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Small Business Interns Less Likely  to Stay With Company(healio.com)
2 points by frenchman_in_ny 13y ago|0 comments
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by frenchman_in_ny 13y ago
Expecting this to be unpopular, but the name is confusing by its proximity to "Three Cups of Tea" (which had me confused for a second, because I couldn't remember if it was 3, or 7, and why Mortensen would have gone to YC).
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by frenchman_in_ny 13y ago
A number of WTE plants do a couple of things -- 1) biological / wet fraction goes to a digester for methane, which is either burned as additional fuel or sold to municipalities, 2) solid waste is burned, 3) ash from burning used for ad
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by frenchman_in_ny 13y ago
As someone who sails, seeing "Correct and reliable homing" scares the daylights out of me, particularly when just referencing GPS on the iPad. You have no way to know how accurate your location is on the iPad, and when it comes to
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by frenchman_in_ny 13y ago
Congrats building a nice product in a niche space. There's quite a bit of competition out there (Nobletec[1], MaxSea[2]) in case you haven't researched them, but at significantly higher price points. How much trip planning can one
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by frenchman_in_ny 13y ago
Just as long as bringing the gun is legal in both jurisdictions [1]. Otherwise, it's not just the TSA rifling through your stuff. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/nyregion/lawful-handguns-d...
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by frenchman_in_ny 13y ago
Unfortunately, the data is pulled from FlightAware.com, which I've criticized [1] in the past as being inaccurate. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6014958
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Comparative Asiana 214 landing profiles(mrphilroth.com)
1 points by frenchman_in_ny 13y ago|1 comments
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by frenchman_in_ny 13y ago
The FlightAware data isn't particularly accurate, and the update frequency nowhere near fast enough to get good information (vs. FDR). For the less sensationalist view of the crash and analysis, see the AVHerald information [1] [1] ht
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by frenchman_in_ny 13y ago
Adding another movie scout [3] to the list of folks who have uncovered neat NYC artefacts. [3] http://www.scoutingny.com/?page_id=1363
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by frenchman_in_ny 13y ago
Very cool - you can see Mach diamonds in the picture of the X1.
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Solar Impulse co-pilot(innovation-makers.com)
1 points by frenchman_in_ny 13y ago|0 comments
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by frenchman_in_ny 13y ago
Yep, it happens. It's called escheatment [1] [2] [3]. Why the uproar? What's "supposed" to happen with accounts that have been abandoned (dead owner, no family/will/estate or whatever other scenario that could exist)? [1] http://www.sec.go
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by frenchman_in_ny 13y ago
"This solution is no better than coal-generated electricity" I'm not sure that's true at all. The only way a waste-to-energy plant can import waste from cross-borders is by having R1 status, R1 being a measure of energy recovery from the mu
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by frenchman_in_ny 14y ago
"my friends were beat up to surrender their pin numbers. One of my friends was held for 7 hours [...] He lost all of his money." That's horrible. Not to try to minimize, but something doesn't sound right, though (in the US). Risk of loss on
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by frenchman_in_ny 14y ago
Great project, though the name is confusingly similar to an existing open source tool [1] for photographers. [1] http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
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by frenchman_in_ny 14y ago
Yet there's research out there [1] indicating that consumers care more about pricing than same day delivery. [1] http://www.bcg.com/media/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?id=tcm:12-...
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by frenchman_in_ny 14y ago
The other issue with the earn out, from the entrepreneur's point of view, is that you're providing the acquirer with effectively interest free financing for the earn out, while you're working on integrating. And there's nothing guaranteed i
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by frenchman_in_ny 14y ago
There's a significant amount of work involved in an autolanding [1], and unlikely that a non-pilot would be able to land a big jet successfully. [1] http://www.askthepilot.com/questionanswers/automation-myths/
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by frenchman_in_ny 14y ago
I think of death almost as a requirement to give meaning to our lives -- an element of temporality that defines what you've done, and what to be proud of (or not). See [1] for a philosophical discussion on the topic. [1] http://opinionator
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by frenchman_in_ny 14y ago
This strikes me as being similar to the Black Fax attack [1] from years ago. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fax
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by frenchman_in_ny 14y ago
"you should be able to go down farther for longer periods of time with scuba equipment (esp. if you use something like nitrox)." This is wrong - nitrox doesn't let you go down farther for longer periods [1]; in fact, oxygen toxicity happe
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Kohr & the Beanstalk principle(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by frenchman_in_ny 14y ago|0 comments