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by mfer 3y ago
VC funded and looking for growth opportunities is far different than building a long term sustainable business. The carrot in the business model leads business decisions in very different directions and your setup is different to meet them.
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When they banned single use plastic bags in New Jersey it increased the amount of plastic in use [1]. Starbucks straw less lids use more plastic than the old lid ands straw. With a lot of them ending up in the trash instead of recycling, it
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The article points out that they have 79 planes from Boeing that are grounded. That it's impacting their ability to fly and finances. They may have Airbus planes but their whole fleet isn't Airbus.
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Three thoughts: 1. Where “western diets” go in the world we see healthcare costs go up. 2. The US fits the bill for about 90% of the global R&D costs on healthcare. Many universal healthcare systems only fund existing methods. 3. The US
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It can be genetic. That's not most people. Far more than a super majority of those with high cholesterol are due to lifestyle. At my least yearly doctors appointment I asked about the genetic case. My doctor, in his mid-40s, said he ha
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According to the research it’s mostly diet (what we eat) and the sedentary lifestyle. Less than 10% of people eat healthy. Most people I know daily eat food’s causing them harm (not neutral)
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> Probably a doctors visit could make a big difference in this type of lifestyle for some portion of the population. Most doctors are never taught to deal with lifestyle. It’s sick care with things like medications and surgery. Doctors o
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Most people live lifestyles that lead to conditions. For example, most high cholesterol that cause people to use statins is caused by diet. Less than 10% of Americans eat a healthy diet. Doctors almost never deal with that and usually aren’
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That assumes high chronic diseases from other things causing high health care costs. What if we got rid of most chronic diseases? Most are caused by lifestyle but they’ve become topics we just don’t talk about. They’re taboo.
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Over 1/3 of US adults have cholesterol levels that cause them to use or qualify for a statin. High cholesterol which leads to cardiovascular disease (leading cause of death in the US). what usually causes this also causes a bunch of ot
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Chronic illness rates in the US are far higher than in France, too. In the US 40% of adults report suffering from 2 or more chronic conditions.
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The US doesn’t typically spend on health care. It spends on sick care targeting things which can be dealt with via medications or surgery. For example, most doctors don’t help people avoid heart disease. Instead they watch for it or things
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It depends on the Union and where you're at. Some unions negotiate everything from vacation time to pay bands to how raises happen. There are many places where the hardest worker and the laziest worker make the same. There are places w
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It depends. A union that does right by its members means you have leadership who does that. I’ve seen numerous cases where that didn’t happen across several industries. The leadership ended up making bad decisions for the members.
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Unions are fascinating to me. When you are in a Union, part of your money goes to the union in order to, hopefully, make things better for you. This means the relationship between Union leadership and the Union members is just as important
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It may not be about the teams. For example, when you control the data center you can do certain things around performance and scale you can't do in a public cloud. There are so many unknowns about how things are setup that it's ha
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This doesn't appear to be about Microsoft's cloud but rather Public Cloud. The whole migration of LinkedIn from their own data centers to the public cloud (Microsofts) isn't going well. It appears they are still going to oper
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Polls have found that the average person in the US can't tell you many of the basics of how their government works. The laws aren't based on people taking the time to understand them. It is complex enough there really isn't t
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I think there is a misconception. Most of the time you don't own the digital asset. This is an intentional quirk around money, contracts, etc. You have the right to use it in the present form through the platform as long as the platfor
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Consider where people would use something for a long time and want to keep it relatively stable for long periods? Planes, trains, and automobiles are just a few of the examples. How should over the air updates for these kinds of things work
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Symfony is a PHP framework. https://symfony.com/ It caused much of the internal of Drupal to be re-written. This included how it was extended. With previous major versions you learned about new features and APIs. They follo
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I used Drupal for several years across several major versions. Even co-wrote a book on one of those major versions. Drupal is a web CMS that empowers people without extensive coding experience to do some pretty amazing things. A front end d
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I think this has less to do with "justness" and more to do with cost effectiveness. A majority of people use Windows. That's followed by macOS (or ChromeOS but you can't easily directly port software over there). Then yo
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There was a breakthrough in studying the gut biome about a decade ago. Since then we have started to learn so much.
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Why? Just because you would love to do something with it isn't a reason. What's a reason we should be able to do this?
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iPhones became popular through the bring your own device movement. You aren’t going to see that with racks in a data center
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I would suspect access more than ownership. Lots of places legally limit access and Internet companies are excluded.
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In Michigan only telecommunications companies, power companies, cable companies, and municipalities can be on the poles. So, an Internet only company is excluded. Michigan also has one of the most unique laws here. A municipality needs to p
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According to the article, The issue is not that the police were recorded or put on YouTube. It's that the YouTube video had captions on it from the 19 year old. It is the content of those that is still an issue. From the article, the j
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The auto industry is interesting because they are being lead by the tech industry in this. It's not like Ford is building cars and saying only they can fix them. That came from Tesla which came from the tech industry. It's where t

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