I think something more powerful could be done here. Imagine app that lets you understand all the politics and dirt on companies. Like how green are they or do they do animal testing . I see so much shit and choices, but who am rewarding
Well, GoodGuide is a bit like that, but they do it a product-by-product basis instead of judging the business as a whole.
Sorting by favorable or unfavorable politics is much harder, since politics is so relative. It could work though - the app could quiz you about your political opinions at the first launch and then display how well/bad a company's policies fit your political ideals.
I think the way to go here is have the user fill out some sort of questionnaire in their preferences section that spec's out their ideals. The the app assigns scores of desirability to scanned objects accordingly. This would allow the user to vote with their dollars in a very powerful and easy way.
I'm confused. Are you saying that the person you are replying to is only interested in aligning consumer action with consumer beliefs because of a shallow interest? He is explicitly saying he thinks a roughly shallow idea could be taken further...
Or are you saying we should avoid topics that could broadly be considered political? If this is the case I don't understand why you didn't reply to OP instead of this comment (and how that meshes with pg taking a stand on SOPA in general).
Or that you think the suggested application isn't of the caliber that ideas would have been in the old days pg refers to? I have only used hn for a year or so, but have read some of the archives and this doesn't feel correct. It's an interesting idea -- perhaps a browser extension that modifies sites like amazon.com?
Please explain what you meant; I am very curious. Thanks.
The comment seemed apolitical to me -- it was a statement on the future of purchasing where consumers have access to a great deal more information. Instead of only considering the price of a product, consumers of the future could be making their decision based on factors such as the environment, political stance of companies, reviews of return policies and so forth.
Aren't plants deterministic with water consumption. I can see the value of this in so far as data mining an optimal schedule, but it isn't green nor scalable.
Ditto, very sad. Based on the comments alone, it's better to turn off electronics to be safe from other passengers regardless of any merit to the authors actions. Although, I feel like not bothering with turning things off now and just put it in my pocket. After all, I get a thrill from risking my life along with a bunch strangers. Yeehaw!!!!
The ability to do suffix based deletion would be nice since I lacked the foresight to prefix my thumbnails with their dimension. Although I could wipe all my thumbnails and rebuild them on the fly...
The problem is that instead of worrying about price, compete by being different and better. Make a store that people want to be in rather than a store.
Amazon will win on price hands down. If you think only on this dimension, then close up; instead, ask yourself why your customers come to you at all.
I'm sure there's some psychological term for what long-time Chicagoans feel for the winter there... you'll find it amongst the chapters concerning victims who identify with their abusers. (I did my five years in Chicago and gtfo).
