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by trendia 9y ago
The author says the prices are too high, but doesn't explain how to get the prices down. I can't find a policy that the author proposes to keep prices down, or any evidence of how a policy would affect prices.
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by trendia 9y ago
The three issues of healthcare: 1. Who has access to it? 2. How much does it cost? 3. Who pays for it? This article mostly addresses (1) and somewhat (3), but doesn't really give enough attention to (2). If pharmaceutical companies are
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by trendia 9y ago
(I'm not op). It's not that there's a regression-to-mean force that eliminates abnormal symptoms. It's more that the symptoms have some underlying cause that will fix itself over time. If you start some intervention (suc
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by trendia 9y ago
> The employees are usually the vulnerability which makes it especially strange for the CEO to call it a "bug bounty". I'm not quite sure how a bug in humans can be resolved by a contract IT firm.
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by trendia 9y ago
It seems that Gorsuch is indeed aligned with Scalia as far as the Fourth Amendment is concerned. Gorsuch has argued that the state must have a valid warrant to perform a search, that the warrant must have been properly executed and obtained
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by trendia 9y ago
Here's the key to running a successful accelerator: 1. find people that would be able to succeed in any environment 2. invite them to work for you under your accelerator. Don't do anything particularly special to help them 3. take
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by trendia 9y ago
Looks cool! Feature request: https
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by trendia 9y ago
The ghosts.
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by trendia 9y ago
I paid for Windows 10 Pro and had to spend time removing all the adware they push. It's extremely unprofessional.
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by trendia 9y ago
Another example: a lot of rural areas have patches of gravel roads. It's not obvious from Google maps where the roads go from paved to gravel (and they sometimes do it in random sections). Naively looking at a map, you'd think a r
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by trendia 9y ago
Companies with a profit motive don't want to hire people of a certain race but rather of a certain personality , one that will earn them profit. In many cases, they'll be looking for people who are easily instructed what to do
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by trendia 9y ago
I can mentally ignore links, but I don't mentally ignore bold. I assume that if an author is using bold, then they're trying to tell me something really important. But, if bolding hyperlinks becomes the "new style" of on
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by trendia 9y ago
Suppose you decide not to hire someone. That might be OK. What if a coworker recommends not hiring them because they don't like the person? Again, that's probably OK. But now consider if you read a list created by various people,
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by trendia 9y ago
As they say, any bureaucracy will eventually be controlled by people trying to preserve the bureaucracy rather than those trying to achieve the actual goals of the bureaucracy. Or: > Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that i
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by trendia 9y ago
Did non-HDD factories in Thailand experience a similar price increase after the tsunamis? (I don't know the answer -- I'm just curious)
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by trendia 9y ago
Take downtown SF ($463). If you pay for your own health insurance starting at age 26 and stopping at 76, you will have paid: $450 * 12 * 50 = $270,000 No wonder pharma companies in the US make a killing.
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by trendia 9y ago
First seen here: "I am hodling." https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0
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by trendia 9y ago
With a warrant, oversight, and a lack of coordination with foreign governments.
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by trendia 9y ago
Peanut butter is even cheaper than that -- 10 people can smell the same peanut butter but they can't fit in the same Pet scanner.
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by trendia 9y ago
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” Cloudera founder Hammerbacher once infamously said. “That sucks.”
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by trendia 9y ago
"""One of her earliest investors, Timothy Draper, was an old neighbor from childhood. Another, Don Lucas, was the friend of her father's college classmate. (Lucas brought on Oracle founder Lawrence Ellison, according to
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by trendia 9y ago
Visa is working to prevent people from using cash in stores [0]. Currently, they are merely giving merchants an incentive to change, but in the future they may use their immense lobbying power to get preferential legislation enacted. Once c
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by trendia 9y ago
"Look, I wrote a neural network to write a simple Lisp interpreter."
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by trendia 9y ago
Maybe I'm an outlier since I eat so much (>2500 calories/day), but I find that takeout takes a LOT of time, since I only get 1 meal and it takes me 30 min to get the food. In comparison, when I cook for myself, I have plenty of
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by trendia 9y ago
Juan Carlos I of Spain. (Not exactly the same, but he could have had absolute power and chose to give that up) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_transition_to_democr...
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by trendia 9y ago
Opinion pieces are still subject to approval by the editor and reflect the broader narrative of the news organization. Simply compare the opinion pieces in the NYT (more left leaning) to those in the WSJ (more right leaning) -- there is a c
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by trendia 9y ago
If you're investing your own money, then you'd definitely want to test it out so that you can ensure that 1) it's easy to build and 2) people are willing to pay to use the tunnel. However, if you want the government to subsid
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by trendia 9y ago
You don't even need to be comfortable with assembly and tuning -- just take it to a local bike shop and they'll do it for a small fee ($50 - $100)
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The Supreme Court argued that it's cobstitutional to impose a tax on everyone and have a deduction if you have health insurance. It's entirely equivalent to a fine for not having healthcare, in that the result of both policies is
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by trendia 9y ago
Is it cheaper to buy 1 case of water for $2.50 or 3 cases of water for $9.00 ? If you get a $1,000 loan at 1% interest each month , how much will you owe in 1 year? You can buy a phone for $500 or pay Verizon $16.70 / month for 36 mon

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