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by pg_bot 8y ago
Can you expand your reasoning a bit further? I believe what you are implying that the issuer of the currency has some control over how the currency is exchanged between third parties.
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by pg_bot 8y ago
If dollars are immediately exchangeable for the fair value of your currency of choice, and it doesn't cost anything to change one currency to another, does it matter what currency the transaction happens in? (I know we don't live
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to 3 Evolutionary Scientists(nytimes.com)
103 points by pg_bot 8y ago|33 comments
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by pg_bot 8y ago
May I suggest "My Years with General Motors" by Alfred Sloan
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by pg_bot 8y ago
"If you want Calculon to race to the laser gun battle in his hover-Ferarri, press 1. If you want Calculon to double-check his paperwork, press 2. Enter now." [1]: Violent Lasergun Battle [2]: Tedious Paperwork https://w
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Depending on the test or procedure a 95% reduction in price is doable. Our clinic does every test and procedure at cost to remove the financial incentive to order. The wholesale price for most things is very low. For example, we charge pa
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Very few doctors are set up to provide cash quotes. You are more likely to find this situation in primary care (general practitioner) than other specialties since you are more likely to use your primary care physician on a regular schedule.
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by pg_bot 8y ago
I run a competitor to Atlas MD, we've been testing our product by creating a clinic in South Carolina. Feel free to ask me anything (within reason) and I would be happy to do my best to answer your questions.
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by pg_bot 8y ago
The problem is that the fax takes until tomorrow morning, not that it comes as a fax. You could get the information over the phone, carrier pigeon, or smoke signal it doesn't matter the mechanism. (the latter two are likely not HIPAA c
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Speaking as someone who owns a company that makes electronic health records, interoperability between systems is not the bottleneck that people in technology think it is. The time it takes to request and receive records on a patient is meas
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by pg_bot 8y ago
If you knowingly engage or are an accessory to bad behavior, you are a bad person. Another person potentially replacing you does not absolve you of your actions. This defense didn't work in Nuremberg, and it won't work with me. A
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by pg_bot 8y ago
I made no such argument for no regulation. My argument is that we have a set of rules, and we should not interfere with decision making if rules have not been broken. If in response to some exploitation of the rules which you deem as unheal
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by pg_bot 8y ago
I'm not advocating for anarchy, just that we stick to the laws that are actually codified. We should be reactive to bad behavior, not proactive. Instead of blanket calls for regulation, we should be specific and considerate when making
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by pg_bot 8y ago
This "broad pattern of unaccountable decision making", also called permissionless innovation, is the reason why America has a culture of innovation. For those unaware, the United States runs on what I call "Air Bud rules&quot
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Incorrect - everything related to the protocol, including becoming a compatible vendor, is managed by the fido alliance which Yubico is a member of. The U2F specification requires you to parse the certificate, and verify the response messag
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by pg_bot 8y ago
The manufacturer is irrelevant to the protocol, they may have asked you for these details but they do not matter. You can even emulate the key in software if you wanted.
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by pg_bot 8y ago
While this is a great step forward for U2F adoption, AWS made the same mistake several other online services have made by only allowing a single key per account. The typical U2F user carries at least two keys. (one on their person and one s
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by pg_bot 8y ago
While this is an interesting curiosity, it is inferior to the Murphy bed. People move, and like to rearrange their furniture in their own places. The straps are unpleasant to look at, and likely have a higher failure rate due to their comp
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Perhaps I can clarify why this was a terrible decision. As written this feature enables special privileges unavailable to other website developers via a direct integration with the browser. Imagine if some other company automatically added
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Shock and Denial is the first stage in the 7 stages of grief. The chrome team is clearly in the wrong here, and it will take some time for them to realize that they screwed up and that they need to fix it.
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by pg_bot 8y ago
For those that are unaware this is one of the Millenium problems set by the Clay mathematical institute. Its proof carries a million dollar prize along with it. If it holds up, this would be the second out of 7 to have been solved. An expla
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by pg_bot 8y ago
If I flipped a light switch and the room caught on fire, I hope that your response won't be: "I've never seen this happen before and I've been in some pretty insane buildings" I've never seen anything like it h
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Have reported there before and have gotten no attention to any issues previously posted. In my experience bugzilla has been a black hole and reaching out via public channels is more effective at influencing change in an organization. I unde
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by pg_bot 8y ago
I want to switch to Firefox, but the developer tools simply do not work at all. Every time I try to use the console on the site that I'm working on, the tab freezes and everything just stops working. (This immediately happens, not afte
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by pg_bot 8y ago
We recently experienced an issue where a recurring subscription in our service was double charged to one of our client's credit cards. It took me three attempts communicating with their customer service before they determined that it w
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Tested on firefox and chrome and the animation is inconsistently janky. Based on a quick overview of the source code I would suggest looking at requestAnimationFrame[0] to smooth out the problems. Other than that, looks interesting. [0]: h
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by pg_bot 8y ago
I hated page length requirements in school. Dragging a paper to five pages when you can make the point in three is a waste for everyone. Focus your writing and everyone will be better off.
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Cool glad to hear from an insider about how things are/were run. Do you have any more insight on what your performance budget is/was for a typical request/response cycle? We aim for sub millisecond response time at the 99th p
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by pg_bot 8y ago
I'm basically advocating for a system similar to Erlang Term Storage (ETS) but for those who don't use Erlang. Given that rewriting reddit in Erlang/Elixir would be unpalatable we can take the lessons from how other systems m
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Everyone is reading the same thing on reddit, just different combinations of the same thing. Reddit is just a combination of multiple newspapers masquerading as a single custom newspaper. No reason why the internals should leak to what is

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