Best products from r/CrazyIdeas
We found 37 comments on r/CrazyIdeas discussing the most recommended products. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 173 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the top 20.
1. Lexar Professional 600x 256GB SDXC UHS-I Flash Memory Card LSD256CTBNA600
- Ultimate high-speed, Class 10 performance-leverages UHS-I technology for blazing-fast 600x (90MB/s) minimum guaranteed sustained read transfer speed*
- Capture amazing high-quality images and extended lengths of stunning 1080p full-HD video with your SDXC-compatible DSLR camera, HD camcorder, or 3D camera
- Enjoy shooting longer without changing cards-large capacity options up to 256GB
- Blazing-fast file transfer from card to computer to dramatically accelerate workflow
- Includes downloadable Image Rescue 4 software to recover lost or deleted photo and video files
- Free, dedicated professional technical support
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2. FISCHERS PICKLED ROPE BOLOGNA 5lbs
- FISCHERS PICKLED ROPE BOLOGNA 5lbs
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3. Beyond WBYMW1 850-Watt Microwave Oven with Barcode Scanning
- 850-watt countertop microwave with bar-code scanning ability
- Stainless-steel front; 8/9-cubic-foot interior; turntable; easy-to-read LCD display
- 4,000+ preprogrammed UPC codes; "learn" function for adding favorite barcodes
- Scanning wand programs microwave to cook foods perfectly; no installation or extra wiring required
- Measures approximately 25 by 20 by 15 inches; 1-year limited warranty
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6. The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits
- Single Quantity
- No Core Charge Req.
- Weight: 1.89lbs
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8. Wolo 497 iHorn Mini Hand Held Gas Horn
- Compact in size
- Simple press of a button delivers a powerful blast that will be heard
- Ideal for marine, jogging, camping, sports events, etc.
- Great anytime a powerful horn is needed
- Environmentally safe using 134a gas, no CFC's
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9. Incense Matches - 15-pack Variety - Eliminate Odors and Refresh The Air Anywhere!
Portable air freshenerLights like a match and burns like incenseEach match burns for approximately 5 minutes15 assorted packs of incense matches: bayberry, vanilla, patchouli, sandalwood, and many others.Great for cars, kitchens, sickrooms or wherever you want to add a fragrance or eliminate an odor
10. The Secrets of Bar Bets, Scams & Hustles (The Hustlers Bible Book 1)
- A vast world to explore with towns, wild forests, rivers, castles, towers, secret dungeons, snowy mountains, caverns, haunted tombs and more
- Over a dozen special boss enemies to defeat
- 16 magical characters to discover and then summon at will to aid you
- Over 14 hours of outstanding voice-acting from top Hollywood talent, including Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride) as the Bard, and the inimitable Tony Jay as the Narrator
- Includes original classic game The Bard’s Tale 1 & 2. 3 Coming soon!
