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by vivekmgeorge 6y ago
Gotcha. You might have point on the marketing stuff. This is literally our first meeting to organize so we need determine all of that as team in the coming weeks and months. Thanks for the input :)
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by vivekmgeorge 6y ago
Please RSVP. Perhaps we can chat after or sometime over the next few weeks.
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by vivekmgeorge 6y ago
REI is a "co-op" but a consumer co-op. This is VERY different unfortunately...yeh a bit confusing I know. They aren't a worker owned co-op so that means they face the same economic pressures as any traditional investor owned
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by vivekmgeorge 6y ago
Idea + splash page. This is to bring together interested people to begin organizing a co-op. Grove is great. We need honestly need more companies like them! B corps are cool and we consider it, but they aren't really well regulated. Wh
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by vivekmgeorge 6y ago
Thank you! This is for our first general event to begin organizing the co-op. If you want to financially support, you can buy a ticket for the meeting tonight via the link.
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by vivekmgeorge 6y ago
Thank you for the feedback! I agree and also humbly disagree. Let me please explain. So the product and service is #1. We have various ideas how to execute this. This doesn't mean we believe we can "beat" Amazon. That isn&#x2
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by vivekmgeorge 6y ago
I appreciate the feedback! I guess I was hesitate to put too much attention on me because it's a worker owned co-op but perhaps to kick this project off it would have been okay. If interested, here is my blog https://medium.
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by vivekmgeorge 6y ago
*UPDATE* Hey everyone! The response to this post has been really great and encouraging. Unfortunately we had to close our general admission bc the response was too much for a zoom call...oops! If you want to stay in touch or interested, but
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A worker owned (co-op) store for sustainable products(thesustainablecoopstore.splashthat.com)
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Ask HN: What is the best ad blocker currently?
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A new study finds less than 1% of Bitcoin transactions to exchanges are illicit(coincenter.org)
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The 10 sectors poised to grow with the rise of Bitcoin and Crypto(medium.com)
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by vivekmgeorge 9y ago
Personally, I think this is the fairly useless move by Apple. Being able to build apps easier will not change this dead ecosystem. Easier ways to market apps, get them into the hands of users, and remind ppl to use the apps they downloaded
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How does Bitcoin actually work? – A non-technical explanation(medium.com)
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What is Bitcoin? A non-technical explanation(medium.com)
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GoFundMe – Purcahse Congress' Internet History(gofundme.com)
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FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger rollbacks(techcrunch.com)
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by vivekmgeorge 10y ago
I always find it interesting (sad) how the industrial complex is always trying to screw the avg worker.
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Shake Shack founder: Tipping is 'one of the biggest hoaxes'(finance.yahoo.com)
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New HBO series on the dawn of artificial consciousness(rollingstone.com)
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by vivekmgeorge 11y ago
Smart move in the near term, but at the end of day this is a race to the bottom for everyone invovled in the car ecosystem. Cars and ride sharing will become a commodity in 10-15 years just like online storage is today. Tesla is best positi
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by vivekmgeorge 11y ago
This feels like a complete game changer if they can actually get smart devices to adopt their tech.
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MIT's Amazing New App Lets You Program Any Object(fastcodesign.com)
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by vivekmgeorge 12y ago
The New Yorker wrote a good piece on the use mushrooms and hallucinogens (which are similar to ayahuasca) having the ability to improve mental illness, depression, addiction, etc. They are testing this is troopers who return from battle ht
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by vivekmgeorge 12y ago
No. Everyone has their own experience. Some feel like they completely disappear from this planet. But the job of the shaman (and the group) is to not let you go to far into your mind and yet allow you to experience the medicine fully.
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by vivekmgeorge 12y ago
I have taken Ayahuasca plenty of times and it has been an incredible experience for me thus far. Like everything in this universe there can bad sides to it, but with the correct people and when correctly brewed it can be extremely enlighten
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by vivekmgeorge 12y ago
Correct. I know some people have changed their app store settings to the US to get Varkala :) Here are the instructions from Apple if you are interested: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6119
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by vivekmgeorge 12y ago
Hey sritch! And want to be in Canada. We would absolutely love to be available outside the US, though unfortunately our location data provider doesn’t yet support it. We’re always looking for ways to expand beyond the US, but in the mean ti
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by vivekmgeorge 12y ago
coreymaass thanks for the feedback! We have focused a lot of attention on the design to make sure it is easy to use and aesthetically pleasing. There is currently some social aspects to it - you can share places and lists to FB/Twitter
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by vivekmgeorge 12y ago
Hi I’m vivekmgeorge (or Vivek). I am working on Varkala with ruddct (Rudd). We are two guys who outside of our passion for tech love exploring and trying new things. One thing we have noticed is that all of us get recommendations for places

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