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by notadoc 9y ago
How, specifically, is this going to improve health care while making insurance cheaper and more widely available? This should be easy to explain, right?
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by notadoc 10y ago
> the US simply seems culturally incapable of healthy approaches to easing kids through becoming adults on a number of dimensions. Unfortunately this is true and applies to a broad range of subjects.
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by notadoc 10y ago
Find a way to take a mental break in some form. If not a vacation then embrace a new hobby. Find something unrelated to work that is different and enjoyable, and do it often enough to find enjoyment and relaxation in it. You also might just
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by notadoc 10y ago
Have you read Manufacturing Consent? You might find it interesting.
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by notadoc 10y ago
It has long been established that medical bills are the leading cause of bankruptcy and a significant cost burden, this is not new information. http://www.cnbc.com/id/100840148 http://www.npr.org/sectio
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by notadoc 10y ago
Wow "soros.news" sounds like a really legitimate news source! Would you say they on par with WSJ and Financial Times? Maybe even better?
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by notadoc 10y ago
> I think the whole "fake news" thingy seems to politicaly motivated. Sure, branding real news as fake news is politically motivated, whereas labeling what is the clearly the equivalent of the most absurd supermarket tabloids
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by notadoc 10y ago
If those locations were deemed "cool" by the trendy and trend seeking zeitgeist they would suddenly be doing well. It's often perception and cultural attention that drives interest in an area, you can see many examples of thi
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by notadoc 10y ago
> Get a new 2000sq ft 4 bedroom home for $150k-$200k within 15min drive of the beach. Wow, and that is exactly my point. For what is barely a down payment out west you could theoretically just buy a home outright. Imagine the equivalent
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by notadoc 10y ago
Weather in SF and LA is likable, but Seattle and Portland are dreadfully rain soaked and socked in clouds for 9 months of the year. You don't move to the latter two locations for the weather, you move there because they are considered
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by notadoc 10y ago
Have you been to either? Texas is quite nice, and has great weather. Cost of living is a small fraction compared to the bay area or west coast cities too.
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by notadoc 10y ago
OK so how about a city like Albany NY, which is not far outside of NYC and is somewhere between 1/10th to 1/25th the cost of housing as found in the bay area.
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by notadoc 10y ago
> When I moved to the Bay Area, I justified the increased cost of living as the sunshine tax as well as the cost of reducing the risk of unemployment in a down economy. Texas offers more sun and a solid stable economy as well as much low
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by notadoc 10y ago
A related thought... Startups and tech companies should pick a few midwestern or NE cities and open offices there. Imagine if Cleveland Ohio was a tech hub and "cool" by any vague stretch that a western city is, housing there is p
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by notadoc 10y ago
Somewhat shocking there is not a clinic for this in the USA, isn't it?
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by notadoc 10y ago
It requires very specific skilled labor, but it is a great idea if you can find a way to scale it. There is certainly the demand. If you have the interest and passion, then come up with a reasonable business plan, find a partner who knows b
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by notadoc 10y ago
Maybe on the west coast and western USA. But the suburban dream of middle class life at low prices is alive and well in the midwest, south, and much of the NE too, where nice housing is still no more than 2x-3.5x median income levels.
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by notadoc 10y ago
Concierge medicine, VIP wards, liquid biopsies with annuals, transplant priority, there are many examples where resources or connections grant access to the upper tier of the medical system.
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by notadoc 10y ago
Phage therapy is often effective and very promising, but it's specific to each infection, labor intensive, and basically impossible to scale up or patent to mass produce like an antibiotic is (perhaps why it hasn't caught on). ht
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by notadoc 10y ago
How, specifically, is this helpful to the consumer or to the internet in general?
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by notadoc 10y ago
Dongles, a dream come true. Maybe in another 5, 10 years.
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by notadoc 10y ago
comment karma like here on hackernews is sort of an "anonymous reputation system" is it not?
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by notadoc 10y ago
A few hundred euros a month is not a business model. OK maybe it's different with something high volume, perhaps a large volume popular website that focuses on apps... two seconds on Google reveals "Touch Arcade" is a large v
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by notadoc 10y ago
If the goal is to repatriate earnings why not incentivize repatriation instead? Bring it back tax-free if you invest it in R&D on needed projects, x many new jobs, etc.
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by notadoc 10y ago
Sooo, cover garbage dumps in caterpillars?
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by notadoc 10y ago
Who would want to promote something for $0.025 commission on a $1 sale? The volume needed for that to be any sort of business model seems extraordinarily high.
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by notadoc 10y ago
Why isn't Canada considering the needs of big money and special interests?
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by notadoc 10y ago
Turn off your cell phone. Go take a long walk in nature, away from a city and the related noise and distractions. Try to make it a regular habit. You will benefit and find it enjoyable. The Santa Cruz mountains, redwoods, Point Reyes, etc,
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by notadoc 10y ago
It is never ending bad news about this company.
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by notadoc 10y ago
My personal opinion is that doctors and patients should be able to use anything at all that works for them, assuming risk is understood sufficiently. It is, frankly, nobodies business but theirs.

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