At my local 7-Eleven, the checkout counter person always records his own phone number for every sale and earns reward points. Left me wondering, is it a smart hack or fraud? What does the HN community think about it?
Obviously as a student, books are important. But later in life, as a source of entertainment, books can't compete with bars, chatting with friends, television, movies, sports, social media, all of which hit quicker. So, why should one read books?
While writing a scholarly article (for a journal, school project, etc), I need to provide appropriate citations and bibliography. While writing it, we use many sources and fail to keep a record of all the references. Once it is done, if the AI can read the article and find supporting and original reference for any fact or quote used in the article, it can save a great amount of time.
Centralized marketplaces often tend to optimize the profits of the corporation running it rather than the experience of the buyers & sellers participating in the network. Can new decentralized marketplaces be created using blockchain technologies, especially for digital services that do not have huge offline logistics? Can decentralized networks connecting cab drivers and commuters, educators and students, artists and audience, etc. solve the trust issues better than traditional web2.0 companies?
