HCDevid

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by HCDevid 4y ago
On US healthcare bills there is: Billed Amount - what the provider/health system tags as the “billed amount” Allowed Amount - what the insurer sets as the actual total $ allowed to change hands for the visit Patient Responsibility - th
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by HCDevid 6y ago
Although there are separate China & non-Chinese apps, you hit the nail on the head for why a potential acquisition both has serious risk and is going to be a fire sale of TikTok given the 45-day deadline. These are issues which normally
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by HCDevid 6y ago
Anecdotally, although I still rate TikTok's algorithm as better than youtube, the real difference is the long-term engagement. TikTok is always able to deliver content that is interesting to me......Youtube recommendations have a habit
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by HCDevid 11y ago
Were you trying to persuade the coworker, or trying to persuade your boss with your coworker being against?
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by HCDevid 11y ago
It's definitely a dangerous attitude, this is also the problem with anecdotes, we all start postulating strawmans. I would point out though that in the financing-focused case you gave, although you have a definitive slow down from tech
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by HCDevid 11y ago
So I'm probably getting blinded by availability bias bc you said finance, but these T-shirts look solid. I can't really think of anything etsy-like that would fit. I'd assume he's a fairly cynical guy: www.zazzle.com&#x2
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by HCDevid 11y ago
Original WSJ article here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/tencent-buys-stake-in-u-s-game-m... Tencent bought a 14.6% stake in Glu Mobile less than 15 days ago. UoP is said to be for global expansion (especially in the Ch
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Tencent Invests $60MM in Pocket Gems(techcrunch.com)
1 points by HCDevid 11y ago|1 comments
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by HCDevid 11y ago
You're crazy man. Where do you get these ideas? Next you'll tell me that my opinions formed after 10 minutes of perusing a forum are subject to cognitive bias.
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by HCDevid 11y ago
Interested in market/economics as in he's a professional (or extremely serious individual investor), or interested as in he's a hobbyist who likes reading finance news and occasionally making "cool" investments?
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by HCDevid 11y ago
What do you think of this extension of your analogy: Financial debt has an interest rate, but you take it out because you believe the return on the proceeds raised adds more value than the cost. Technical debt is meant to (ideally) be the s
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by HCDevid 11y ago
While I agree with you on time vs. shortcuts, I do think it's a question of valuing explicit time vs. opportunity cost that's a depper issue here. My opinion is that whether it's programming or general white-collar work, most