dpieri
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Trying to improve the marijuana buying experience.
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Comment · 9 years ago
Hivemapper | San Francisco (Burlingame) | ONSITE
Hivemapper uses machine vision to transform airborne video into a high definition living 3D map providing the world’s most important organizations the tools to travel through time and automatically detect changes.
Roles:
- Forward Deployed Engineer (Requires Security Clearance)
- Senior Computer Vision Engineer
- Senior Backend Engineer
- Backend Operations Engineer
- Senior Software Engineer (Algorithms)
- Senior Web UI Engineer
- Web UI Engineer
Comment · 11 years ago
It appears a stay has been issued by the Governor: https://twitter.com/grahambrewer/status/649327710699831296
Comment · 11 years ago
Like the Amazon Dash Button, this is a great reminder of how hardware is still useful in the age of touchscreen interfaces.
Comment · 11 years ago
As a CMU grad it was kind of a gut punch when I heard about this. However, I'm confident that the CMU robotics program will be just fine in the long run.
The thing that worries me more is if this makes universities afraid of partnering with companies like Uber in the future.
Comment · 11 years ago
Yeah, he's right. Lots of dispensaries take credit cards. Most do by flying under the radar or just lying on their application. Some merchant services providers are willing to work knowingly with marijuana businesses, but they are taking a risk doing it.
Getting a card-not-present account (which is what you would want) is even harder. As far as I know nobody has done it in a legit way.
Background: I'm the co-founder of Marvina (https://marvina.com) and I've been trying to figure out payments for almost a year. There's reason to be optimistic, but so far nothing big has broken.
This is the kind of stuff we deal with every day: http://mmjbusinessdaily.com/breaking-mbank-to-close-all-cann...
Comment · 12 years ago
Thanks for the encouragement!
Comment · 12 years ago
Absolutely! We have our eyes on topicals, edibles, and concentrates. That's really where the market is moving. Look out for an edibles only Marvina box soon!
Until then I'd recommend docGreen's cannabis infused creams. I think you can pick them up at SPARC in San Francisco.
Comment · 12 years ago
We believe that cannabis should be taken as seriously as any other business.
Hopefully soon this won't be a topic that people are afraid to bring up in polite company.