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Googles $100 Computer on a USB thumbdrive(popularmechanics.com)
3 points by prbuckley 11y ago|0 comments
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by prbuckley 11y ago
This is pretty rad Zach.
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New magnetic tape stores 220 terabytes in handheld cartridge(gizmag.com)
2 points by prbuckley 11y ago|1 comments
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by prbuckley 12y ago
How much thrust would you need to move a person up hill on skis? I wonder if a paragliding motor might work?
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by prbuckley 12y ago
Eye of the tiger played using floppy disk drives, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMcRd_4RwRQ
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WSJ Virtual Reality Beginners Guide(wsj.com)
2 points by prbuckley 12y ago|0 comments
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by prbuckley 12y ago
Can you give more details on how distributions are tied to founder salary? If salary is above X distributions to indie.vc need to be Y.
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by prbuckley 12y ago
There is a great documentary on Netflix entitled "money for nothing" that does a good job connecting the Feds policies over the past decade, including QE to asset inflation, which is the rise of stocks and real estate but not gene
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Mattel and Google making $30 VR headset(theverge.com)
4 points by prbuckley 12y ago|0 comments
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by prbuckley 12y ago
What kind of products do you make? What margin do you need to support local manufacturing? What is your main distribution?
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by prbuckley 12y ago
Here is a link to the 24 minute documentary about the Harvard Depository... http://librarybeyondthebook.org/cold_storage/ Very cool how they use the depository floor plan as a way to navigate the film.
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1957 worlds first Drone(youtube.com)
2 points by prbuckley 12y ago|0 comments
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by prbuckley 12y ago
C) SpaceX also has considerable risk of failure so you have to factor this into a valuation and investment. Whatsapp has eliminated much of this risk and is already a developed and implemented product. I am not saying Whatsapp has anywhere
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by prbuckley 12y ago
My friend Altay started a software developer agency. Altay is a great guy and YC alum. You might want to check it out, http://www.10xmanagement.com/
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by prbuckley 12y ago
As an aside I think a vehicle like this could be developed today and fall under the FAA ultralight powered vehicle classification (weighing less then 254 pounds and carrying less then 5 gallons of fuel). This classification doesn't req
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by prbuckley 12y ago
Depending on what you mean by scaling up. There have been single man vertical take off and landing (VTOL) vehicles that have two rotors and require no variable pitch for directional control so they are even simpler then the system in this v
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by prbuckley 12y ago
I don't think scaling this up is a question of inertia it is more a question of weither a material exists that can be used in those flexural joints with much higher loads. This is a material science question. A material may exist that
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by prbuckley 12y ago
Could this be financial espionage? I would imagine that the Norwegian politicians have privileged information about oil production volume in the country that some traders out there could benefit from knowing. This is all just a theory. I do
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by prbuckley 12y ago
If this area is of interest you should also check out https://karmiclabs.com . I have no relationship with the company but the founders are friends and think they are doing some really interesting things in the payment and debit c
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by prbuckley 12y ago
Smartphones and the internet are an intriguing platform for Virtual Reality to be built on. This looks like a really interesting robotics hobbiest project that will push the boundries of what we thought could be done with a smartphone and V
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Build a $100 Virtual Reality Telepresence Robot(kickstarter.com)
5 points by prbuckley 12y ago|2 comments
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by prbuckley 12y ago
You should really go see interstellar, I saw it last night and it is probably the closest thing to a 3hr version of that short video that exists. They are both really fantastic films. I would also add that interstellar is worth seeing in IM
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by prbuckley 12y ago
Perhaps he means that religions have played an important role over many centuries across many cultures and billions of people. You can argue that religion has been used in good and bad ways but one thing I think is hard to deny is that peop
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by prbuckley 12y ago
If every state stood up and passed bills like this the NSA couldnt have giant data centers in this country.
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by prbuckley 12y ago
Project Creator here. Happy to answer anyones questions on this project. I will be around for the next couple of hours.
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DIY Virtual Reality Device and Opensource VR Dev Tools(kickstarter.com)
26 points by prbuckley 12y ago|4 comments
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by prbuckley 12y ago
In the air you have an entire 3rd dimension to play with. You can get far more density of vehicles per route. You can fly in a band lower then commercial air vehicles 300-1000 ft has hardly any vehicles flying. The self driving car always s
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by prbuckley 12y ago
There were actually a bunch of vehicles designed for the army in the 1950s that were just to complicated for human pilots... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_VZ-8_Airgeep
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by prbuckley 12y ago
It seems to me we have a better chance of seeing low flying autonomous vehicles for personal transportation before we see self driving cars (think quad coptor drone style vehicle with 500 lb payload capability). Autopilot systems are alread
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by prbuckley 12y ago
We have a factory in San Francisco which is where we will make and ship these kits from.

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