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Re:Ramen noodles 'are most valuable US prison commodity', st... by contingencies on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @06:53AM (#12342699)
My startup Infinite Food[0] is building a network of automated food preparation and retail service locations based upon robotics, with an initial focus on noodle soups. While we are launching in mainland China, prisons are one of the network locations that we have in mind for international expansion. In a prison context, we see a single purpose, locked-down tablet being lent to prisoners, upon which they can select, customize or create from scratch a meal from a relatively broad range of fresh ingredients, and their cooked meal would be ready to eat within a few minutes. Currently raising seed!

[0] http://8-food.com/

Edit: Genuinely curious why this has 5 downvotes and no comments? It's on topic.

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Re:Ramen noodles 'are most valuable US prison commodity', st... by jpatokal on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @08:57AM (#12343314)
I didn't downvote you, but I presume others did because you're spamming.

Also, the Arabic in your multilingual animation is gibberish, because all the letters are in their isolated forms.

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Re:Ramen noodles 'are most valuable US prison commodity', st... by contingencies on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:24AM (#12344456)
Hrrm, maybe. I personally wouldn't consider it spamming as it's literally a startup in the area of noodle soup, which was the subject. Thanks for the tip though!
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Re:Ramen noodles 'are most valuable US prison commodity', st... by dang on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @10:40PM (#12349310)
HN users have varying views on what crosses the line into spamming. I think if your comment had done more engaging with what's intellectually interesting in the current thread, instead of sounding promotional, it would have done better. It's also likely that some HN users are sensitive to the issue of profiting from prisons.

It's fine for established HN users to bring up their projects/products in an on-topic way, as long as they don't overdo it participate on HN for more than just that.

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