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Coffee is good for you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#General_health
Those health benefits are more for people in their 80s. The coffee bean is actually a poison that the coffee plant uses to deter herbivores. Not to mention a recent Danish study that suggests pregnant women should abstain from caffeine as it's lethal to the fetus.
How does this improve over a french press and $15 of coffee grounds?
Two cups of water in a blender. Add a teaspoon of instant coffee, a teaspoon of sugar, two spoons of powdered milk. Mix it all for ten seconds.
Pour in two cups. Put in the microwave for a minute.
Enjoy a delicious capuccino with a partner.
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Your first claim is illogical. THC is an insecticide, yet not a single human has ever died from consuming cannabis. NOTHING is "Good" or "Bad" without proper context. "Suggest" is not a very convincing word to me. Sounds more like a hypothesis than a conclusion. I highly doubt any ethics board would approve a double-blind clinical trial exploring how much coffee consumption is required to kill a human fetus in utero.…
You're absolutely right -- everything turns to poison in excess. Fun fact about THC though: "[...] babies of women who used cannabis at least once per week before and throughout pregnancy were 216 g lighter than those of non-users, had significantly shorter birth lengths and smaller head circumferences." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11843371
It's right there in the conclusion "may be associated" = "they do not know if this is true at all".
Next step would be to run a double-blind clinical trial, and have an unknown-half of the subjects smoke pot and compare that to the control to test if their hypothesis is true or not. Until then, it's only conjecture.
How does this improve over a french press and $15 of coffee grounds?
When someone offers all the beer I drink for one low monthly price, I'll be signing up.
This will only exacerbate an existing problem at coffee shops in NYC: The "Coffice" phenomenon where people use the coffee shop as their office. Now these people will feel justified basically becoming a tenant of coffee shops and leeching 4-5 coffees a day, leaving this startup with the empty CUPS. :)
I never understood the coffee shop thing. I hate working at coffee shops, people nosing around at what you're doing, never enough desk space, that feeling of guilt once you stay there too long, etc.
Cool idea, but it seems to target a pretty narrow demographic: - wealthy enough to live in NYC and buy at least one cup of coffee every single work day - cheap enough to want to save a few bucks a month on coffee - can't be bothered to carry a credit card around every day - can be bothered to carry a smart phone around every day - trendy enough to frequent NYC coffee shops - untrendy enough to be seen using "coupons"…
>Fortunately for them, starting in NYC, that still leaves around thirty million potential customers The population of New York City (5 boroughs) is 8.337 million people. The population of Manhattan is 1.626 million people. During the day, commuters from the other boroughs and outside the city nearly double Manhattan’s population to 3.1 million people. I can't imagine them doing this outside of Manhattan, but even if…