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by ridgeguy 8y ago
This doesn't seem impossible. There are some PoCs to be found in old technology. The shock loads are surmountable. We made an atomic bomb that worked after enduring at least 10KG acceleration. [1] The aero loads (mechanical and thermal
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
They pretty much are fungible with natural diamonds. High quality synthetics can't be told by eye from equivalent quality naturals. If they're < 1ct., it doesn't pay to have them analyzed. "Real" diamonds have al
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Water - its importance. This writing reminded me of Robert Sheckley's "Prospector's Special", a short sci-fi story [1] [1] https://freeclassicshortstories.blogspot.com/2016/04/prospec...
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
These aren't issued patents, they're published applications for patents. When you read these applications, look first at the claims. If you believe any of those shouldn't be granted by the PTO in an issued patent, read the ap
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Yes. There is a subset of patients with depression who have either of two different genetic polymorphisms for methyeneltetrahydrofolate reductase. This may be causally linked to their depression. [1] Supplementing diet with a modified form
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
The quality of life, if you will, varies enormously in psychiatric hospitals. It may be extremely conducive to treatment and recovery in one and just this side of Bedlam in another. source: Personal experience helping member of wife's
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Thanks for your post, I was not aware of the controversy around Hari. That said, I found his book "Chasing the Scream: the first and last days of the war on drugs" [1] an informative resource that in some places touches on this th
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
No expert here, but.... I think the impulse to suicide can arise in people of sound mind who are (or who feel) trapped by their circumstances and see no way out. Job loss in late middle age combined with financial load (mortgage, kids in co
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
I hadn't considered this at all. Thank you for expanding my knowledge.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Yes. It's the level of PA search you would do if you expected your patent to come up against a mega-entity like Google, Apple, Facebook, De Beers, etc. If your patent applications are mainly to check the IP box for investors, it would
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Mostly agree. Except for prior art search costs. Expect a good prior art search to cost more like $10K. It depends a little on the field (cold fusion prior art search would be lots less), but if you're in chip design, energy storage, d
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
I think efforts to distinguish between theft and "wage theft" are an unhelpful distraction. Theft and "wage theft" are both violations of law. The article shows that economic harm due to the latter far exceeds the former
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
I don't think it matters whether few or many cops or agents are bad. The source of harm is the forfeiture law. With such laws in place, even a single bad actor can do enormous damage. We need to repeal the civil forfeiture laws.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
I agree. You wouldn't net all that much, as diamonds give really poor RoI (unless you're in the >~ 3 ct range). And divorces are expensive. Plus, if you have a daughter and she can use your wife's wedding ring in her cerem
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Maybe companies with execs who need to fly around. In high school, the father of a best friend was a VP of Circle K grocery stores. They had stores all over Arizona and New Mexico, many in very out-of-the-way locations. He was very much a h
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
And with the NV- (nitrogen vacancy) center, they're quantum computing devices. The NV- center is a qubit.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Not really. Synthetic diamonds can be readily detected by at least two instruments sold by De Beers.[1] They look at emissive and absorptive optical features that aren't due to impurities, but due to defects (vacancies, stacking faults
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
In general: Two pathways have led to economically viable synthetic gem diamonds. One is chemical vapor deposition (CVD), the other is high pressure, high temperature (HPHT) growth. The successful CVD makers use hydrogen+methane and high pow
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
This is interesting in light of pretty much everybody's agreement that economically recoverable gem diamond reserves have mostly been found and production of naturals will plateau around 2020, followed by an irrevocable decline. [1] I
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
I don't know if this will be on-topic for you, but: I'll speculate that chronic self-criticism is, results from, and/or produces chronic stress. Chronic stress is known to be harmful to health in several ways. You might start
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Really appreciate this. Makes it easy to convert graphed academic journal results into data I can use for funding presentations. Thank you.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Diamond is the best known solid conductor of heat. Bruce would get cooked. I'm on board with diamonds raining from the sky, tho'. Maybe on Europa. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2061:_Odyssey_Three
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Small property with topography that makes it difficult to fence out critters. Metal lines are the answer.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Yeah. It wouldn't keep me from defending (a pet, me, my wife, a kid in the neighborhood) from a coyote attack, but I don't have a reason to make their lives more difficult. Fellow mammals, just getting through life, etc. And it&#x
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
I don't know. It's possible, as another poster mentioned, that they can hear water flowing through the lines. The surroundings are utterly quiet, and I run the irrigation at night. I can hear turbulence noise in the lines before t
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
I've thought about this, but didn't want to make my home more attractive than it is. I have a small dog and my neighbors have several pets who would probably be at the losing end of encounters with coyotes.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Coyotes come through and rip up our plastic irrigation feed lines every year (Bay Area, Peninsula hills). No mystery, they need water. I've had "replace plastic with steel lines" on my to-do list since 2014, but haven't
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
This indicates that people may care deeply about their privacy when they've experienced a breach thereof. It is consistent with people not caring about their privacy because they can't imagine such a breach or project how they wou
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
How can we conclude this if we don't know whether the video is accurate or falsified? Ordinary photo/video evidence can no longer be trusted as either support or impeachment of an eyewitness' report.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
That puts us back to relying on eyewitness testimony. Not progress, IMHO [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_testimony

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