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11. How to Lie with Statistics
- Statistions, how to lie
- Darrell Huff
- Illustrated by Irving Genis
- New York - London 5 6 7 8 9 0
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12. Waterpik Water Flosser Cordless Dental Oral Irrigator for Teeth with Portable Travel Bag and 3 Jet Tips, Cordless Freedom ADA Accepted, WF-03, White
- PORTABLE CONVENIENCE: Cordless Waterpik Water Flosser is designed for travel anywhere, use in the shower, and small bathrooms
- CLINICALLY PROVEN: Removes up to 99.9% of plaque from treated areas and is up to 50% more effective than string floss for improving gum health - accepted by the American Dental Association (ADA)
- NO OUTLETS, NO CHARGING: Includes 3 AA batteries (no outlets or charging needed) - assuming daily use, replace batteries every 1 to 2 months, depending on quality of batteries
- TRAVEL ACCESSORIES: For added convenience, Cordless Freedom Water Flosser includes a microfiber travel bag and a travel water plug
- FEATURES: 2 pressure settings ranging from 45 to 75 PSI, 1200 pulses per minute, 5-ounce water reservoir for 30 seconds of flossing time, 3 flossing tips, battery operated and portable
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13. Spirograph Original Deluxe Art Set
Convenient easy to carry case is the work surface and storage unitGreat for creative thinking, shapes and colors and large motor skillsUse with pens with a point size of 1 mm or smallerFor ages 8 and up
14. SUKRAGRAHA Traditional Stick-on Aquarium Thermometers Temperature Strip Celsius Fahrenheit Display 10 pc (18~34C Not for Fever)
- 10 pcs Set
- Dimensions: 5.12 x 0.71 inch / 13.0 x 1.8 cm
- Measuring range: 18~34 Degree C (64~93 Degree F)
- Adhesive by the back, just peel off the tape and attach to outside /surface of aquarium
- Different temperature with different color
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15. World War 2: A Complete Photographic History
- Used Book in Good Condition
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17. LightDims Black Out Edition - Light Blocking LED Covers/Light Dimming Sheets for Routers, Electronics and Appliances and More. Blocks 100% of Light, in Retail Packaging.
Blocks 100% of annoying bright LED lights on electronics and appliances in the home, office, or car.Easy to use, just peel and stick.Package contains over 100 black assorted LED covers.Does not leave any sticky residue when you remove them.LightDims Black Out Edition allow you to get quality sleep w...
18. Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream
Harper Paperbacks
19. The Lives of Others
DVDAC-3, Color, DolbyEnglish (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)1138
20. LightDims Original Strength - Light Dimming LED Covers/Light Dimming Sheets for Routers, Electronics and Appliances and More. Dims 50-80% of Light. Same Product just Different Packaging."
- Dim 50-80% of light from annoying bright LEDs on electronics and appliances in the home, office, or car.
- Easy to use, just peel and stick.
- LightDims Original Strength allow you to continue to view the light but at a comfortable level
- Self-Adhesive does NOT leave any sticky residue when you remove them.
- Package contains over 100 black assorted LED covers. Includes retail store packaging.
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No worries, I appreciate your continued interest and not dismissing this set of thought-patterns outright since there’s many compelling off-ramps / reasons they are not as common as you’d expect real/correct ones to be! :) Maybe the real “crazy idea” to me here is that it’s kind of wild how vastly common the non-reality-matching vague understanding is, when there is one that is more compelling / coherent / reality-observation-matching. I understand why we as humans have mostly begun thinking there, though, and it’s pretty interesting from a historical/evolutionary/meme-evolution angle.
Viewing the “mechanistic view” as opposed to “free will” is a false dichotomy—it’s crazy common though! In reality, the bundle of patterns we regard as “free will” is an emergent pattern FROM mechanistic patterns evolving. (In case you’re suuuper interested in a thorough slaying of the false dichotomy, the concisely-named Freedom Evolves by neuroscience-friendly philosopher-scientist Dennett is a mountain of science-backed evidence on the topic—but my caveat is he’s more annoyingly dense than anything you’ve just read from me! b/c this is hard shit we’re not very well set up / evolved to naturally comprehend—watching some YouTube videos of his might be more enjoyable)
I think the reason many folks view a vague concept of free will as vaguely opposed to a mechanistic view is often just (1) a failure of imagination — I can tell you I believe with extremely high confidence that there’s nothing non-physical about our brain’s operation in the mechanistic universe, and that doesn’t strike me as odd, wrong or irreconcilable. It just strikes me as—we were not historically great at thinking about how the very high level pattern of feeling of free will emerges from the low level pattern of the brain—given we didn’t even understand how the brain recognized objects based on our vision until less than 10 years ago—and it didn’t matter for our continued existence as patterns in the universe so why would we have evolved to care :D
Reason #2 is that many cling to a notion that the MIND must be somehow distinct from the BRAIN (i.e., “magical person sitting in your brain controlling it with levers” — we’ve peered into the brain and understand it quite well — that’s just not how the brain’s constituent patterns are structured). Why cling to such a notion? Why did we assume it’s distinct? Because it fits many of our preconceived world views — it helps us hold on to human special-ness, our religious precepts, hell—many words (fossils of past ideas) we are using to discuss with one another right now have these prejudices / assumptions baked in to them (notice the “I”s, “you”s, etc. — these are artificial distinctions we’ve just found evolutionarily / continued-pattern-existence useful).
