coryrc

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by coryrc 18y ago
You know, I was a little harsh since I ignored what you have accomplished. You're already in the top 10% for sure (I'd guess top 1% but you can't tell over the Internet), so I left out the compliments (I've got to remember to not treat soci
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by coryrc 18y ago
A website is not a startup. A startup company can have its main business revolve around a website, but you seem to have confused the issue. You have played coder with some websites, but where is the revenue? the marketing? all the non-fun
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by coryrc 18y ago
The huge problem with Ni-Zn batteries is the active material actually flows downward with gravity, until the anode and cathode eventually short out. I believe this is termed "zinc migration". Many companies have claimed to solve this proble
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by coryrc 18y ago
Well, I'm a big Lispnik and wish I could use it for everything -- so I try! but AVRs (an 8-bit microcontroller) can't run managed code anywhere near fast enough. My code is completely statically or stack allocated and almost all structures
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by coryrc 18y ago
This is exactly what I was looking for! I write a lot of embedded microcontroller code (usually AVR but some ARM) and have written my own preprocessor that compiles lisp code between slash-star-L-star and star-L-star-slash tags (sorry, HN c
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by coryrc 18y ago
> it is about deviations from the expected temperatures. So, the worse their predictions, the better it proves global warming? If global warming is science, it should be falsifiable. So when the models predict temperatures different fro
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by coryrc 18y ago
This topic is disappearing, but I'd still like to address your point. Wealth def. 3b: anything that has utility and is capable of being appropriated or exchanged. Python and emacs fit the definition, but making decisions in a company produc
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by coryrc 18y ago
My opinion: We can't have enough S&E people: Every scientist who discovers a new class of drugs requires ten* more to study all the derivatives. Every engineer who creates a new machine allows ten* more to build machines that use this m
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by coryrc 18y ago
> VB6 is possibly the best environment for doing this ever, so I see where he's coming from. The open-source descendant of Foxpro is Dabo: http://www.dabodev.com As easy as anything MS but with a real programming language (Python).
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by coryrc 18y ago
> They don't run their own electric power plants anymore They don't? http://www.harrisgroup.com/node/262 This extortion thing has happened many times, but did they band together before? There was some false patent about live video st
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by coryrc 18y ago
Chip Gribben does: http://www.evdl.org/docs/powerplant.pdf He has a 2.5 page bibliography at the end, if you need more exact answers.
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by coryrc 18y ago
Instead of paying 10-20 cents a mile to a number of companies and countries in a some-what free market, we will be moving toward a system where one company, not based in the United States, will have complete control over our fueling infrast
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by coryrc 18y ago
There are 250 million passenger vehicles in the USA. And 7.6 million sold in in 2006. No one is going to take your car, but if they wanted to, you could probably keep it for 40 years or so, if manufacturing was switched to 100% electric car
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by coryrc 18y ago
Err, I b0rked the numbers: 36.8kwh/gallon of gasoline yields 1.2kwh/mile @ 30mpg, four times the electric version. If the energy comes from combined-cycle coal plant (50% efficient), then your advantage is two times. The comparison with nuc
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by coryrc 18y ago
The electricity used to refine a gallon of gasoline can propel an automobile between 10 and 30 miles. I'm sorry I can't come up with a link at this moment, but see this one to notice a strong dependency of refiners on electricity: http://w
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by coryrc 18y ago
The Karmann Ghia and VW (classic) Beetles and Rabbits, that is, if you live in the NW or SW. Otherwise, you'll have to just deal with the heavier cars. They are not optimal, but more optimal than using gasoline.
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by coryrc 18y ago
Electric rail is completely orthogonal to electric cars. Gasoline, used almost only in personal vehicles and light trucks, was responsible for 9 million barrels per day in 2004: http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_public.