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by alpsgolden 10y ago
I'm fairly skeptical of claims of moral hazard on the part of the patient. Even if healthcare is free in monetary terms, it still has a big cost in time and annoyance. Going to the doctor is annoying. Seeing a specialist is annoying. G
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Good, mediocre, and bad p-values(andrewgelman.com)
1 points by alpsgolden 10y ago|0 comments
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by alpsgolden 10y ago
I've seen this in the startup world, where as the company grows it becomes harder and harder to buck the conventional wisdom in meetings or on the internal discussion boards. If you say something negative about some project, you may no
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The architecture of communication(evolutionistx.wordpress.com)
1 points by alpsgolden 10y ago|1 comments
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by alpsgolden 11y ago
It doesn't seem like the author of the original article knows what they are using the credit facility for, note the "maybe": This new credit line means two things. First, DigitalOcean is sill investing heavily in its infrast
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by alpsgolden 11y ago
I can understand the SaaS business model where you lose money in the short term to acquire customers, because that customer will be worth money over the next four to six years. If you are expanding aggressively, you will be losing money as
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DigitalOcean gets $130M credit line because servers are really expensive
1 points by alpsgolden 11y ago|3 comments
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by alpsgolden 11y ago
At the school I'm in, when a kid with any potential comes in, the only course of action is to to help her transfer out to a school where she will actually learn something. Sadly, this is not the exception - there are literally million
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by alpsgolden 11y ago
Even at that, it was not the 'chokehold' that killed Eric Garner. It was being placed on his stomach, with his arms behind his back. It's difficult for anyone to breathe in that position, and _very_ difficult for someone of
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by alpsgolden 11y ago
Part of this was that I became an expert in python before learning much bash, so it was just much easier to write in the language I already knew, and I found the bash syntax strange with a bunch of gotchas. I'm sure though, that if I d
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Book Review: Chronicles of Wasted Time(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by alpsgolden 11y ago|0 comments
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by alpsgolden 11y ago
I've found that as soon as bash script goes to more than a couple lines, or as soon as it needs anything modestly complex, like "if" statements or functions, then it is almost always more efficient to write it in ipython. If
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by alpsgolden 11y ago
This is the problem with rolling up the human experience into a price index, and then using that index to judge changes in standard of living. Purchasing power of electronics, appliances, etc, has gotten a lot better. Purchasing power of fo
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by alpsgolden 11y ago
In reality, though, these are the same types of services that have always been around—private drivers and taxis, hotels, rental car companies—but their services are sliced up into tiny bits and provided by underpaid contingent workers, whi
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Strong Parameters Are a Weak Schema(gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
3 points by alpsgolden 11y ago|0 comments
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by alpsgolden 11y ago
The big problem is that as you scale down the relative importance of different forces change. Surface tension and viscosity become overwhelming strong compared to any sort of mechanical force. Anything like a gear or propeller is useless, r
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Advanced Startup Management Techniques(coconutheadsets.com)
1 points by alpsgolden 11y ago|0 comments