We’re just in the last 5 or so years developing software thinking patterns (AI, narrowly focused than AGI) that have surpassed human-based thinking patterns in more and more fields. I can tell you with high confidence there is no ceiling that separates our bodies and brains and that which can be accomplished through software (even set within the Game of Life — just with a really large game board—the universe is vast like a super giant game of life game board). Those closest to development consider AGI something that will happen this century (myself included).
I believe there’s value in this reality-matching view becoming more common. It’s kind of like taking a dump and seeing things clearly when it clicks—damn—reality is all that is real. He’s a pattern, she’s a pattern, we’re all patterns, and that’s all cool!!
You are. Here's a fistful. Read 'em and weep.
http://fortune.com/2016/04/22/mcdonalds-benefits-wages-workers/
> Turns out paying people a higher wage and giving them more benefits makes them work motivated.
McDonald's (MCD, -3.21%) on Friday reported its third straight increase in quarterly comparable sales, helped by moves such as bringing back All-Day breakfast and offering new menu options.
But another move by McDonald's is behind this reversal of fortune for the hamburger chain, which had posted two years of declines through last fall: higher wages and tuition help for employees.
https://www.amazon.com/The-Good-Jobs-Strategy-Companies/dp/1480555541
> Ton describes the elements of the good jobs strategy in a variety of successful companies around the world, including Southwest Airlines, UPS, Toyota, Zappos, and In-N-Out Burger. She focuses on four model retailers—Costco, Mercadona, Trader Joe’s, and QuikTrip—to demonstrate the good jobs strategy at work and reveals four choices that have transformed these companies’ high investment in workers into lower costs, higher profits, and greater customer satisfaction.
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/19/our-wage-hikes-give-workers-more-money-to-spend-in-our-stores-wal-mart-us-ceo.html
> Wal-Mart's two-year initiative to give its employees pay raises has translated into workers having more money to spend in the retailer's stores, Wal-Mart U.S. CEO Greg Foran said Thursday.
This was a character in "Lady Slings the Booze" by Spider Robinson. The hero's love interest was a pair of psychic twins who were raised to believe she was one person. She effectively became a single person with 2 bodies. One body was better at piano. The other was better at sex. She works in an extremely high class house of prostitution. Together with the hero, they save the world several times.
https://smile.amazon.com/Lady-Slings-Booze-Spider-Robinson/dp/0743435788?sa-no-redirect=1
https://www.amazon.com/Wolo-497-iHorn-Mini-Hand/dp/B008MUGZ5O
Wolo 497 iHorn Mini Hand Held Gas Horn
Great idea. You can get them here http://www.incensematch.com/ or on amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Incense-Matches-One-Each-Scent/dp/B00145STB2 .
They are really a great addition for any bathroom, especially at parties.
It's not impossible. Street hustler John Bell said he made money through bar bets he was sure to win (http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Scams-Hustles-Hustlers-Bible-ebook/dp/B00EH4BDMO).
I hope his story in the intro was true.
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$150? A waterpik is like $40.
Edit: Turns out that was a pretty good guess
I saw it on one of the reddits I subscribe too, brought back memories. Really them things were pretty cool. I'm going to see if they even make it anymore...BRB...
yep! at amazon here
edit: add-on
From the Simpsons
Dr. S: Wait, did you know that there's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it.
