Vivtek

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by Vivtek 10y ago
Ah - thank you! (edit) More than thank you - thank you ! (Now that I've read it.)
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by Vivtek 10y ago
Toyota is not at all a bad model!
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by Vivtek 10y ago
It's precisely that attitude embodied in Deere in the 1930's that I aim to get back to - I'm from Indiana farm country myself, though, and I can tell you that Deere is no longer that benefactor. Nor are the many other once-co
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by Vivtek 10y ago
But what would the world be without carts before horses? No, but seriously - this isn't (entirely) a delaying tactic before diving in, this is me actually getting to the point where I will soon be diving in, and wanting to feel mor
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by Vivtek 10y ago
"All of time" is maybe overstating my ambition, and "non-evil" was not the best choice of title. You're not wrong, though.
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by Vivtek 10y ago
True. Very true. I'm more concerned about profit to top management outweighing profit to the company, though. Or more accurately, I'm thinking about two different situations here - one is a startup a friend is founding; he wants t
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by Vivtek 10y ago
Have you read Brian Alexander's Glass House yet, about how private equity profit was not creating value for Lancaster, Ohio? I encourage it, especially if you're from the Midwest. It's more than a bit confusing from the timel
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by Vivtek 10y ago
This is exactly the kind of situation it would be nice to avoid. It's probably impossible. I'll keep thinking. This is the kind of thing I was looking for, though - thanks!
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by Vivtek 10y ago
Yeah, the public benefit company is already something we're looking at - Kickstarter is one. And the knowledge that we don't control our children is also something we're looking at, on a philosophical level. To be honest, I k
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Ask HN: How can you keep a non-evil company on track?
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by Vivtek 10y ago
Count me in. I'm in Ponce.
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by Vivtek 10y ago
I didn't see anybody swooning over Elon Musk on this page. Is that passé now?
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by Vivtek 10y ago
The L does stand for "liberty", so I think this is probably the entire point.
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by Vivtek 10y ago
Ah. Point taken, then (I did apparently need this addendum, ha). I did make this sloppy assumption. I do have a significant D bias. Obama was by no means a perfect president - I mean, my God, I have a long list - but Trump, as far as I can
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by Vivtek 10y ago
I wish current events didn't leave us needing to answer that question. I don't have a ready answer.
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by Vivtek 10y ago
Ambassadorships for campaign contributors! Goodness, the base corruption of such a President! Good thing Mr. Trump would never do that kind of thing, like with the Department of Education or something.
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by Vivtek 10y ago
It's pro forma for the ambassadors from the outgoing administration to proffer their resignation effective noon on Inauguration Day. The incoming president then says, no, no, please stay on until we have your replacement set up. A tran
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by Vivtek 10y ago
Less a "faulty algorithm" and more a moral hazard. The intent of the rules is to limit usage during periods of congestion not caused by the road operators themselves. The distinction is that human actors are not moral-free mecha
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by Vivtek 10y ago
Oh, it's a tech story. Food is the industry we will literally never grow out of.
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by Vivtek 10y ago
I'm building a robot. Since I've never actually done any hardware work, I'm finding it a mind-expanding experience.
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by Vivtek 10y ago
That's pretty slick! I still haven't found an SR tool that I can stand to work with, but that's clean enough it might do the trick.
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by Vivtek 10y ago
If so, we're outliers together.
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by Vivtek 10y ago
Yes. Come to Puerto Rico, where I'm working in coffee. Never in my life have I had so much human contact.
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by Vivtek 10y ago
I've witnessed this personally in Budapest (lots and lots of crows on the edge of town during the winter; if corvids ever develop a cultural consciousness I would not be surprised if it wound up speaking Hungarian).
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by Vivtek 10y ago
You say that as though it were a bug, not a feature.
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by Vivtek 10y ago
This has me giggling. I guess one never really grows out of being a 14-year-old, ultimately.
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by Vivtek 10y ago
I'm pretty sure if there were a negative effect of chickens on our reproductive rate, we would have discovered it any time in the last couple thousand years living in proximity to chickens. That said, they do stink. I don't bl
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by Vivtek 10y ago
Private property rights are not an unlimited license to be a jerk - although libertarians do seem to think so.
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by Vivtek 10y ago
Ha. I know all that. We lived in Puerto Rico for five years a couple years back. No, local sales are not at all profitable. The wholesale price of coffee is fixed to benefit the big roasters - our plan is to roast it ourselves and sell reta
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by Vivtek 10y ago
Shout out! We're moving there in the next couple of years to grow coffee. We'll be in Ponce in August (that's where we know the most people, so we'll rent there for a year or two while learning the ropes from some coffee

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