TheWama

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by TheWama 18y ago
An interesting data point in the electronic medical records discussion. Those (admittedly few) primary care practices which choose not to interact with the insurance companies, and operate on a cash basis, also happen to be the ones who are
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by TheWama 18y ago
> Love jQuery. Hate monopolies. What's the meeaning of the word "monopoly" in a situation where breaking the monopoly means switching to another library? A library which, by the way, won't exist unless someone sees significant enough f
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by TheWama 18y ago
This is the kind of pigeon-holing which prevents one from actually considering an idea on its merits. For example, what did OP say that suggests they don't allow themselves to think broadly? It's a baseless assumption rooted in your own pe
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by TheWama 18y ago
> it's very hard to make macro economic calculations like this. There are so many more factors that haven't been mentioned and surely there are some of those unknown unknowns lurking somewhere as well :-) Right, in which case we should
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by TheWama 18y ago
Another interesting development is primary care for cash, or "direct primary care". Somewhere between retail health clinics at the low end and concierge medicine at the high end, these are doctors you subscribe with for something on the or
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by TheWama 18y ago
You did state rather unequivocally that WWII fixed the economy: > It didn't suffer through it at all, it got fixed by it. And now, you're attempting to declare post hoc, ergo propter hoc? The whole point of what I'm saying is that ther
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by TheWama 18y ago
The fallacy is that you don't know, can't know, what our economy would have been after that period, absent WWII. What if we were on the cusp of recovery anyway and we had spent 5 years building railroad and machinery rather than tanks and
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by TheWama 18y ago
Ex-Freddie-Mac-Now-Cato-Economist Arnold Kling claims (in this interview: http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/14744 ) that Fannie basically had to lower their requirements in order to meet the HUD requirements mentioned at the end of this art
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by TheWama 18y ago
Okay, we can't downvote spam... how about a report button? You could auto-hide and review by moderators after x# reports.
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by TheWama 18y ago
Design needs work on 2 levels: User-friendliness * when using the categories on the left to narrow a search, clicking a category always adds it to the end of the search, even when it's already included, even when it doesn't have any effect.
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by TheWama 18y ago
They corrected for this in the tests: > the tests were repeated using gallons per 100 miles You could also say "aught-5 gallons per mile," where the decimal is placed by convention. Though then you run into trouble with the .009 gp
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by TheWama 18y ago
There are some young approaches to solving this problem. One I just discovered today is Qliance, a low-cost version of boutique care, dubbed "direct primary care." No insurance needed or accepted (thus no coding or paperwork), ~$50 a month
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by TheWama 18y ago
Agree in general, with one note: > capitalist market responses would be vastly better at "dealing" with it than anything the gubmint could do with carbon tax revenues Carbon taxes have two sides, the costs and the revenues. The costs
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by TheWama 18y ago
Investment return rate, rent/buy cost ratio, inflation and home appreciation (or depreciation) rates all matter. It's a lot to consider. Luckily, the NYTimes put out a great calculator for just this: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/busi
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by TheWama 18y ago
Shouldn't he be using median rather than average values? Zaitratsu could have just had one mega-posting and a bunch of mediocre ones. AFAIK, the conclusions he's drawing, while they may be true, aren't supported by the data he presents.
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by TheWama 18y ago
The disastrous thing is that it would be less useful to have a maximized window be 10x the size of its contents. For example, IMO the behavior of safari on maximize is just beautiful, because it's tailored to the specific website you're v
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by TheWama 18y ago
+1 for content negotiation. Extension-less URLs are just plain sexy.
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by TheWama 18y ago
This one is good for brainstorming ideas with immediate feedback: http://instantdomainsearch.com/
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by TheWama 18y ago
Indeed. On the subject of long vs. short term thinking, or the time-value of money, the most clear example is the case of rent-to-own stores. Rent-to-own is a form of financing, equivalent to taking on debt, but unlike other forms of debt,
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by TheWama 19y ago
One day I'd like to start one or more schools based on the Monitorial (not Montessori) approach ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitorial_schools ). It takes a good amount of capital and respect to start a school and have people trust you t
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by TheWama 19y ago
I have a love/hate relationship with Condorcet's paradox ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet's_paradox ): love: it illustrates a fundamental limitation of democratic processes hate: it's the main reason the IMO best known voting method
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by TheWama 19y ago
I was going to launch pre-Railsconf and maybe recruit there, but this gives me an extra week or two of leeway... and hopefully filters out the corporate types, so I'm sold!
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by TheWama 19y ago
Curious how much you paid for that domain... It's not just curiosity driving me; I'm trying to decide how much I'm willing to put down to save 1 letter and a syllable. :-P