Mathematician, agent foundations researcher, doctor. A strange primordial spirit left over from the early dreamtime, the conditions for the creation of which no longer exist; a creature who was once told to eat math and grow vast and who took that to heart; an escaped feral academic.
Reach out to me on Discord and tell me you found my profile on LW if you’ve got something interesting to say; you have my explicit permission to try to guess my Discord handle if so. You can’t find my old abandoned-for-being-mildly-infohazardously-named LW account but it’s from 2011 and has 280 karma.
A Lorxus Favor is worth (approximately) one labor-day’s worth of above-replacement-value specialty labor, given and received in good faith, and used for a goal approximately orthogonal to one’s desires, and I like LessWrong because people here will understand me if I say as much.
Apart from that, and the fact that I am under no NDAs, including NDAs whose existence I would have to keep secret or lie about, you’ll have to find the rest out yourself.
It very much does not! It comes as a powder, a little like dried lemon juice, and IME a solution of citric acid boils at somewhat more than 100 *C. I recommend it primarily because citrate is a much better solubilizing agent for metal ions than acetate and thus handles things like limescale and even rust vastly better. (Take as evidence the fact that “drink lots of lemonade and go on a roller coaster” is, while maybe the third-fakest-sounding piece of medical advice, an actual first-line treatment for kidney stones.) The one major caveat is, it usually comes from bioengineered Aspergillus mold, so if you object to GMO products or have a severe black mold allergy, it might not be suitable.