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by gregpilling 10y ago
Same danger. A personal water jet will cut your finger off just like a bandsaw. If it can cut metal, it can certainly cut YOU!
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by gregpilling 10y ago
The average voter does not read newspapers. This is obvious from the decline in circulation, not necessarily the election result.
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And Arizona.
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by gregpilling 10y ago
Fair enough. My exchange with him on twitter was minor and over a year ago. Other VCs are on twitter, as are people in their networks. I think that it is inauthentic to claim that there is no access to VC. You could reach them from the Sout
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by gregpilling 10y ago
Marc Andreesen will chat with you on Twitter. Short replies, but at least he notices. Be compelling, even if you are on the wrong side of the world.
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by gregpilling 10y ago
TL;DR. Self drive will create jobs, not eliminate them. I read a lot about self drive putting truck drivers out of work - and I think I disagree. My bias - I own a factory and we ship and receive goods constantly, from overnight envelopes t
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by gregpilling 10y ago
Oil is also used for plastics, fertilizer, and many other goods. Not just used for fuel. As the world economy expands, because in 10 years everyone will be on a smartphone, the demand for plastics and fertilizer and rubber and roads etc. th
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by gregpilling 10y ago
Your last sentence is correct. See the "Nifty 50" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Fifty "The stocks were often described as "one-decision", as they were viewed as extremely stable, even ove
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by gregpilling 10y ago
TL;DR - Put some real effort and time into optimizing your dating profile. I think it is how it is written. I met my wife on Match.com 16 years ago, back in the dinosaur age of internet dating. If you look around on these sites, they often
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by gregpilling 10y ago
One of the biggest robot companies in the world, and its only worth $5 billion? Yes, it is a small market if that statement is true. Which is a shame. Kuka robots are amazing, and capable of welding together cars to being rides at Legoland.
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by gregpilling 10y ago
and it was based on a few reports of minors, who paid for ads on backpage.com, and that the sin was backpage.com took their money and should have known they were minors somehow. Out of millions of ads posted annually, they should have known
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by gregpilling 10y ago
my Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has taken to crashing the phone so hard when I try to load Snapchat (and this is the only app that does it) that holding the power button down for a minute has no effect. To restart the phone I need to have usb powe
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by gregpilling 10y ago
I own a Panasonic Robot welding cell, and I keep up with numbers of robots sold like that - I know your numbers are correct. My experience with programming the Panasonic is that there is quite a learning curve to get over, to do the most ba
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by gregpilling 10y ago
Yep, I used to live 5 miles from there. Looks about right. Thousands of miles of wire fence makes up most of the border. Not very secure. Easy to walk over or through if you wanted to.
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by gregpilling 10y ago
Yes you can. Its a great job when people are hiring, you have lots of income. When the jobs vanish during a recession, you don't make any money and starve. If you are able to manage the up and down cycle, its great.
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by gregpilling 10y ago
So nothing changed but the name it looks like . How underwhelming
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by gregpilling 10y ago
When we make a new box, we throw it about 20 feet across the warehouse to simulate the UPS/Fedex treatment. As a manufacturer, I can assure you that they try really hard to not pay your damage claims unless it can survive that. It woul
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by gregpilling 10y ago
That was the statement that was most impactful to me. "What really matters is the machine that builds the machine, the factory. That is at least 2 orders of magnitude harder than the vehicle itself."
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by gregpilling 10y ago
I was in Italy in June, and Uber was not very useful. I could not get a ride in Modena, Bologna and a few other places I tried.
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by gregpilling 10y ago
I purchased a Toyota Tundra truck in Utah in 2007, and then drove it back to Arizona where I lived. The truck was new to the market and not available yet in AZ. The dealer had no problem whatsoever with titling the truck, financing it, and
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by gregpilling 10y ago
3x is the low end. I try to keep my factory at 6x . When you try to run at 3x, then you may drift down to 2x or less. If you aim for 6x, then you survive fine when it drifts down to 4x, and you are doing great when it goes up to 10x. I thin
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by gregpilling 10y ago
it is not true for all companies. It doesn't take much thinking to realize that if you are a business owner, running a factory, and your competitors factory doesn't train then you would have an advantage by training. We do lots of
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by gregpilling 10y ago
I own a factory robot welding cell. It has triple redundant safety systems. To make it operate while human accessible, you have to activate the safety interlocks on both doors, pull the triggers halfway (but not all the way) on the teach pe
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by gregpilling 10y ago
Paypal Working Capital is another choice. Five minutes to get approved and the funds into your account, then payback 10,15% or other of credit card receipts. If you have a SaaS company then this will be very predictable. I have personally g
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by gregpilling 10y ago
a good quote from him (and the article) "“You know things are going to happen,” he explained, “and sometimes it’s going to be severe. You still should be able to come home.”
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by gregpilling 10y ago
E ticket, is a reference to how Disneyland used to price rides. The most exciting rides like Space Mountain, required an E ticket; this was before the pay-once-ride-anything plan was introduced. I went to Disneyland for the first time in 19
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by gregpilling 10y ago
and the other bit about the harder, narrower road: you don't get to really find out how good the team is, and their plans that you let them run with, until a year or two or more later. But I don't think there is any better solutio
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by gregpilling 10y ago
The mastermind concept is laid out in "Think and Grow Rich" which was published in the 1930s
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and this is the niche manufacturing opportunity of the future. I have a friend living it right now - he makes buy-it-for-your-grandkids-lives tools and sells direct via the internet to his end user. His end user is in a particular niche and
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by gregpilling 10y ago
That would be nice - an alternative to the UPS FedEx duopoly. Maybe they can push the shipping rates lower than the evil twins set it at now. The two are doing about 100 billion in business, so it is a large market to go after. I have been

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