Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time and Money? [Apr 2025]

Re:Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time ... by RadiozRadioz on Sunday April 13, 2025 @05:18AM (#43671346)

- Remove (or perpetually switch to) daylight saving time

- Make everyone use the ISO8601 date format

- Have everyone drive on the right side of the road

- Eliminate the "sidewalk shuffle" by standardizing on always moving to the right

- Customer support lines/banks/etc must shift their opening hours slightly so that they are open outside of business hours, so that working people can use their services

- Make all instant messaging programs use XMPP, Matrix, or another open protocol

- Put the UK back in the EU

- Change world elections to be Alternative Vote, or similar

- Add another month and make all months shorter and the same length. Have an intermission period at the end of the year to iron out the remaining time. A la gormanuary.

- Delete America's guns, give America proper healthcare

- Standardize on Esperanto

- Replace Python with Ruby

- Make it so that Microsoft actually remembers my login session when I click "remember me" instead of logging me out all the time

This, I think, will fix most of the world's major problems.

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Re:Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time ... by m0rde on Sunday April 13, 2025 @07:16AM (#43671937)

> Customer support lines/banks/etc must shift their opening hours slightly so that they are open outside of business hours, so that working people can use their services

How would customer line/bank/etc workers ever get help with these services?

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Re:Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time ... by RadiozRadioz on Sunday April 13, 2025 @09:24AM (#43672642)

How do they get help with those services currently? At present they operate during the same hours those people are working in, shifting the hours makes no difference to them. So this plan changes nothing for them, but is beneficial for everyone else. I welcome suggestions on how to improve it for cusomer support reps too.

I've worked in a "first line of customer support" role, while simultaneously being a customer. Whenever I needed help with something, with my end-user hat on, I knew who to ask internally to get what I needed.

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Re:Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time ... by oulipo on Sunday April 13, 2025 @11:23AM (#43673442)

The most important technology is the Technology of the Mind, and of societies: how to make people feel good about themselves and the world, and each other.

And it's more to do with politics than with "tech".

But on the other problems the world need to tackle, climate change, biodiversity, access to healthcare and education, and limiting the impact of AI on social manipulation rank high

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Re:Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time ... by RadiozRadioz on Sunday April 13, 2025 @01:44PM (#43674492)

That too, but the "remember me" button is at least of equivalent importance.

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Re:Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time ... by fragmede on Sunday April 13, 2025 @07:28PM (#43676627)

the compromise for daylight savings time is to move it 30 minutes

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Re:Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time ... by yo_yo_yo-yo on Sunday April 13, 2025 @07:59PM (#43676806)

I know I’m old-fashioned, but I’d actually like noon to be where the sun is highest in the sky somewhere in the timezone and I’m totally okay if it’s the western edge for all the lovers of DST.

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