alakep

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by alakep 11mo ago
There need to be more companies solving this from first principles like Yuzu Health. They have a cool blog at https://yuzu.health/blog that gets into the dynamics of this stuff. Legacy insurance is cooked.
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by alakep 1y ago
We love hiring junior engineers at https://yuzu.health/careers . Please apply or reach out to me over email: russell@yuzu.health.
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by alakep 1y ago
Insurance is truly the place to find information challenges. It’s abstract but hypothetically structured well. Seems like there are a lot of use cases for this.
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by alakep 2y ago
I had no idea the concept of product market fit was so new
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by alakep 3y ago
This happens with healthcare data too. Every prescription you fill is tracked and used as input data for many insurance models that make health insurance pricing decisions.
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by alakep 3y ago
Yuzu Health. NYC. We are: Health insurance plan manager growing 10%+ m/o/m with a founding team of just 5 people. We are using technology to link together new incentive structures that work better than the traditional health insur
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by alakep 3y ago
I’ll admit that my company posts jobs to show strength to customers, partners, and competitors despite not actively hiring. My rationale is that if people actually cared enough to reach out to me personally (we are tiny startup) I would res
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by alakep 3y ago
I thought this was about Yuzu Health
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by alakep 3y ago
You should owe the money to the school. Will align incentives. If graduates don’t make enough to pay back the debt then the school could become insolvent. As it should.
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Math Mode vs. Science Mode in Coding(vienna.earth)
2 points by alakep 3y ago|0 comments
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by alakep 3y ago
Have foods gotten more processed in the last two decades? My understanding is that there has been a movement away from hyper processed food, but still a huge uptick in allergies. The hygiene thesis and antibiotic thesis seem true to me, but
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by alakep 3y ago
People want to be affirmed and loved. The medical system cannot do this. The healthcare industry will always try to sell a product, celebrate a cure. If not for profit, individual doctors will just do this for a sense of self-worth.
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by alakep 3y ago
Matplotlib is great
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Franz Kafka was a healthcare claims administrator and insurance underwriter(vienna.earth)
75 points by alakep 3y ago|64 comments
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by alakep 3y ago
Dark matter almost certainly doesn’t exist. This hunt for it is very parallel to the hunt for the “ether” that Einstein showed didn’t exist. Curiously, the big insight of relativity was getting rid of two bad assumptions: the concept of “si
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by alakep 3y ago
I don’t brush my teeth because I don’t want the residual fluoride there. It’s healthier to just slosh some vodka around to kill the germs (this wouldn’t work with kids, but hey they’ll lose their first teeth so who cares).
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by alakep 3y ago
If you read the financial plans of these direct primary care clinics you’ll see that they intentionally lose money on primary care with the strategy of making up for it in increased referrals business. Healthcare is so greedy. Thanks for sh
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by alakep 3y ago
This is my favorite complexity paper. It reminds us of how much we don’t know.
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by alakep 3y ago
This is why climate accounting startups are dumb. Soon, very soon, clean energy and electric cars will literally be cheaper. Why track carbon credits anymore?
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by alakep 4y ago
Yuzu Health (yuzu.health/careers) is hiring full stack developers to work with us in NYC to help refactor healthcare from our position of being the payer (health plan administrator). We are building the default health plan for startups
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by alakep 4y ago
Wow I am exactly the opposite. I do not like hacking. I like designing and optimizing and experimenting with new languages and strategies. I have mad respect for people like you, and always wished I was able to think in your way better. You
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by alakep 4y ago
The best theory I have heard for why crypto is so popular besides gambling is that it is fun to think about. True engineers love working in crypto since it feels cutting edge and is more advanced than other technologies. This might continu
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by alakep 4y ago
All this and AirBnB pays its engineers so well. Crazy to me. Feels like they should hire better engineers for the $ and build solutions that are more transparent and consistently adjuducated. Also comments about email/phone number chan
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by alakep 4y ago
Would brainstorm with pen and paper only. Publishing thoughts and brainstorms to friends is the only thing I would use a tool online for
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by alakep 4y ago
Really wanna try Vienna. Been on their waitlist
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by alakep 5y ago
This is the most hacker news article I’ve ever seen
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by alakep 5y ago
There are collaborative editing options for paper pencil coding too but really you should just bite the bullet and use vscode. Emacs is not a personality trait, might be time to drop it and move on.
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by alakep 5y ago
Strongly disagree. I’ve worked at two startups and found them to have been really educational jobs. Despite being a recent grad, I was given huge responsibilities and with that huge mentorship (founders couldn’t afford for me to mess up). I