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Ask HN: Please recommend an open-source SMTP server
3 points by eserorg 16y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Utilities for creating custom web buttons?
3 points by eserorg 16y ago|1 comments
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by eserorg 16y ago
I started my own oil company. I'm 27. See: http://www.eser.org Stats: * There are thousands of independent oil and gas producers in the United States. * Independent producers develop 90 percent of domestic oil and gas wells, produce 68 pe
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by eserorg 16y ago
* Eric Schmidt gave a presentation at the Computer History Museum in 2001 on lessons learned through his experiences in the technology industry. * The Computer History Museum talk is called "Unwinnable Wars: Personal Persepctives on Techno
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Eric Schmidt 2001 talk: laws of the technology industry(video.google.com)
1 points by eserorg 16y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Best Android tablet device for developing a mobile GIS application?
1 points by eserorg 16y ago|0 comments
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by eserorg 16y ago
ok. I removed that feature. This is actually the second version of the same idea -- "an oil and gas search engine". The first version was called "Hydrocarbon Search": http://hydrocarbon.search.eser.org/ By including delicious-like hierarc
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by eserorg 16y ago
We implemented hierarchical tags for our oil and gas search engine, having been inspired by delicious: http://www.resourceplay.com Hierarchical tagging has tremendous practical utility for sifting through large volumes of data.
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by eserorg 17y ago
Pre-Market U.S. Stock Futures: http://money.cnn.com/data/premarket/
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by eserorg 17y ago
This is essentially a solid-state microturbine. You can order a 65-kW microturbine from Capstone Turbine Corp for about $40,000 USD. Natgas-powered microturbines have commonly been used for distributed power generation in industrial setting
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US surpasses Russia as world’s largest natural gas producer(worldoil.com)
2 points by eserorg 17y ago|0 comments
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by eserorg 17y ago
"Raw materials only drive economies when they are relatively small economies that can hitch themselves on larger consumer spending economies that are booming" The United States' consumer-led economy isn't "booming". "The problem with global
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by eserorg 17y ago
"Coal is too expensive to transport for export". Seriously? The United States exports over 60 million tons of coal each year. "Good luck basing our economy on coal." China is building one new coal fired power plant each week. The OECD proje
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by eserorg 17y ago
Re: "Nobody disputes that including coal the US has the most carbohydrates." Carbohydrates are what you eat for breakfast.
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by eserorg 17y ago
Column #3 on Table 6, page 23 is the sum of: proved hydrocarbon reserves (from table #5) + undiscovered hydrocarbon reserves in BOE.
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by eserorg 17y ago
Table 6, page 23: "Reserves of Fossil Fuels Plus Technically Recoverable Undiscovered Oil and Natural Gas:" --- Russia: 293.7 --- Saudi Arabia Estimated Undiscovered Oil and Gas: 231.3 --- United States Undiscovered Oil and Gas: 351.5 --- 3
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by eserorg 17y ago
The United States has tens of trillions of dollars of mineral wealth (oil, natural gas, tungsten, gold, silver, copper, molly, palladium, rhodium, scandium, yttrium, bastnaesite, etc...) trapped in the ground by a gordion knot of government
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Ask HN: Recommendations for an online service that prints and mails postcards?
4 points by eserorg 17y ago|1 comments
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by eserorg 17y ago
Sweet! I'm hacking together a perl script right now using the Mechanical Turk API. It's automatically spliting up the mp3 files, generating the html forms, and loading them into MTurk. I'm going to use a 2x coverage for each chunk and see w
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Ask HN: Can someone recommend a good audio transcription service?
5 points by eserorg 17y ago|8 comments
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Maria Baritormo hosts a CNBC special on oil, "The Hunt for Black Gold"(hulu.com)
1 points by eserorg 17y ago|0 comments
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by eserorg 17y ago
Why on earth would anyone pre-announce end-of-life for a product before you've released its successor? You would have to be a complete idiot now to sign up for Quicken online. Intuit has just completely destroyed an entire revenue stream.
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by eserorg 17y ago
Freight rail efficiency is measured in "labor-cost-per-revenue-ton-mile". The cost of trucking is dominated by the fuel-cost-per-ton-mile. Whereas the cost of moving 1 ton of goods over rail is dominated by the cost of labor, the cost of mo
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US Senate: United States has more oil and gas than any other country (page 23)(epw.senate.gov)
1 points by eserorg 17y ago|0 comments
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by eserorg 17y ago
I can speak to the value of multivariate optimization in the oil and gas business. Specifically, the U.S. onshore natural gas business is currently focused on what are called shale gas "resource plays". These are large contiguous blocks of
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by eserorg 17y ago
If you are young, energetic, and college-educated with a solid background in an engineering discipline, there are jobs for the taking in the oil business. The average age of an employee at an oil and gas E&P (exploration and production)
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by eserorg 17y ago
You're absolutely right. I hacked up a prototype last night that creates a reverse index of: tags => item GUID's => a precomputed bloom filter for all tags in that GUID Each tag has its own reverse-index, which is stored in a separa
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by eserorg 17y ago
That would be very interesting to read. We're looking at implementing a tagging system for navigating through a large proprietary datastore of oil and gas well data. The problem we're running into is scaling conjunction queries without blow
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by eserorg 17y ago
Ask me in 20 years.
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by eserorg 17y ago
There is a substitute for the falling dollar: hydrocarbons. Here is an interesting thought experiment to try: 1) The Dow Jones Industry Average (aka "the Dow") is a weighted average of the aggregate value of 30 of the largest and most widel

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