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by z3ugma 5y ago
The article references the MyChart Estimates feature which I would recommend, having worked closely with it in the past. You’re getting an actual price from the hospital’s billing system directly, from an on-prem website run by the hospital
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by z3ugma 5y ago
Seems pretty simple: if the bottle dispenses a big dollop rather than a small squirt, you’ll use more ketchup and thus need to buy more.
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by z3ugma 5y ago
This reads like a "just-so story", rather than having much archaeological and historical rigor on which to base its assertions.
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I feel like in the long run this balances out and that's part of what's priced into the COL. Houstonians are in a boomtown getting a temporary advantage that could be offset in the long run, whether by industrial decline, climate
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by z3ugma 5y ago
It seems to me that this implicit and explicit balance change a lot faster than housing supply, tax policy, etc can keep up with. For example, several metros in Texas growing 20% in the past decade vs Chicago decreasing in population. The f
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by z3ugma 6y ago
Nice! I work with a lot of binary data. Can you compare HextEdit vs HexFiend and what they’re each good at?
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by z3ugma 6y ago
There's also not such a thing as "HIPPA Certified" and anyway it's "HIPAA". Do you mean you got some sort of training in how HIPAA privacy and security rules apply to you?
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by z3ugma 6y ago
Modern monetary theory is an interesting look at this that says “print money to pay for the things you need; you only raise taxes to pull money back out of the economy so that inflation doesn’t skyrocket”
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by z3ugma 6y ago
This is what is actually so scary. Iirc the petrodollar system has kept American economic hegemony in place for ~50 years but new debt is more likely to be denominated in a mix of Euro, dollar, and RMB. At some point there will be a breakin
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by z3ugma 6y ago
This is a great opportunity to talk about the worst-written sign I have ever seen. The "slippery when wet" signs at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport read: ** Caution Please be careful while using the restroom. For
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by z3ugma 6y ago
Oof, this hits home. Out of college I worked for a large company that's well-known for hiring lots of folks straight out of undergrad with high salaries and a demand of high hours. Despite an almost cultlike devotion to meritocracy and
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by z3ugma 6y ago
Ben Thompson's podcast did a great job covering this topic today: https://exponent.fm/episode-191-facebook-twitter-and-trump/ I'm a disheartened leftist today, and I don't think it's appropriate to
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by z3ugma 6y ago
EnsoData | Multiple Engineering Roles | Madison, WI | Remote | https://www.ensodata.com/careers EnsoData automates analysis of physiological waveform data with artificial-intelligence-powered software and services for clini
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by z3ugma 6y ago
The assertion that economies were based on trade isn't well-founded. Multiple researchers have found that economies were based on credit rather than trade - trading goods for the future expectation of a trade rather than an immediate
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by z3ugma 6y ago
The frontend / client app, yes. The backend DBMS and business logic called Chronicles is still written in M aka MUMPS.
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by z3ugma 6y ago
These sysadmins moved a webserver across their city while keeping it powered and connected to the Internet... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ5MA685ApE
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by z3ugma 6y ago
These comments remind me of my favorite Reply All episode, in which Alex and PJ team up with the Barenaked Ladies and a studio band to bring one man's epic earworm to life and search to see if the elusive song actually exists. https:
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by z3ugma 6y ago
I saw a talk on consumer wearables in sleep at the Sleep Trends conference this spring. There was a great presentation comparing consumer sleep trackers, and how their advertised reporting of "accuracy" can be misleading. If you d
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by z3ugma 6y ago
This is fascinating. A key belief that it reinforced for me is the importance of breaking up large entities that tend to form oligopolies - increase competition, reduce tendencies for regulatory capture, and now: a fairer income distributio
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by z3ugma 6y ago
We use Bitwarden https://bitwarden.com/#organizations to store passwords as well as encryption secrets as a backup. Application repos have the encrypted secrets (meta) stored in their repos using Ansible-vault and the .vaul
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by z3ugma 6y ago
You would certainly expect that these places should have strict hygiene standards, but investigative journalists have found time and time again that slaughterhouses in the USA are filthy places where human and animal disease alike are conce
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by z3ugma 6y ago
This pandemic is really bringing out the folly of concentration at the expense of all other business considerations. Sure, it makes food cheaper but at what cost? We deserve systems that are more resistant to shocks. We've allowed olig
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by z3ugma 7y ago
My pet peeve with nearly all maps showing this data is that they are on geographical maps. A virus spread is only a weakly geographical phenomenon - most infections happen through human-to-human contact so it makes more sense to show on a p
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by z3ugma 7y ago
Oof - what is an "ordinary guy" and why is that person not Asian? >"you instantly think of mobile phones strung together in multiple lines in front of an Asian woman or man. What if we tell you, that this is not necessaril
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by z3ugma 7y ago
I use MyChart Central and Lucy. You can connect multiple MyChart accounts together, download your record and add notes to it. Then it is accessible from basically any provider that uses electronic health records in the USA if I ever get in
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by z3ugma 7y ago
One specific place you can demonstrate your abilities and help the world out a bit is at Ruby for Good - you can jump in and build frontends and backends of web applications. The code is public and open on GitHub so you can show specific co
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by z3ugma 7y ago
I was a technical project management consultant for a long time. The value that most orgs get from a consultant isn't really in the advice the consultant gives them, it's the political cover to make changes they knew they should m
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by z3ugma 7y ago
For those interested, I wrote a primer on M aka MUMPS at https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/m/
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by z3ugma 7y ago
A TV station commissioned a song contest for a jingle for Dagen H. Here's the (very catchy) winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ODZtwkBYPs
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by z3ugma 7y ago
The way we've struck a balance at our company is to only allow meetings in the mornings. In the afternoon, everyone can be off Slack, heads-down, and programming or doing other deep work. This halves the number of timeslots that are av

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