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by theprop 9y ago
This is HUGE. What's much more interesting is not getting this into grocery stories but into homes. Delivery costs and spoilage represent something like 40% or so of produce costs, maybe more. So in theory it would be much more effi
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Airbus Launches 250 Mph Racer Helicopter with Wings and Rotor(wired.com)
4 points by theprop 9y ago|0 comments
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First Cable-Free Elevator Zooms Horizontally and Vertically Using Maglev Tech(technologyreview.com)
51 points by theprop 9y ago|19 comments
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by theprop 9y ago
It was helpful for me as I check only my comments often, not the whole thread so I would've missed it otherwise.
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by theprop 9y ago
The summaries are not good. They will point something out like "five key points are made" without stating those five points...which would presumably have been clearly stated in the article. Did you try other APIs/services&#
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by theprop 9y ago
Awesome work!! Great story about how awful the legal system is given the amount of effort and work you had to go through. You deserved a lot more than just that $4k. I personally feel bad that it's only after reading this that I&#x
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by theprop 9y ago
Xmarks is a great app to save them. I also have thousands of bookmarks I rarely look into or use. BUT when I do go through them, I'm happy and find interesting stuff I'm glad I did go back through...so I'd say save away the
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Ethereum's Challenging Project to Move from Proof-Of-Work to Proof-Of-Stake(blog.ethereum.org)
4 points by theprop 9y ago|0 comments
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by theprop 9y ago
Launch many satellites into space which have huge reflective screens to bounce away some 1% of the light that would otherwise reach Earth. I heard this idea suggested at least a decade ago in Popular Science. I imagine there are many such
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by theprop 9y ago
Yes, it is melting and some of the before/after photographs are the most devastating evidence. There are some famous photos of Patagonia 100 years ago and today...anyone remember them? I managed to find these before/after photos o
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by theprop 9y ago
Yeah, well that's kind of true...so you could say I'm still on reddit ;-)...
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by theprop 9y ago
It's very hard to make m&a work at high valuations. Very few companies have done m&a well -- maybe just facebook & google & apple to a lesser extent. It's very hard to make e-commerce work. E-commerce is checkere
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by theprop 9y ago
Last I heard Reddit was doing less than $10 mn / year in revenues. It's highly under-monetized, but it looks difficult to grow in 5 to 10 years to generating $150 million in annual profits to justify this valuation. I'm surp
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by theprop 9y ago
Can it self-drive in snow and rain?
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by theprop 9y ago
This is going to be a disaster. They are anti-Walmart. Walmart needs to stay true to its vision of low price, high quality. Bonobos is high price, high end. "But for now, there are no plans to offer Bonobos’s $98 chinos or $128 dre
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by theprop 9y ago
So great to read personal stories about many of the insanely hard-working & talented engineers who made the iphone and ipod. Their stories sadly are often lost or left out.
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by theprop 9y ago
Yeah but it's good that Jobs who has a kind of god-like status these days could be a complete f *ing idiot (which would be his own words) by being against things like the iPod for Windows.
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Startup Advice in Nine Words
3 points by theprop 9y ago|1 comments
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by theprop 9y ago
Laugh! Cry! Celebrate! Don't worry! Don't worry at all...you're a HUGE success in terms of having something you built get acquired and still be alive and having created two things that even went anywhere! Keep expenses lo
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by theprop 9y ago
Payment Request looks useful...anyone using it? Could VP9 replace widevine?
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by theprop 9y ago
Congratulations!! Nice work...looking for lots more math libraries :-D!
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by theprop 9y ago
Yes, I believe the oldest trees on Earth are around 5000 years old. Some Fungi systems could be extremely old...but they sort of clone each other so it's not exactly the same organism living...but that said most of your cells except n
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by theprop 9y ago
Getting image recognition to work to "replace" radiologists is both a game-changer and a HUGE money-saver and thus a GIGANTIC opportunity. Radiology is the most common specialty and one of the highest-paid in just the US -- 40,00
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Pakistan, in a First, Sentences Man to Death Over Blasphemy on Social Media(nytimes.com)
3 points by theprop 9y ago|0 comments
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by theprop 9y ago
She longed to be the kind of person who was confident enough in her own sense of goodness that she would know definitively that she could never commit murder.
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by theprop 9y ago
Try the Epic Privacy Browser..its ad blocker worked great for me ;-)
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by theprop 9y ago
Way too expensive in respect to users...at $.20/user/year...for 100k users, it's $20k/year. This vs. most installers that actually pay you...
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by theprop 9y ago
Ouch!
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by theprop 9y ago
This is great if the focus is more on doing good i.e. revealing "evil" companies...rather than more 'pump & dump' type schemes (well in this case, drain & dump may be a more accurate description). To have the ki
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by theprop 9y ago
This is a great idea. QVC does billions a year in revenues.

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