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by chroem- 10y ago
The whole point of cooking food is to denature proteins and kill pathogens. Denatured proteins have exactly the same nutritional content as functional proteins: they're just not folded into their original and potentially dangerous s
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by chroem- 10y ago
The market will be irrational longer than you can stay solvent. You are putting far too much trust into speculative market forces.
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by chroem- 10y ago
At risk of being shadowbanned, the whole Trump-Russia ordeal is starting to bear more than a passing resemblance to this SMBC comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-05-09
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by chroem- 10y ago
Everything is hard with software being a notable exception.
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by chroem- 10y ago
>They're touting the use of adult stem cells which have never been shown to provide the kind of results that embryonic stem cells have Actually that is false. As someone who is currently losing their eyesight due to retinal degener
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by chroem- 10y ago
I'm not trying to defend Russia, but the UK is trying to do this too. Well, actually they've already done it.
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by chroem- 10y ago
>But I also think it's totally wrong to say we don't have a technology labor shortage. The best evidence of this are the salary numbers for people with math and science degrees. It's not because physics and math suddenly g
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by chroem- 10y ago
Market forces don't result in an equitable exchange of value if one party in the transaction can exert control over both supply and demand. The NYT article is presenting a narrative that the public needs to fund increasing the labor s
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by chroem- 10y ago
If you're struggling to find qualified workers, simply offer better pay.
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by chroem- 10y ago
I think I might take what the RAND Corporation puts out with a grain of salt, given their ties to the military industrial complex.
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by chroem- 10y ago
That is a post-hoc rationalization and you know it. DWS was forced to step down amid a firestorm, not voluntarily "to give unity to the party." The same goes for Brazile. The claim that "they could have figured out the ans
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by chroem- 10y ago
Well, it was apparently convincing enough for the former DNC chair to lose her job, and for the subsequent DNC chair to be fired from her position at CNN. If you choose to ignore what happened, then that's your own perogative.
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by chroem- 10y ago
>The results of that attack (which weren't particular interesting) are secondary to the attack itself One could argue that the documented effort to override public opinion in the primary election is quite interesting by itself. I s
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by chroem- 10y ago
The last time the CIA went to the media with supposedly incontrovertible evidence we ended up invading Iraq over WMD's that didn't exist. Food for thought.
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by chroem- 10y ago
Can they both commit voter fraud? Yes. Are they both necessarily going to commit voter fraud? No. I don't agree with Trump's politics in the slightest, but if there's anything that can be gleaned from the Clinton leaks, it
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by chroem- 10y ago
There is absolutely no reason for this to be flagged. Both candidates' actions and the media's response to them have been deplorable this election cycle, and we have a right to recognize them as being such. I am deeply concerned
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by chroem- 10y ago
Clinton has been exposed in plain daylight as having done things that would have made Richard Nixon blush. It's so bad that her campaign has been forced to hire a crew of dedicated astroturfers to cover for her, and they have no scrup
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by chroem- 11y ago
Good question! "Pay-as-you-go" is definitely open to interpretation, and whether we offer billing on a per-job, monthly, yearly, or contractual basis is still something that we're discussing. In the end, we're probably
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by chroem- 11y ago
Absolutely! One of the other issues that hasn't been mentioned already but seems to come up a lot is the relative lack of different solution constraints available in these existing packages, preventing the use of optimization beyond p
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by chroem- 11y ago
When I submitted it, it showed up under the "new" tab, but when I went to the front page of HN I couldn't find it no matter how many pages I went back, despite the fact that it was newer and had more points than other Apply H
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by chroem- 11y ago
I'm somewhat concerned that, as far as I can tell, my application ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11442038 ) seems to be unlisted on the main index. Could someone from YC please explain what's going on here?
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by chroem- 11y ago
Good question. Although that would quite frankly be pretty surprising, given the immense value we offer our customers, the next step would be to spin off the technology we've developed to an existing topology optimization software vend
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by chroem- 11y ago
Good questions and thanks for the feedback! We're currently focused on the development of the software and getting a shippable product. Our target demographic is small and medium sized engineering firms, who then go on to use our softw
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by chroem- 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Engineering analysis is already a pretty much solved problem. Topology optimization, however, has a lot of benefits that have yet to be realized, and it's much more well suited to the SaaS model because of how
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by chroem- 11y ago
Good questions! We use standard and well proven simulation techniques that have existed since the first half of the 20th century. We are however also verifying mesh convergence on each compute job, as well as verifying the output of the so
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by chroem- 11y ago
We're currently focusing on a broader application at the moment, since our primary goal is to bring this technology to the wider market. Our initial focus is on optimization of heat transfer and structural mechanics problems, however.
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by chroem- 11y ago
Topology optimization is still a new and emerging technology and it's viewed somewhat as an exotic engineering technique. Most software vendors recognize this and figure it makes better business sense to charge exorbitant prices to ma
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by chroem- 11y ago
Thank you! It's analagous in that both are topology optimization solutions, however we are targeting a different market segment and also offering this as a networked service.
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by chroem- 11y ago
Thanks! Most licensing is done on a per-seat basis for existing solutions. Additonally, the firms capable of swallowing the initial capital cost tend to be quite large and segmented into multiple divisions, e.g. Boeing or General Electric.
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by chroem- 11y ago
The short answer is yes. Simulations via the finite difference method or finite volume method (depending on the problem type) are used to evaluate the fitness of each candidate solution on the server. Using the plugin, the user can select f

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