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by aggieben 11y ago
Yeah, this is close to my reaction as well. Higher deductible plans lead to less spending; confusion among the economically illiterate ensues. Nothing to see here.
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by aggieben 11y ago
I agree 100% and would just add this as another way of saying what you just said: the healthcare industry _is_ a market, it's just that patients aren't the customers, we're a product that the insurance company sells to medica
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by aggieben 11y ago
Lawyers, accountants, and mechanics all have to provide estimates to a client precisely for this reason. I see no reason why medical practitioners should be any different. As an anecdote, I have found that price comparisons are perfectly f
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by aggieben 11y ago
Because I don't agree? What I don't "get" is why people like you assume that your opinion is completely undebateable, or that it's any more than what it is: an opinion.
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by aggieben 11y ago
> they get stigmatized for that way more than average. If a Rubyist never sticks nose outside their beloved technology stack, noone makes such a big deal out of it. Yes, exactly right. > to vitriolic anti-M$ hater mentality Right on
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by aggieben 11y ago
> OCaml, Haskell and Lisp are spectacular. Erlang is spectacular. Tcl and Python are spectacular. C# is an OK-language at best. I don't agree. In my view, Lisp is spectacular for its unified meta-programming capabilities, and C# is
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by aggieben 11y ago
I think this post is interesting, but mostly at this point useful as a frame of reference for all the changes that have happened in the .NET ecosystem in 2 years. For example, the server produced by the ASP.NET team (Kestrel) has now been
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by aggieben 11y ago
Meh, not a great disservice.
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by aggieben 11y ago
It would help if the writers who want to complain about inequality knew what bourgeoisie means.
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by aggieben 11y ago
This reads persuasively, but the problem is that the same arguments have been made consistently since as long as I can remember. When I was an undergraduate, people were saying much the same thing, and almost nothing has really changed
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by aggieben 11y ago
That's an interesting data point, for sure. I've never had a Redfin agent turn down a showing because of price, but there are too many variables involved to read too much into it.
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by aggieben 11y ago
This is the same myopic view expressed by PG: you're only seeing what's right in front of you. There are plenty of web developers who aren't in gaming and use Windows on a day-to-day basis. This business of "future&quo
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by aggieben 11y ago
You can sell your own home without a license. He was referring to the "cost of entering the MLS market" (my paraphrase) being a mere $300 (for having an agent list the sale). My point is that's not true because any actual s
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by aggieben 11y ago
"almost always"? Really? Even in the server space, Windows still occupies a third of the market, and desktop statistics are somewhere more along the lines of 70%. For every "cool" startup developer, I can promise you t
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by aggieben 11y ago
$300 fee? No, my friend. If you buy something on MLS, you pay at least half of a 6% commission on that $300k, for a cool $18,000 (if you have an easygoing seller, that is) How's that for a barrier to entry? And yah - the market woul
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by aggieben 11y ago
> Their victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows. Sigh . It's clear that PG, as good a writer as he is, is the one in another world.
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by aggieben 11y ago
Fair enough. I guess my point was to be opposed to unethical negotiating strategies.
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by aggieben 11y ago
I can agree to this: this allows a user to not have to trust that the company running the application set up password authentication properly. But still: I just can't get worked up about this at all. I'd rather see pgp get implem
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by aggieben 11y ago
Right. So there's an I suppose in there somewhere, and my response is still pretty much: "meh". The people who might could possibly get access to that password already have access to all the data being protected by that p
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by aggieben 11y ago
There will never be a deal. NAR's prosperity absolutely depends on their exclusive control of market access. Professional licensing is the single reason why this market sucks donkey balls. This is also why I would heartily support a
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by aggieben 11y ago
The problem is not one of physically opening doors. The issue is one of trust. Having drones opening doors instead of an agent doesn't really solve that problem - not to mention that lots of people wouldn't go for that.
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by aggieben 11y ago
> but so does a Redfin agent I don't see how - and anyway, a buyer's agent can be a big waste of money in a lot of markets. Traditional single-family housing transactions aren't that complicated, and a great many buyers c
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by aggieben 11y ago
My reaction is one of those "I'm not sure if I should feel stupid or not" moments, but: rightly-built applications already don't expose passwords to employees in that they aren't (or at least, shouldn't be) gen
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by aggieben 11y ago
Lying isn't a negotiation tactic or a loophole. It's lying. A negotiation tactic: getting an actual job offer in hand for your salary + X, and then indicating to your manager that you have an offer for $S+X and that you would lik
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by aggieben 11y ago
If I'm reading you correctly, your argument basically boils down to "but managers/companies lie too". Well, both sides are wrong then. Deals negotiated in bad faith are bad deals, regardless of whose bad faith it is.
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Explains shell commands(explainshell.com)
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by aggieben 11y ago
I completely agree: the pictures in the article make the manual look brilliant: simple enough for anyone to understand, but detailed enough to get the most out of the tool. Every social media platform should have this manual.
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by aggieben 11y ago
I used to love OneNote's writing experience - but it sucked hard at syncing data between devices. That was what Evernote absolutely nailed from the get go. They synced data seamlessly before anyone else, and ultimately that ended up
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by aggieben 11y ago
I use Scannable _extensively_. Being able to search the text in handwritten documents and whiteboards - without losing the original document to some ridiculous OCR conversion - is absolutely gold. Plain text notes are somewhat less import
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by aggieben 11y ago
I, for one, would be upset as a manager to find out that I had been lied to (and taken advantage of, really). I would have zero qualms about firing someone for negotiating like this. It's fine to say "Hey, someone else over here

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