D_Alex

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by D_Alex 14y ago
I also know people who may be interested. I put my email in my profile, if you want to look into this, send me a note.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
>Using this fabrication method on a smaller/safer scale would be great for the Australian construction industry. Agreed (though why smaller?). Do you know people who might be interested in looking into this?
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Looks like a crap piling job to me... I must say my first reaction to the OP story was "how long will the foundations take?"
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by D_Alex 14y ago
> powerline + chain idea The US military got this: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/blu-114.htm . Carbon fiber instead of the chain, but same principle.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Maybe they just want that acknowledgement of yours...? Maybe the feel-good value of this acknowledgement IS the adequate compensation for those special, unique and extraordinary rights...??
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by D_Alex 14y ago
My story: at 36 years of age I went to live in Italy... after 13 months my weight went from 92 to 98 kg and BMI from 25 to 27 (yes, I blame the delicious Italian food). I carried the extra weight for 8 years, and ended up with a 160/90 bp,
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by D_Alex 14y ago
"I'm generalizing from one example, here, but everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do." - Vladimir Taltos ( http://dragaera.wikia.com/wiki/Vlad_Taltos , see also http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/ )
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Interesting indeed, and thanks for the reply. I almost understand it, unfortunately I just returned from our Melbourne Cup party, where lots of wine was consumed. For now, I concede that your concept seems theoretically possible, best of lu
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Thanks for a thorough answer! I provisionally withdraw my objections... I'll need to think this through when I am sober.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
When you cool the air by mixing it with water spray, a good portion of the energy is now spent producing low temperature water vapour. So... how do you recover that energy? You'd need to condense the water vapour to get at the latent heat.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
As I read it, in the proposed system the heat generated during compression is stored, and then recovered, hence the advantage over the plain old air compression. But I'm going to be that guy who says it will not work, and cannot work, based
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by D_Alex 14y ago
I'd vote for him too. I am sure his social and foreign policies would turn out fine. I don't think it is even hard to come up with a decent social and foreign policy: observe that there is a wide range of such policies among "successful cou
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The Clothesline Paradox(edge.org)
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by D_Alex 14y ago
>Science used to be the opposite of entertaining... In the late 19th century, scientific lectures attracted quite an audience, I believe. Perhaps science was more accessible to the general public, due to its lesser complexity..? "Mythbu
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Sure! Although what I posted is quite literal, and the explanation is rather trivial. Near where I live, a waste collection center sends grass cuttings to a cattle feedstock blending plant, that a business partner of mine has an interest in
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by D_Alex 14y ago
>There's this vague sense of regret much like you're describing, except inverted... Let me tell you a little joke, it is a running joke in our family. A young man goes to his father for advice: "Should I get married to my girlfriend Jen
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Eh... wants and goals are not really the same.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
By coincidence, I spent a good part of today looking at very powerful magnets to extract needles etc from cut grass! If only we could find the analogue for your problem...
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Sex.ly for YC '13!
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Ah, future... you promised us the flying car, and what did you give us instead???
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Does Betteridge's Law of Headlines apply to this article? Have I created a paradox?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
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by D_Alex 14y ago
From http://lesswrong.com/lw/tz/my_best_and_worst_mistake/ , a quote that I spent a long time thinking about: "As a general idea, high level intellectual exploration should consume substantially more time than goal-directed action, but the
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Wow, I love this - I lived in Korea for about 18 months and can pick up a fair bit of the culture specific messages. For some reason, none of the translations I've seen cover the term "Oppa", which is translatable and kind of important to g
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by D_Alex 14y ago
I checked up and you are quite correct. Unilever bought Ponds which in turn grew out of a vaseline manufacturer previously owned by Standard Oil.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Rockefeller's Standard Oil was possibly even more valuable - at the time of it's anti-trust mandated breakup it produced around 90% of USA's oil. The companies it split into became Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, Amoco, Conoco, Unilever (!) and a wh
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by D_Alex 14y ago
I hope space exploration becomes cool again! Also... soon it will be 40 years since the last man walked on the moon. Need to do something about that. Can we register NASA as a charity so donations become tax deductible??
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by D_Alex 14y ago
I prefer the view that this achievement does belong to the world. I work in the oil and gas industry. We supply the world with energy, it gets used up about as quickly as it gets produced. In a sense, I will have nothing concrete to show
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by D_Alex 14y ago
>it might take me half a day of valuable weekend time to fix the problem correctly... I made a shoe cabinet recently - it had to be of a particular width. I spent about $200 on materials and it took me roughly 8 hours. I could say it co
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Except the numbers got to be useful in making predictions about how the world will behave in the future. So, only a little bit like a lottery... a very small, tiny little bit.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
I tried this in Indonesia. It does not taste "like coffee, only better". It tastes just different from coffee, and definitely not "better", IMHO. So if you are looking for really, really good coffee... this is not it.

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