ScotterC

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by ScotterC 15y ago
I've understood this for quite awhile but have had a really hard time articulating it. This piece is a godsend.
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When Steve Jobs met Andy Warhol(blog.artsicle.com)
2 points by ScotterC 15y ago|0 comments
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by ScotterC 15y ago
Good point. Also, aren't the vendors effectively under 'accounts payable' because Groupon doesnt have to pay them immediately? They can float that money for some 30-60 days right? I know several business that do this (including mine) and n
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by ScotterC 15y ago
It's all context. Nuclear waste (as in from commercial plants) has yet to kill anyone in the U.S. and it decays to lead eventually. However, mercury, which never decays, is a byproduct of many processes (not to mention coal burning) and k
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by ScotterC 15y ago
It all hinges on batteries. I really really hope we find something. So many innovations have been held back by inadequate or expensive energy solutions. Portable, powerful and efficient energy storage could allow so much.
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by ScotterC 15y ago
As I mentioned in another comment, if battery technology is super cheap then it benefits all power generation, even coal, because it would marginalize the fluctuating operating costs. Nuclear would actually be perfect because current nucle
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by ScotterC 15y ago
It's funny. If storage costs drop then everything improves. Hydro would become amazingly useful cause you could run the dam all the time and store the energy in batteries. The biggest problem with power generation is the fluctuation of s
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by ScotterC 15y ago
yes, but it's easy to miss external costs of power sources like solar such as the land involved and maintenance (i.e. cleaning the panels to eek out that extra 10%). Density of power is what matters in the long run. We need a solution that
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by ScotterC 15y ago
It's already been done. Mass production of this type of reactor wasn't pursued for various political reasons mainly concerning the alternate path of a sodium-cooled reactor instead. 1962: September 16. The Indian Point-1 nuclear reactor be
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by ScotterC 15y ago
There's a wealth of information at http://energyfromthorium.com/
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by ScotterC 15y ago
Making them cheaper won't improve their efficiency
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by ScotterC 15y ago
They weren't hit as bad yes, but they suffer in many other ways from their small endowment. It's one reason why they have one of the highest tuition costs of any university.
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The difference between the cold war and 9/11(nytimes.com)
2 points by ScotterC 15y ago|0 comments
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Recurly's answer to Stripe(js.recurly.com)
4 points by ScotterC 15y ago|0 comments
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AWS Foursquare Case Study(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by ScotterC 15y ago|0 comments
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by ScotterC 15y ago
Loving these dshipper side projects.
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by ScotterC 15y ago
If you finish up railstutorial.org (should only take about 30 hours or so) you'll have a good footing to take on whatever else. A lot of what learning programming is is beating your head against the wall solving a specific problem. None o
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Were the Japanese Engineers Who Built Fukushima Incompetent?(dailykos.com)
2 points by ScotterC 15y ago|1 comments
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by ScotterC 15y ago
Congrats to these guys. I tried working in the Made for iPod (MFI) program to build hardware devices and it's a really tough process to get Apple to open up a little. This might open the pipeline for a lot of innovation.
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by ScotterC 15y ago
This is absolutely huge. India's only blockade from a full fledged nuclear power system has been a uranium shortage. And India's biggest problem stifling innovation has been energy. This discovery is going to have profound impacts over t
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by ScotterC 15y ago
If you're looking for a similar script for Ruby, check out Rubber. https://github.com/wr0ngway/rubber
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by ScotterC 15y ago
I'm sorry but people seem to get greedy and too complacent only around nuclear?
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by ScotterC 15y ago
I asked a friend of mine why he kept hitting himself in the head with a hammer. He replied "because it feels so good when I stop".
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by ScotterC 15y ago
This article does offer little back ground argument or cite any true hard information. However the organic vs non organic debate is a large topic. The overall argument of this post is not worthless. The amount of land used to feed the maxim
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by ScotterC 15y ago
I agree with this. The landscape when I was a student was very 'get a job' friendly and very much not 'employ yourself'.
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by ScotterC 15y ago
Thanks. I thought it must have been. Had no idea how it could have been done.
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Video hack in Times Square. Guy takes over monitors(keepbusy.net)
7 points by ScotterC 15y ago|2 comments
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by ScotterC 15y ago
Last time I used FORTRAN was all of 11 months ago. Thank god I've moved on to O-O and can actually declare functions.
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by ScotterC 15y ago
Unrelated as commented by others but glad you brought it up for anyone else that was confused.
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by ScotterC 16y ago
Knew the guys and realized how easy their product is to drop in with no setup. Full interface for any non coder to use easily. Braintree's setup and site aren't that easy or simple. If I want to put in the work, I'll fully switch to Braintr

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