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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Exactly. As an example: One does not comparison shop for an ambulance service after a car accident, nor a surgeon after arriving at the hospital. And those charges for blood transfusions: Anyone up for a startup to find the lowest bidder
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> This article didn't seem all that great. It just claims "the prices are higher" They buried the reason: “It’s very much something people make money out of. There isn’t too much embarrassment about that compared to Europe and elsewh
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Great post Daniel. Food for thought: I also took money for my first ($10s of millions), and while I did OK I'm no philanthropist. (Odds are high that the bits you are reading traveled through equipment that my company built.) It might be:
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Posted because someone I know almost got burned by this his first year. looks sheepish
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> but I don't want my name attached to someone's skills that I know nothing about. The endorsements are a particularly bad move by linkedin. I've been endorsed for all sorts of things; Knowing what I've been endorsed for, I don't kn
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
My version: I was on the iPad, somehow hit a link to send invites to everyone on my "you might know" list. Much embarassment ensued. Surprisingly, about 75% of people who I've never met (online or IRL) accepted the invite. I'm not exactly
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> "drug-resistant MRSA" Also antibiotic resistant c-diff. I have heard about klebsiella pneumoniae, but don't know any cases personally. Eventually, advanced societies will realize that immune systems need to be exercised just like t
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> So the Freedmen were forced to be tenants of the white landowners — planting the cotton seed, tending the crop, being responsible for everything produced by their small patch of land. But after all the work was done, they had to hand
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> While I have no interest in recovering money through a class action lawsuit I note that there are zero words devoted to what fraction of the money will leave the coffers of the lawyers and actually make it to the customers.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> It's better than the one that was native to iOS 5. I'd be curious as to the details: How so exactly? (I see friends copying and pasting to google maps from mail/txt app? which leaves me nonplussed.)
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
iOS 5 user here: What is the state of maps in the new release? [Luddite attitude, but it's the #1 reason for my phone, more than text/mail of any variety.]
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
They talk about interconnectivity bandwidth, but not the pipes going out to the backbone or peering. Anyone know?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I suspect they realized that they were just encouraging a switch to google docs and friends. So yes, it was a dumbass move but I'll give them points for having the organizational intelligence to recognize what a dumbass move they made. Now
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Would also like to see NDAs, Employment Agreements (and handbooks). It is time that the legal profession joined the 21st century and automates that which can be automated.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
The "4% plan" is a way to explain the problem for your avg Joe who can't do math. It's a nice rule of thumb (often you'll see 3% even) but doesn't leave a ton of room. Just look at the current environment if you need an example: Lots of
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Even if you limit it to the investment return: It is ignoring variation in return for that level of return, which is a terrible way to do long-term planning.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Umm, you might want to check your math. Or perhaps your assumptions about buying power. There's a reason retirement planning doesn't go down this path.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Yeah, but there are days where I wish I could have taken the blue pill.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
That calculator is a terrible way to go about it: They are missing inflation, which will have a large effect on your expenses over time. There are other problems too, but that one alone make it worth looking elsewhere.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> These ideas are my own Funny, they sound like management in every big company I've ever known.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> to adopt real security. Won't happen until it's perceived that the lack of security is costing them money.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
LOL, thank you for broadening my horizons a little.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Yet another case of rubber duck debugging FTW.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> audio engineer/mixer Audio really attracts crystal-power wackos, somehow more than others. I've had to dodge all sorts of completely idiotic thinking both in the digital and analog world. Hell, it's the whole business model for Mo
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Good god this has nothing to do with HN. Good god am I glad that it got to the front page so I read it.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I mostly agree. She is in a turn-around situation. Want the same results? Keep doing the same things. So instead: Shake up everything. See who reacts well and can adjust, see who can't adjust to even minor changes. If you can't handl
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> It was a Saturday, so I'd expect there weren't many people in campus buildings anyway. That's not the same MIT I remember.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> There's legal CYA and there's CYA ingrained in the everyday operation of the company. Maybe other people have different experiences, but I've never met an HR person who did one and not the other.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> we are only allowed to consider whether or not they say they have the skill we want. C'mon, you need to think like a bureaucrat: Just add "clear written communication skills" or "Can write details about past projects associated wit

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