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by shimon 8y ago
After I read to the end, I half expected it to load more calendar fallacies.
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by shimon 8y ago
This sounds reasonable in isolation, but ignores the reality that the price you set is a big, blunt tool that determines who your users are. For some products, such as those that are challenging to start using but increase in value over tim
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by shimon 8y ago
The key examples of massive spread chosen for this article are all in novel generics. These drugs are going to have massive price volatility because multiple generic vendors are entering the market at the same time, and they're flowing
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by shimon 8y ago
This article criticizes the spread that Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) make - the difference between the price they charge a payer (state program, employer, or insurer) and what they pay a pharmacy for a drug. But this spread exists as a
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by shimon 8y ago
This is a good point. Newly launched generic drugs go through a period of rapid price adjustment, where at first they are priced only a little bit below the brand-name drug. Then as more generics become available (and keep in mind we'r
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by shimon 8y ago
The Python Paradox (2004): http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html The name may not have aged well...
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by shimon 8y ago
I'm not suggesting directly asking these questions of the other person. I'm suggesting these as topics for you to think about if you're getting the polite excuse and want the actual reason. To get that you have to actually ma
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by shimon 8y ago
Have you tried the large button their website?
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by shimon 8y ago
For a swath of business responsibilities, this "phantom legal risk" is the Most Available Excuse (TM). We see Most Available Excuses in product feedback ("it's too hard to use" is easier to say than "I didn&#x2
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by shimon 8y ago
The invisible code is a very important part of a self-driving car. If you wanted to enter this market you'd need a company with the ability to devote billions to multi-year R&D activities and hire great engineers & scientists w
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by shimon 8y ago
I did something like this in an app for art collectors once. My client wanted very different forms and styles for different objects -- say a coin vs. a stamp. The templates to render the forms were thus very complex and specified every fiel
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by shimon 8y ago
They probably shouldn't try to compete so generally. "Better business email than outlook" is a very very difficult challenge. "Better tools to help developers who prefer Linux on the desktop function in a company committ
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by shimon 8y ago
This is exactly the logic that led Intel down this path. They thought they were avoiding a field with low margins and could deepen their manufacturing advantage by remaining focused on the high-margin data center business. Meanwhile, the gr
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by shimon 8y ago
Very common now. All the pharmacies in my primary health system's offices use these: https://innovat.com/pharmassist-robotx/
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by shimon 8y ago
Yes, most houses in the US and Canada are built using these types of materials. Specifically they are: - A poured concrete foundation. (Sometimes blocks are used.) - Dimensional lumber - spruce/pine/fir cut to standard dimensions
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by shimon 8y ago
And conversely, the thing that today's houses have in their favor is that there's a ton more engineering knowledge and testing applied to the materials and construction. They will last a very long time, and they will do better at
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by shimon 8y ago
I don't think most maintainers of open source projects would agree with your optimistic expectations about the reasonableness of the vast majority of people.
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by shimon 8y ago
To add on: your design is fine. Work on pinpointing what burning problem you solve and how your solution is better. I had a hard time imagining the answers to these, so maybe you could start with today's default solution - Slack plus i
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by shimon 8y ago
I recommend the "Switch Container" extension for this. For developers, containers and this extension also make it super easy to test what a page looks like when logged in as a different user.
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by shimon 9y ago
This is probably my favorite line in all of Tom Lehrer's work. It's so sharp, the rhyme is surprising but phonetically perfect. And it's delivered right at the most musically interesting part of the song. I probably laughed f
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by shimon 9y ago
FYI, Google Sheets has limited SQL support via their =QUERY() function: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093343?hl=en This has come in handy for me recently, but it's painful to try and edit even a sim
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by shimon 9y ago
* wherever possible Which means sure, if it works out, but mostly these are probably still going into the trash.
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by shimon 9y ago
It's a rare purchase with high profit margins and limited differentiation between brands. In other words, whatever store/vendor you go to first has a great shot at getting your business, and you'll totally forget about them b
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by shimon 9y ago
Of course it's a marketing ploy! Mattresses are a great example of an area where the marketing ploys are really an inescapable part of the perception of value. If you think you're buying a great, innovative mattress design, you&#x
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by shimon 9y ago
We had a Leesa but returned it because it was too soft. Got a Helix mattress instead (lots of options for firmness etc.), which has been pretty good for about 2 years. The "return" for the Leesa was a disposal truck from 1-800-Got
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by shimon 9y ago
I think all these suggestions could help. But it seems highly unlikely that a single company (even a powerful one like Google) can categorically solve the problem through these methods. The reason I asked about your view of feasibility here
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by shimon 9y ago
Do you believe it feasible for Google, or even a theoretical consortium of powerful companies like Google, to solve the gender, race, and socioeconomic inequalities in access to education and other resources that enable someone to work at s
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by shimon 9y ago
Patients also often want more stuff to be done. Humans evaluate treatment decisions as "let's keep trying vs. give up" not "I'd take on a 5% risk of complications for a 20% better chance of living another 3 months&q
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by shimon 9y ago
You're right, but upwork is the dominant marketplace for low-cost contract labor. It is the merger of what was previously a duopoly in the space (elance and odesk) and the network effects are strong. So maybe it's not quite as mon
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by shimon 9y ago
Is it easy to move outside of upwork for the financial side, and still have some recourse on both sides? If I'm a US client working with a contractor in Russia, I'd be concerned about taxes, currency conversion, etc. I don't

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