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Ah! Finally a submission about what hackers can do to find business opportunities for which my age and lack of experience hacking is no barrier to me having som
by tokenadult 14y ago
Ah! Finally a submission about what hackers can do to find business opportunities for which my age and lack of experience hacking is no barrier to me having something to say.
As mentioned in the second reply comment here, the "your parents have money" comment is mistaken relative to many of the hackers reading this site. A lot of young hackers, it appears to me, are leveraging their parents' investment in their own education to move into occupations with high economic returns, after the parents didn't have the same opportunity in their generation.
On the other hand, "someday you will be like your parents" is a probable future that most people forget too readily, so the point is well taken that if you want to build a better world for yourself in the future, you might get a reality check on your plans by building a better world for your parents today.
I can't speak to the issue of what single parents need. I know I would dread having to use any current kind of dating site if (God forbid) my wife predeceased me. Health information is always popular here on Hacker News, even among the young participants, so it stands to reason that anything that can help people a generation older than you are keep good health must have wide appeal. Even in an era of steadily increasing life expectancy at all ages,
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-why-we-die-global-life-expectancy http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810516/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810516/
people still like to be healthier rather than sicker, and to live longer rather than die sooner.
- jonpeda 14y ago> I know I would dread having to use any current kind of dating site if (God forbid) my wife predeceased me. Huh, I know some wonderful success stories for this use case.
- bloaf 14y agoWhen you say health, all I can think of is a fitbit for older folks. I wonder if a small device like that could collect enough different kinds of data to be useful to doctors.
- dllthomas 14y agoGiven that someone was looking at getting medically relevant data out of patterns in the amount of time it takes people to answer the phone, I expect there would be plenty of useful information there. The problem is making the relevant information accessible and understandable.
- blcArmadillo 14y agoHere is a TED talk about this research: http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_dishman_take_health_care_off_the_mainframe.html http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_dishman_take_health_care_off_t...
- laut 14y agoHealthcare spending in the US is something like 15% of GDP. It's a trillion dollar industry. Think health insurance, pharmaceuticals, nursing, dentistry etc.