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by munfred 7y ago
3D printing in university libraries is my favorite example. Every makerspace in libraries I talked too says they contemplated charging and discarded the idea because filament is so cheap ($10/kg in bulk) that it's not worth the ha
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by munfred 7y ago
This is an interesting insight. Do you live in Singapore or did you conclude this from elsewhere?
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by munfred 7y ago
In the case of Facebook unless it becomes a subscription it does not indeed. In the case of Netflix, Spotify and G Suite it's baked into the subscription already, what the regulation would do is alleviate vendor lock-in.
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by munfred 7y ago
UGH. I was so excited when I read the thread title, only to be sorely disappointed to realized they're talking about regulating the _wrong_ thing. We need regulation to keep the web at least moderately open and interoperable. We need r
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by munfred 8y ago
Looking at openbuilds.com, in terms of functionality it definitely fits the bill, I'll look at the designs with care. I'd like to have a generic open source xyz gantry platform that I could just order on amazon for <$200 and t
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by munfred 8y ago
I actually mentioned the poseidon project to the CPO of Opentrons a few months ago, because it would be great to have these kits commercially available and I thought it was a perfect fit for Opentrons (the company). Understandably he said t
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by munfred 8y ago
Note: I also helped develop poseidon The poseidon system was explicitly designed with ease of assembly in mind. If you look at the build videos [1] you'll see that assembly of the entire system (3 pumps + microscope station) takes less
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by munfred 8y ago
I have been thinking about this problem for a while. I would like a cheap, open source, commercially available kit for xyz gantry systems. That's essentially what desktop CNC machines and 3D printers are and people hack them for all ki
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by munfred 8y ago
> One manifestation of equality in Sweden is that most companies are less layered and implement what’s called flat hierarchy. Employees are trusted to be involved directly in the decision making process rather than being instructed by l
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by munfred 8y ago
> A major reason paying for content doesn't work very well yet is that it's not practical to charge small amounts. The cost and hassle of electronic transactions makes it impractical to charge less than a fairly high subscripti
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by munfred 8y ago
I'm brazilian, I visited the museum in 2013, a year before the world cup. It was very memorable to me because it's essentially the only museum in Brazil that was an European style natural history museum (especially since there are
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by munfred 8y ago
Another complementary reference: http://course.earthrightsinstitute.org/?q=node/99
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Lessons from Singapore about land value capture (2017)(rtpi.org.uk)
3 points by munfred 8y ago|1 comments
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by munfred 8y ago
That's quite a fantastic story. To me it especially underlines how biased historical records and our views of the past are. These entries may be only 138 years old, but I think the metric that matters is how many lifespans they are rem
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by munfred 10y ago
I write one page pitches for notable ideas I have, it's also good to force yourself to elaborate on it while also being concise. Feel free to steal any of them: http://munfred.com/pitches.html
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Ask HN: Feedback on Slack app for innovation discovery
1 points by munfred 10y ago|0 comments