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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
Food grade and alcohol safe aren't always synonymous. Peristaltic pumps are good, and they usually require soft hose, such as silicone.
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
I wonder if all the parts they are using are alcohol-safe. That tubing would preferably be platinum-cured silicone (which is expensive). PVC is not a good idea for this application.
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
This bit alone makes the article worth reading. "Make no bones about it, HTML5 design is a massive, musty elephant in the room, and it is about to charge. In its path lies a flailing, unarmed Jakob Nielsen, backed up with legions of user ex
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
It's somewhat of a trick question, as the speed of sound can vary greatly depending on the material it's propagated through. In air, it varies according to temperature and altitude.
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
>Taking someone to small claims court over state lines is exceedingly difficult, let alone in another country. Taking someone to small claims court over state lines is not difficult at all. You simply serve the suit by certified mail. H
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
How much money does Quora have left, and what is their burn rate? Are they making any revenue? It seems not.
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
I suspect a number of strategies will be used. First, they'll say it's being used for drug transactions. (Which is of course already the case.) Then they'll say it's being used for terrorist funding. Once it's thoroughly demonized, they'll
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
The more mainstream Bitcoin becomes, the greater the likelihood that it will be shut down. As an alternate currency, it's a direct threat to the dollar. That threat is miniscule at present, but as Bitcoin gains traction, through services li
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
Let's not forget that Memeto automatically uploads all your images to the company's servers, with no apparent way to disable this "feature." Creepy.
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
>If you are going to use IMAP, why would you use gmail at all? As an alternate email address, for any number of a variety of reasons.
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
Actually, McMaster doesn't manufacture anything, as far as I know. They are a distributor. (They tend to deliberately obscure this by refusing to tell you the brand name or actual manufacturer of any item they sell in advance.) But back to
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
That's why I note that improvement would involve manufacturing in metal. This may be possible already to a limited degree, for example, with sintered metal, but that's an expensive process that isn't economical for washing machine parts.
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
I have their catalog and order from them frequently. Did you have some point you were trying to bring up? Because the "long tail" type of business I envisioned in the previous post would be for stuff that's more obscure and, more to the poi
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
Cool idea, but look at the unit cost. Right now, the per-unit cost is way too high to make that economical, especially for something large like furniture. Also, the value of your idea lies in the "human responsive AI," not the 3D printing.
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
The killer app is "just in time" manufacturing of single parts from a gigantic library. This will create a "long tail" type business that can offer a huge line of obscure parts that otherwise aren't available, as the original manufacturing
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
I recall trying Live Picture a few times, back in the early 90s. It was promoted in the same kind of breathless tone as this article. My recollection is that it in no way lived up to the hype. It was slow and crashed a lot.
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
Without ever using those terms, this article was a great commentary on the difference between "smart money" and "dumb money." Not to say that the investors snapping up YC companies at big valuations were necessarily dumb; but that the autho
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
For further reading, I highly recommend Bunnie's book on hacking the Xbox.
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Apple to Resume US Manufacturing(nytimes.com)
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
This story reminds me of the efforts one guy in New Orleans went through to keep his data center running after Katrina. There were some tales of diesel hauling in that blog as well. http://interdictor.livejournal.com/57475.html http://in
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
This article ignores the fact that many wealthy individuals, via investments and other rentier activities, are able to obtain lower effective tax rates than people who work for a living.
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
Media articles often get details wrong. While this can happen due to actual malice, more often the causes are sloppy reporting, rush to complete work on deadline, multiple edits by editors other than the original author, and similar reasons
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
Interesting idea. Except for this part: "the photos are automatically uploaded to Memoto’s server." Are you kidding me? No option for just uploading to my own computer? This makes the whole thing a non-starter.
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
This seems like the beginning of an interesting idea. But while they're addressing the important issue of inspecting the goods, it seems they're missing a more important concern when sourcing manufacturing in China. Namely, knowing if someo
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
It's better to lead them on, thinking that you are going to finance. Then, when you have a final price, drop the cash bomb. Be ready for some furious attempts to raise the price in a bunch of ways, after that revelation!
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The risk is that a whole bunch of middlemen who don't add much (if any) value would get cut out of the equation. The dealers are well aware that their business model is despised by buyers, hence the forest of protectionist law that they've
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For anyone with a name that's prone to mis-spellings, this service doesn't seem like such a great idea.
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
Referrals. If you say "I don't know anyone" then start networking. Sure, it's easier said than done. But if you have the chops, and do just a few good projects, word will get around. To take it to the next level, try to find a company that
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"a theory as to why video and video streaming seem particularly prone to patent trolls" There's lots of streaming video on the web. For trolls, plenty of targets. Millions of potential defendants. If they issue 100,000 threats to sue, there
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by gallerytungsten 14y ago
One of the key factors driving the student debt bubble is "for profit" colleges. Many of these schools are scams to begin with, and prey on students who are desperate for a degree, but probably not qualified to attend college in the first p

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