A crowdfunded federal lobby group whose agenda is to pass anti-lobbying legislature. Its ultimate goal would be to create a legal environment which would prohibit it from functioning.
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#3823D file managers, using Occulus Rift or similar, especially if it has REZ-like interface. This website has a bunch of 3D interfaces. They'd have to be brought up to date. And perhaps the various metaphors need a lot of work. I don't think this will be particularly useful. I jist want something that makes me feel like I'm living in the future.
I like this idea. Especially when combined with something like Thingiverse- you could view the available 3D models, pick one, rotate it, view it, and then throw it either in bin, or against your 3D printer to print it :)
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#383* Hearing aids that run off body heat. They have watches that do it, why not hearing aids? Or at least helps recharge the batteries... I dunno. I spend a lot of money on hearing aid batteries... * A better credit rating system. The current one kinda sucks, no offense to Transunion, Experian, and whatever that other one is. Just because Joe Schmoe was unemployed 18 months ago and struggled to pay the rent, much less p…
A better credit rating system - I think that's coming and we won't like it.
Credit scoring is basically data collection/mining and statistical prediction. With all the new data sources available today, it's hard to think that won't result in a major disruption. But…
(1) Credit agencies' customers are creditors, not borrowers. A good service is not necessarily a fair one, just a statistically correct one. I think we may find an increasing, not decreasing disparity between fair an useful (to creditors) service. Paying an unfair bill on time may even be a better predictor of your likelihood of paying bills than paying a fair one.
(2) The creepier (what data is collected & used) and more unfair (your parents defaulted on..) things get, the more shadowy the biz is likely to get. At least credit score is relatively accessible.
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#384Earlier quoted context omitted.
I signed up for goconspire.com a while back - it does a decent job at that (weekly/daily email stats)
Thanks, just signed up. I'll have to wait to see what it can do.
I just got the mail , exactly what I was looking for, all they need to add is the same results in the web interface and the ability to play with it.
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#385I'd like to see a site that focuses on the construction of logical arguments supporting various political and non-political views. I'd like for the system to allow for continued refinement of arguments on various topics and to allow for various branching of thought. That is, I'm not looking for a democracy that rewards majoritarian thought and punishes less popular but logically consistent argumentation. As an end pr…
Have you seen http://rbutr.com/?
It's aiming to do a lot of what you're looking for.
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#386Great initiative.
* Someway to re-introduce photos into cabins' visitors books.
In Norway, all cabins have their own visitors book. Until the mid-'00s these books were filled with physical photographs. With digital cameras, the images in these books have disappeared, and there has not yet been invented a way of attaching digital albums to each trip/chapter/page. (Social networks doesn't do the work, as a lot of people who aren't connected to each other read these books.)
The people who writes about their cabin trip need somewhere to upload the images from their stay, and the people reading the book need someway to see these photos.
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#387A pay-to-post/view social discussion site. Reddit starts out cool, then slowly becomes 'dumber' (discussion-focused articles turn into quick reaction images) as it becomes more and more popular. Hacker News avoids this by purposefully not trying to be as popular as Reddit -- UI remains minimal, tries to stay out of search engines' ways, etc. But, in this way, HN is discussion focused through obscurity. What if you fi…
How do you handle users gaming the system for profit? I was thinking up various ways to introduce money to our communication systems to incentivize certain behaviors. But not from the modern Facetwitter perspective of a site that wastes your life by addicting you. The true measure should be the correctness of the content and money should pay for that. First a system where you have to pay to post and if you post is co…
I like this idea a lot, thank you for sharing it. I might try this with http://hikigo.com. Like most things it might be hard to get the initial core of users.
What I liked about the parent post is: It still wouldn't ever get as big as Reddit. When you find yourself thinking that way, you are probably onto something you actually want.
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#388I read this article recently: http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/04/02/297839429/-so-...
And now I'm building a small app that'll give the people the ability to make predictions about future events and measure how well are they doing it. For now, it's just an experiment to test the idea.
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#389A subscription service for open source projects. As a company I would pay you monthly and get access to bug and features development for all the open source dependencies that I am using. The more I pay the more things I can get done in a month. If a feature is too big for my budget I can accumulate month to month value on a ticket or get other companies to participate.
is this what you are meaning? https://deps.io/