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by HillRat 7y ago
Looks like they use sulfuric acid at 0.5 to 5 M over a 24-hour period to depolymerize the plastics. So highly acidic, but probably better to keep your acids in polyethylene containers!
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by HillRat 7y ago
Maybe Gibson’s “Johnny Mnemonic” was somewhat more prescient than it seemed...
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by HillRat 8y ago
The flip side of vendor lock-in — at the megacorp level, anyway — is the “one throat to choke” principle; sure, it might be hard to migrate off AWS/Azure/IBM, but (a) your technology investments have a timespan measured in decade-
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by HillRat 8y ago
Should you ever meet a former member of the Wehrmacht, you owe them the same general regard to be given any human being. Most human beings have not taken up arms to make war on behalf of a genocidal regime led by a fanatical anti-Semitic
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by HillRat 8y ago
There does appear to be a normalization going on, though; in my line of work (F500 consulting), I’ve seen multiple examples of prominent tattoos on both the consultant and client/buyer side (mostly tribal sleeve/neck ink on men).
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“Who Owns Huawei?” Perhaps the Chinese Government(papers.ssrn.com)
3 points by HillRat 8y ago|0 comments
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by HillRat 8y ago
I do appreciate how their “Director of Platform Partnerships” was also apparently in charge of killing platforms FB thought had become too popular. Great folks to do business with, I’m sure.
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by HillRat 8y ago
In fact, wind power generates such an energy surplus on the Texas grid that various energy retailers have gone with “free evening electricity” plans. Possibly only applicable to Great Plans-style regions, but solar+wind gives a pretty relia
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by HillRat 8y ago
Generally I’ve found that those who forget history tend to condemn others to repeat it for them.
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Tesla ends Model 3 online sales(nytimes.com)
2 points by HillRat 8y ago|0 comments
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by HillRat 8y ago
That’s an excellent point — I can name multiple cases when Ellison personally sold $x00mm deals to CEOs at (quite literally) baseball games, and Nadella has made personal pitches for Azure for major opportunities, but are Page/Brin&#x
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by HillRat 8y ago
I can say that Google is never even at the table for large-scale cloud migration strategies (though, to be fair, neither is Oracle). But their offerings also lack Amazon’s powerful first-mover advantage or Microsoft’s ecosystem and develope
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by HillRat 8y ago
Sounds like an approach that would coexist nicely alongside technology funding efforts! ARPA-E and EERE have done some great work in that regard; thankfully and a bit surprisingly Congress has so far declined to defund them, despite the Tru
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by HillRat 8y ago
Completely agree that the best and most market-friendly path is to take socialized CO2 costs and apply them to point-of-emission prices — though I doubt entrenched interests of the iron triangle variety will allow that to happen. Nonetheles
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by HillRat 8y ago
Technologically-speaking, been done; the economics aren’t quite there yet, but there are some promising noncarbonization paths that potentially could scale to price-parity, depending on global fuel costs.
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by HillRat 8y ago
I’ve seen some contracting firms do domestic “ruralshoring,” but IMO recruitment costs become controlling due to the lower density of talent and general difficulty with remote management as a practice. The common approach is to concentrate
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by HillRat 8y ago
She was a lab tech in the Duke pulmonology lab under W. Michael Foster, so not a principal researcher (but listed as a middle author on several papers); the whistleblower was a colleague of hers. In regards to the settlement, a successful F
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by HillRat 8y ago
Sales. Always ask about sales. Specifically, what’s the sales culture — who’s responsible, what’s the acquisition model, how well do the sales folks understand the offering, how do they manage the funnel, and so on. At the end of the day, u
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by HillRat 8y ago
Specifically, a lab tech, not a professor or researcher, who was embezzling from the university while falsifying lab data. So the school’s guilty of not aggressively dealing with the faked data and the research it buttressed — definite wron
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by HillRat 8y ago
I think you’ve got the right use case. Personally I’ve never found NoSQL to be superior, or even equal, to relational databases for general product development, but with Mongo’s recent improvements (fixing the data loss bugs, adding multido
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by HillRat 8y ago
Just going to raise an eyebrow at the company’s assertion that people with the titles “senior manager” and “senior editor” aren’t in managerial positions. They’re either being disingenuous or have some serious title inflation going on the
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A tech startup turned graffiti into a crime worse than murder(slate.com)
3 points by HillRat 8y ago|0 comments
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Apache promotes Unomi CDP to top-level project(globenewswire.com)
1 points by HillRat 8y ago|0 comments
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by HillRat 8y ago
Fascinating stuff. If you’re using BECs rather than waste product, have you started to look into how to minimize full-lifecycle energy usage? (Plus water, nitrogen, agricultural crowding-out, etc.) And are you trying to scale up to a centra
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by HillRat 8y ago
Both Niven and Pournelle are part of the SIGMA Forum, which is a real-life consortium of science fiction writers who consult with the government. While the Pentagon and the White House have flirted with the concept over the years, they gene
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by HillRat 8y ago
I’m overall no fan of GG, but it seems (speaking as an outsider) he had the goods on Bolsonaro before the election, and his husband is now in the literal firing line as a gay, liberal Congressman in a time of rising right-wing violence. I’m
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by HillRat 8y ago
I recently killed an afternoon in Miami by visiting Calle Ocho in Little Havana and was bemused by the vast number of Kahlo portraits in the local shops and galleries, given that she was (A) Mexican, not Cuban; and (B) only stopped from ent
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by HillRat 8y ago
Definitely creates a new risk model for hybrid OSS-Enterprise software: build something attractive enough for the big players to co-opt and they might just, ah, fork you up. Now Elastic either accepts pull requests that create clean OSS ver
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by HillRat 8y ago
Toyota’s been in the battery game for over two decades, for both hybrids and EVs. While they aren’t fully committed to EVs yet, they’re still planning to release multiple model lines in 2020+ (and if Libtec manages a breakthrough we could s
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by HillRat 8y ago
It’s the Dalton, GA effect — why do carpet companies set up their manufacturing in Dalton? Because that’s where people make carpets. To put it another way, current industrial capabilities contain historical path dependencies that are hard t

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