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by subhobroto 10y ago
> Your insurance doesn't pay us enough to do the whole "personal estimated bill" I respect that you are a MD from Harvard Medical School. Obviously you are very smart, and hard working. Deep inside you, something must be t
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by subhobroto 10y ago
TLDR: Stop capitalizing on suffering. The reason why people on this thread are complaining is not because they have a natural disposition against doctors: it's because they have been taken advantage of! Long post: Good point, except th
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by subhobroto 10y ago
As you note, groceries are one of the most cut throat industries in the continental U.S. We import food from all other parts of the world and not end up paying through the nose for them. My belief is price transparency is party the reason f
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by subhobroto 10y ago
Would very much appreciate if you could share this very thought here: https://www.quora.com/Has-the-ACA-removed-the-incentives-for... > In 2010 my doctor would get $100-120, now he gets $55-75 for the same visit. While n
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by subhobroto 10y ago
In a sane system the health insurance pays for only catastrophic scenarios and has nothign to do with employment. Providers post prices publicly and compete on said prices while maintaining customer satisfaction. The US does not do that. We
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by subhobroto 10y ago
Unless the work product is directly related to the number of hours put in (say cutting trees), the concept of fairness is a bit skewed. I wrote a very long comment expanding on this : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121
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by subhobroto 10y ago
Let's discount that programmers are human begins: let's assume programmers are exactly like rotary tools that can run 12 hours a day, everyday, including weekends. Every tool has a fixed number of cycles before something gives and
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by subhobroto 10y ago
> My future boss to be told me that he had an more or less fixed absolute upper limit he tries to keep employees payroll below This is very interesting. I don't know the details, but does he adjust to inflation at the least? Is it a
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by subhobroto 10y ago
Absolutely. I shared my thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11750840
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by subhobroto 10y ago
TLDR: I feel we, the people in the online advertising industry, have failed at our duties. We have failed to show relevant ads. People who would benefit from relevant ads don't see it, and those who have no interest get ads shoved to t
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by subhobroto 10y ago
Hello! I love my Ringplus! Feel free to say Hi : https://social.ringplus.net/profile/33/subhobroto
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by subhobroto 10y ago
The topup fees go straight to your account balance minus the taxes. You are able to use that balance for any overages. They did start charging upgrade fees for a few promotions but that is often 0 too.
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by subhobroto 10y ago
Hello! I love my Ringplus! Feel free to say Hi : https://social.ringplus.net/profile/33/subhobroto > The future of phone service is free. For Ringplus, yes. For other providers, perhaps inexpensive enough to be
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by subhobroto 11y ago
I see many responses but no one seems to have asked a question that I view as fundamental: what's the role of that employee in that company? 1. Is this employee supposed to man the lines? Is he a support line person who has to answer p
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by subhobroto 14y ago
If you are in Southern California or willing to relocate, please reach out to me.
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by subhobroto 14y ago
I am pretty sure you will have more suggestions coming up, but what do you see lacking in "free" offerings like: http://whoreadme.com/ The core concept is akin to pixel tracking done by a lot of companies for their analytics: however in m
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by subhobroto 14y ago
+1, and this can be complimentary to fabric like scripts too to make pretty powerful scripts!
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by subhobroto 14y ago
I have found this extremely useful - used it to write many things - from a set of scripts that bootstrap chef server onto a node from scratch to a file chunking program that optimizes log files to align with hadoop block sizes using multipr
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by subhobroto 15y ago
This experience sounds specific to the "PC Deposit" implementation by Chase and if it's how they have educated their customer like the author, I am worried: 1. A check never "clears" the same day. The check may post the same day but they ta
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by subhobroto 15y ago
Regardless of the nature of addiction in his specific case, I can assure you there are people who don't get the rush from coffee (even without prior exposure, that can possibly increase your level of tolerance). Me for example, I feel very
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by subhobroto 15y ago
I would say embedded systems is more of a CE major than CS, but before you decide on what you want to major in, do take time to reflect on whether you would have worked on it even if you had no one paying you money for it. There are multipl
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by subhobroto 15y ago
People genuinely and "deeply interested" in solving problems with tools one has (easy/open) access to. More importantly, they don't back down if such tools do not exist already.