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Re:Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone with Hybrid Design on Monday November 30, 2015 @11:23AM (#10650146)
I'd guess they'll be elated. Delivering packages in the far reaches of suburbia (and beyond) is probably costing them money, as it takes a lot of truck&driver time to deliver a single package. If we assume they maintain their hold on urban deliveries and let amazon take care of the suburbia ones; their margin will go up.

Also, I'll point out that in my area of suburbia, UPS/Fedex sometimes deliver to USPS and let USPS do the last mile. it's not hard to imagine they'd deliver to an amazon base station where robots & drones would take over.

Re:Show HN: A rough simulation of a sail boat (2D Wireframe) on Sunday September 13, 2015 @12:55PM (#10211963)
simulation looks nice but the random wind is annoying: it doesn't give enough time to play with the boat and test if it does what it's supposed to. would be better with control of the wind (direction + strength).