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by allenz 9y ago
I agree that CVS wants to stave off Amazon and mail order pharmacies. But a buyout is an expensive way to secure a fraction of the market. Buying Aetna makes it easier to expand the new Minute Clinic business model. CVS no longer has to wor
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by allenz 9y ago
I see this as a move towards providing cheap basic medical care. This is timely now that it's possible that the individual mandate will be repealed. Millions of uninsured people could be treated for rashes or flus by nurses at CVS chea
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by allenz 9y ago
> You can also enjoy high bills for bandwidth I mean, obviously? The choices are: pay the money, or accept the limitations of a free service. > cease-and-desist letters It's an imperfect system. I wish that there were fines for m
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by allenz 9y ago
Entertaining talk, but the best method is to discard the key for your fully encrypted disk. It's 2017, all your disks use FDE, right?
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by allenz 9y ago
I don't think the spam is much of an issue--just use your spam email. For me, privacy is the bigger problem.
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by allenz 9y ago
Reparations are warranted for institutional discrimination, which is unjust and now illegal. It wasn't just loans, but a systemic, society-wide practice of minimizing investment in black neighborhoods, causing (among other things) larg
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by allenz 9y ago
I think much of the discomfort comes from the fact that white collar crime typically goes unpunished. (How many CEOs went to jail after the financial crisis?) There is the perception, warranted or not, that Shkreli was prosecuted simply bec
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by allenz 9y ago
I think that they're independent goals. I don't think that competition would guarantee NN. Competition promotes better customer service and faster internet at lower prices, which is also good.
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by allenz 9y ago
Summary: the root bug reappears when you upgrade your Mac. You need to manually reinstall Apple's security patch and reboot. There's no warning that a reboot is necessary.
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by allenz 9y ago
I think that Google has made a fantastic step forward. However, solar and wind require some form of energy storage, such as pumped hydro or batteries (which Google hasn't addressed). Overprovisioning by itself isn't sufficient.
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by allenz 9y ago
I replied to your sibling comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15827977
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by allenz 9y ago
The full tweet, from the link: "CS programs have, in the main, not decided that the primary path to becoming a programmer should involve doing material actual programming. There are some exceptions: Waterloo, for example. This is the p
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by allenz 9y ago
It's not about that fact. The author argues that programming schools should be vocational schools (while ostensibly presenting a list of objective facts).
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by allenz 9y ago
As I recall, Amazon was criticized for being not very profitable (they have a terrible PE ratio). But they were almost always profitable. Uber is being criticized for having massive losses, which is much worse, because it means that they mu
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by allenz 9y ago
Google's approach subsidizes the additional cost of renewable energy sources over fossil fuels. Because Google sells exactly what they consume, they aren't actually inducing more electricity demand. And even if that was a factor,
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by allenz 9y ago
Google's report from 2013, cited from their blog, says that they resell electricity at a "slight net loss".[1] I didn't compare to buying RECs. The point is that Google is 100% renewable voluntarily. While RECs may be wo
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by allenz 9y ago
3 GW measures average power. Google just buys the entire output of wind or solar farms, so supply is not matched with demand.[1] This is a known problem with renewables. Elon Musk claims that he can solve it with a relatively small area of
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by allenz 9y ago
Great work. Specifically, Google purchases 3 GW of renewable energy and sells it to the grid at a loss.[1] This isn't the same as being directly powered by renewables because they don't have to worry about time shifting supply and
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by allenz 9y ago
You're saying that no drivers avoid Uber? How do you know that?
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by allenz 9y ago
"At first it sounds real easy, you just stick two first stages on as strap-on boosters" --Musk This made me laugh. I think it belongs on shitelonsays.com.
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by allenz 9y ago
It's not just tech circles. Many Lyft drivers tell me that they refuse to drive for Uber because Uber is not friendly. That's a significant number of people, more so if you include people they talk to. Word gets out.
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by allenz 9y ago
The main reason is that Excel has features for professionals, but another reason is that some companies don't want Google to have access to their data.
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by allenz 9y ago
Hindsight is always 2020.
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by allenz 9y ago
Yup, I use cash accounting because our medical AR numbers are mostly made-up. They're tracked and analyzed through a medical billing program.
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by allenz 9y ago
That's true. Currently I handle scaling by automating nearly all the work. Most routine transactions are automatically categorized without manual input; I just skim the report. We modify 0-2 transactions/day, which is low enough f
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by allenz 9y ago
I don't doubt that people have made mistakes involving spreadsheets. But these mistakes are not unique to spreadsheets. Switching to an enterprise system doesn't magically prevent data entry problems.[1] Similarly, you're as
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by allenz 9y ago
I validate account totals against the balance reported by the bank.
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by allenz 9y ago
There shouldn't be any risk if you have version control.
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by allenz 9y ago
Presumably sunblock is more chemically exotic and thus is more likely to be harmful due to greater variance in harm, lack of knowledge about the mechanisms of harm, inability to fully characterize the harm using current tests, etc.
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by allenz 9y ago
Logging: I just save a copy of the spreadsheet every time I make a tax filing. Do I need anything more fine-grained? Validation: I'm confident that I can catch duplicated rows and mistyped amounts because Excel formulas verify that the

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