VandyILL

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by VandyILL 13y ago
So then all good ideas should have already been done?
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by VandyILL 13y ago
Stephenbez, Thanks so much for your feedback. The post was meant to put as much information on the table as possible to solicit as much criticism as possible. Definitely not trying to sell someone on the idea right here / right now.
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by VandyILL 13y ago
I'm a middle class kid that managed to go to under grad & grad school on scholarships. I've lived an extremely privileged life. My opinions are formed by the life I have lived as it is the only life I will ever experience. I
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by VandyILL 13y ago
I agree on both points.
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by VandyILL 13y ago
Welp, I'm a doofus.
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by VandyILL 13y ago
I try not to think of it as a motivator or something to make me feel minuscule. I think it's real strength is to remind you that things are possible. You may not have to live up to the other people's heights, but it reminds you
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by VandyILL 13y ago
I think he already answered his own question in another post. Declares he's already awesome because he lives in NY & has an Amex. https://medium.com/better-humans/fb2e4d6aea5f
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by VandyILL 13y ago
If you want to collaborate with me on this idea more than just posting here or on the blog, I'm mfergus48 [at] gmail
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$20 Amazon Gift Card For Saying Why My Idea Stinks (blueacreblog.blogspot.com)
3 points by VandyILL 13y ago|8 comments
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by VandyILL 13y ago
*Not official legal advice: Registering the trademark probably gets you nowhere with this. You still have to gain popularity with the brand etc. and the mark has to be known to consumers etc. A lot of things go into making a trademark pro
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by VandyILL 13y ago
It'd be interesting if they can do spaces that convert empty large retail stores into minature malls consisting solely of a couple of popup shops. I think the trick to this is that you would need to find some equivalent of an anchor t
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by VandyILL 13y ago
Depends on whether I'm traveling or vacationing. For a brief vacation I'll probably eat out every meal. But if I'm traveling, I'll probably want to conserve money plus get tired of big meals. Even on a vacation that g
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by VandyILL 13y ago
I think it's that they go after low margin industries in situations where they know that they can use their scale to undercut the existing businesses. Since the margins are so low the existing businesses do not have many options to co
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by VandyILL 13y ago
I don't think that building slightly faster software and hardware to run other people's algorithms is really hacking financial trading. To me, if you wanted to hack the system, you would look at creative approaches to make the mar
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by VandyILL 13y ago
I think the author misses the point on what is being disrupted. It sounds like he thinks a law firm that adopts a better version of office is being a "disruptive." He says that if a business is constantly open to change, then wh
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by VandyILL 13y ago
For the phone issue, a company (somewhere in Northern Europe if I remember right) built an android phone using materials entirely from non-conflict areas etc. Not a sweatshop issue, but I would bet a company that is trying to take on that
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Why Fossil Fuel Utilities Should Solve Solar's Intermittency Problem(blueacreblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by VandyILL 13y ago|0 comments
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by VandyILL 13y ago
I think tranisitioning to natural gas is silly. Its at best a bridge technology before an eventual tranisition to solar. Given the opportunity to leapfrog a generation of technology and infrastructure while doing less damage to the enviro
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by VandyILL 13y ago
One of the reasons the estimates for Peak Oil are off is because oil companies only project the amount of oil they can economically recover. However, because the price of oil continues to go up they start to consider more options economica
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by VandyILL 13y ago
During the Iraq war and what we're still doing in Afgahnistan the US has spent over $400/gallon to transport fuel to bases. The Pentagon already acknowledges this is not sustainable. In Iraq they adopted soar and wind power for bases to r
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by VandyILL 13y ago
In addition to the other two responses, you have to remember that Amazon is not in the last leg of the delivery business. By last leg, I mean their logistics system covers large parts of the supply chain all the way up to the part of the c
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by VandyILL 13y ago
I wonder what the possibilities are of engineering plants that use less phosphorus.
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by VandyILL 13y ago
Does anyone know if the DOE is able to recycle the funds back into loans for other electric vehicle manufacturers? If so, this may have been an extra smart move on Tesla's part because it could help competitors access capital and start inv
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by VandyILL 13y ago
I like the thought, but I don't think that it will be a great tool. First, the sensor can be placed anywhere by anybody. Considering that large studies have been conducted just to verify whether the data collected at actual scientific stat
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by VandyILL 13y ago
This reminded me of an idea I mentioned to a friend a couple months ago. The thought creeped him out a bit, but he didn't think it went to far. Basically, I told him I expected something like 4square to come along that tells you not specif
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by VandyILL 13y ago
1) I think Tesla will be able to manufacture cars with ranges comparable to the Model S in the near future at a price tag below $50k. I even believe that in the near future a car comparable in performance and luxury along with range will b
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by VandyILL 14y ago
Awhile ago I about the idea of creating a penny auction website that sells Certificates of Deposit. It would be just like the silly penny auction sites now, where you pay $.01 to make a bid, and each bid increases the length of the auction