cosmie

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by cosmie 7y ago
For sure, the first point is pretty critical to ensure market viability of a single payer system. The potential reductions in administrative overhead absorbs some of the expected reductions in reimbursement amounts that'd come with a s
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by cosmie 7y ago
It also prevents some of the anticipated benefits of the single-payer system. - Providers don't realize the anticipated reductions in administrative overhead, since they may still need to retain the same complexity in billing but just
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by cosmie 7y ago
Plain text can be a really problematic format for data preservation. - While it's fairly easy to read and write plain text, it's also fairly easy to inadvertently introduce unintended artifacts in the process. - The more frequentl
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by cosmie 7y ago
I agree that becoming the official software across a large organization is a huge win. It makes your solution the path of least resistance internally. But as far as using unapproved SaaS, they won't officially allow you to. But it do
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It depends heavily on the market. For B2B products, it's a huge win for driving market penetration on otherwise locked-down work computers. While development and IT sometimes get exceptions easily, the majority of business users have p
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by cosmie 7y ago
While highly repeatable, the biggest issue I've seen with this pattern is actually the data pipeline component. Specifically: - The pricing structures don't tend to be amenable to this operating model. Most of the newer SaaS ETL s
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by cosmie 7y ago
A dynamic response IVR message would be fantastic. When I call, I usually care about today's hours. A shortened response such as "Thanks for calling Foo Café, open until 6pm today" or "Thanks for calling Foo Café, we o
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by cosmie 7y ago
When using the technique, be sure to get confirmation in writing that the bill is paid in full. I've used it twice before. Once the hospital offered to consider it paid in full if I paid my entire $500 copay at time of discharged (i.e.
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by cosmie 7y ago
Music or a podcast like this has always worked really well to solve insomnia issues for me. Unfortunately it led me to discover a new issue - when I fall asleep listening to anything, even on low volume, there's a really good chance I&
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by cosmie 7y ago
Could be either one. The methodology you use for valuation reflects your priorities. Warren Buffet calculates valuations based on free cash flow[1]. For what it's worth, the company I work for currently just got sold off for $4.4bn USD
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by cosmie 7y ago
I've had good luck with ecco brand shoes. I've gotten a few different pairs from Nordstrom Rack for cheap, the oldest one being 8 years old and still going strong. I picked up this[1] pair in particular for about $35 3-4 years ago
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by cosmie 7y ago
We use Skype for Business, and it's a common cause of issues. We have constant issues with different individuals not being able to join meeting invites (although the dial in always works, the app doesn't), people being able to joi
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by cosmie 7y ago
Based on the commercial contents, they're targeting pretty much any white-collar employees. So the target population isn't as small as it appears at first glance. Their operating model also leads to a pretty unique way of internal
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by cosmie 7y ago
I was surprised to see this is true about their advertising! While dated, their 2016 disclosures showed ads making up only 18% of revenue ($109mm)[1]. Which was only about 10% of the $1.6bn that Bing pulled in around that time[2]. Having ma
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by cosmie 7y ago
They're doing quite a bit of TV advertising[1]. Production and flighting costs on commercials, at a global scale, isn't going to come cheaply. [1] https://www.ispot.tv/brands/Zyh/slack/
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by cosmie 7y ago
A lot of that expensive, longer term research happens at public institutions via public funds. Which then gets commercialized by the university or by a spinoff company from the researchers. Giving the benefit of expensive, longer term resea
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by cosmie 7y ago
It also only happens if they choose to do so. It's certainly the path of least resistance, but it's entirely possible for a seller to keep their inventory from being commingled while still using FBA. https://feedvisor.c
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by cosmie 8y ago
> Schoolchildren used to grow plants from seed as homework. They still do, depending on where you live. My daughter brought home a sunflower seed from a field trip last spring. By the end of summer we had a 7ft tall sunflower growing nex
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by cosmie 8y ago
I don't think that's an Indian outsourcing issue, so much as an artifact of the dynamics of the consulting environment. Your above average talent gets trusted with high stakes, client-visible scenarios like new business developmen
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by cosmie 8y ago
Similar functionality called PowerPivot/PowerQuery[1][2] exists in Excel. It's hands down one of my favorite things to use Excel for, and also one of the least understood/known features by most Excel users. I can't wait
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by cosmie 8y ago
> But along West 69th Street and stretches of West 68th Street (where I live and work and am also serenaded by the drilling, including at this very moment) The article was written because the noise is annoying to the journalist that wrot
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by cosmie 8y ago
Something like Socialbakers? https://www.socialbakers.com/feature/influencer-marketing
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I'm conflicted on this. Having moved 18-20 times across 7 states before high school, I'm intimately familiar with the inconsistencies between curriculums that existed before common core. I was taught some things 3-4 times while ot
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But marginal cost for whom? The entity manufacturing the drug, the entity that holds the inventory, the entity that owns the IP, or the entity that the pharmaceutical rep works for? Any sufficiently large corporation is more likely than not
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1) That's a complex question. The maintenance and curation of the system itself and the data within it is a non-trivial task, which adds overhead. If you don't right-size your process/system to your needs, and maintain it ade
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It really just depends. In the case of one retail client, we have carte blanche access to all of their data, from marketing systems to POS data to app location data. It makes it incredibly easy to "lazy load" a lift study after th
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That unpredictability is the reason for a demand planner. They basically act in a similar role to a project manager, except over the demand forecast for a product portfolio. SAP (the ERP system) snakes it's way through the entire compa
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Attribution is as sufficiently advanced as needed to get approval to give BBDO another blank check for another hairbrained scheme that'll fund yet another award for BBDO. While concurrently being undermined and considered not reliable
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Amazon allows you to use a checking account for payment. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
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I currently work at a marketing agency, and there's an entire team of people that fit your background, although not usually nearly as heavily technical as your history. They're pretty much all VP-level or above, and have titles re

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