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by paul 13y ago
How many tons of dirt do you need to move to give intensive care to an infant? I spent quite a bit of time in the NICU and was never able to locate the $10,000/day expense. Medical expenses have more to do with billing codes and reimbu
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by paul 13y ago
I'm aware of that kind of thinking, which is why I'm glad you aren't running the medical system. Consider who you're talking about when you say, "The cost of replacing the thing".
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by paul 13y ago
My daughter had a similar birth and hospital stay, which also produced a million dollar insurance bill. It costs about $10,000/day to stay in the NICU. I was never able work out why it costs so much, except that this is a major profit
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by paul 13y ago
Words are meaningless without definition. You say that the word "bro" is needlessly offensive. Let me ask you, where is your balance point? What is the right level of offensive? The cost of censorship is real, and teaching people
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by paul 13y ago
Perhaps you are unaware of the history of unix.
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by paul 13y ago
Evil is teaching people to view themselves as weak victims at every available opportunity.
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by paul 13y ago
Your attitude and remarks are creating a hostile and uncomfortable environment for me. I demand that you stop immediately.
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by paul 13y ago
Awesome idea. Shame about the humorless nature of this community. To me, a "bro" is a dumb, fratboy version of a man, which makes the name hilariously perfect. If you're feeling oppressed and excluded by a command name, your
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by paul 13y ago
I like to tell the startups: We invest in people, so if you aren't taking care of yourself, then you aren't taking care of my investment. Big successes take a long time -- Dropbox is almost seven years old now and still has a long
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by paul 13y ago
Napa and Sonoma don't seem to mind the alcohol tourism.
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by paul 13y ago
I'm most bullish on bitcoin when I read articles such as this one, and most skeptical when I read the thoughts of the bitcoin believers. It's truly the most interesting technological development in years, if only because it reveal
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by paul 13y ago
I wish someone would tell me what all these loopholes are so I could stop paying taxes too...
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by paul 13y ago
It's not about solitude so much as the ability to control the contents and direction of our thoughts. Being responsive on email often requires giving up that control, fragmenting our attention and preventing the formation of larger tho
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by paul 13y ago
I feel like the inability to focus for long periods of time is holding back progress in many areas. If we can't even stay away from email for a few days, how can we clear our minds of conventional thinking?
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by paul 13y ago
Don't mistake cynicism for insight.
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by paul 13y ago
Actually, exceptions are where all of the money is made in this business. The top 1% of startups produce the majority of the returns, which is why we all want to invest in the next Google or Facebook, even if we're not 100% certain tha
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by paul 13y ago
It helps to know the founders and internal metrics, which nobody here does. I honestly don't know if Snapchat is worth $3B or not, but I certainly wouldn't dismiss them.
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by paul 13y ago
It's funny that people here think he's making fun of snapchat, but the article is from 2009. He was making fun of facebook's $6.5b valuation (or maybe it was $10b). The fact that he was completely wrong (fb is now over $100b)
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by paul 13y ago
This isn't one of the apps that I read, but that would definitely be a negative for me. The world doesn't need more class divisions.
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by paul 13y ago
Materialism is such a narrow and limiting dogma.
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by paul 13y ago
He forgot to mention keeping the computer in a faraday cage. If he has Snowden info, it seems likely that intelligence agencies would be monitoring him closely enough to use Van Eck phreaking to spy on his laptop display (or other part of t
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by paul 13y ago
Medical tourism partially solves this. If someone develops an amazing treatment I need, I wouldn't mind traveling to another country to get it.
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by paul 13y ago
California requires a thumb print to get a drivers license, so I'm already in the government database :(
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by paul 13y ago
Having personally gone through some very difficult times, this is one of the startups that I'm most excited about for the very simple reason that I believe it has the potential to help millions of people in a very direct and personal w
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by paul 13y ago
Looks awesome. I especially like the conversation column showing diffs and messages together -- it seems like an elegant way to collaborate. Congratulations Bret and team!
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by paul 13y ago
If the government hasn't done anything wrong, then they shouldn't have anything to hide from us :) More seriously, some amount of surveillance is probably necessary, but they need to be a lot more open and transparent about it. Se
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by paul 13y ago
The is beautiful. Jobs is great at stating his position in a way that is simple and direct, yet crushing.
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by paul 13y ago
The fundamental error of this piece is that it assumes that if you vote Democratic, you're by definition not an engineer. (not really, but to me it makes as much sense as your statement) How does being a part of the evil "one percent" make
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by paul 13y ago
It would be nice to see the list of 200 companies. A lot of detail gets lost in those graphs.
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by paul 13y ago
Maybe we have a different definition of hacking. I'm not particularly good at molding myself to cater to other people's whims, which is part of the reason I have always avoided normal jobs. However, that doesn't mean I can't still be mindfu

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