DaniFong

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   by DaniFong 14y ago

   I think these are hilarious; thanks for posting
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   by DaniFong 14y ago

   For what it's worth, in my experience the people talking about big innovation, actually ARE extremely supportive of genuine, plausible efforts at producing planetary scale improvements. In our case, we're trying to solve the economical en
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   by DaniFong 14y ago

   Imagine test driven development for visual art. How would one write a test for visual art, beyond viewing and comprehending the partially completed work? If one could write a test in advance, one would have made a significant advance: disti
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   by DaniFong 14y ago

   I live in Oakland downtown, in a firehouse commune with a bunch of other physical technology entrepreneurs/researchers. It is great. Machine shop is in the garage; walking Lake Merritt (the closest thing to a diverse, integrated utopia I kn
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   by DaniFong 14y ago

   There are good alternatives in the area. LightSail had very good experiences with Innovacorp. Quick and reasonable -- no crazy expenses.
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   by DaniFong 14y ago

   This doesn't seem like a good idea.
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   by DaniFong 14y ago

   Nobody I know who is on the list has a publicist.
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   by DaniFong 14y ago

   If that were the case, and computing technology were part of the PPP goods bundle, wages would be seen as going UP. The question is, if you subtract computers, why do you not see any improvement? Is this not evidence of a technological slow
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   by DaniFong 14y ago

   People are... completely out of touch with the scale of our industrial infrastructure. Cities us 3% of the Earth's land surface. Fossil fuels inject power into earth at a rate 3x the tides. We intercept about 30% of the total power generati
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    Here's a probably important proposition that Peter Thiel and Garry Kasparov have been putting forward, and I have yet to see engaged with and answered: If we are truly accelerating technologically, why have the exponential gains in wages an
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    Little Bits: A Starter Kit for Aspiring Engineers and Makers(fastcodesign.com)

    2 points by DaniFong 14y ago|0 comments
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    Indiana Jones fails to receive tenure(mcsweeneys.net)

    2 points by DaniFong 14y ago|0 comments
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    'Skipping the bullshit' is in fact the lesson I'd like people to draw on. And it doesn't end with school. Too many people are stuck in jobs and relationships and situations they don't enjoy. Get unstuck. Although, I will annotate to your an
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    Vapor pressure is exponentially related to temperature; you really need to keep it cold.
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    The Startup Ecosystem Report (2012) - Top 20 Ecosystems(cdn2.blog.digital.telefonica.com.s3.amazonaws.com)

    2 points by DaniFong 14y ago|0 comments
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    Relatedly, Blake Masters was publishing notes from Peter Thiel's startup class. Though they were public, for anyone to see, we were able to read the notes, understand his philosophy, and raise money in an area he'd never invested before.
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    this makes me happy :-)
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    I do like this cartoon; it's a very nice representation of the problem with the viewpoint. The main issue is that it make frequentist humans look like idiots. They're not. Simply oftentimes lead astray -- as this example illustrates. In par
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    Affirmative action? Are you mad? Perhaps you're unaware of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Jewish_pogroms_in_the_Russ... Affirmative action is not the same thing as making it artificially harder for a discriminated minority!
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    Our fingers would be crossed too, were we not using them for engineering ;-)
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    Thank you!
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    No huge change. We decided to aim at a higher quality, product with more vertical integration/custom engineering which is somewhat more expensive from a development cost perspective but less from a unit cost perspective. When you can raise
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    Thanks Michael!
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    Thanks!
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    Right. Overfitting. Our first investment was 3 years ago.
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    There's a company called Energy Cache attempting that. Major design and construction challenge to achieve low cost. Maybe possible.
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    In my judgement this could have been done in the 1800's.
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    The trouble with your arrangement is that if there ∆T is low, there must be very many cycles between mechanical and heat energy into order to store an equivalent unit of energy. This gives very many opportunities to lose efficiency. There's
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    Government is an accretive process. Like evolution. What you want is a separate program, with some fast track process. :-)
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    by DaniFong 14y ago

    You have to choose the right materials of course. That's part of it. Then you should avoid too many minerals in your water -- recycle the water in a closed process. Air is nice because you don't have to hold onto it at low pressure :-)