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by bigchewy 11y ago
great ideas. thanks
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Ask HN: how to effectively open source remote pet treat dispenser
4 points by bigchewy 11y ago|2 comments
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by bigchewy 11y ago
I don't have the source handy but there is research showing that if you ask individuals on a successful project the % that they contributed, the total of the perceived contributions generally equals around 140%. I've wondered if s
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by bigchewy 11y ago
reasonable point ;)
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by bigchewy 11y ago
one of my favorite Warren Buffet quotes: "When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
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by bigchewy 11y ago
This guy is a beast and made it incredibly easy to implement. After having taken 15 years off from writing code, I started programming again using RaspPI and Arduino a couple of months ago. Using Adrian's examples, in a day I put a mot
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by bigchewy 11y ago
my a/c bill in AZ would be about $400-500 / mo higher in the summer if they made that move! Most people in AZ put their A/C to 87 or so if they aren't home and actually keep it in the high 70s even when home. Otherwise y
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by bigchewy 11y ago
yes, by and large the incumbents comply with regulations, use industry standard equipment that has been tested and approved as being accurate for its intended use, etc.
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by bigchewy 11y ago
Do you have any knowledge of this or pure speculation? The lab industry I know (10+ years in healthcare) does not have the 60%+ in waste necessary for Theranos to offer their prices + generate positive cash flow. Perhaps the investor dollar
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by bigchewy 11y ago
This is, unfortunately, rampant in healthcare. The natural variation amongst people as well as the natural variation of our health throughout out life makes actually analyzing healthcare outcomes incredibly difficult. 90%+ of published outc
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by bigchewy 11y ago
not yet. I did some basic research but haven't gotten to it yet. I"m wondering if that is how the commercial IoT devices do it.
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by bigchewy 11y ago
I tried an Arduino based one and the Raspberry PiCam. PiCam was far better quality. The challenge is getting it to stream real time which typically requires a hardcoded IP address. Easy if you have a router, hard if you live in an apartment
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by bigchewy 11y ago
I built something similar for my girlfriend recently. When she's at work, she misses our dog so I built her a device that, when activated, dispenses a few treats, takes a video of Pickles enjoying the treats and sends it back to the se
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by bigchewy 11y ago
you may not be familiar with how healthcare works. There is, generally, almost no price pressure. In fact, consumers of healthcare, because they aren't paying for it, often equate higher price with higher quality so I wouldn't bet
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by bigchewy 11y ago
common misperception but not true [1]. All phases are important and REM comes last so it's easy to say it's the most important, because it gets cut short most easily. yes, you are right about the increasing amount of REM in each c
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by bigchewy 11y ago
why would the insurance companies want that? Lower costs means lower revenue over the long term. Given that they are effectively capped at a maximum profit margin, they can't make up for this with increased profitability. It's par
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by bigchewy 11y ago
We ran surveys on our patients for 3-4 years. Turns out that, by far, the biggest variable in assessing EVERYTHING about us was the wait time. Short wait time, they loved us (99% in national rankings). Long wait times, patients said we were
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by bigchewy 11y ago
There's no such thing as a HIPAA certification so, if their plan is to get one, it's safe to assume that they don't have the expertise to create the appropriate security infrastructure
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by bigchewy 11y ago
It's more akin to spending 8 to 10 years writing a program (med school + residency +....) and then it takes 15 minutes to run the program for the individual instance
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by bigchewy 12y ago
Then why would anybody start a company? why not just join as #12, once a ton of work has been done and you can anticipate, relative to when it was just an idea, the path of the company.
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by bigchewy 12y ago
studies are expensive so they end up with small sample sizes. Add in the push to only publish exciting findings and you start to see why so much research is later invalidated.
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by bigchewy 12y ago
do you have a reference for this claim?
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by bigchewy 12y ago
good thoughts but I think a much better version of this is the Dangers Strengths Opportunities exercise (e.g. http://robdkelly.com/blog/getting-things-done/dos-exercise/ ) The danger part is effectively the sa
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by bigchewy 12y ago
the one with the money
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by bigchewy 13y ago
applications / companies that have security requirements, e.g. healthcare needs BAAs to be signed and Box will do that whereas the rest (of the big players) generally do not
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by bigchewy 13y ago
It's incredibly important. the place you are most likely to acquire an infection / disease and die is the hospital, after adjusting for the fact that you're there because you're already sick. Forgive me for not linking t
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by bigchewy 13y ago
does a salary count as a benefit?
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by bigchewy 13y ago
yes. every self insured company I've known re-insures. When you get to the size of Wal-Mart, perhaps you don't bother. For smaller employers, reinsurance (also called stop loss) is a major cost
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by bigchewy 13y ago
sigh. >> Maybe you should take your USD-tinted healthcare analytics glasses off for a while and contemplate the possibility that human lives are worth saving. FYI - I've dedicated the last 10 years of my life to the cause of savi
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by bigchewy 13y ago
Tim Armstrong has an incredible ability to say the wrong thing. The underlying topic, however, is fascinating. I do healthcare analytics for a living so I see how often a single neonatal ICU incident can consume 30% of an entire company&#x2

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