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by adevine 11y ago
My fiance is a doctor, and I've told him I'm envious of the way his business is run. It's a huge group (over 50 doctors) and the vast, vast majority of doctors that are hired are on partnership track. Being a partner in the b
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by adevine 11y ago
Yeah, as a UVA grad I didn't realize they didn't give honorary degrees, but I think their approach of giving "medals" instead is the right one. Also, even if you are Richard Stallman or Maya Angelou, demanding to be call
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by adevine 11y ago
I think the more important thing is to make sure that a company clearly defines exactly what it means by certain financial terms. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC during the original .com boom Priceline counted the entire sale
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by adevine 11y ago
The practice described in the article has nothing to do with price fixing.
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by adevine 11y ago
Yeah, it sucks, we'll have to go back to finding people to have affairs with the old fashioned way.
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by adevine 11y ago
It's not interesting to HNers because it has nothing to do with what the article says. The article is talking about the average temperature across the entire surface of the Earth, for the entire month of July. You are talking about whe
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by adevine 11y ago
It's called Bumble.
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by adevine 11y ago
Mortgage rates are much lower than they were 10 years ago, though, meaning overall affordability of a 30 year mortgage hasn't changed that much. The tough part is that rates are so low now, prices are on very shaky ground of rates star
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by adevine 11y ago
Even if they are the new middle man, they should be able to have a successful business model on much lower commissions than an individual broker.
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by adevine 11y ago
Wut? MMS is extremely popular, given that picking the messaging app to share photos and videos will use MMS.
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by adevine 11y ago
That statistic is misleading. Much of that change is the result of mergers. Just take a look at the list from 1955: http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_arch... . Just looking through the top 25
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by adevine 11y ago
Yeah, but "forms other than money" mostly means healthcare, which has skyrocketed - despite the fact that other developed nations with longer live expectancies have much lower healthcare costs. More importantly, though, the Fed gr
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by adevine 11y ago
But all that better stuff Americans can buy is largely due to bigger household incomes from women entering the workforce. Back in the fifties/sixties, a single working class income could support a family of 4-5, comfortably. That&#x2
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by adevine 11y ago
Hourly wages have dropped. Household wages have risen, mostly due to women entering the work force.
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by adevine 11y ago
This is demonstrably false, and speaks of the "tyranny of averages". Yes, worldwide, huge reductions of poverty, largely in Asia, have let to increases. For the average middle class worker in the US, however, things have barely bu
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by adevine 11y ago
> e.g. He was supposedly an idiot for selling books online. By whom? Everyone I know who first used Amazon back in the 90s thought it was a great idea. I think it's weird how we've fetishized the idea that "everyone else t
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by adevine 11y ago
I imagine the Luna, in addition to being geared towards couples who want their sides of the bed at different temperatures, is also geared to people who don't sleep well who want to improve their sleep routine. The first thing any sleep
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by adevine 11y ago
Saying "twice the car/half the car", like they're pints and quarts, doesn't really make sense, though. The Nissan Leaf is intended to be a city (or at least "close in suburb") car. With my 10 mile/20
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by adevine 11y ago
As electric cars become more and more popular, more and more apartment buildings will start offering charging stations. My condo building added them about 2 years ago.
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by adevine 11y ago
But there are "pure Android" options (e.g. Nexus and Moto X) that get timely updates that don't have any of those problems. However, even those great phones still have the problem of having to compete against one another, and
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by adevine 11y ago
But 2007 was really before the whole app ecosystem took off. For anyone who has invested a significant amount in apps, there are much higher switching costs now than there were in 2007. Plus, besides just the actual monetary costs, people U
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by adevine 11y ago
But roymurdock's point about Android not really being a direct competitor to iPhone is pretty much true. It is EXTREMELY rare, outside of the tech/developer set, for someone who has an iPhone to consider switching to Android, espe
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by adevine 11y ago
It's pretty clever, unless you realize the people we want to put in those seats are actual humans, who might not be thrilled to be packed like a sardine, staring into the eyes of a stranger for hours at a time.
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by adevine 11y ago
IMO they have. Google maps (at least on Android) now shows me traffic incidents reported on Waze, and it will route me around these incidents in real time as I'm driving somewhere, e.g. "A faster route has become available. Say &#
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by adevine 11y ago
Lyft certainly lets you take more that 2 drives per day, and certainly not just too and from work. Also, at least in some locales Lyft has gotten rid of the "donation" fiction as many local laws explicitly state that any type of p
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by adevine 11y ago
While Victoria's firing may have been the impetus, it sound like general unresponsiveness from the admins, as well as a lack of investment in moderator tools, was the bigger complaint: https://www.reddit.com/r/asks
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by adevine 11y ago
This makes no sense. Why would Disney pay any money at all to show an exclusive trailer to Reddit fans, when they could just release it for free elsewhere and have it go viral all by itself? Because that is exactly what happened.
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by adevine 11y ago
I call BS. One of the things that convinced me this (that is, how reddit treats and responds to its mods) was a real problem, and not just some "angsty mods", was the reaction from /r/AskScience. AskScience is one of the
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by adevine 11y ago
Totally disagree on this one, and I see in this sentiment the same thing that brought down Digg. "If Reddit's own internal culture is indeed blocking the evolution of Reddit as a media property, then Ellen is simply making the tou
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by adevine 11y ago
It's not just driving. The company I work for has an office in Marseille, France. At that office, there is a beautiful staircase that spirals around the middle of an open central area. In the middle of that area is a tiny, metal elevat

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