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Earlier this year I moved to Cape Town, with an Airbnb booked for the first month.

I was the first guest, and the place did not meet even the most basic standards of hygiene. What’s worse is that there was still evidence of the place being used as a crack house.

Needless to say, I refused to stay there and Airbnb gave a full refund.

All of this could have been avoided by a simple verification system.

Any new listing should, at the very least, be viewed and assessed against a list of basic standards before a paying guest arrives at the door.

Or something better.

Keep refining and optimizing the system.

Perhaps a balance between the two.

Binge watch?

How about binge development.

It is definitely worth focusing on quality rather than quantity.

Personally I have found hacker news to be a highly valuable resource over the past few years. Many books I have read, and interesting topics I have looked into have come from all of your posts, comments and recommendations.

The signal to noise ratio is among the best on the web that I have encountered thus far.

Perhaps if every person embraces the politician within themselves.

This world needs refining.

Everything in order at home? On your street? In your neighborhood? Your City? Your State? Your Country?

Here in Africa we have plenty of issues needing attention.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Development_Goals

Personally I was introduced to the poor standard of early childhood development in my city by a friend, and since then we have built 3 schools. Just in my immediate area, there are around 40 that need attention, and across the country of South Africa there must be thousands. The cost of a simple building to handle part of the problem is around $25k. Another problem we face is high unemployment, so we pay people from the community to help build the schools.

Lack of access to quality education, skills and funding are the challenges we face.

A lot of research still needs to be done on extent of the problem. I have been dreaming of an app that maps all of these ECD centers and rates them on various metrics, like quality of education, building, and nutrition. An app that would allow professionals who would like to give their time a list of options of places that need their help. Like crowd funding, but for skills. An app to allow the greater community to see, engage and solve the most pressing problems around us, all over the world.

Also and app like Uber or Airbnb, but for artisans and skilled contractors, with similar rating systems.

There are many crowd funding sites, but it’s time to go deeper and actively seek out and solve issues.

https://www.designindaba.com/tags/joe-slovo-west-community-p...

Or wine bottles.

Why shouldn’t packaging be designed to be easily transformed into something useful, or even into functional community art projects?

A temple of coke cans for example. If they going to last forever it might as well be in a form that benefits communities.

Plastics have already been banned in certain countries.

Or are there to many lobbying in the wrong direction?

Not yet at least. What is the benefit to humanity as a whole?

The art of war days are over.

That Art of Peace struggle is gaining momentum.

These projects are to address the poor condition of schools, where children are typically taught in overcrowded shacks.

https://www.archdaily.com/875103/silindokuhle-preschool-coll...