The Official Good Ideas Thread™
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I would never call Strongbow 'cider'.
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@RaceProUK So it's a mirror for a navigation app?
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@coldandtired Basically, yes. Though you get both the mirror and the app for the price, so it's not like they're charging
$79$49 for a small piece of glass.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Though you get both the mirror and the app for the price, so it's not like they're charging $49 for a small piece of glass.
The app is free, so...
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Someone's finally realised women aren't the same as men:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/revele-s-ultimate-female-armor-for-contact-sports-women#/I thought we should remove the boobplate from games...
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@coldandtired said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@RaceProUK So it's a mirror for a navigation app?
In the most simplistic terms, yes, it's a mirror. But, then again no. The image from the phone screen is reflected, but the HUD display is still transparent enough that you can see through it so that the HUD is not a visual obstruction. If it is anything like the teleprompters used at public speeches, then it can be used with virtually any amount of ambient light, and only the intended viewer – or someone with nearly the same line of sight – should be able to see the reflected image.
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@abarker said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
But, then again no.
It's a little bit funny, I thought I understood this reference, but I'm not so sure anymore.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Cross-posting as I'm not sure if this a good idea or not:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ototok-your-voice-on-the-road-car-bluetooth#/Awesome! You have no idea how many years I've been wishing for something exactly like this! :D
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In fact, this is such a great idea, can he extend the time period to the heat death of the Universe?
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Cool, that's really useful for 1999 when cheques were a thing
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Electric Legos!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/brixo-building-blocks-meet-electricity-and-iot-diy#/
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Cool, that's really useful for 1999 when cheques were a thing
That was my initial reaction, but then I saw that "there were still 477 million written in the UK last year", so more than 1 million per day! So in decline yes, but apparently still quite widely used... I don't know by whom? Are there some business that still work exclusively with checks? I can't imagine that the general public would generate that many checks today...
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@remi said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I don't know by whom?
Old people?
I haven't owned a cheque book in years, and probably haven't written a cheque in over a decade. I've paid a handful in, either gifts from elderly relatives or refunds from businesses. It's always a bit annoying because it means I have to actually go into a bank branch
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@Jaloopa That would be my guess, but even that doesn't seem to add up. When I was young, checks were used for 2 main purposes: paying your groceries (or other day-to-day expenses of a significant amount), and paying your bills.
Nowadays, in the shops I don't see anyone, even elderly people, using checks. So that usage seems to have entirely disappeared. Which leaves bills, for which I guess only the elderly would still be paying by checks, and not all of them (direct debit has been a thing for a very long time!). 1 million checks per day means about 1/month/household (assuming about 30 million households, that's probably a good first order approximation). You get what, 3-5 bills per month? (electricity, gas, phone, council tax... maybe water although it's generally not monthly... let's say with magazine subscription and the like that makes 1/month overall) So at 5 checks/months, to get these 1 millions checks/day, you'd need to have 6 millions of households of elderly-still-paying-everything-by-checks. That seems a lot...
(edit: fixed maths that borked my conclusion...)
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
It's always a bit annoying because it means I have to actually go into a bank branch
I can deposit checks with a picture from my smartphone
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@TimeBandit well, the alternative for you is a 2 month trek on a dog sled to the nearest town, so I'm not surprised you've figured a way to do it remotely
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@remi
Many online bill pay systems still print and send checks as well, if the bank doesn't have an electronic payment interchange constructed with the target biller (say, when you want to pay that bill for the strip club membership)
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@izzion Do you mean, the client pays online (or whatever communication means he has with his bank), but the bank then (transparently for the client) issues a check sent to the actual payee?
If so, that would certainly explain a high number of checks that are not visible by the general public.
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@remi
Correct. My bank sends 3 checks a month on my behalf. And it was more like 6 at my last house, where basically none of my service providers were set up to electronically bill my bank.
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@izzion Uh, TIL. I never thought banks would operate this way, but it does make sense, in a "if it's not broken don't fix it" kind of way.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@TimeBandit well, the alternative for you is a 2 month trek on a dog sled to the nearest town,
Our sled dogs are way faster than you think
so I'm not surprised you've figured a way to do it remotely
Necessity is the mother of invention.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I can deposit checks with a picture from my smartphone
I can deposit checks by giving them to my wife. Who takes a picture with her smartphone.
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@remi Some big companies still pay their suppliers with cheques
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@remi said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
so more than 1 million per day!
There are approximately 15 million people in the UK aged >60. Math checks out :P
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
There are approximately 15 million people in the UK aged >60.
That explains the Brexit vote
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Electric Legos!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/brixo-building-blocks-meet-electricity-and-iot-diy#/
So in other words, compacted Technic/NXT?
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@izzion said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@remi
Many online bill pay systems still print and send checks as well, if the bank doesn't have an electronic payment interchange constructed with the target biller (say, when you want to pay that bill for the strip club membership)There are also some employers (or employees) who don't fully embrace the idea of direct deposit. For example, I am set up to be paid via direct deposit by my employer, but they only pay my regular salary that way. My monthly cell allowance (to cover my data plan so I can always be reached via email) and any bonuses I get each year are always paid via check. And they didn't even give me the option of setting up direct deposit until after I'd been with the company for 90 days.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Electric Legos!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/brixo-building-blocks-meet-electricity-and-iot-diy#/
So in other words, compacted Technic/NXT?
with IFTTT support? i'd say it might well be better than NXT if that integration is powerful enough. :-)
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@accalia I was wondering how long before you noticed :P
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@accalia I was wondering how long before you noticed :P
about two days ago or so when it popped up in my email inbox?
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@accalia …too shay
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@RaceProUK Someone invented Lego Mindstorms!
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@RaceProUK Who still uses cheques?!
edit: obvs
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@boomzilla Needs combining with a screw top, but yes; good idea indeed.
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@boomzilla That picture isn't comparing like things. The bottles are at different angles and the flow rate is different.
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@dcon
A perfect proof picture for Kickscammerstarter!
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@dcon said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla That picture isn't comparing like things. The bottles are at different angles and the flow rate is different.
That's because it's a screenshot from a video, and the two sides of the video aren't synced very well.
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@abarker said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I am set up to be paid via direct deposit by my employer, but they only pay my regular salary that way. My monthly cell allowance (to cover my data plan so I can always be reached via email) and any bonuses I get each year are always paid via check.
A recent employer paid bonuses (partially) in cash. If the amount of the bonus was >= $100, then the employee received a $100 bill, with the remainder paid through direct deposit or whatever method the employee was normally paid. Rumor had it this was specifically intended to allow the employee to avoid telling his/her spouse the full amount of the bonus.
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I was about to wonder why we keep @Boner around.
And then, this perfect storm of a post happens. I can see clearly now, the rain is gone.
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@JBert
That is no cream filling ...
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@JBert said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Boner said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Bacon condoms
Just don't chew it!
But if you do, do it lightly.
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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/knops-the-volume-button-for-your-ears-music-design/
Go go gadget onebox-fail!