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by lchengify 4y ago
When investing in different industries (construction vs tech), it's often useful to think about them in the context of asset classes. Specifically, construction is more tied to either real estate, hospitality or government contracts. T
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by lchengify 4y ago
> I decided to look for open Developer positions, to work with a team of experienced developers so I can learn even faster. Hey Marcus! I'd like to pitch 3 alternate experiences to skipping college completely. One of these is an opt
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by lchengify 4y ago
There's another company called Carbon Robotics that uses lasers instead of weedkiller. The attachment they built needed a custom cooling rig to deal with the dozens of lasers. Super interesting engineering going on with agtech. https:
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by lchengify 5y ago
Woops! Corrected.
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by lchengify 5y ago
I am half Chinese and a martial artist (northern shaolin kung fu). I'm also a huge fan of philosophy as expressed via animation or science fiction. When I saw Kung Fu Panda in the theater, I was impressed with how a mainstream American
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by lchengify 5y ago
I run a small podcast. Over the past year I've watched as my traffic has slowly shifted from Apple being completely dominant (> 90% of traffic), to it being a 70/30 split between Spotify and Apple. My honest take on the situa
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by lchengify 6y ago
Point taken. For some reason, a lot of the code work i've encountered is tied to JDK 8. Might be due to it having LTS until 2018 [1]. It could be anecdotal, but I've found in practice vendors and companies are conservative about t
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by lchengify 6y ago
Other than Effective Java, I recommend looking at some of the Google libraries, specifically Guava [1] and Guice [2] for dependency injection. Java is fundamentally a slow adopter of new techniques (it just got lambdas in JDK 8), but a lo
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by lchengify 6y ago
I couldn't be more excited about this! Having finished a Kafka project about a year ago, we had so many Zookeeper production and test environment issues that it was the running joke to check Zookeeper first if anything went wrong. Hone
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by lchengify 7y ago
Congrats on the launch nextmv! I had a chance to play with nextmv's beta when they first published it. By far the most useful aspect was the ability to bracket the decision results by calculation time. E.g., I can say, give me your b
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by lchengify 7y ago
Unfortunately this was 15 years ago so the details are lost to time. The memory I have is more about watching him demonstrate in-person how to hold a baby, how much crying to expect, what fever behavior looks like, etc. I'm also not a
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by lchengify 7y ago
I've worked in healthcare in the past (Drug Discovery) and have two parents in healthcare (Autism Clinical Psychologist and a Non-trauma ER Doctor). This is really interesting and honestly, rings a bit true to me given what I've o
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by lchengify 7y ago
Thanks Brian! Sounds awesome. EDIT: Found your website, ordering a few now. Can't wait for android support!
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by lchengify 7y ago
Hi Brian! Big Tile user here with some chemistry backround, this is super interesting. Couple of questions: 1. Can you go a bit more into how the battery is integrated into the device? If it's integrated, is it still using standard
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by lchengify 7y ago
https://www.descarteslabs.com - Satellite imagery for predictive intelligence, lots of work in agtech for things like crop yields.
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by lchengify 7y ago
Having lived for 6 years in the rail transport capital of the US (NYC / Philly / Northeast Corridor) and 4 years in SF, I can honestly say that I don't think there is a world where this was going to work. Let me state for the
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by lchengify 7y ago
Are you having to choose specific production areas to get effective economics for electricity? E.g., are you expecting to have to scale up a plant near cheap electricity like hydro?
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by lchengify 7y ago
Interesting. The voice in the video is mid countdown when it happens ("Ten, Nine....expletive") which implies the Super Draco engines hadn't fired yet. If it's something like a pressure issue, it could be similar to wha
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by lchengify 7y ago
Some thoughts on the initial images from /r/spacex (great community): 1. The orange smoke [1] is the color of Nitrogen Tetroxide, which is the hypergolic fuel that Crew Dragon uses. The normal reaction in the Draco engines in the
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by lchengify 8y ago
Nice! Always happy when my crazy theories are backed up by engineers actually working the problem :). Honestly, I think for the LWRs in the US, it's more of a financing and risk problem than anything. As I understand it, the two Sout
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by lchengify 8y ago
Yep, the report the podcast mentions (from the breakthrough institute) compares how similar industries (like pharma and spaceflight) manage regulation while still fostering innovation [1]. A lot of the differences are around nuanced things
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by lchengify 8y ago
The Interchange did a great episode about Nuclear Power a while back [1]. They mentioned a few problems everyone knows about nuclear (NIMBY, financing, licensing, etc), but one of the unintuitive problems was the lack of institutional memor
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by lchengify 8y ago
I don't think this happens unless the bank account has enough of a balance. From irs.gov: United States persons are required to file an FBAR if: 1. the United States person had a financial interest in or signature authority
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by lchengify 8y ago
Right, and thank you for calling out that CCS is only going to be part of the solution. Taking a wider lens, my honest opinion is I think it's going to have to be a combination of a "Cuban Missile Crisis" moment for our socie
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by lchengify 8y ago
I think Nathan Myhrvold [1] proposed something like this. There's a summary of it on one of the Freakonomics podcasts, but the summary is basically that it acts like an erupting volcano to cool the earth slightly. "MYHRVOLD: So,
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by lchengify 8y ago
Huh ... this is kind of a fun idea. Kicking this around a bit, it's similar to how you separate U235 from U238 for enriching Uranium. I wonder if you could back into the energy requirements from that process (assuming it isn't c
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by lchengify 8y ago
For anyone who is interested in the Energy Industry in general, including Carbon Capture (CCS), I would recommend "The Energy Gang" podcast as well as "The Interchange". The guys who run the podcast are not long on CCS a
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by lchengify 8y ago
"Evidence gathered by Reuters in the provincial town of Khoms shows an organised system of repression with methods including delivering electric shocks to suspects' genitals, keeping them for weeks in baking heat with only a few s
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by lchengify 8y ago
> Season two, which returned more than a year later with a significant marketing push and a solid lead-in, was down 24 percent among total viewers and averaged 457,000 total viewers. That compares more to similar returns for Syfy's
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by lchengify 11y ago
These reviews took me back (and made me laugh). They have the same to-the-point-and-technically-correct tone as code reviews internal to Google. In all seriousness though, these are important for a non-obvious reason: Nexus 6x devices don&

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