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by seehafer 13y ago
You can easily live nowadays on a one-parent income... just not in the Bay Area. I lived in the Dallas area and that was the norm -- and not just for middle-income tech people either. A modest house (that doesn't cost much) and only on
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by seehafer 13y ago
TL;DR Yes.
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by seehafer 13y ago
HE WHO CONTROLS THE [STOCK] PRICE, CONTROLS THE UNIVERSE!
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by seehafer 13y ago
These guys are acting on that premise and ought to be supported: https://www.microryza.com/
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by seehafer 13y ago
I just spent 30 seconds trying to figure out what 'pg up' meant. Signs you read too much Hacker News: - You read "pg up" as "Paul Graham up"
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by seehafer 13y ago
And the Redditization of HN is now complete. Also, Godwin's law alert!
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by seehafer 13y ago
> I was referring to the generally sociopathic attitude they tend to adopt toward The Poor. Do you really expect anyone to engage with you when you call a well-known author a sociopath without justification? Might as well call her a chil
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by seehafer 13y ago
I'd bet anything the choice of board is due to Theranos looking to get military and/or other government contracts very, very soon.
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by seehafer 13y ago
This, and the choice of board is perfect if you're trying to get military and VA contracts.
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by seehafer 13y ago
An easier explanation is that most Americans are incredibly tribal in their thinking and how they evaluate the ethics of a particular situation. The left trusts Obama, and didn't trust Bush, and therefore surveillance that would have y
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by seehafer 13y ago
I'm not an expert, but I doubt if you pulled from FBI agents, CIA operatives, Special Forces, etc. that the ethnic profile would be > 90% white.
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by seehafer 13y ago
But who hires and tolerates the dumber, more xenophobic members of society for these positions? The biggest impediment to fixing or eliminating the TSA is that the decision makers don't eat their own dogfood. If every Congressperson ha
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by seehafer 13y ago
Israeli-style random questioning in all airports, conducted by highly-trained experts (not rent-a-cops), in conjunction with profiling.
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by seehafer 13y ago
I want to archive your comment and bring it up again next time there's a discussion of Rand on HN. Musk is her idea of a businessman-hero (yes, government loans notwithstanding... he doesn't have the luxury of playing in a free market to be
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by seehafer 14y ago
"They all suck, yet are all much better than our system." By what measure? If you're trying to see a specialist -- say, to get a surgeon -- soon, our system is far superior, which is why Canadians routinely cross the border to take advant
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by seehafer 14y ago
If you knew the difficulty/incentive trade-off involved in making sugar management easier relative to that involved in getting people to click on ads, you wouldn't ask this question. If web application developers had to jump through the sam
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by seehafer 14y ago
Would you take your same condescending tone against the 4 UCSF medical school professors who raised concerns about the backscatter x-rays? [1] Their contention is that the argument that the backscatter x-rays are 1/200th of the dose you get
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by seehafer 14y ago
I'd agree that most aren't, but that doesn't mean they're not trying to (laboring under mistaken assumptions and the like) This also depends on what making a "dent in the universe" means to you.
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by seehafer 14y ago
Posts like this always essentially boil down to one statement: "The startup (in the pg sense of the term) lifestyle is not for me." And that's ok. For most people, making a dent in the universe is not an existential need.
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by seehafer 14y ago
> I emphasize this because, to a layman, the word "treatment" implies a method that addresses causes, not effects. This is not the case. By this logic Tylenol is not a treatment for a headache. There are a lot of treatments that are tre
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by seehafer 14y ago
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (a non-invasive type of stimulation, in contrast to DBS) is cleared as a second-line (so, after one type of meds fails) treatment for depression. http://www.neuronetics.com/products-services/system/ If we
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by seehafer 14y ago
OK. Are current tools (like gnuplot and the others mentioned in this thread) good enough for you or is there some room for improvement?
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by seehafer 14y ago
That's great. Can you give us some idea of what kinds of data you're looking to chart and what sort of ability you'd like out of a tool like this? Noted on the animation.
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by seehafer 14y ago
That's right. Right now we're trying to get a handle on the interest in a tool like this.
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by seehafer 14y ago
According to the Woz, Atlas Shrugged influenced Steve: http://www.quora.com/Steve-Jobs/How-influential-was-Atlas-Sh...
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by seehafer 15y ago
As a product guy who works in medical device startups, I can reinforce this statement. Even if you find a way to exit the supply game by developing something that doctors have some choice over because they believe it has an impact on patien
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by seehafer 15y ago
Can you be more specific about what you're doing? I'm in medical device and I would love to see software startups help untangle the mess that is healthcare reimbursement and purchasing.
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by seehafer 15y ago
Do you have a source for the expenses that the average hospital incurs?
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by seehafer 15y ago
They choose to accept the rates Medicare offers. When one party offers an amount for a second party's services, and the second party accepts, they have just established the market rate for that transaction. Not when second party holds a m
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by seehafer 16y ago
Speaking as a guy in medical devices, I would love for a YC-like organization to exist for my industry, though I think the structure of any such organization would be quite different than what PG & Co. do now. Just three examples: First

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