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by marcell 10y ago
A lot of the hype around "blockchain", payment network etc. is just hype. Think of bitcoin as a digital competitor to gold, and it will make a lot more sense. Why is gold worth $1200/oz? Same logic will apply to bitcoin. Inci
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by marcell 10y ago
I had the same experience when starting with React. One thing I would recommend is to not use Redux. It is an advanced framework that's appropriate for large applications and teams, but will give you a headache when you're just
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by marcell 10y ago
5 GB is included storage, additional is available for $0.24 per GB per month. Still, this doesn't seem competitive with AWS. The same money buys you substantially more RAM: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/
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by marcell 10y ago
I'd be interested. I have a lot of programming experience, just started on machine learning. etc. My email is in my HN profile.
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by marcell 10y ago
Some of the numbers for [2] confuse me. How can an office visit cost $30 in Canada? When I go in for an office visit, it typically takes about 30 minutes of staff time, around 15 minutes with a medical assistant and 15 minutes with a doctor
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by marcell 10y ago
I can't get over the cognitive dissonance of these two points: > (2) Californians, as individuals, employers, and taxpayers have experienced a rise in the cost of health care and health care coverage in recent years > (4) Individ
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by marcell 10y ago
I'm reminded of this article by PG: http://www.paulgraham.com/wids.html Also, in Silicon Valley, there a social convention of saying controversial, potentially wrong ideas for the sake of discussion. Maybe Sam is engag
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by marcell 10y ago
Eh, not really. Google and FB both structure their shares so the founders own >51% of the shares, so your votes are meaningless. In fact Google recently explicitly restructured their shares to make sure the founders maintained majority s
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by marcell 10y ago
> [0] this is not my opinion; this is a direct quotation from their S-1: "We have incurred operating losses in the past, expect to incur operating losses in the future, and may never achieve or maintain profitability." > [1]
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by marcell 10y ago
You can think of it as something similar to price discrimination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
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by marcell 10y ago
From the post: > It’s clear this video is a reflection of me—and > the criticism we’ve received is a stark reminder that > I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up. > This is the first time I’v
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by marcell 10y ago
Usually when a human runs a red light, they are aware that it's red. Typically the light is just turning red, and they think they can still make it. For Uber, their car was probably not aware that the light was red, which is more dange
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by marcell 10y ago
But is this literal or serious? /s
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by marcell 10y ago
> The money saved eliminating all these programs (and their nontrivial overhead) can be used to give everyone a modest basic income. This isn't really the case. Basic income is not about cost savings. The programs you mention are we
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by marcell 10y ago
This is a misdirection and Instacart knows it. In the old system, the shopper got half the tip. Source: I worked as an Instacart driver for fun.
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by marcell 10y ago
What is the tl;dr on why SMS is bad for 2fa?
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by marcell 10y ago
Not disagreeing, but could you provide a few examples of inneficiencies that you see? I'm not familiar with the field.
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by marcell 10y ago
Framing is not just the executive order, but also the narrative around it, and the manner in which it's presented to Americans. That's why the comments Trump made on the campaign trail are important. The narrative is that America
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by marcell 10y ago
Yes, that is the full quote. The "90 days" is not what is at issue with the original quote or the Executive Order. Again--the details are not the issue, the entire frame of thinking is.
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by marcell 10y ago
The problem with this reasonable seeming approach is that it accepts the frame. Trump/Bannon present the following frame: we can combat terrorism by banning refugees from Muslim countries. This claim is factually incorrect, and moreove
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by marcell 10y ago
If you're a CEO of a big company like Uber, don't lend him legitimacy by association. If you're just a median US citizen, you can donate some money to groups like the ACLU, vote, or call your representatives.g
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by marcell 10y ago
This may come off as cynical but I think Travis, and similar SV figures like Elon Musk and Sam Altman are giving Donald Trump too much credit. He is a 70 year old man who just won the presidency with no prior political experience, spewing a
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by marcell 10y ago
A recent MD friend of mine mentioned that the standards in medical school are much higher today than 20 or 30 years ago. While this is pretty anecdotal, you may have better luck with doctors who graduated more recently. Perhaps someone with
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by marcell 10y ago
Not quite. Based on the article, they threatened to withdraw if the DoJ did not support their proposed merger with Humana. The DoJ did not support it, so they followed through on their earlier threat. So it's not spite, but part of a n
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by marcell 10y ago
That explains it but it doesn't sound at all like a replacement for the current health care system: > you get basic services such as annual physicals, regular check ups and treatment for minor emergencies of the sort that can be han
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by marcell 10y ago
After reading both articles I didn't really understand what direct primary care is, how it works, why it would have lower cost than the current model, and how it relates to Obamacare.
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by marcell 10y ago
I didn't know about this going in, and I don't recall the details of Star Wars well enough to know that this character was in Episode 4. My though process was something like this: "That character seems weird...is it CG? It ca
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by marcell 10y ago
Reading between the lines, I think this car is a trick and not meant to sell at all. They get fleet wide mileage credits by producing it, and they are losing money on each car. Electric cars are easy to make, especially if you don't pu
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by marcell 10y ago
How about an alternate idea of "basic employment"? The government guarantees a job to anyone who wants one, but they do have to show up to work. These can be jobs that are at a loss, and are explicitly "make work" jobs.
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by marcell 10y ago
What is a PE?

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