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http://blog.redtexture.net - redtexture@gmail.com

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Useful founder items:

"Entrepreneurs to venture capitalists: We’re looking for 5 traits" Ryan Caldbeck, CircleUp (May 23, 2014) http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/23/entrepreneurs-to-venture-capitalists-were-looking-for-5-traits/

"The Cost of VC Money: Loss of Control" Alyssa Mazzina (May 21, 2014) http://blog.besnappy.com/2014/05/cost-vc-money-loss-control/

Startup Law 101 Series - Grellas Shah LLP by George Grellas (@grellas) http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup.html

"Advantages and disadvantages of setting up a startup business in Delaware" http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup_002.html

"When should I set up an entity for my startup business?" http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup_007.html

"Founder Friendly Term sheet" Sam Altman "Lessons Learned" http://blog.samaltman.com/a-founder-friendly-term-sheet

Startup Advice Sam Altman "Lessons Learned" http://blog.samaltman.com/startup-advice

Captable.io - https://captable.io/ (created by: luna4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lun4r )

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Worthy of reading: 'steveklabnik' Steve Klabnik 'mpdehaan2' RI Piernaar, 'cbr' Jeff Kaufman, 'joshu' Joshua Schacter, 'tptacek', 'jacquesm', 'idlewords (emeritus), 'pbsd, 'apaprocki, 'patio11, 'gruseom, 'anigbrowl, 'mechanical_fish, 'carbocation, 'potatolicious, 'grellas, 'dctoedt, 'yummyfajitas, 'tzs, 'rayiner, 'DannyBee', 'pg' 'hkarthik'

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redtexture··on Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap
Delta encoding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_encoding

redtexture··on FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges
Any chance you can cite the case, when decision is published?
redtexture··on Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
It is expensive to convert a building. Not exactly low cost, nor low income capable.
redtexture··on Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
Fire codes and building codes are an impediment to modifying distance from openable windows, for bedrooms.

Novel means changing the national fire code, which was written the way it was for a reason.

redtexture··on The Worlds of Monopoly
It was originally created to demonstrate the evils of capitalist routines. Then bought by a game company.

See wiki article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)

redtexture··on Evidence mounts on toxic pollution from tires
Rubber crumbles are a base layer under astroturf.

Thus a very large number of hig h school fields have astroturf and rubber crumbles.

On pro-football broadcasts, you can occasionally see clouds of rubber dust during a tackle.

redtexture··on A physicist who bets that gravity can’t be quantized
Lose the V1 at the end of the URL.
redtexture··on Huge phosphate rock deposit discovered in Norway
Gravel, $20 a ton.
redtexture··on Missing Titanic sub faced lawsuit over depths it could safely travel to
Now all dead. Apparently on the way down.
redtexture··on Judge decides against Internet Archive
Louisiana has a civil law system, subject to the Federal Constitution.
redtexture··on Abraham Lincoln, America’s First Tech-Lawyer
Not clear that there was a racism decline, post-Reconstruction, on a collective national basis.

Millions of people and the cultural biases they carried and refreshed, with the following generations, never went away.

redtexture··on Abraham Lincoln, America’s First Tech-Lawyer
White and class supremacy never died.

As demonstrated by the rebound from the 12 years of post Civil War Reconstruction, to Jim Crow laws of racial discrimination far into the next century.

And in the North, non-slavery did not mean equality before the law in dozens of community matters, including marriage, education and employment.

And Lincoln was elected by the more populous Northetn states, did not appear on the ballot of Southetn states.

redtexture··on Twitter Sued for Nonpayment of Rent on San Francisco Office
Creditors can force a company into involuntary bankruptcy proceedings.

Bankruptcy and leases survey:

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/what-to-do-when-commercial...

redtexture··on Twitter Sued for Nonpayment of Rent on San Francisco Office
Commercial leases specify payments and default deadlines.
redtexture··on “News is what somebody does not want you to print – all the rest is advertising”
Lexicographic Irregulars was his name for the crowd.

https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/remembering-th...

redtexture··on Ask HN: What to do with a coffee plantation with about 8000 trees?
Would placing the land in a trust, or family corporation avoid inheritance tax issues?
redtexture··on Inflation is falling much faster than most people know
Inflation was still increasing.
redtexture··on How Iran can track and control protesters’ phones: hacked documents
Using Metadata to find Paul Revere. -- Keiren Healy -- June 9, 2013.

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...

redtexture··on Re-using the heat in bathwater in Britain
What kinds of material is added to exterior brick? Insulating panels?
redtexture··on Re-using the heat in bathwater in Britain
What region of the UK are you located in?
redtexture··on Does Someone Know My Name?
A story with further details desirable.
redtexture··on How Complex Systems Fail (1998)
Not a gap.

A planned system, as you indicate.

Prior poster indicated the item was a mere gap.

The system operator does not treat the problem as a gap, and also has had no authority to enforce appropriate remedation at the generator-plant level, and the gas-supply level to reduce the cold-caused shutdowns encountered.

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The Texas Electric Grid Failure Was a Warm-up: One year after the deadly blackout, officials have done little to prevent the next one—which could be far worse.

By Russell Gold, Texas Monthly (February 2022)

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-electric-gr...

redtexture··on How Complex Systems Fail (1998)
Not a tiny gap at all.

For which there had been numerous warnings for years by industry observers.

That system does not draw upon outside of network utilities, to avoid Federal regulation, hence has limited reserve resources. And the Texas system did not pay providers to have standby reserves. Thus a fragile system, easy to be subject to failure.

Edit:

Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-17/texas-was...

redtexture··on Saul Kripke has died
Unpublished essays are commonly circulated for commentary, and many are unpublished.

This is a typical philosophical tradition.

Many college professors have a library of essays of others' circulated and unpublished work.

redtexture··on WikiHouse – Open source, modular, wood based, zero carbon housing
Yes.

This can also be provided by sheet materials like plywood, securely attached, providing diagonal structure preventing racking of the frame.

In older houses, sheathed with one inch by eight or ten or twelve inch boards, diagonal wood bracing was cut into the two by four inch wall studs for diagonal bracing and structure.

redtexture··on You can’t copyright a cocktail, so what’s a creative bartender to do? (2019)
Debatable in part.

Law case books, reporting court cases, with particular page numbering (formatting in your terms), do not amount to a defensible copyright, so the West Publishing Companies case numbering citations do not amount to a defensible copyright claim, and those page numbering citations can be freely used by other publications.

redtexture··on Who Judges the Judges?
There is an impeachment process.
redtexture··on Black holes finally proven mathematically stable
History PhDs often break new ground.

I believe more than a few scientific PhDs do as well, and more than a few can become journal articles, or amount to a compilation of previously successfully accepted journal articles.

This item, an outstanding PhD thesis of an outstanding historian.

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War

Eric Foner

redtexture··on Who is collecting data from your car?
> patented “data blurring”

This can be looked up. I suspect it is not their own patent though, so not under their own name.

redtexture··on How far can you go by train in 5h?
Commuter rail expansion and operations is the primary capital consumption area now, and there are more than a few such local / regional rail systems that could use several billion dollars each, on a continuing basis, for equipment, roadbed and station expansion.
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