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by draz 13y ago
well, sortta, and mostly in the US where malpractice lawsuits are an issue
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by draz 13y ago
Medicine :-)
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by draz 13y ago
<quote>Twitter isn’t just going to disappear. It’s just going to become a new way to follow celebrities, corporations, and the like,” said Toubia.</quote> Funny, I thought Twitter IS that for the past few years... :-) Essen
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by draz 13y ago
I actually thought of that, but I realized that BoingBoing (and the like) beat them to it but being the gatekeeper to the internet. From last I've seen, they have their own shopping portal (and Amazon was access was complimentary). Why
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by draz 13y ago
I propose a 4th reason why they merged with Xhibit: the owners of SkyMall realized that with WiFi becoming more and more prominent on flights, bored traveler are less and less likely to flip through their magazines, but instead get online (
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by draz 13y ago
Yes, they want more money from higher paying insurance. But if they were to officially have a menu of prices for different entities (self pay, insurance A, insurance B, etc), that'd be against the law. So they come up a "catch all
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by draz 13y ago
I generally agree with your sentiment. However, here's something to consider - medical practices mostly over-charge to avoid insurance fraud. Wait, what?? Yes, here's how it works: if they were to ask you, "what insurance do
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by draz 13y ago
You bring up an interesting point that reminded me of an article I read a week ago about how Germany does the exact opposite (with overall better financial implications): http://www.economist.com/news/special-report&#x2
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by draz 13y ago
that's actually good enough for my purposes :-) (I'm looking to get a zip code from the browser and then show stores, for example, in a 50 mile radius). 2 adjacent zip codes would still be around 50 miles from the store.
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by draz 13y ago
Related: can you expand it to include the reverse (geolocation to zip code)? Anyone know of a restful service that might do that, alternatively?
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by draz 13y ago
Yes, they do. But when they see the money in front of them, they think long and hard about it. When, however, you introduce all kinds of financial instruments, you are no longer seeing money rather some abstract thing, and THAT makes it eas
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by draz 13y ago
Dan Ariely mentions these types of products (albeit in the context of cheating): the more removed the product is from real money, the easier it becomes to justify all kinds of actions you normally wouldn't perform: stealing it, spending it,
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by draz 13y ago
for those looking for the adversarial approach, there's also Start with No ( http://amzn.to/16QO6sO ). While I haven't really used those tactics, I did find many of the strategies outlined employed in the corporate environment.
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by draz 14y ago
part of Computability
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by draz 14y ago
Just putting it out there so it won't sound like I'm trolling: I like it. Now, isn't this a subset of Quora? (which might not be a bad thing because it's trying to grab a particular niche, but still I'd like to understand the "secret sauce"
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by draz 14y ago
I dont think it was. I actually was working on it as it started acting up. Wrote them an email, they said "some issues with UI," and a few minutes later it was down.
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by draz 14y ago
From the time I got Dropbox, I stopped saving anything I cared about on my desktop, My Documents/Documents (OSX), or any other random place on my computer. (It would be nice, however, if Dropbox added some secure folders with encryption/pas
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by draz 14y ago
agreed. I don't believe those who left were unhappy, rather they thought that they had more upside by going to Color. Obviously, it didn't pan out. "Genius?" No, just luck for Apple, less so for the employees.
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by draz 14y ago
Those employees were given options at Apple ($80M worth) that were probably lost once they left the company to work at Color. Then Apple ended up getting them back on the cheap. So instead of $160M, Apple ended up paying $80M + $7M.
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by draz 14y ago
I received the same kind of email from AT&T awhile ago. I immediately called them up, and asked to opt-out. After 30 minutes on the phone, the representative told me that the "feature" hasn't been rolled out yet, and I should call back
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by draz 14y ago
makes me wonder whether this also has to do with root access into the device (debug mode). I.e., Apple has its own version of the chip that allows them to enter in that mode.
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by draz 14y ago
suggestion: it would be nice if people could request examples, and others could submit code snippets
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by draz 14y ago
has anybody seen the pricing for this?? outrageous!! http://static.ips.apple.com.edgekey.net/ipa_preauth/content/... Look specifically at the data plans
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by draz 14y ago
something about this page crashes my Chrome (Mac, 21.0.1180.82). Anyone else? A link to the text?
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by draz 14y ago
that's because every executive knows that 3D graphs (especially pie charts!) contain more meaningful information!
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by draz 14y ago
reminds me of "relative time" Jews and Muslims (and Japanese, until 1872) use. This is a French wikipedia article I stumbled upon: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaot_zmaniot
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by draz 14y ago
consulting work: plain vanilla implementation (installation), special plug-ins, support, etc. How does RedHat make money?
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by draz 14y ago
i actually thought this design closely resembles the 4S: http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uplo... I saw a few other designs that reminded me of other versions. It made me wonder whether this 4S design, for example,
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by draz 14y ago
Last year I went to a conference and met an American Express guy. To make a long story short, he was telling me Amex (and other credit card companies) also sells information to 3rd parties. For example, you like Italian food (they can tell
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by draz 14y ago
New York is a "at-will" employment state. Unless otherwise specified, both parties can do as they wish (give a 1 day notice, for example. Though that would look very bad for future employers...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employm

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