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It's somewhat niche, but nursing homes would benefit from low-friction facial recognition of residents.

At least where I've worked, there's a constant churn of care staff — with some workers bridging a gap for only a single shift. Institutions currently offer a printed list with portrait, name, room number, and relevant pathologies for each resident. But it takes most people at least a few days to memorize the info. And some people are difficult to recognize from their intake photo.

OTOH, the tech would only need to match a handful of residents. And it would need to conform to privacy laws. So doing the match locally on the device would be a much better fit.

> but there are already many great graphics books out there

Would you mind listing your personal top n books?

The beans chapter stuck with me too. Just fished out my copy:

> The best instruction I've read for how long to cook beans comes from a collection of recipes called "The Best in American Cooking" by Clementine Paddleford. The book instructs to simmer "until beans have gorged themselves with fat and water and swelled like the fat boy in his prime."

If the extemporaneous style of cooking from the article sounds interesting to you, the book "An Everlasting Meal" by Tamar Adler teaches it. (She quotes M. F. K. Fisher often, who was edited by Judith Jones.)

Personally, for everyday cooking I find that way of cooking much more engaging – and much less like drudgery – than cooking from recipes. In my case, it also made food waste go down quite a bit.

Would you mind saying what you would like to do but can't with FF?

I don't think I'm part of a cult, but I've used FF as my default browser for over a decade and I guess I don't know what else people want from a browser.

> I frankly love my life now.

What's it like?

> The implicit definition of "fair" as "equal suffering" is always a bit concerning to me.

For family peace, it may be the best thing. My personal anecdote:

I'm from city A. My spouse is from city B. We lived in city C. Our parents were fine with that.

My mother-in-law developed a rare disease. She had no children nearby. Now we live in city B, close to her.

In city A, despite having two of my siblings nearby, my parents absolutely resented our move. They were quite hostile at some point.

That sent my spouse to therapy and there's been no contact between them since. I'm fully on my spouse's side, especially given what my parents said and did.

But the move has taken a real toll.

> and largely funds the same club of favored people

Without taking a side, I have an anecdote that might be able to shed some light on why that's the case.

While living in Canada, I met a woman in charge of administering publicly funded contemporary visual art grants. She said those grants only go to successful artists. "Why do already successful artists need the grants?" I asked. Her answer was that the point was to raise their profile – and Canada's – internationally.

From the government's perspective, it's a bid for soft power, like funding athletes who have a shot at winning an Olympic medal.

> These are all fake made up jobs that add very little value to our national progress.

Sitting in a small country, another argument for these types of programs is to promote the country/culture abroad.

In the same way, a country might host the Olympics, etc. Or – more directly – set up some sort of "come work/invest in country x" promotion program.

Fwiw, I saw NFB stuff as a kid and maybe that worked. I lived/worked in Canada for 15 years.