[Dr. S picture]
Something like this integrated would be good, surely not expensive too
I've got a big book which literally lists every major military movement and military engagement on every single day for the entirety of WW2. I like to think it'd be worth billions to the right people if I could go back in time.
http://www.amazon.com/World-War-Complete-Photographic-History/dp/1579124089
Some pictures!
http://i.imgur.com/ETiTSgq.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/nw5bql7.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Zkt7nhj.jpg
Pahahaha! Give away?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Sims-IKEA-Home-Stuff/dp/B00169L7QK
More like, pay us money for the pleasure of seeing our brand in your game!
Here are some of the LED cover stickers they make for reducing the brightness of these lights.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with this company or amazon. :)
Anyone that has not seen this movie. See it.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Lives-Others-Martina-Gedeck/dp/B000OVLBGC
Edit: adding a few things from the wormhole I fell into after seeing this movie for anyone interested. Stasiland is an amazing account of life under the Stasi.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/jun/07/guardianfirstbookaward2003.biography
I can't find it at the moment but there is a video of the fall of the Berlin Wall where people are waiting for their chance to cross over into West Germany. Thousands of people. It's incredible.
We had one. I didn't really work that well. Perhaps it was limited by its amount of internal memory (and the age of the data). One that was (dare I say it) wifi-capable would actually probably work better as it would have updated barcodes as well as updated cooking times.
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-WBYMW1-850-Watt-Microwave-Scanning/dp/B0000C8W7Z#
You may need to add string cheese as the third plait to strengthen the rope.
Also, you may wish to add this to your Christmas list: https://www.amazon.com/FISCHERS-PICKLED-ROPE-BOLOGNA-5lbs/dp/B002L66MXU
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As a communist I think you're actually on point in your analysis within the first world. I think many communists are coming to terms with this fact. There is a branch in Marxism that coincides with the facts you've stated about American employees and employers. It's Maoist Third Worldism.
“Communists must always go into the why’s and wherefore’s of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly…” – Mao Tse Tung
Helpful introduction: https://anti-imperialism.com/2013/07/08/why-i-became-a-maoist-third-worldist/
More in depth: https://www.amazon.com/Divided-World-Class-Zak-Cope/dp/1894946413
I really like these. I put them on everything
Edit: fixed link
I'd also recommend the "response" book Scratch Beginnings:
http://www.amazon.com/Scratch-Beginnings-Search-American-Dream/dp/0061714275
There is a college-aged guy who did basically this a few years ago to counter Nickel and Dimed.
Book is called Scratch Beginnings and I think he started out homeless and ended with an apartment, a car, and like $5k in the bank after 1 year.
https://www.amazon.com/LightDims-Original-Strength-Electronics-Appliances/dp/B01BZBBITE
Stickers of all shapes and sizes to dim or block light.
I use a ton of them and they're fantastic!
This exists. My brother owns one.
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-WBYMW1-850-Watt-Microwave-Scanning/dp/B0000C8W7Z/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
like this?
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-WBYMW1-850-Watt-Microwave-Scanning/dp/B0000C8W7Z/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
I just went and got the link to that book to reply here! Because that's basically what he did. http://www.amazon.com/Scratch-Beginnings-Search-American-Dream/dp/0061714275
Counterpoint: http://www.amazon.com/Scratch-Beginnings-Search-American-Dream/dp/0061714275/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376689152&sr=8-1&keywords=scratch+beginnings
Guy goes out with 25 usd, ends up with appartment and car in less than a year.
These maybe?
This can be said for a lot of things.
An electronics company won't make a DVD player without DVDs and vice versa (argument doesn't work well for blu-ray since it was Sony on both ends)
But, why not take the idea one further and use the UPC code, which already exists on almost all frozen food items.
Edit: I guess the UPC version exists already...
>not economically feasible
Holy crap, you weren't kidding. And that's WITH a $200 discount!
I still think the storage space is the least of your problems if you're trying to fit GC capability into such a small package.
EDIT: And GC games aren't 1GB a pop, they're more like ~1.3-1.4GB, so you'd need the full terabyte.