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by htag 4y ago
A rapid covid test is ~$10. Penicillin is ~$10. That leaves $30 for the telehealth. That's doable. The thing I don't like about this approach is that I'm not sure how it works on the margins. A rapid covid test has a lowe
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by htag 4y ago
Amazon over private equity is simple. 1. The numbers on Amazon's quarterly reports are huge. They are playing in the big leagues. 2. Everyone with money remembers when they were just a book store and the dotcom bubble burst. The narr
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by htag 4y ago
In what world should strep throat cost less than $50. 1. You interact with a receptionist. They use commercial software to track your visit, find an appropriate medical professional for your condition, and fit you into a schedule/queu
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by htag 4y ago
You're missing two key points to the cost benefit analysis. 1. Modern GPUs are remarkable at holding value. 3080s are selling on ebay at over half the launch MSRP. 2. You'll get better performance locally. People buy 4080s becau
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by htag 4y ago
20ms is an unacceptable amount of lag for many popular genres of gaming. Network lag (esp wireless) is often variable, which would make controls feel inconsistent. I think a significant high margin portion of the market will agree with me
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by htag 4y ago
I think another component is that lowing costs will have an immediate impact on quarterly financial reports while firing devs will mostly have a delayed impact on revenue. When many companies are juking the stats by lowering costs with layo
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by htag 4y ago
I wonder how correct this is. There are two growth factors here. One is the amount of data required to train a premium model is increasing. The second is that the amount of data being generated is increasing. I think the future you descr
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by htag 4y ago
This is stated in the article. The theory is that explosives on NS1 were detonated because the failure of NS2 would have triggered an inspection of NS1 that would have revealed the previously planted explosives.
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by htag 4y ago
It's becoming more clear that in the US health and safety are taking a back seat to corporate profits. It's shameful to read safety equipment that could have prevented this derailment was lobbied against by the railway industry.
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by htag 4y ago
I agree that we need a better identity solution than sharing email addresses or phone numbers with hundreds of third parties. I disagree that digital identities should be tied to government records, or that networked identification is an o
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by htag 4y ago
From my experience the most common use of Big Data is to 1. Provide confirmation bias for decision makers to feel more confident and comfortable. This happens in the translation layer from Data to Information, and the data can support seve
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by htag 4y ago
Since 2010? Dragonflight, Legacy of the Void, Overwatch, Wow Classic are all well loved games. Maybe you personally didn't like them, but objectively pass the bar of "decent"
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by htag 4y ago
Dropping remote work, disrespecting employees, and giving less than expected bonuses? This is how you reduce your payroll without paying severance. This is doubly disappointing because they have recently shipped some good products and have
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by htag 4y ago
How does an HMO make money from trauma cases? My understanding is a member of the HMO seeking medical treatment will cost the HMO money, and their only source of revenue is insurance premiums.
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by htag 4y ago
> $250/night in a hotel X 4 nights If you are staying in the city four nights a week you'll probably be better off getting a studio apartment, both in costs and comfort. SLU studios would be ~$2100/mo with utilities. If
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by htag 4y ago
$100/flight * 3 flights/week * 50 weeks/yr = $15,000/yr. The interesting part is the seems like a deal compared to cost of living of San Fransisco/Seattle and the salary slash of working in Phoenix/Las Vegas&#x
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by htag 4y ago
My comment on intelligence was directly in response to my parent comment's quote "Aside from that, people in aggregate just aren't that bright" > We can try to aspire to it, but none of us can honestly say we just wan
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by htag 4y ago
The argument that people aren't to be trusted with a more direct democracy always falls flat to me. The alternative is power concentrated to a few people which introduces a risk for developing a ruling class, an aristocracy, or plutoc
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by htag 4y ago
Well established US consulates and an embassy is a personal prerequisite for traveling to a country. 1. They are an advocate if you are involved in any legal or criminal trouble. As a strange person in a strange land you might be targeted
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by htag 4y ago
1. Wouldn't these balloons provide even more sporadic coverage? They seem to be detectable. 2. These gaps would be measured in minutes, and are zero when you considered the combined coverage of all none-nato countries. Anything that
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by htag 4y ago
Are you aware of how common this type of behavior is? Where are you purposing to draw the line? Should we not even discuss local and state elections on the internet to prevent outside voices from swaying the views of voters? Should we no
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by htag 4y ago
I am not a doctor, but I have seen some very negative reactions when people stop taking pharmaceuticals to use psychedelics again. I think the combination of your ketamine treatments reducing in effectiveness, the instability from moving, t
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by htag 4y ago
A piece can be both FUD and true. In fact, often times the more truth that is in the piece the better it can be at sowing fear, uncertainty and doubt. 1. The author admits there was not a long term negative impact on his treatment. 2. Peop
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by htag 4y ago
Apple should be able to defer integrating directly with an LLM by treating it like an any other application layer feature until they can develop their own. It should be within their reach to develop one in house or through acquisition.
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by htag 4y ago
1. It can look like a cash grab to take a semester or two of tuition from traditionally middle performing students before failing them out. 2. College admission and graduation rates are important and watched.
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by htag 4y ago
1. It's possible to dock the Steam Deck and use a mouse and keyboard. The specs make a strong case for itself as a gaming PC at it's price point. 2. While not every game is suitable for the Steam Deck, almost every game that was
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by htag 4y ago
It is possible to kill without legally murder. It is possible to have your property taken without someone legally stealing. This is the point I was attempting to make with my rhetoric. Put in game theory language, the optimal solution for
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by htag 4y ago
This is the longterm strength of the GPL over MIT/BSD.
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by htag 4y ago
There's always more than one reason for such a complex question. It would be just as fair to say the Japanese economy was more focused on manufacturing then services when the software industry really started to boom and by the time th
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by htag 4y ago
There is no big sector-wide conspiracy. A sector-wide conspiracy would be massively illegal. If, however, several companies individually decided a layoff is in their best interest for legitimate reasons (looming recession instead of suppre

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