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by bduerst 7y ago
Where do you think the jobs in the rust belt came from? The same thing happened to artisan economies with factories during modernization, yet people didn't decry the loss of the local blacksmith when the rust belt took over their jobs
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by bduerst 7y ago
When I traveled for work as a consultant, I would check the XBox more than a few times. Being alone in Sioux Falls, SD in the dead of winter leaves little to do outside the hotel. If you need a comparison, the mobility of the Nintendo Swit
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by bduerst 7y ago
Routine != Simple Frequency and complexity are not mutually exclusive. The pricing structure reflects the diverse system of payers (insurance companies) and has time-based complexity (i.e. bundling) that prevents payment cost structure fro
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by bduerst 7y ago
I worked in lab EHR software and can say this is the correct answer. Lab pricing is particularly complex and is not like buying a hammer or a pedicure. There was a separate billing module that calculated pricing for individual procedures b
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by bduerst 7y ago
Yes. It is nearly impossible to determine the cost of treatment up front when the health cause is still unknown. You could be there for a common cold or for phase 4 lung cancer, with costs ranging widely even just for the diagnostic proced
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by bduerst 7y ago
Hospital networks usually have you sign a waiver agreeing to pay for all costs before treatment begins. It's a bit strange to be waiting in the ER and a have a billing handler ask you to sign a form on a clipboard before you can get s
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by bduerst 7y ago
They probably check the ISP to determine if the IP is static or not, and then map the name if it is.
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by bduerst 7y ago
A better comparison is Stripe , which costs $0.30 + 2.9% per payment. If the product payments are typically below $10 then it makes sense to use Humble.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Nothing for me. This is a Drift chat widget so they have your information stored somewhere, probably from some interaction you had with it on a different site. They also appear to do IP lookup as well.
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by bduerst 7y ago
But it's not that simple. How do you handle fraudulent paments when you can never refund a bitcoin transaction? What about scale? If 20 million people used bitcoin, it would take over a month for a single transaction to process. You
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by bduerst 7y ago
Precisely. Bitcoin isn't a substitute payment system to Paypal.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Which is pretty much where anticompetitive laws are in the U.S. in terms of hurting the consumer. The fringe cases I would worry about are for tiny niche markets where there is only one supplier, or regulatory monopolies (e.g. healthcare ne
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by bduerst 7y ago
Yes, if everyone used BTC that would solve the problem of people using BTC.
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by bduerst 7y ago
> such as if Nike chooses to collect and sell customer/transaction data. Assuming that Amazon doesn't? They have reciprocity agreements with credit card companies.
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by bduerst 7y ago
I'm not so sure about that. If anything, Shopify's more recent success is due to an expansion of consumers buying online from sites that are not walled gardens like Amazon.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Google had something that did this, where it would show you pictures of cats instead of ads, but still allowed you to pay the website a couple pennies: https://contributor.google.com/v/beta Unfortunately, it only worke
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by bduerst 7y ago
The dept of HHS requires any organization with HIPAA business associate status to regularly undergo audits. Can you fly under the radar and potentially get away with not doing it? Of course, anything is possible. Could a multibillion doll
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by bduerst 7y ago
Disney is a content conglomerate, not a technology company. It shouldn't be surprising that each individual company silos their technology functions: https://storage.googleapis.com/titlemax-media/1c8ace8f-every...
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by bduerst 7y ago
The Netflix UX is a balancing act between finding things that you know you want to watch and "discovering" new content to watch. Netflix faces the same challenge that Facebook does with the news feed in that they're trying to
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by bduerst 7y ago
Important part: >What about patient data? All of Google’s work with Ascension adheres to industry-wide regulations (including HIPAA) regarding patient data, and come with strict guidance on data privacy, security and usage. ... To be cle
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by bduerst 7y ago
Reminds me of the quote I heard about 'experiential' businesses: "If you can't take a picture and brag about it online, then it's not experiential"
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by bduerst 7y ago
Hillary Clinton is currently not the president, and those surrounding her campaign are not currently in prison for fraud. Please stop deflecting to conspiracies that are not relevant.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Patriotism is perfectly normal, nationalism is not. You could argue that nationalism is an extreme version of patriotism, being that it takes a love and faith for one's country and uses it at the expense of others.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Duck Duck Go is also closed source and privately owned.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Tyre didn't provide data, and neither did you. The 2016 election was complex, especially due to the foreign influence, campaign hacking, fraudulent spending, and free coverage from media. The fact that both the president's campa
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by bduerst 7y ago
Facebook can not regulate the market when it only controls 19% of it.
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by bduerst 7y ago
My parents have flipped to Google photos. They're tired of Facebook too and don't know what instagram is.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Such as who? I agree with GP and still think this is biased projection. Factors such as growing trade control over APAC and a middle class larger than the population of the U.S. only speak in favor of the Yuan. Also, what you call shady
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by bduerst 7y ago
The entire strategy for dollar stores (Dollar General, Family Dollar, Dollar Tree, etc.) is to out price their local competition - hence why yours is right next to a grocery store. They carry higher-profit margin goods, which are mostly can
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by bduerst 7y ago
Yep. I worked IT for a small business co-op for a short while, and it had over a thousand businesses in it. They had increased their purchasing power by banding together, and were able to negotiate with wholesalers.

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