DaniFong

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by DaniFong 12y ago
I'm most sympathetic to your argument, but one part is factually incorrect. There are a few examples of people working on the great problems of the day and succeeding, among them: Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, who developed the method to
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by DaniFong 12y ago
That's awesome!
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by DaniFong 12y ago
That could definitely be true, but what I found was to seek a 'restful' state of physiology was much more helpful than to seek the loss of consciousness I had previously associated with sleep. Insomnia and other things are very re
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Read this carefully: I used to think this way as well. This thinking lead me to the exact wrong strategy for naps. There are many stages of sleep; stage 1 through 4, and REM sleep. These, it is hypothesized, have distinct physiological func
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Not actually, unfortunately for you ;-)
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Am close to the source; the project is not dead, despite his full time employment, it has made some recent progress and is currently seeking funding.
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Colin, The energy is very good, and its very fun. I've learned much, been inspired to do more and better things, and some of the friendships I've made have been very deep, some of the connections very useful. If you've never
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by DaniFong 12y ago
I care about these things as well, and have dedicated a few cycles to new concepts in propulsion. If you are ever around the bay area, it would be good to chat. I could give you a tour of LightSail and we could get tea.
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Good summary. Who are you?
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Well, you'd be mistaken. There are people who learn 3, heck, even 10 times faster than your standard bright university student, in large part because they needn't wait for formal instruction. You have probably learned at this pa
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Seems like a rather sad state of Hacker News when there is so much doubt heaped on a woman's technical ability just because of her age, and the fact she was unlikely to have completed the relevant formal education. There is rarely an i
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Why I'm excited about this, and you should be too: Tracking of biomarkers over time. "“The movie goal is absolutely core to what we’re working to do,”... We’re building an early-detection system,”
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by DaniFong 12y ago
One of my favorite recursive lakes is quite accessible to many on HN, it's at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. http://binged.it/1lLOpk1
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Fazlur Khan: The engineer who made it possible to live in the sky(en.wikipedia.org)
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Maybe he once had a hope more ideas would see the light of day? Maybe that hope was crushed and he realized he made a mistake. The contract theory of morality does not admit well to asymmetry of information. Most organizations preach about
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by DaniFong 12y ago
You should hesitate for a second; your arguments favor exploitation rather than exploration. Bret's work aims to move beyond 'the tiny rectangle' of computer screens, and companies are nearly decade scale commitments. Why not
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Doesn't explain the differential population in coral and humans; the simpler organisms have shorter lifespans, it should matter less if they're susceptible to an external influence. More likely there are so many receptors because
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by DaniFong 12y ago
+100 Absolutely this is a key factor in why scientific grants have terrible yield vs private funding. As a former fusion scientist, I saw this coming, and left the field to make my own fortune and direct it towards what I believed the best
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Two things: 1) A recently discovered very strong correlation (needs further longitudinal study) between mindfulness practice and a reduced decline in mental performance with age. http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/1
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by DaniFong 12y ago
The question every mega software startup should try very hard to answer...
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by DaniFong 12y ago
It is important to ask -- what on earth could this be for ? SpaceX achieved orbital flight on that amount of capital...
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by DaniFong 12y ago
200 bar is an inflection point in the regulatory landscape for above ground tanks. A sweet spot. There's another sweet spot around 300 - 400 bar due to the physics of air. Salt caverns melt at high enough temps (above 200 C) and inject
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Not yet, currently developing our systems to be pilot ready for field tests next year. It's a long, hard business developing new energy tech. Our first genuine products are likely to be our pressure vessels...
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by DaniFong 12y ago
It's hard to generate a strict apples to apples comparison -- not only do the numbers depend on operating parameters, but pure adiabatic operation causes both very high temperatures, imposing strict materials constraints and very diffi
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Hi Zack, My company, LightSail Energy, is developing precisely this technology. www.lightsail.com We're also developing the world's lowest cost pressure vessels to store the air. I wish you had the money to invest in us too ;-)
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by DaniFong 13y ago
In theory, yes. In practice I do not think we are doing nearly the job of ensuring quality protectors that the situation demands. Follow the link to read about a recent case of abuse by the SFPD. Notably, they beat up and put into solitary
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by DaniFong 13y ago
The returns for top notch VC firms like a16z and the returns for VC as a whole are like a difference in kind.
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by DaniFong 13y ago
You would find it fascinating, illuminating, and mind changing to read David Wootton's biography of Galileo. An outstanding scientist, and a relentless hustler like you would not believe. There are schleps involved in doing great work
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by DaniFong 13y ago
If so, what say you to the Fundamental Physics Prize -- funded by Yuri Milner? https://fundamentalphysicsprize.org/ Or the Nobel Prize before that, funded based on inventions in explosives (used for mining, construction, an
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by DaniFong 13y ago
It could improve efficiency but really adds a lot of challenges, not worth it for a 1st product. Good idea though :-) We patented using wind towers for air storage.

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