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by anothercomment 9y ago
People date in the workplace all the time, so I don't think your rules about "professional situations" are generally accepted. I also reject the notion of "position of power" just because he is a VC. Nobody is force
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by anothercomment 9y ago
The accusations can be true, and at the same time it seems possible that the VC didn't take advantage of his "position of power", but genuinely believed the women liked him for his looks and personality, not because they need
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by anothercomment 9y ago
Maybe it is not even that interesting - a guy overstepped his boundaries? Few readers are probably deep enough in Startup Culture to have heard of him or Binary Capital, so why is it relevant?
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by anothercomment 9y ago
I still can't approve of the article because of all the allusions and unwarranted generalizations it makes ("this is why there are so few female founders" and the like). A favorite is cases like Ellen Pao who lose in court bu
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by anothercomment 9y ago
I don't see the relevancy to today's Bitcoin price? Presumably MtGox was able to execute the fake trades because they didn't have to provide the money for it? It was simply a number in the database, if the dollars couldn&#x27
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by anothercomment 9y ago
I didn't think the "someone inferior" was elementary to it - the point to me always seemed to be to kill somebody innocent.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
It sounds as if people were fired, investigated and so on. I don't understand the part about the medical records. Surely merely wanting to double check the story isn't the issue? Illegally holding the record would, but it seems th
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by anothercomment 9y ago
Is it? Were steps not taken to remove the harassers, once the incidents came to light? How can the CEO watch over every social interaction?
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by anothercomment 9y ago
Did he sexual harass anybody, or what is the point of his resignation? Another case of scapegoating?
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by anothercomment 9y ago
The shovel makers win.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
Thank you for that story, it really cracks me up. The whole cryptocoin trading thing is fun because it is so crazy.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
I love this chart of Newton's involvement in the South Sea Bubble: https://cdn.sovereignman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013... Think I'll print it and stick it to the wall somewhere.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
I went to an Ethereum Hackathon and wasn't convinced at the time, that is why I passed. Hopefully/probably their technology has matured since then, but I stopped following their progress.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
You miss out on countless opportunities every second. Back then I evaluated Ethereum and decided against it. That is all there is to it. I don't know how justified the current hype is. How rich would you have been - 3000%, so 30 times
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by anothercomment 9y ago
"Most privatization efforts come about as an attempt to inject corruption" Huh - citation needed? I've never heard that claim before. Corruption pretty much needs governments, who else are you going to bribe? To me competitio
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by anothercomment 9y ago
That is their selling point, though.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
How is the network in a foreign country being picked? Here in Germany, we have (at least?) three competing networks, O2, Telekom and Vodafone. Their coverage differs, but afaik I don't get to automatically use another network if my net
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by anothercomment 9y ago
They will reject you as long as they have enough other patients who don't care about the price. Somewhere the systemic error is injected into the system. There has to be a way to fix it or improve it.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
Sorry, I heard it many years ago and didn't double check. Nevertheless for sure there are caps on health care expenses. Speaking of kidneys - don't they prioritize recipients of organs somehow? If age based discrimination is forbi
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by anothercomment 9y ago
Sorry about that - I heard it a long time ago. Nevertheless, health insurance will always be capped at some point, you can not guarantee arbitrarily high expenses for everybody.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
I am actually from Germany and heard the story about NHS dialysis many years ago, so it has nothing to do with US right wing propaganda or whatever. My apologies, though, if it isn't correct. Nevertheless I think there will always be p
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by anothercomment 9y ago
But lots of insurance companies operate on the risks you mention, floods, earthquakes. There are insurance companies that insure other insurance companies against outliers, for example. Sure, there is no guarantee that the whole network can
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by anothercomment 9y ago
OK, but people choose their employers, to some extent. Would more transparency help them to demand the right health insurance from their employers?
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by anothercomment 9y ago
A) For example Germany (where I live). B) Why do the billing practices have to be opaque? In Germany, patients often don't even see the bills. It all goes directly to the insurance company. For public insurance, that is. For private in
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by anothercomment 9y ago
But the doctors decide what procedures are necessary.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
But then how can it be solved? With the blockchain? (that was sarcasm, although, perhaps worth thinking about - transparency, at least) Sure, governments/councils spending other people's money is always a fertile ground for corrup
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by anothercomment 9y ago
But why can't they be disrupted? For example some people could be pissed off that they don't get information, and companies providing information could win them over as customers. Obviously, things are not working out in the US. I
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by anothercomment 9y ago
I am not yet convinced it is not amenable. For example who gets to serve a city with emergency services? I guess there could be bidders to the city council, offering services for a certain price. That would lead to competition. Likewise, in
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by anothercomment 9y ago
why would the money coming from one pocket incentivize economic optimal treatment? By what mechanism? Why wouldn't hospitals try to fleece the government (spoiler: they do, in the countries with public health care)?
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by anothercomment 9y ago
In theory, competition should take care of the escalating costs, though?

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