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What were you printing that required a print to be carried with you? Personally printing should be banned. The amount of paper waste we create disgraceful.
I worked for a Japanese company. Paper is a big deal, there. Also, I have long subscribed to Tufte's "supergraphic" methodology, when giving presentations.
In Tokyo, coffee shops seem to have embraced the work culture. Tables and seating have been adapted to working, and you often get a receipt with the time when you are expected to leave printed on it. Most (if not all) people in a Tully's in Tokyo are there to work.
They did build something people want, why are they rejecting it now?
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Or you know, you could just not go there if you don't like the place rather than be a prick to people who work there and customers who like going there.
Hard to do when starbucks is a real estate holding company that sells coffee. They have sucked all the air out of the cafe space and driven out their competitors.
How about a soldering station?
Or a desktop scanning electron microscope?
At this point I wonder why Starbucks hasn't diversified and started building actual coworking spaces in addition to coffee shops. They look like they should be in an ideal position for that.
Cafes provide two distinct products, usually bundled into one: seat rental and food/drink. How about charge separately for each? I get that it would be awkward to try, but why not.
After university, the most I miss is the actual places that are mine to use and are made for hanging around or working and not necessarily consuming anything.
Are 3d printers allowed? How about a soldering station? Or a desktop scanning electron microscope?
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Wow, I'd be curious about the details if you can remember. I was working from cafes in London at that time, and I would have loved to find a place like that. I had to either use actual cafes (free besides getting a coffee and maybe a sandwich, limited privacy and security) or pay for a dedicated space, generally with too much tedious bureaucracy. Maybe I misremember, but to get prices as low as £10/day I think you ha…
Just looked up my email - and in 2012 I paid £10 4 hours in the Regus shared working space in central London - I think a 7 hour day might of been £12 but I don't have a full booking. From memory it was behind Bond Street - I was working for a small company in East London, and was taking the afternoon off to interview for another role. I wanted to be able to work right up until the interview and have somewhere to get…
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Maybe they could do some R&D to see if coffee could be used as ink.
I just put coffee in my printer to see... It kinda works, but the printouts are very faint. I was expecting it to clog immediately (the jets are ~10um), but it didn't.