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Nick in MNG
5 years ago

Just finished with the Frontier Fintech Summit this weekend, and it is wild to see all the stuff people are working on and seeing how regulators (largely crypto-friendly in the local case) are trying to keep up. One thing one local company in Mongolia had created and was promoting there were their “loyalty coins”; essentially a rewards program on a blockchain. This is exactly the kind of thing that you talked about at one point during that segment, just linked to one company rather than a community.

The more I think about this, the more potential I see in applying this loyalty coin idea to shops and service providers within a community. I’m going to spend some time looking into this… crypto mining is good, but I need to find something in this space to be my next step beyond just being a miner.

Burger1918
5 years ago

Adding to the Amazon automation discussion:

It’s not in the forefront right now, but Amazon is reducing their demand for packing boxes altogether through their SIOC (ships in own container) program. Basically, the manufacturer or supplier of the product designs and packs the carton for the product which also acts as the outer shipper. The manufacturer ships to Amazon DCs, Amazon ships the product unchanged to the customer.

The kicker here is that Amazon is requiring their vendors to redesign their packaging systems to meet SIOC by August 1st 2019, or face an ongoing chargeback from them.

https://www.packagingdigest.com/sustainable-packaging/amazon-incentivizes-brands-to-create-frustration-free-packaging-2018-09-18

SIOC and FFP (Frustration Free Packaging) have been around for years, what’s changed is the requirement to go to these certifications. A manufacturer/ supplier has to submit a new package design and samples to a 3rd party lab for testing to ISTA (International Safe Transit Association) 6-AMAZON SIOC protocol and certification.

So, not only is Amazon replacing jobs with automation, they’re reducing the demand for those jobs to begin with.

More info here:

https://www.aboutamazon.com/sustainability/packaging

Angusbangus
Angusbangus
5 years ago

Regarding grants…

My company offers grants for a number of things, but primarily for community charities and environmental projects. If you’re asking for a corporate grant, try to find a point of contact with the company and have a phone call with them.

For our grants, you ALWAYS ask for more than you want. You may get it all; you may get only a fraction. Regardless, we can never give you MORE than you ask for.

NOTE: If you’re in AR, MS, LA, or southeast TX and have a permacultury project or something else that benefits the environment, we may have some money for you. Nick Ferguson tried for it a couple years ago with a biogas project that was a no-go. However, we give funding out for things that range from community gardens to large scale land improvements.

Jon
Jon
5 years ago

Regarding chores. I agree that chores should be “required” (in quotes because children gladly do them when they are young and if they start when they are young they continue to do them when they are old without complaint – usually) from a young age.

With your response I was thinking that taking someone’s stuff wasn’t necessarily the best thing in the world to do. To me that feels like you are stealing their stuff. I think a more “natural” consequence that follows is, if you don’t help out around the house then we won’t help you either, so when mom makes dinner, you don’t get any. When I do X then you don’t get any. If you need cash and you haven’t done any chores you don’t get any.

But once you have an item it should be yours forever no take backs. Unless you are doing something seriously self destructive with that item. So, it would be the exception not the rule.

Evelyn
Evelyn
5 years ago

There is a homeopathic researcher tracking and predicting influenza outbreaks, at http://paulherscuepidemics.blogspot.com/,

Their regular website is http://www.nesh.com/ New England School of Homeopathy. They do charge for reports and their Herscu Letters, a Journal on the current and past research on Homeopathy. I haven’t dug into the the research as I am still learning the basics, but the information and homeopathic remedies they are using to help millions of people get through the influenza outbreaks with little or no detrimental effects to their continued health and many times stronger.

Evelyn
Evelyn
5 years ago

Okay, I try to send a comment and your comment machine is telling me I posted the same comment already.

Evelyn
Evelyn
5 years ago

There is a homeopathic researcher tracking and predicting influenza outbreaks, at www(dot)paulherscuepidemics(dot)blogspot(dot)com

Their regular website is http://www.nesh.com/ New England School of Homeopathy. They do charge for reports and their Herscu Letters, a Journal on the current and past research on Homeopathy. I haven’t dug into the the research as I am still learning the basics, but the information and homeopathic remedies they are using to help millions of people get through the influenza outbreaks with little or no detrimental effects to their continued health and many times stronger.

Evelyn
Evelyn
5 years ago

Okay it must have been the link to the blogspot.  Okay your machine’s not broke.

…also how come the name and address dialog box below doesn’t remember me anymore, I have to fill it out every time I post now. I do, but it’s kind of frustrating sometimes.

 

 

Evelyn
Evelyn
5 years ago

Wow, I never thought of lobbyists that way. Now that makes more sense. They would stand to lose more money to competition than they have to spend making the Bill or Law. That puts everything in a totally different light.

evelyn
evelyn
5 years ago

I should have put this link in above, http://www.hersculaboratoryflu.org/research.html It’s closer to the research. The other one makes you search for the link at the bottom of the left hand column.