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by ageitgey 4y ago
My experience in London is that it just depends on where you are going. - Local neighborhood? Walking or cycling is fastest - Next high street over? Bus or cycling is fastest - Most places in central London? Tube or train is fastest - That
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In London, the system is: - Normal police have no guns. - Specialist Firearms Command (SCO19) carry weapons (hand guns), but they are only called in when needed (like to arrest a known violent criminal). The have access to a rifle locked in
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No offense to the electrician you talked with, but they are ill-informed. Electric grids have been planning for the shift to EVs for years. This isn't a surprise to them. This is what they do all day. In the UK for example, the Nation
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> There are areas where California doesn't do well, such as homelessness, but by every conceivably metric, California has exceeded other US states. Surely some of this has to do with governance. > If I was to sum up my position h
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> We have seen with MP3 that this can work, just in that case the MP3 itself was used as the ownership token to move content to other services. In the early 2010s or so, companies like Amazon, Google Play Music, etc briefly offered the a
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NFTs don't let you include the movie itself as a payload, so they are just a token that gives the owner to a claim to a movie via some external system. In this case, there is no disagreement that the consumer purchased the movie, just
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That might be the most ads I've ever seen on one webpage. I think there might have been an article too, but it was hard to tell.
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The US is really, really large and many people living there have never left it. There's also a belief that US healthcare is the gold standard (which is probably true at the very high end, but not necessarily on average). In other words
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We build products that help healthcare providers and insurance companies broker contracts between themselves based on actual market information instead of guessing at prices. The goal is to drive down prices by making the market more effici
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Thanks! So far, so good. We don't sell anything to consumers. Our products are aimed at the healthcare industry which lets us post information for consumers for free and we have pretty good product-market fit. Obligatory "if anyon
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Our industry-focused products are based on knowing how much every service costs at every healthcare provider. It's the underpinning of our products. We also post a lot of the rates publicly in a consumer-friendly searchable format, but
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I'm one of the co-founders of Turquoise Health, mentioned in the article here. We've been downloading and parsing this data all day. It's a really big deal in the industry that the prices that insurance companies pay doctors
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I mean it's nice that all the arguments and rebuttals are presented in an easy-to-read format. Unfortunately, many of them are still very weak rebuttals.
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It's very complicated and you will get different takes from different people. It's not a simple situation. There a few factors that make homelessness in SF particularly difficult to solve in my opinion: - Very large unsheltered po
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In my experience, the time to make money selling mobile apps was 2008-2012 or so. The market is totally different now. In my opinion, has never been harder to make money charging money for apps: - Competition is huge (including underhanded
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The context is that electric cars are flying off the shelves in the UK now, so the argument is that the subsidy money could be spent better elsewhere. Of course some of that could be driven by the fact that it currently costs about 1/1
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This is not just normal, but this is "The Deal" that you are accepting when you join a large company. It's normal that a single developer is maybe 20% as efficient at a big company compared to at a small company. What you use
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by ageitgey 4y ago
Probably not with Google, but you never know. I moved once and got a $10 final gas bill sent to the old address that I never knew about. The company was scummy and added a $10 late fee after 30 days. Then another $10 late fee after 30 days,
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by ageitgey 4y ago
In my experience, things aren't that simple. For example, if you start a company in Country A but you are the main decision maker and live in Country B, then Country B may try to claim primary taxation of the company based on the fact
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1. This is normal. 2. Take some time off. 3. Realize that your personal identity and value has nothing to do with your job. Outside of a small world of co-workers, no one in the world cares about your job or your promotion or if you deliver
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by ageitgey 4y ago
Filling up a gas car is faster, but it's really not that much difference in real life usage. I have a VW ID.3 (an electric hatchback). It can easily do a 100 mile round trip without worrying about running out. And if you go further, th
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I really wish I had some good advice, but I don't unfortunately.
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I'm a co-founder of Turquoise Health ( https://turquoise.health/ ). We are working to improve US healthcare by exposing the prices that are negotiated at all levels of the insurance billing process and building tools whe
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Every cohort of new startup founders reinvents Webvan when VC money is plentiful.
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Modern ICE have been refined for over 100 years and have improved enormously. But there is just a lot more involved in making them move than electric engines. That's not to say EVs aren't complex or hard to build. There are a lot
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PHEV sounds like a great idea, but you end up driving around in a car with the cost, weight and complexity of two cars worth of engines just in case you occasionally need the second engine. Also, the design of the car is limited by having t
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It's a good guess, but not in this case. I have a separate account that only I use.
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On the mobile app, they show "pill buttons" for your detected interests across the top and you can click on them to filter those topics specifically. So they have put some nominal work into supporting orthogonal interests. The pro
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Sure, but I'm talking about specifically non-evergreen videos like 10 year old product previews. That's what has cropped up recently. Youtube used to be pretty good about recommending old evergreen content but not time-sensitive c
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I don't personally think the dislike button is the explanation. But something seems to have changed in the Youtube recommendations algo in the last few weeks. In my experience, the algo has gotten very noticeably worse recently: - Reco

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