datsci_est_2015

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by datsci_est_2015 10mo ago
The acquisition of the company can also be financially "meta-strategic", where it doesn't actually matter what service the company provides, but how its assets can be structured or leveraged to extract more value for the PE&#
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Services that PE has ruined in my city by rent-seeking: - Veterinary services - Dental services - Optometry services - Urgent care services I go out of my (sometimes significantly) to go to non-PE owned companies and services,
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Agreed, I described it elsewhere in this thread as K-shaped outcomes.
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I was criticizing the rhetoric, not the sentiment. I’m skeptical of an argument when it flies too close to what I associate with irrationality and pseudoscience, especially considering what’s happened in medicine over the past 5 years. The
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by datsci_est_2015 10mo ago
How do you measure productivity? Profit per employee has never been higher, probably, as PE and other rent-seeking leeches (residency caps) have wrapped their fingers around the throat of the industry. Positive outcomes per patient is proba
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It’s mathematically dissatisfying, but often the most optimal storage (or algorithm) solutions involve clever heuristics that are dynamically applied. Some systems just have to be observed in order for solutions to be optimally designed aro
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There’s the concept of “personal advocacy” when receiving healthcare. Unfortunately, you’ll only get the best outcomes if you continually seek out treatment with diligence and patience. But framing it as a “myth [of] perfect attention and t
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It seems like outcomes are probably K-shaped: those who are capable of critical thinking and deciding what type of information should be confirmed by a healthcare professional and what type of information is relatively riskless to consume f
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Cringey and childish appeals to US government and billionaires aside, it’s funny how this is framed as “Magnanimous Free Speech Technology Company” vs “Evil European Bureaucratic Shadow Cabal” when the latter is more like “Massive Sports Mo
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The whole “was it justified or not” is a huge distraction from the principles of the matter, which ironically is a huge benefit to those with fascist ambitions. Classic America getting caught up in reviewing the tapes like it’s Monday morni
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I don't think Stasi is the most apt comparison, rather the Gestapo, where the "Geheime" did not refer to their existence being secret, rather their standards of operation, chain of command, and general accountability being be
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Define "tiny portion of the market", especially "market". There are many houses in the US. Not all of them are for sale. There's a difference between having a "tiny portion of the market" when you define &