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New comment by bsldld in "Ask HN: What moonshots do you wish were being attempted?"

bsldld — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 13:55:33 +0000

Education without loan. One approach is documented here: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

New comment by bsldld in "Ask HN: What's the most important problem in the world? Are you working on it?"

bsldld — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 08:39:08 +0000

Disconnect between education and employment.

I have written about it here: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

New comment by bsldld in "Ask HN: Do you know of any live B2B applications built on blockchain?"

bsldld — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 13:04:51 +0000

I don't have any project up and running, but I had tried in the past(and still looking) to get like minded people to work on an open source project to make education equity-based rather than loan-based. It has a genuine use for federated/permission-oriented distributed ledger. Iroha under the hyperledger umbrella was a good choice for the project.

If anyone is interested to know more then the project idea and rationale is available here: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

New comment by bsldld in "Ask HN: If money was no object what software would you create?"

bsldld — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:46:50 +0000

This project idea falls under the category of "moonshot project". And it is an open source and not for profit idea. I don't think anyone will invest in the usual sense.

New comment by bsldld in "Const vs. constexpr vs. consteval vs. constinit in C++20"

bsldld — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 18:21:05 +0000

> ...Apple and Google have “moved” on.

Apple moved to Swift, but what has Google moved to?

New comment by bsldld in "Ask HN: If money was no object what software would you create?"

bsldld — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 18:10:28 +0000

A universal platform to facilitate loan-free education. This will not only make education accessible but also help social mobility.

More info is available here: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

Anyone interested in teaming up to make this a reality?

New comment by bsldld in "Ask HN: Would you like to join a mob programming group?"

bsldld — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:29:30 +0000

I am interested, but initially could I participate just as an observer?

New comment by bsldld in "Ask HN: Anyone interested in working on projects related to social causes?"

bsldld — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:26:49 +0000

> 1 is an awesome idea and I'd love to hear more.

Basic idea is to use a federated blockchain platform to form a graph of students, teachers, employers and relevant government agencies. When a student gets a job and starts earning income, a percentage of the salary paid via the employer is sent to the education institution and teachers related to that student. More details are here: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

> 2 is wiktionary, I think?

Not exactly Wiktionary. Wiktionary is a static type of dictionary. What I envision is a more dynamic multi-lingual dictionary where there is link for a word from one language to other languages. That way users will be able to explore other languages and learn.

New comment by bsldld in "Ask HN: Anyone interested in working on projects related to social causes?"

bsldld — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:38:06 +0000

I have two ideas. But, as I said in my post, I am open to ideas from others. Here are my two ideas:

0. Making education funding sustainable without putting student into debt. Businesses will directly fund education as they are one of the major beneficiaries.

1. Creating online, live and interactive multi-lingual dictionaries to help reduce language barrier.

New comment by bsldld in "Ask HN: How would I send 1 dollar to everyone on Earth?"

bsldld — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:23:16 +0000

You also need to account for exchange rate and processing fees. Some recipients may not receive 1 dollar.

Edit0: Also, I just realised, many poor people do not have means to exchange dollar into their local currency. So sending them 1 dollar through post is going to be a waste.

Edit1: Most countries will not allow this due to hawala which creates black money.

New comment by bsldld in "Ask HN: Anyone interested in working on projects related to social causes?"

bsldld — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:17:03 +0000

> What exactly are you pitching?

Some people have ideas to fix something within the society that they think can be better. Engineers also have some such ideas. I would like to get together engineers so that we can work together on some meaningful project with an aim to solve some social problems.

> The world has a ton of nonprofits

Can be a social enterprise?

> Most humans aren't very effective.

If that is the argument for any new idea/venture, then nothing will ever get done.

New comment by bsldld in "“Timed” Math Tests Destroy Kids’ Love of Math"

bsldld — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 07:47:12 +0000

This!

And it is not just for Maths. Every subject taught has this problem.

Another problem similar to this issue is very well articulated by Salman Khan of Khan Academy here: https://www.ted.com/talks/sal_khan_let_s_teach_for_mastery_n...

Ask HN: Anyone interested in working on projects related to social causes?

bsldld — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 07:28:42 +0000

I am a software engineer and want to form a group of like-minded software engineers to work on something that will make a difference on a massive scale (not immediately, but over a period). Moonshot ideas are not off-limits.

I have two ideas, but open to ideas from other engineers. We can bounce ideas across and decide what to work on as a group.

Anyone interested to work on new social impact open source project?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33528431

Points: 5

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New comment by bsldld in "Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment"

bsldld — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 13:09:13 +0000

Education funding should be based on equity, and not on debt. And it should be funded by the society as a whole and not by some private for-profit entities.

It is outrageous that we make young students debt-laden even before they have any income source. This is not only unethical, it also sets a wrong example for the younger generation.

New comment by bsldld in "Meta Meets Microsoft"

bsldld — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 12:42:13 +0000

Possibility of Microsoft buying Facebook is not unthinkable. Microsoft is already an investor in Facebook. Both HoloLens and Oculus are already moving in the same direction with enterprise play.

Ask HN: Looking for co-developers for 2 open source ideas in EdTech

bsldld — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 06:20:12 +0000

Hey Everyone!

I have two open source project ideas in the domain of education technology. We can bounce ideas across and flesh out the details further once we meet. I will describe the ideas in a sentence below:

0. A distributed ledger based platform to bring all the stakeholders (students, parents, education institutions, government and businesses) together to fund education using equity(income share) instead of debt(loan).

1. A platform for crowd-sourced multi-lingual dictionaries and translators with an local and global "anchoring" language.

My Gmail username is ed.xr.dw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33173522

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bsldld in "Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?"

bsldld — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 10:45:03 +0000

I am working on https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

It is at present just at conceptual level, but I am talking to the stakeholders.

Why is this cool? Well, if this works, then not only will it make education easily accessible to everyone but it will also fundamentally change how education benefits society.

Feedback and collaborators welcome :)

New comment by bsldld in "Ask HN: Any “useful” side project ideas?"

bsldld — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:54:41 +0000

Here is one: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

It is an idea to provide loan-free education.

New comment by bsldld in "My First Impressions of Web3"

bsldld — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 01:33:50 +0000

> Blockchains are designed to be a network of peers, but not designed such that it’s really possible for your mobile device...

If I am not mistaken Hyperledger Iroha[0] has(had?) that as one of its goals.

[0] https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha

New comment by bsldld in "Tell HN: Code_connect: A subreddit to hangout, discuss projects and team-up"

bsldld — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 14:00:02 +0000

> I think Discord would be better.

There is a link to the corresponding Discord server too in the menubar. Here is the invite: https://discord.gg/RAdT4cJUHC

> I joined your subReddit anyway.

Thank you! And it is not just my subreddit. It is ours. I made it for everyone of us. Open to have more moderators for the subreddit.