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by ippisl 14y ago
Kaiser is a rare gem in the u.s. healthcare system, and the reason is that they are integrated system: they integrate insurance with treatment. Since Kaiser if payed a fixed sum and not a fee for service it has motivation to reduce costs, h
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According to [1] we spend only 16% on drugs and devices. Maybe they didn't include meds you get at a hospital but still it seem that medical services take a big share of the cost. Also, assuming technology can give better treatments , it ca
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While it's a big technical achievement, in a world when companies are talking about 4G LTE bill of materials of $50 [1] for a picostation(roughly 20mhz) and vodaphone setting targets for $100(my guess for a full device) , where does this fi
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Assuming the internet can't give a better customer support in the long term(at least from the knowledge side) is a wrong assumption. Somebody can surely design an high quality expert system for consumer electronics , that asks you some ques
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Chematica is an Internet for chemistry(guardian.co.uk)
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Uber is a small company. Google is big enough to pay politicians. I don't think political opposition will be a big problem.
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One factor that increases housing prices is that people are competing on houses near good schools, because of the importance of education. But education might become less dependent on geography(by using remote ed tech) or in some scenarios(
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First, This is not a criticism of google. Google , which is relatively generous, gave 2.1% of it's profits in 2010 to charities, which is $180 million. So i wouldn't say google or larry page "devote" their life to doing good. And i wouldn't
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First, at the start of the industrial revolution, people who had to leave their home in the country and come to the city to look for work, had to work very long hours for subsistence pay. This has only changed with the rise of the labor mov
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What determines new design trends? (reddit.com)
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The arduino seems popular in prototyping and customer validation of commercial products(example: the fitbit), i think some low/medium volume products are using the arduino hw/sw(but you might not know it's there-why should the business owne
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There's already a diy movement for weed. there are forums with growing techniques and tips. But i'm not sure it does reduce the risk in a big way. It might even increase the risk, while also increasing complexity and work. Doesn't see like
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According to [1], 93% of small business owners earn roughly less than $200,000. and 74% earn less than 100K. Business owners are 10% of the working population, so only 2.6% percent of the working population earn more than $100,000 by owning
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from this(it's from [1]): http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/files/jewpc3.jpg it seems that Ashkenazi jews are quite distinct from Palestinians. there might be a small overlap between the groups(upper right corner), but a terrorist co
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I too think this is an advertising play. Amazon is really building an advertising and tracking ecosystem with it's store, it's tablets(and maybe smartphones) and it's tracked browser, it's video service and it's groupon clone and now this s
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Wikipedia ,which is basically composed of many small non-connected parts. But a project like python where the parts are more dependent on one another do need a leader and some hierarchy. And self organization is at the basis of market capi
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Even when there exist technological solutions to big problems , there's usually a need for strong political component to make them work. Two examples are the birth control pill and the industrial revolution. After the birth control pill fin
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Mcdonnalds in europe has installed touch screens you can order from.
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Once the fiber is there, google can actively offer free demos of cool bandwidth hungry tech , for people, in their homes. what better way to sell more bandwidth and services ?
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If you look at the history of the industrial revolution , many of the gains the workers got:reasonable working hours, minimum wages, etc. were gained by a strong political fight(that many times took blood). There's no reason to assume that
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One example: "Drugs firm blocks cheap blindness cure: Company will only seek license for medicine that costs 100 times more " http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/jun/17/health.medicin...
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visual studio lightswitch is a modern replacement for access.
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jinni.com . not for it's movie recommendations but for it's movie search which i find amazing.
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When you use the stm32fdiscovery , you can also write code in lua which is a pretty nice scripting language with easy c integration, using the Arduino API, and use a remote REPL from the pc to try out things. https://github.com/SalemHarrac
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"we borrowed protocols, formats and even code from the world wide web project ... our goal:easy to use, fun graphical front end" It's a classic university commercialization effort:take ip from university for some important problem, integrat
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If you're interested in research, pick an interesting subject, and look for an open research question/projects in new published articles. If you're interested in impact, i think it's easier to build an influential project(influencing 1000+
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Usually , a disruptive innovation is a combination of a new technology and a new business model. Being an expert in the old technology or business model becomes less helpful. At the beginning you mostly don't compete on the same customers.W
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Amazon has a great story to tell the DOJ:we've not reduced our prices, we're working on offering better service: prime service is expensive, and we're building costly warehouses and bought a robotics company, and investing in pack-stasions.
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Fits.me, Styku, Zugarz, shoefitr,true fit,fitiquete,Quincy Apparel, fitted fashion.
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I think amazon is concentrating on the clear and really hard pieces of eCommerce: warehouses everywhere, robotics, pack stations and leaves the fuzzy and less hard pieces to start-ups. So now for example there are many start-ups working on

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