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by learc83 5y ago
You could just implement enough surge pricing that people/companies work around peak times on their own and build their own storage.
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by learc83 5y ago
It's also hard to actually compare those things because there's an enormous literal survivor bias here. The living population of previously infected people have already demonstrated the ability to survive COVID. If you took those
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by learc83 5y ago
I took a class in my CS program where we had to write PID controller software running on a microcontroller to keep water at a specific temperature using a hot plate. My concentration was embedded systems but the majority of the class were j
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by learc83 5y ago
I’m 75% sure this is a joke. If it’s not, this is the most ridiculous interview process I’ve ever heard of. Despite what the author says, this type of interview is definitely something you can train for. If it’s real, and successful the aut
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by learc83 5y ago
$12 a year is misleading. Paying users are much more valuable ad targets than free users once you start segmenting them. So now you need to charge significantly more than $12 to make up for that. The higher price makes the paid users even m
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by learc83 5y ago
>And hospitals don't even work that way, because they itemize their eventual bills to insurance companies. >Are hospitals giving itemized bills to insurance companies or not? Hospitals can provide an itemized bill after the fact.
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by learc83 5y ago
>Yes, if you are not confident that you can keep a trade secret then the patent becomes the better option. (Isn't that what I said before?) "Greater than 50% chance" is not what I would call "confident". Change i
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by learc83 5y ago
The problem with that is that the premium users then become a more valuable ad target, and the free users less valuable. So you have to charge even more making them even more valuable. Eventually you reach some equilibrium. But by this poin
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by learc83 5y ago
That’s almost exactly how Usenet worked back when I was a kid.
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by learc83 5y ago
>Even better: clearly the market has proven that it's possible to offer these services with transparent pricing. Why can't hospitals keep pace? 1. You shouldn't be admitted to a hospital for those minor clear-cut procedure
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by learc83 5y ago
Of course patents are preferable to trade secrets in the vast majority of cases. That's why I said trade secrets have many of the same the same problems, not that they are equivalent. The problem is that when patents are no longer an o
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by learc83 5y ago
Phoenix, Elixir, Tailwind, Alpine, and LiveView. https://changelog.com/posts/petal-the-end-to-end-web-stack
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by learc83 5y ago
>Most health visits, and the vast majority of all preventative care, does not fall into that category. The kinds of easy issues you're talking about don't need to happen in a hospital. You can already go to an outpatient imagin
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by learc83 5y ago
>Unfortunately what we actually have, between patents and other monopolies the government has instituted on drug manufacturing and distribution, is nothing like capitalism. You could replace patents with trade secrets and have many of th
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by learc83 5y ago
>Definitely not the norm though It most certainly is the norm when purchasing complex custom services. >A contractor will not however replace the framing and then charge me after the fact. They'll discover the rotten framing, inf
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by learc83 5y ago
This is exactly what happens when a monopoly produces extremely price inelastic goods. If it's not illegal, the monopoly will attempt to charge each customer as much as they can afford.
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by learc83 5y ago
>But I would also point out that under Capitalism, signing a contract usually involves the terms of that contract being made upfront. There's nothing inherent to Capitalism that prevents variable priced contracts. >Pretty much ev
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by learc83 5y ago
Topics build on each other. The average working engineer designing circuit boards isn’t calculating the nth derivative of a function on a daily basis. That doesn’t mean that they didn’t need to understand calculus as a prerequisite to other
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by learc83 5y ago
1. Med school is a lot more expensive than undergraduate education. 2. Making a decent grade in those classes at an accredited school is a good filter. 3. MDs aren’t just technicians. They are leaders, managers, and ethicists. They have a h
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by learc83 5y ago
Yeah my wife is an MD. Most of her continuing education is just part of her job and she gets paid for most of it.
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by learc83 5y ago
I would 100% rather get a 1 time credential than go through the current interview process every few years.
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by learc83 5y ago
It's typical for med school in countries that don't require a college degree to take 6 years instead of 4. And in the US there is no national high school curriculum, so an extra 2 years for general education isn't a bad idea.
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by learc83 5y ago
Your company promotes directly from tech lead to director?
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by learc83 5y ago
>a totally asinine comment Why not multiply by the probability that you don't die within the next 90 days from some other event, or the probability that the earth doesn't explode within 90 days. The likelihood that you're
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by learc83 5y ago
The “risk” is misleading because it’s the risk that you will catch it within a 90 day period based on the community spread in the UK at some point in the past (before Delta) times the risk that you will die if you catch it. Since your wife
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by learc83 5y ago
1. My wife is currently seeing 25 year-olds in her pediatric ER because the adult side of the hospital is too full of unvaccinated adults. 2.Other study findings suggest that fully or partially vaccinated people who got COVID-19 might be le
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by learc83 5y ago
The study that launched the “HPV vaccine caused infertility” fear (much like the study that linked vaccines to autism) was retracted. Since then multiple studies have shown no increase in infertility.
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by learc83 5y ago
What a coincidence—I ordered the print version, and it’s arriving today. I’ve been following the book for a while but decided to wait until the print version was out.
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by learc83 5y ago
Again it was obvious hyperbole, no one ever meant that the entire economy was literally shut down. However it also wasn’t an order of magnitude less. According to this WSJ report [1], lockdowns took at least 1/4 of the economy offline.
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by learc83 5y ago
Aha! That must be what the Barenaked Ladies are referring to when they say K-car in “If I had a Million Dollars”. I always wondered about that.

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