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by javadocmd 8y ago
The answers bring up the topic of updatable views, which got me curious. In what use-case are updatable views superior to updating directly on the underlying table? Views are great for bringing together data from multiple tables, but it see
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by javadocmd 8y ago
The kinds of doctors that work as "tier-1 tech support" -- that is, primary care -- are not being paid top dollar, believe me. After you account for the cost of education, delay of entry to the workforce, hours worked per week, an
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by javadocmd 8y ago
The average adult can be quickly and reliably trained to use bleach appropriately: "Should I drink bleach? No. Always no." On the other hand, the average adult requires six or more years of education and training to manage warfari
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by javadocmd 8y ago
> But this isn't true... You completely missed this point. To quote the article: > Many people, especially those in marginalized groups do feel less welcome. We know because they tell us. Hanlon doesn't claim to know why t
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by javadocmd 8y ago
Maybe the solution to this is stop requiring (or tacitly encouraging) moderators to pull weeds and block all the bad questions, but rather allow them some sort of feature to identify particularly good questions. "But then we'll be
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by javadocmd 9y ago
Just buy every US electrical substation and deliver the maps data via grid-wide powerline ethernet.
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by javadocmd 9y ago
It is a non-trivial problem, but one common enough that I would suggest any Actor library worth its salt would include mechanisms to tackle it. (Here's Akka talking about back-pressure support in Streams, for example. https:/&#x2
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by javadocmd 9y ago
Ms. Enthoven covered that point rather nicely, I thought.
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by javadocmd 9y ago
And I think we would all agree that the ideal amount of abuse heaped on your team is zero.
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by javadocmd 9y ago
I think anyone remotely familiar with the internet won't be surprised by these outcomes. Of course the occasional reality check is always good. I wonder to what extent plucky startups expect abuse when they put pop-up chat dialogs in t
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by javadocmd 9y ago
I have to imagine wallpapering over a functional power outlet is not up to code.
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by javadocmd 9y ago
I'm terribly skeptical of AWS Lambda as the engine of a main-line REST API. There seems to be no way to avoid the cold-start time: not only when your function is first called from a dormant state, but also when request load rises, br
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by javadocmd 9y ago
A business perfectly optimized w.r.t. waste will have zero inventory and zero sales.
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by javadocmd 9y ago
> Medicare is just another insurance payer I should have been more careful with my terminology. I used "insurance" as a shortcut for private, for-profit insurance, excluding government insurers like Medicare.
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by javadocmd 9y ago
Good question. My understanding of this was based on discussions with doctors. I had a bit of trouble finding a citation, so it's possible this isn't as cut and dry as I represented. I did run across this memo from DHHS in 2004 th
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by javadocmd 9y ago
Insurance (including Medicare and Medicaid) can and do push back against things they identify as inappropriate treatment. There are many problems with this system -- too restrictive in some places, not restrictive enough in others -- but in
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by javadocmd 9y ago
> When I didn't have medical insurance, doctors charged me twice what they charged the insurance companies. You've identified the symptom but misattributed the cause. You ran afoul of the charge master system of billing, which
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by javadocmd 9y ago
It's a gigantic market though. (Revenue of $850 billion in 2016 according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/214544/total-revenue-of-... ) I'm not an economist, but it seems like a 5% margin on a $85
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by javadocmd 9y ago
Historically health insurance developed around the turn of the century along-side things like fire insurance. This sort of made sense at the time, when our understanding of health and our ability to treat disease was extremely primitive. Ev
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by javadocmd 9y ago
No. In order to utilize your insurance plan's out-of-network services, the insurance company has to be in the loop. A cash-based system completely circumvents insurance.
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by javadocmd 9y ago
I was being casual about my phrasing. Yes, we expect there to be benefit from the general execution of science as a practice at the macro scale. My point is simply that the same expectation cannot be applied to the micro scale of an individ
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by javadocmd 9y ago
I would be interested in a cross-cultural evaluation of the Dunning-Kruger effect. This study was performed in the US. Is the effect as prominent in Russia? Sweden? China? South Africa? Across racial boundaries? Across class boundaries? I s
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by javadocmd 9y ago
The benefit of any scientific paper is that is benefits science -- it is not necessary that science accomplishes anything more. (The fact that science benefits society is a nice consequence, but not necessarily an immediate one.) While I th
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by javadocmd 9y ago
Is the high latency you mention due entirely to cold starting instances, or is there another cause?
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by javadocmd 9y ago
Another way of looking at this story: It took $8 million to take a problem that was only visible to the sales department -- empty boxes are hurting our image! -- and make it visible to the stakeholders who had the right insight to actually
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by javadocmd 10y ago
That is conspicuous consumption, and digital goods can perform this function just as well. As an extreme example, the "I Am Rich" app. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
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by javadocmd 10y ago
If you're in a friendly competition with your friends to gain the high score, there is in fact social utility around IAPs. Also works with complete strangers if you have a particularly competitive streak.
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by javadocmd 10y ago
Great points, but a bit misleading if the intent is to present this as something new under the sun. The illogical decision to buy a game boost that will not recoup its cost is not much different from buying a name-brand pair of sunglasses i
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by javadocmd 10y ago
I don't doubt that you (or whoever) had additional information and made a sound decision. Point being simply that someone reading your original comment (or such comments generally) doesn't have the full context and might not reali
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by javadocmd 10y ago
Your father might be dead or suffering today. It is impossible to be certain about the natural course of a disease after you intervene. I'm glad your father is doing well, of course, but we should be cautious: stories like this one t

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