce.
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18,882 - Self hosted personal data
My name, address, bank details, credit card number should be self hosted by me or by my data provider - I shouldn't have to give the data to every company that asks
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18,882 - Install-less software
The web is an install-less platform, but it only works for HTML/Javascript
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18,882 - Local first software
Software should be designed to work locally first, without needing a server side component
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18,881 - World splitting
Imagine there are two points of view - one way to avoid conflict is to put both points of view into practice and try them both to see which is better.
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18,877 - Accounting systems integrated with banks
Running accounts for a business or organisation is time consuming and is largely spent cross referencing information. This is a task for computers not humans
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18,876 - Layered problem language
Imagine we could define behaviour or code about an attribute of a large system in isolation from other concerns and have them tied together automatically into a whole.
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18,875 - Additive GUIs
Specify the attributes of the GUI and let the computer generate the GUI
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18,874 - Window walk optimisation
You want to find a job that is near your home transport wise, near a supermarket, doctors that pays the most and has the cheapest house to buy or rent
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18,873 - Graph manipulation to queries
Typically with an information system there are two ways of writing systems - one is predominantly through mutating queries and the other is through manipulation of objects in memory such as references between objects. ORMs blur the lines a bit. What if we could silently transform one form to another
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18,872 - Database proxy
One way to get decentralisation for free is to write a Postgres database server which is a simple text based protocol and distribute the resulting queries to peers P2P
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18,871 - Event sourcing and CRDTs as data storage
I think event sourcing and CRDTs can be combined to provide an alternative to the blockchain for general purpose data storage
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18,869 - Autonomous distribution and hosting
I have a number of files that I would like to keep available such as backups and a wordpress blog that I want to keep hosted
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18,869 - Distributed history search
Rather than indexing the entire internet, index everybody's browsing history to find content
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18,869 - Chain of necessity or chain of distribution
In a group effort there are people who contribute more than others - there are those who contribute time and those who contribute money. There are others who do one off help. We should reward all these people fairly.
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18,868 - Distributed join
To join data together you need the data to be colocated - this idea is to colocate a subset of joined data on each node so that the data can be split up
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18,854 - Travel computer terminals at all transport locations
This should be an android based computer system that lets you search journeys like Google Maps when your phone is dead. You can also summon a taxi to the transport location or book hotels
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18,854 - All inclusive travel card
Use a card to travel on all transport options - tickets are associated with your credit card
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18,853 - Autonomous computer systems
Plug a hard drive or a server into a cluster and it is assimilated automatically
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18,851 - Bird friendly buildings
Buildings should have eaves for birds to roost and bird baths from the rain
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18,846 - Human superorganism
Our blood vessels carry food, oxygen and nutrients to our cells which each then do their work. The cells of our body are selfless - how do we create communities that are selfless
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18,844 - Verified skill/accomplishment database
CVs are terrible at proving what you've built or accomplished - employers don't even study them properly
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18,843 - Minimum rights as a worker
What minimum rights should workers have
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18,840 - Societal debt - social credits
Let people borrow £500,000 from the community over 50 years, receiving £10,000 a year or £833 a month
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18,840 - Shift marketplace
A labour scheduling marketplace where workers can put a classified of a date and time they can work and for how long and a price for the time. Employers can create bids that are matched
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18,826 - Labour, financial marketplaces are good
Amazon is an example of a market place and it is good
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18,824 - Instant job warehouse
A warehouse with a coffee shop, supermarket, machinery owned by the people that you can work at without a job interview
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18,815 - Adversarial companies
Adversarial companies are adversarial companies designed to topple international organisations funded by governments
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18,813 - Personalized union
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18,777 - Advice engine
Feed in all your data, get personalised advice
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18,763 - Failure logging
Start a company or project that fails, it should be logged somewhere
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18,750 - Automated dump and import
We can run a query in each table to dump data that is newer than the last date we checked
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18,740 - Data structure layout automation
Let the computer handle the data layout. Focus on the access
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18,737 - Scaling from zero
It should be possible to run a minimum of infrastructure to scale from 0
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18,717 - Socialising making money
Society has problems that have rewards, society should openly share ways of making money
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18,716 - Inter-ref
A code that is subscript next to a word or phrase to link to a portal of that word
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18,708 - Business Language
Computers are good at executing instructions mechanically but not very good at interpreting business language. We need a serialization that captures what a business does to make money
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18,704 - Community scheduling
Schedule every human to a residential home that is near work
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18,651 - Infinity Land trust
Own some land communally
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18,644 - Regulation school
Get trained in an area of regulation
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18,644 - Business Incubator
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18,644 - Social curriculum
A educational curriculum on how to work together rather than compete
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18,644 - Right Competition
How to foster healthy competition
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18,644 - The maternal computer
How to protect people with technology and right deployment of funds
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18,644 - Close down all family trusts and cap how much land you can own
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18,639 - Deserving market fund
Markets allocate funds to shareholders, can markets allocate equitably too?
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18,639 - 6 hour childcare
I think childcare can be collectivised.
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18,630 - Televised lectures
On normal everyday televisions should be recorded lectures on random topics
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18,610 - Scheduled society
How everybody can get what they want and poverty can be avoided
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18,609 - Unity app
On what points of human life do you have unity with?
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18,607 - MRSGREN digital organism interface
A menu system for organisations
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18,600 - The unfair database
A database of unfairness
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18,594 - Data hub
Personal data stored on user's own machine, accessed by API
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18,594 - Work hours to include commuting time
Working on the train
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18,592 - Data Attestations
I assert and agree that this data may be used for business purposes
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18,580 - Boredom expert
Someone who studies your psyche to work out what you should be doing
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18,575 - Cookie cutter society
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18,533 - Great Index of Roles
An index of every job role that needs to be done for modern society
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18,531 - Automated API traversal
Armed with a thesaurus and an almanac of system functionality we can write robots that program themselves
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18,531 - Business cloud
Provisioning reality with code
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18,518 - Create a list of join queries that would be useful cross institutions
In designing this data liquidity system, we should have some idea of the kinds of questions we want to answer
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18,513 - Advertising as a function of wants
There are adverts I am interested in receiving, I should have an inbox for them
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18,510 - Surplus thought tank
A research organisation that looks for surplus available in the economic system
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18,509 - Linked love
Microtransactions for things that we love
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18,504 - Unity application
Quiz people to find their variables, then match people up with the same variables
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18,499 - Make generic manifestos of what all people want
Everybody generally wants the same things
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18,498 - Wantsfile at root of domain
Automated provision of services to automatic buyer of services
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18,475 - Use a marketplace where every item is a wrapped product and must contain every stakeholder's interest
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18,457 - Sectoral pay agreements
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18,430 - Scaled prices
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18,419 - Essential worker stipend
Society can reward who make modern society liveable
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