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by kumarski 9y ago
I did some back of the napkin calculations. The investors would have had much higher yield if they had invested in cinnabons and Acai Bowl style fast-casual shops.
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Who Is the Real Noriega of Cryptocurrency?(engineersf.com)
1 points by kumarski 9y ago|0 comments
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Humans are not mice.
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by kumarski 9y ago
Only works if you're in a country outside the US. Developers in the USA have really high salaries because of the INS moat. If you can crack that equation, then you could do a lot. BrowserStack vs. Others. Sheer number of people you can
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Attorney general wants Uber, Lyft drivers fingerprinted(mercurynews.com)
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by kumarski 9y ago
Genomic responses in animal models do not mimic themselves in humans. Great example is thalidiomide. https://www.quora.com/What-are-examples-of-drugs-that-showed... https://walkerma.wordpress.com/2007/0
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by kumarski 10y ago
He takes into account what you're saying. "Undoubtedly, a well-sited and well-built wind turbine would generate as much energy as it embodies in less than a year. However, all of it will be in the form of intermittent electricity—
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by kumarski 10y ago
Vaclav Smil has written extensively on the embodied chemistry of Wind-turbines, I figure it's worth sharing here because it seems relevant to the conversation. Chemical, petroleum, and nuclear engineers are scarce in Silicon Valley....
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by kumarski 10y ago
We have over a billion data points at http://semantic.md with high value context that we use to service companies in the space. Would be exciting/somewhat disruptive if YC democratized access to it.
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by kumarski 10y ago
I've built several fb groups I built from the ground up, but cap membership at 200 members. Still want to build out cronofy.com integration to help members connect/meetup in person.
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by kumarski 10y ago
http://www.engineersf.com/2016/04/17/a-list-of-the-technolog... I put together a primer on all the new healthcare technologies so you can get more context on the technologies available. I'm an advisor to
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by kumarski 10y ago
Lead qualification as a service is a growing segment. http://www.upcall.com is a thing. Also, people are tired of bots signing up. http://ringcaptcha.com is a thing.
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by kumarski 10y ago
There’s ~ 15K-20K diseases that we’ve classified. There’s 3.2Bn genetic base pairs. There’s just over 7Bn people. Maybe like 7M-20M people suffer from a disease or even well below or above that. Finding someone at a given time in the exact
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by kumarski 10y ago
I love Derek Lowe's writing.
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by kumarski 10y ago
kumar(at) engineersf (dot) com
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by kumarski 10y ago
email me or comment here.
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by kumarski 10y ago
There's quite a few but it depends on your product. I've done over 30+ product launches and gained about 25M users in total as an outside consultant working with companies to help them do launches. The questions that always help m
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by kumarski 10y ago
This happened so often, that I assembled a group of 100+ fintech entrepreneurs on facebook just to counter situations like this. Urgh. I feel bad for him. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1650565665218718/ I know t
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by kumarski 10y ago
I'd say knocking the investors of a mission driven company that's a for-profit company doesn't make them an idiot. Not by a long shot.
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by kumarski 10y ago
Uber as a ponzi scheme of ambition 1/ Basic premise was they keep highlighting their entry into larger and larger markets and so investors keep ponying up $ for the ambition. 2/ First, it was taxis 3/ Then, it was taxis + lo
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by kumarski 10y ago
I once contemplated buying NovoNordisk and investing millions to open subsidized donut shops for the wealthy.....
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by kumarski 10y ago
Important to understand this doesn't mean potatoes can grow in perchlorate soil.
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2,500-10,000 Indians Die Every Day from Lack of Uranium Access(engineersf.com)
1 points by kumarski 10y ago|0 comments
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Why Is India So Behind? – The Question I Get from Westerners(engineersf.com)
5 points by kumarski 10y ago|1 comments
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by kumarski 10y ago
I'm far more concerned about Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Salinity in Soil + influenza pandemics than I am about a soil bacteria.... I'm not worried about this and neither is my father, an agricultural soil chemist of 30 years. This
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by kumarski 10y ago
I love AirBNB, but as one of my friends who owns 8 properties tells me, the returns are higher on VRBO and HomeAway.
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by kumarski 10y ago
Hopefully it is enforced.
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by kumarski 10y ago
You have to think bigger about materials level embodied energy. If you go about looking at energy density without evaluating the feedstock materials and embodied energy, your maths won't achieve the desired result. I was doing the math
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by kumarski 10y ago
I quit thinking about this energy source after re-opening my chemistry book. You need ~400M-500M tons of steel to make 2-3 Terawatt Hours of Electricity Disclaimer: My family owns a steel plant, so I'm bias in that I think the carbon e
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These guys make wine molecule by molecule. Could shift everything.... utilizes 100 times less water. http://avawinery.com

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