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by shimon 10y ago
I think he meant a legal precedent defining whether the following constitutes harassment: > Refusing to talk to a person's lawyer, then saying "we will be attempting to talk to this person without a lawyer present" IANAL,
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by shimon 10y ago
It's not really as parallel as you suggest, though it is ironic. Using a mid-wife in the US means starting out in a birth center with a nurse midwife, and finishing there assuming no dangerous complications. There is usually a quick ro
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by shimon 10y ago
I agree this would be politically problematic, but not for the reason you provide. Doctors already spend tons of money on private malpractice insurance; this national pool would just be a different administration of the same insurance payme
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by shimon 10y ago
The sorting out is exactly the problem. A mistake in an aircraft, combined with some bad luck, leads to a crash. Everyone knows what that is and it triggers a government review. In medicine, most mistakes are not obvious. A doctor who makes
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by shimon 10y ago
Actually, maybe it can? If we can ignore the somewhat tasteless aspect of this, what if the Bay Area was just a playground for kids who get 6-figure salaries at graduation, and then stay at high-paying jobs there? It becomes extremely eliti
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by shimon 10y ago
Zoom out - you're missing the huge demographic risk. The next generation of people who will become top engineers, founders, etc. are facing tougher tradeoffs between standard of living and access to SV's social and business netwo
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by shimon 10y ago
This is a very insightful comment. It's also important to understand the reason you can't have both, in the US, is political. Infrastructure spending in the US is currently below depreciation ( http://blogs.wsj.com/
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by shimon 10y ago
How else could he have gotten Windows 95 running on an Apple Watch? Recompile Windows? Swap out a processor? The fact remains that this article describes something novel and technically difficult. If you have a better suggestion of how a Re
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by shimon 10y ago
For those specific companies that lose good teams, yes. But you could certainly argue that anything that moves workers into better jobs more efficiently is improving the allocation of resources in the economy, so it's a net upside.
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by shimon 11y ago
Minor clarification: when we bought through Redfin in 2010, the rebate came as a check a week or two after closing, not a contribution to closing costs. Adding a transaction to the already complex closing process would not have been worth t
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by shimon 11y ago
"The hospital said it will pay $125,000, its insurance carrier $475,000 and Texas Tech University, which operates a medical school campus at the hospital, $500,000." If I understand correctly, this means the hospital and affiliate
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by shimon 11y ago
Some background from the ACLU of New Mexico, which filed this suit: https://www.aclu-nm.org/aclu-of-texas-and-new-mexico-sue-fed... I tried to find an update on this case (originally filed in 2013) and only found this 2015
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by shimon 11y ago
What would be a fair price in your view?
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by shimon 11y ago
Cool idea. I looked at your demo, but all I could get from it was a report of visit counts by diagnosis/symptom. Can you explain how the example question you offered (Sarcoidosis, headache, readmit) could be answered? Is your goal to b
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by shimon 11y ago
Of course. There are some general lessons about communication that you can learn from these examples. But nobody will do the right thing in every social situation 100% of the time. It's not that you don't have valid complaints her
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by shimon 11y ago
Great point. It's facile to dismiss regulation as a whole when in fact well-crafted regulations can be quite beneficial.
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by shimon 11y ago
How could you legislate that without restricting novel developments in car technology? Requiring the electronic control and diagnostic systems to speak an owner-accessible protocol should give a lot of the benefits while still allowing legi
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by shimon 11y ago
Past the headline, PG never claimed MSFT would actually die (or even cease to make lots of money). http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
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by shimon 11y ago
This is a nice move, but if you think this changes the "Microsoft is dead" statement (not prediction) then you don't appreciate what Microsoft was as compared to what Microsoft is today. In the 1990s, Microsoft was in many te
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by shimon 11y ago
If your goal is to demystify a haute-programming concept for people who think of themselves as regular programmers, why not use the most popular language? It's not like they're saying javascript should be used for all compilers. E
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by shimon 11y ago
That's hardly the only alternative. A visitor could instead pay them to be a guide, even a mountaineering guide on another thrilling but less suicidal trek.
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by shimon 11y ago
Assuming the Sherpas aren't forced into this line of work, then you're right - they're choosing it over the alternatives because it's a better option for them. That doesn't mean that it's ethical for visitors t
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by shimon 11y ago
Yes, because if the design is trivial, or obvious given the problem domain, then the thing being copied doesn't meet the bar for being a creative work.
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by shimon 11y ago
If you're willing to accept things that compile to in-browser javascript, check out Elm's magical time-traveling debugger: http://debug.elm-lang.org/
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by shimon 11y ago
Minor factual correction: The Google Docs article on this site says "When Google launched Docs in 2012"... but Docs launched way earlier than that (Feb 2007 according to https://www.google.com/webhp?q=when%20did%20
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by shimon 11y ago
Of course you need a good idea and resources. But success in an enterprise environment also requires more than just the team. It requires developing a clear vision of what you're going to build, participation from marketing and sales t
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by shimon 11y ago
It's a broad stereotype, but I don't think it's entirely wrong. My social awkwardness definitely contributed to my spending more time on the PC as a kid, and that got me excited about computers. I've since improved my so
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by shimon 11y ago
Alternative, concise restatement: This already exists. The team is a startup, and the companies that bid for you are investors.
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by shimon 11y ago
I think it's way more important. When you're working productively with people you enjoy working with, it's almost hard to imagine feeling bad about your job. This is one key advantage of startups, actually. Just take your dre
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by shimon 11y ago
While I agree that there are many confusing jurisdictional pitfalls in incorporation and banking, this isn't one of them. SVB in particular has customers all over the nation and it is ludicrous to suggest that a state's tax author

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