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by eserorg 17y ago
I started an Oil and Natural Gas E&P (exploration and production) company when I was 25. And no, I didn't have an "in" to the hydrocarbons business (a lot of people ask). My background is Stanford CS.
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by eserorg 17y ago
This is a _very_ poor business decision. If Soros goes through with this, he is going to loose a ton of money. On a cost-per-BTU basis, taking into account upfront CAPEX, cost-of-capital, present-value discounted cash flow analysis (PV10, f
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by eserorg 17y ago
Yes.
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by eserorg 17y ago
CGIProxy has full javascript support. It also handles cookies and can dynamically determine whether or not it should proxify images and CSS assets. CGIProxy also handles flash. In fact, CGIProxy can fully proxify an SSL-encrypted GMail sess
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by eserorg 17y ago
Plurchase is just a reverse HTTP proxy server looking for an application. It's not too hard to do something similar in perl. 1) start off by downloading a copy of CGIProxy: http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/ 2) Setup an apache serve
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Ask HN: Whom do you admire most?
56 points by eserorg 17y ago|234 comments
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by eserorg 17y ago
During Larry Ellison's recent interview with Ed Zander at the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley, someone asked Larry Ellison what he thought was the most significant distruptive innovation that Oracle was paying attention to. Larry Ellison s
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by eserorg 17y ago
It would be interesting to see the top 100 sites ranked by gross-profit by user.
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by eserorg 17y ago
Profitability of an advertising franchise = (value-per-impression) x (Number-of-Impressions) Online social networking has an extremely low value-per-impression. Professional golfing has an extremely high value-per-impression. Which explains
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How to Steal a Botnet and What Can Happen When You Do(youtube.com)
7 points by eserorg 17y ago|1 comments
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by eserorg 17y ago
Your tax dollars at work. It's no wonder that the State of California is bankrupt. While the state of California is piling on _billions_ of dollars in debt to pay for unionized wellfare programs, raising tax rates across the board on its ci
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by eserorg 17y ago
See here: http://www.eia.doe.gov/steo
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by eserorg 17y ago
If you study the history of the oil business, you will find that approximately every 25-30 years there is a widespread "oil crisis" precipitated by the conclusion that we have reached "peak oil" and that the world's aggregate hydrocarbon pr
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by eserorg 17y ago
Those are my comments.
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by eserorg 17y ago
Some questions about Nanosolar’s $1-per-watt claim: What happens at night? What happens when its cloudy? What happens during the winter-time? Does Nanosolar’s $1 per watt investment guarantee a consistent 24/7/365 source of electricity? Doe
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Demo of Peter Thiel-funded Palantir's counterterrorism workflow(palantirtech.com)
1 points by eserorg 17y ago|0 comments
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by eserorg 17y ago
I don't see what's so surprising about this. "Clean Tech" is one giant taxpayer-funded ponzi scheme. Madoff would be proud.
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by eserorg 17y ago
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. and The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
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by eserorg 17y ago
Yes, there will be no net decline in the aggregate production of hydrocarbons, as measured in BTU's, for hundreds of years. We are currently learning how to develop and consume natural gas, a so-called 3rd-generation hydrocarbon, with a car
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by eserorg 17y ago
You need to lookup the hyperbolic decline curves for United States shale gas plays. With these 'unconventional' plays, the production is front-loaded. For instance, many Haynesville shale natural gas wells will produce as much gas in their
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by eserorg 17y ago
I am in the oil business. When laypeople who don't know the first thing about the hydrocarbons industry start talking about "peak oil", they come off sounding as stupid as when former senator Ted Stevens described the internet as a "series
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by eserorg 17y ago
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Obermeyer
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A very cool dude and his ski clothing company: Klaus Obermeyer(youtube.com)
1 points by eserorg 17y ago|1 comments
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by eserorg 17y ago
Starting a search experience by asking the user what they are looking for misses a lot of important use cases. For instance, checkout some of the demos of Marti Hearst's research into faceted search at Berkeley: http://flamenco.berkeley.ed
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by eserorg 17y ago
When deriving insights into target use-cases for tech startups, the graph you want to look at is the one for "employed" people. Serving unemployed people is probably a poor choice ;)
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by eserorg 17y ago
Conclusion: think about how your startup helps people with their work.
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by eserorg 17y ago
Do not overlook the importance of trademarks: Be sure that you can obtain a trademark for your name from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (uspto.gov). Be aware of the "gotchas" in what are considered acceptable trademarks. For instance,
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by eserorg 17y ago
Interactive map of United States midcontinent onshore oil and natural gas wells: http://hydrocarbon.search.eser.org/ Used for identifying infill drilling locations. Updated daily with new well locations. Working on adding Canada, shale pl
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by eserorg 17y ago
To paraphrase Clayton Christensen's "The law of conservation of attractive profits": "When attractive profits disappear at one stage in the value chain because a product becomes modular and commoditized, the opportunity to earn attractive p
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by eserorg 17y ago
In the oil business: http://eser.org

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