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by amb23 8y ago
The biggest hurdle is regulatory. There are a number of legal barriers to direct primary care, and the laws vary state to state. Most private practitioners don’t have the choice to start a direct primary care practice because their state la
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by amb23 8y ago
The biggest takeaway here: surround yourself with the right people. I find it hard to believe Holmes wanted to outright commit fraud with Theranos. Instead, some combination of startup “disruption” tactics and a crew of unqualified yes men
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by amb23 8y ago
The most pernicious, nastiest habit to get into is to think that you are stuck in your situation and there is no alternative. True for individuals and whole societies.
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by amb23 8y ago
Really wish this article wasnt full of crypto psychobabble because the cooperative business structure has real teeth, both as an alternative fundraising/equity structure for tech companies and for regular, everyday businesses across th
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by amb23 8y ago
When decisions are heavily sales-driven--be it the loudest voices in the room are the sales team, or a big deal is coming down the pipeline requiring custom work--individual solutions start overriding problem-based thinking. It leads to a n
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by amb23 9y ago
For anyone interested in diving deeper into this topic, I highly recommend the book "The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction" by Matthew Crawford. Of all the books I've read this year, t
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by amb23 9y ago
"Code is governance" -- the article does support the idea of cryptocurrency as fiat money because the laws, in this case, are the code. The developers and miners, no matter their good intentions, do hold power over the currency th
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by amb23 9y ago
That survey seemed to be designed for a the sensationalist headline. When half the country's vote doesn't matter anyways (due to the Electoral College) it's easy to trade "the right to vote in the next two presidential e
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by amb23 9y ago
It's all about tax breaks. This is a blatant attempt by Amazon to get years of taxes abated in order to provide the increased regional economic benefit of... doing exactly what they'd do anyways if they didn't get the break.
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by amb23 9y ago
There's no way this software is not inherently biased on very basic measures--a lisp caused by a disability probably wouldn't pass muster, nor would a southern accent. But the real tragedy here is that it equates the way someone p
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by amb23 9y ago
This has been an ongoing issue in Vietnam. I taught in Vietnam at a teacher training college four years back. Most of my students who attended had no aim to become teachers: they instead wanted to work as tour guides or translators or gain
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by amb23 9y ago
I'd assume they're taking advantage of the Open API laws for financial institutions in Europe. The US is a long ways away from having this.