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by warcher 10y ago
I'm gonna read the article, I promise, but is the title really "If your internet is bad, the internet is bad"?
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by warcher 10y ago
My point, more specifically, is that the US healthcare system is in a state of regulatory capture due to various market failures in our implementation of employer-based health insurance. I would go further and say that employer-based healt
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by warcher 10y ago
Oh it's absolutely complicated, but hilariously inefficient and corrupt on both a macro and a micro level. On every level you examine the system it's a bugfuck.
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by warcher 10y ago
I just realized that my last two posts are poo-pooing Silicon Valley's recent unwillingness to stay in its lane. I'm not trying to be negative here, it's just... man, it's a big old world and software isn't eating
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by warcher 10y ago
My dawg, you just named several things that require physical contact for energy transfer (ie they plug into the wall) and one wireless system that will literally kill you if you stay out in it unprotected. I don't know if you meant to
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by warcher 10y ago
In the united states we can't successfully implement negotiation on drug prices for MediCare . They literally can't negotiate with their suppliers. By law. Anybody thinking software is going to solve that is way in a bubble. h
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by warcher 10y ago
As somebody who came from an electrical engineering background into software, literally from the bottom of the bottom on a physical layer level.... Software VC would really benefit from a couple emag classes before trying to disrupt physics
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by warcher 10y ago
Protip: I moved my legacy phone number (the number you get for customer service calls, that I hand out publicly, etc) over to google voice years ago. It follows me from phone to phone as I move carriers, everybody can reach me, and their
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by warcher 10y ago
One really important caveat here-- nature abhors a vacuum, and spinal cord injuries are no exception. A chronic injury to the spinal column will result in scar tissue coming in over the wound, which is a totally separate issue from the i
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by warcher 10y ago
Don't be stupid. I could make a circa 1995 website trivially using modern tools. But who wants a circa 1995 website in 2017? No matter what you give em, they only want more, more, more. Which is, of course, fine with me.
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by warcher 10y ago
I hate to go Godwin on you, but the Nazis also expelled a great number of jewish scientists that turned around and developed the atomic bomb for the US. So you have the V2 rocket on one hand and the atomic bomb on the other. I think your
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by warcher 10y ago
We sell a lot of stuff to women. It's nice to have a couple in the shop someplace.
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by warcher 10y ago
I'll say as somebody low enough on the food chain to need to work harder at hiring, but high enough that I do make those decisions, I actively seek out folks outside the usual boxes . I look real hard for people that aren't guar
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by warcher 10y ago
Everybody's hiring practices are pretty broken. As a white male engineer, I've never really had any success even getting an interview with ordinary tech companies out of engineering school. Had to start my own. Going ok, has be
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by warcher 10y ago
Yeah, and it's virtually inevitable that city hall catches up with them eventually somewhere . They have to win all the city hall fights everywhere . Also Lyft does too-- if Lyft ever capitulates in exchange for licensure, Uber has
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by warcher 10y ago
No offense, but they can and they do get that, routinely. You go to a judge, get a warrant, and you get pretty nearly anything you want. Similarly, there exist licensure and reporting requirements for taxi and hotel companies, for really
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by warcher 10y ago
I tell a lot of younger developers this, because it's an important truth that will never, ever be spoken aloud. The sole role of Human Resources is to protect the company from liability, either through lawsuits or labor law compliance.
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by warcher 10y ago
Yeah, I don't really get it either. Know a couple people laid off from there. They'd hired a bunch of kids from a coding bootcamp, and there was a serious bloodbath amongst them. An interesting case study-- seems like it shook
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by warcher 10y ago
Ah yes, the "startup you work at". Well, I'm probably full for the moment, but a startup that I know is bleeding some in my neck of the woods is MasteryConnect. Chop chop chop. Domo is not looking good, but they probably ha
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by warcher 10y ago
The general rule of thumb is cooked digests easier than raw, blended easier than cooked, juiced easiest of all. Think of it as automating preexisting parts of the natural digestive cycle-- you chew your food physically for a reason, obviou
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by warcher 10y ago
But I do, sunshine. Do you?
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by warcher 10y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3046297
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by warcher 10y ago
Yeah, I was gonna say-- pureeing berries severely impacts dietary fiber, which in turn impacts glycemic index, since your body no longer has to work around nearly as much cellulose to get to the sugar. It's a physical process that h
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by warcher 10y ago
Man, as I sit here at this news aggregator, which funded another pretty good news aggregator, having come from yet a third news aggregator, none of which are Twitter, it makes me think.... eh, maybe we just let this one die. I have said bef
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by warcher 10y ago
Man, watching wikileaks circle the drain sure has been fun, but it's starting to get sad. Can we wrap this thing up now?
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by warcher 10y ago
Eh, the last ten years covered the 2008 pop, and it's right at double. I imagine we're about due for another correction, especially as the baby boomers start to liquidate, or interest rates finally inch past zero, but... that&#x2
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by warcher 10y ago
You can win in poker on an inside straight, too. Doesn't make it a smart hand. My point was not about a16z, but the other 95% of funds.
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by warcher 10y ago
I'm in flyover country, man. It's great for me. The thing about the Valley is that they've kinda scorched the earth with the capital carpetbombing, negative profit margin style of tech development. So much so that's it
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by warcher 10y ago
To my eye, the story here is how awful VC is as an asset class. Like, this is as good as it gets, guys. This is it. Even with these returns being kinda so-so (relative to the lack of liquidity, ten year return cycle, et cetera), these guy
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by warcher 10y ago
The bankers definitely take their fair share of benefit in that regulatory arrangement.

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