They had some attention here when they did Sleepify too. I think there was a more popular post than in this link, but perhaps without their name in the title? I just did a quick search.
This may not be what you are looking for, as it’s about history rather than usage. However, if you are interested in the subject you may find it quite interesting, and perhaps helpful in some manner too.
I'm pretty interested in this type of thing and am concerned with the current state-of-the-art of online shopping surrounding these issues.
One thing that I've been thinking about a lot is the difficulty in defining what "sustainable" means. One point on the page that I saw and liked is this:
> Make it easy for consumers to buy every day, high-quality household goods that are made of the most sustainable materials and in an environmentally conscious way.
I think one of the aspects of "high-quality" goods that should be considered is durability and repairability. The end-of-life treatment of goods is a big problem in our society. I would encourage repairability to be a factor in considering what goods are carried. And beyond that, perhaps something could be done to encourage the repair or reclamation of old products that are no longer wanted, but still have value — though perhaps that would be out of the scope of this project.
Another aspect in which I think you could really improve on is in the area of returns. Where Amazon has been known to destroy, trash, or recycle perfectly good items that are returned, I think having some good, transparent practices here would an important aspect of meeting the goal of sustainability.
Unfortunately for families that struggle with finances and like many other issues — it takes money to save money.
People buying small packs as needed will end up spending significantly more than those who can afford to stock up at places like Costco.
I also use Costco diapers, and I basically only buy them when they're on sale at $8 off per pack, which is a 20%-25% discount, depending on diaper size.
To do this you have to:
- be educated about looking at unit prices and be able to think through these issues
- afford a Costco membership in the first place. Yes — it "pays for itself", but you have to afford it in the first place and have the self-control to not spend more than you should.
- afford and plan accordingly to stock up by buying multiple boxes of diapers at a time when they're on sale. You have to buy enough that you don't need any for the 3-4 month gap between sales.
Besides Costco, I've found that the Target brand is priced rather reasonably, even at the smaller quantities.
The difference between buying newborn diapers at Costco sale prices vs a normal-sized Pampers box is $0.11/unit vs $0.28/unit. It's huge, and remains high as sizes go up ($0.21 vs $0.40 for size 5).
> afford and plan accordingly to stock up by buying multiple boxes of diapers at a time when they're on sale. You have to buy enough that you don't need any for the 3-4 month gap between sales.
Right, and “afford” doesn't just mean the price of buying the diapers in one shot (which is simply the discipline of saving for intermittent purchased) but also affording adequate storage space for the stockpile (including after all applying a similar strategy to any other productd for which it provides a higher return.
The “cheaper if you buy bulk packs at Costco, and cheaper still if you buy multiple of those when they are on sale” thing is true, but is equivalent to “cheaper if you have a big chunk of storage space you can devote to it, and cheaper still if you have a giant chunk of storage space.”
Here’s an entire podcast of short episodes that started out dedicated to this question. They’re now branched out to answering questions about definitions in general.
I did not explicitly notice this the first time hearing it, but I certainly felt it. When I discovered the change it made sense to me. The mood is lifted over the course of the song as the tuning is also lifted.
There are so many elements of music that are routinely varied within a song — dynamics, texture, timbre, rhythm, key, and tempo (though less frequently during this age of the click track). I don't think I'd noticed tuning used prior to this.
It's true the aerostatic lift would help here, but the Airlander 10 is not actually a lighter-than-air aircraft. It's a hybrid and requires aerodynamic lift from forward movement in addition to lift from its engine-driven propellers.
The hybrid approach is puzzling to me because there are a multitude of advantages to be gained by being fully lighter-than-air.
I can think of a couple of advantages of hybrids. You could unload cargo without the thing trying to shoot up in the air and a problem with airships in general is them being blown around by the wind which may be less bad with a smaller hybrids. Also if you emergency land the thing may stay there whereas a fully lighter than air one would tend to drift off.
My understanding is that when talking about aircraft, "lighter-than-air" means that it's designed to require no additional lift to keep it aloft regardless of cargo. Anything requiring non-aerostatic lift would be considered a hybrid.
I couldn't find anything to confirm this, but as a Lebanese-American myself — I'd say from his name, looks, and speech I heard in a video on YouTube, he's probably Lebanese and possibly Syrian.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7428550