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by malay 15y ago
My comment should have said that absent insurers over that time period, prices would be higher than they are currently. The effect they have is on controlling the level of price increases, not on lowering price absolutely (which I doubt is
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by malay 15y ago
They are certainly lowering the prices, hence the constant back and forth (literally for 30 years straight) of local market consolidation between the buyers (health insurers) and the suppliers (hospitals/physicians). There are legal fights
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by malay 15y ago
Last July I took a taxi in Chicago and the driver was using a Square card reader. I take a few taxis every week in various cities, always paying by credit card (so it can be expensed), and it was the first and only time I've seen a taxi dri
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by malay 15y ago
Do you think the fig leaf is there for regulators or the other Android hardware manufacturers? While I agree there is no legally binding firewall (simply self-imposed), it seems there are some concerns they are attempting to address publicl
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Google building firewall between Android and Motorola (theverge.com)
33 points by malay 15y ago|14 comments
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by malay 15y ago
Apple entered the phone market because the performance of the existing, fragmented system was so low that it essentially required a fully integrated solution (OS, phone hardware, cloud, application/media store) to repair it. The performance
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by malay 15y ago
200,000 years ago is the approximate consensus for the arrival of Homo sapien; however the commonly held belief is that behavioral modernity occurred approximately 50,000 years ago. Most of that doesn't really end up mattering because the l
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by malay 15y ago
I always find this statistic about the number of people who ever lived to be incredible. It means that 6.5% of everyone who ever lived is alive right now. For me, that fact helps explain the incredible pace of change observable in every fac
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by malay 15y ago
This story of Intel and ARM is fascinating because it is likely to become one of the purest case studies of disruption theory. If ARM can successfully change the basis of competition in the server market to power consumption versus pure per
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The Economist on Intel versus ARM(economist.com)
97 points by malay 15y ago|29 comments
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by malay 15y ago
I thought the same after the first dip (was going to purchase at ~$150/share), but ended up convincing myself there was a stronger bear case to be made. Primarily, I considered: 1. Content producers control Netflix's ability to succeed; the