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by mrosett 7y ago
Maybe that’s true of Lyft, but Uber started with black cars and originally had the tag line “everybody’s private driver”. Hell, the original name was UberCab. UberX cane pretty late in the game.
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by mrosett 7y ago
If they want to change the law going forward, then sure - they can continue to cook the golden goose. I don't live there, so in the narrow sense it's not my problem. But changing it retroactively - dated to a few days before a par
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by mrosett 7y ago
Frequently drug companies provide coupon programs to cap this.
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by mrosett 7y ago
Can you point me towards examples of a bank (not the government - a bank) confiscating a company’s account balance?
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by mrosett 7y ago
My sense is that your experience is becoming more and more common. As far as I can tell, co-pays, deductibles, etc have been going up dramatically over the last few years (as the original article points out.)
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by mrosett 7y ago
I think I may have responded to the wrong comment here. Someone else was saying that HSAs are use-it-or-lose-it.
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by mrosett 7y ago
The "above it all" smugness of quips like that is tiresome.
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by mrosett 7y ago
That's a slightly maddening thing about many these comments. If you were getting your healthcare through an employer, you had a lot more security both on the pre-existing conditions end and on the keeping coverage end.
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by mrosett 7y ago
That's a pretty frothy number; the rest of the names on the list of biggest IPO pops all come from '99/'00. I'd say "Good for them", but it's more accurate to say "Wow - their bankers left a lot
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by mrosett 7y ago
Would the ACA prevent that kind of scam? I genuinely don't know.
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by mrosett 7y ago
This is exactly the point I was trying to make in my original comment. Really good healthcare plans (with minimal deductibles and great coverage) used to be a benefit that employers could reasonably provide. Employees/family members wh
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by mrosett 7y ago
That's interesting data. Thanks for sharing it. In the 2017 snapshot, I'm surprised to see that HDHP plans are slightly more common for high-income families. I didn't expect that. There's a missing variable here: What
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by mrosett 7y ago
That's just not how it worked with employer insurance. Perhaps they could drop your whole company, but the insurer couldn't unilaterally cancel a single employee's plan.
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by mrosett 7y ago
> There's a weird narrative where any event is tied to the ACA while they ignore what the healthcare system is in the US overall. The ACA fundamentally shifted the landscape for the whole healthcare system with minimum coverage mand
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by mrosett 7y ago
HSAs aren't use it or lose it. That's FSAs.
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by mrosett 7y ago
You can argue that the ACA improved the healthcare system overall. But it's been tough for people who were already covered by employer insurance. I think people fail to appreciate that prior to the ACA, when the healthcare system worke
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by mrosett 7y ago
conspiracy hat : I wouldn't have heard or noticed that the amazing, silent Audi e-tron is in the new Avengers movie if they hadn't incorrectly added noise.
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by mrosett 7y ago
Given all of the other concerns raised by commenters in this thread, I wouldn't be surprised to find that there's some sort of data leakage as well.
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by mrosett 7y ago
This is cringy, but it's a non-story. Whoever posted it was probably in high school when that bailout happened.
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by mrosett 7y ago
On a different note, it’s oddly refreshing that the “dismantles” in the headline is literal and not attached to a video of someone yelling at political opponents.
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by mrosett 7y ago
An amazing bit of context here is that Accenture were the ones who got hired to replace the incompetent contractors who built the disastrous first version of healthcare.gov. Apparently large-scale web development projects have a hard time g
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by mrosett 8y ago
Interesting! I actually work for a non-profit now that does a lot of VC-ish work by making seed investments in early-stage companies.
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by mrosett 8y ago
I was a standard management consultant, hired right out of undergrad. Nothing technical - powerpoint and excel all day.
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by mrosett 8y ago
That's a good point. I haven't really come across bad online content, but that's probably because I've stuck to stuff coming out of top universities rather than random Udemy courses.
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by mrosett 8y ago
I wouldn't say it's astroturfing. People who participate in the program just seem to be really enthusiastic about it.
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by mrosett 8y ago
The thread is filled with other OMSCS students, so I may as well throw in my perspective as a grad. - The instruction quality is comparable to free online courses (which is unsurprising since it's all delivered over Udacity anyway.) -
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by mrosett 8y ago
I graduated 2 years ago next month and will say that doing the OMSCS was the best professional decision I've made. There's one unusual thing about my case though: I have a lot of prestige on my resume (Ivy league school, BCG, Goog
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by mrosett 8y ago
> It's not innovative to use MapReduce to do payroll reports at the end of a quarter, when a simple SQL query can produce the exact same thing. I really, really hope this is just a random illustrative example.
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by mrosett 8y ago
This stuff matters. I was fortunate enough to join a [trial]( https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00636168 ) for Yervoy the summer before it was approved by the FDA. Based on my reading of the outcomes, there
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by mrosett 8y ago
My knee-jerk reaction is to rephrase this as "Facebook calls for regulatory moat." A lot of these ideas seem reasonable, but I suspect they'd build Facebook's advantage. See [Ben Thompson]( https://stratechery.

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