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by flybrand 6y ago
‘Against Paywalled Articles’ The revolution will not be televised, but you can get the Saturday evening pay-per-view for $49.95.
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by flybrand 6y ago
PPAP - production part approval process https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_part_approval_pro...
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by flybrand 6y ago
Deliberate accounting negligence to force other parties to cover the bill.
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by flybrand 6y ago
Brine has set waste disposal costs and methods - near the ocean and with active oil wells nearby there are many options.
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by flybrand 6y ago
Much of Texas has brackish water when pumped from wells. It’s the reason a lot of desal tech originated there, FL and CA.
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by flybrand 6y ago
Side note - Mandelbrot’s autobiography is fantastic, relevant and worth a read. Here’s a review if anyone wants to explore it and get the full book: https://fredlybrand.com/2019/10/01/benoit-mandelbrots-the-fr
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by flybrand 6y ago
Safety is a commons; we have a tragedy of the commons. Capitalism willfully ignores safety when not punished.
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by flybrand 6y ago
Depression is a symptom of celiac disease, which is a result of gluten in the diet, another symptom of which is poor gut Microbiome health. I bring up Celiac because 1/ I have it, and 2/ there is very little medical doubt / u
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by flybrand 6y ago
Yes - it was. We had to get through a few rounds to get the invites to Cinci. It was good planning and lucky execution on our part!
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For a tiny portion of the population, a common food product is a low grade toxin. 10% have the genetics, 1% have Celiac - although that number is rising with awareness.
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by flybrand 6y ago
In the literature it used to be presented as: - genetic pre disposition - gluten in diet - activation (or trigger) For a patient to have CD.
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by flybrand 6y ago
The genetic test could be helpful. It took me 15 years to figure out that CD was the source of some chronic issues. The genetic test can rule in / rule out - and when combined with your history would be called a diagnosis by many physi
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by flybrand 6y ago
Food journalists do an amazing job of understanding their industry, embracing the technical nature of their topic, and showing where conflicts of interest arise. It’s great to see science / medical journals also covering this topic.
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by flybrand 6y ago
We did this for P&G in undergrad. Friend from Cincinnati really wanted to work there - so we packed the interviews. Of 8 invites back to corporate, 7 of us were part of that group. 3 got jobs including him! He was there over 10 years.
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by flybrand 6y ago
It almost reads like ‘Ethics Philosophy applied to AI’
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by flybrand 6y ago
There’s not a lot of context here to comment on.
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Why build the ships of wood? Show that you can build containers.
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This is a combination of melt-blowing and centrifugal spinning - common nonwovens productions methods already used in N95 production. Almost every N95 is made from meltblown materials (thermoplastics) with a polymer that holds electrostatic
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by flybrand 6y ago
And never a flat white to be found. Sydney, Melbourne - great coffee culture when we lived there in ‘08, better than EU.
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by flybrand 6y ago
Celiac here, “are you sure you didn’t eat any gluten?” Now a part of every health care provider conversation.
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Year of the 4 Emperors (69 AD)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by flybrand 6y ago
Good point, YC should ban posts from there.
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by flybrand 6y ago
“ As a symbol of cowardice, the white feather supposedly[1] comes from cockfighting and the belief that a cockerel sporting a white feather in its tail is likely to be a poor fighter. Pure-breed gamecocks do not show white feathers and so i
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White Feather (WW1, WW2)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by flybrand 6y ago|1 comments
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by flybrand 6y ago
Not ‘big C’ chronic - but I’ve got Celiac (fine until I get gluten-Ed) and had a DVT a few years back. No one cares about your health more than you. You must be your own advocate in how to maintain baseline health. Also, you’ve got to reser
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by flybrand 6y ago
How is this different from the US military B2 style aircraft? They look superficially very similar.
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Farr’s Law(cebm.net)
1 points by flybrand 6y ago|0 comments
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Better Writing, Better Communication; 10 Years, 300 Posts, 200k Words(fredlybrand.com)
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by flybrand 7y ago
What’s your favorite alternative?
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by flybrand 7y ago
Clean air and clean water make a huge impact on your health. Purified, high quality fluids make a huge impact on the performance of processes, products and materials - only 1% of what is possible has been achieved technically.

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