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The FAA Shuts Down Beer-Delivery Drone(techcrunch.com)
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by cornellwright 13y ago
Per their SLA ( http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html ) if it's out for more than 45 minutes (0.1% of January) biz users get 3 free days. Yay?
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by cornellwright 13y ago
One of the ways I like to think about good start-up ideas is find a business stuck in the '90s and bring it to the '00s using this decade's tech that's already been invented.
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by cornellwright 13y ago
"Magic seeds" only get you so far. Farming is a production optimization problem like anything else, it just takes place outside and is subject to many more variables than your garden variety manufacturing line. Currently the way f
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There are other issues with infinite scrolling (such as not being able to re-find your place, etc), however dissatisfaction is not one I experience. Maybe it's because I don't usually finish things for the sake of finishing. I&#x2
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by cornellwright 13y ago
I think this more comes to figuring out who the right early adopters are. You need to have something sufficiently better than what's out there to overcome inertia and get people to try your product. If you target (in the project manage
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My first thought was why would one want their currency to be Turing-complete? It's actually a cool concept though. Being able to have your money make decisions opens all kinds of possibilities.
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by cornellwright 13y ago
Can cable companies really do this? I don't think they have the bandwidth. Doesn't Aereo give you the data from the antenna you rented? For n people watching the Super Bowl a cable company wanting to take advantage of the "Ae
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by cornellwright 13y ago
Pittsburgh, PA. There's still a surplus in housing from the steel days, so you can buy or rent for next to nothing. Carnegie Mellon along with 5 or 6 other colleges are there, so there are plenty of smart people. The city is making a n