bigchewy

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by bigchewy 7y ago
if you read it 4x and don't see his point, consider reading it another 4 times. you seem to be advocating that certain employees, "bottom of the food chain" in your parlance, aren't culpable for their actions whereas th
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by bigchewy 7y ago
huh?
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by bigchewy 7y ago
The stories I've heard from CPAs and other friends is that it it's amazing for small companies < ~$300K annual revenue and then falls apart pretty quickly once you need to do something other than just basic reconciliation and p
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by bigchewy 8y ago
I don't think you understand the definition of the words that you are saying. Consider looking up the definition of e.g. fraud
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by bigchewy 9y ago
Ummm unless lawyers somehow have evolved different brains than the rest of us, they, too, prefer to make more money vs less. So if they are billing hourly, then yes they all do want to spend more time. Now, they might fight against that u
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by bigchewy 9y ago
>> I have a blocker for all news sites so i can't access them without going through like 20 steps. Then consider no longer commenting on news related articles, sources etc that you don't know anything about. Wild speculatio
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by bigchewy 9y ago
what you are saying is that you don't know any hikers that care significantly about weight. I can also state that the majority of people I know care so much about weight that they would never carry mountain house type food around. If w
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by bigchewy 9y ago
bold statement. I'm assuming you mean the potential env. damage, correct? Have you done a thorough analysis on, say, Blue Apron's impact on the environment? for example, do people who use Blue Apron decrease usage of their car to
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by bigchewy 9y ago
you were the recipient of people that were terrible and/or just new at active listening. If it's done right, you just feel like you are enjoying the conversation. no different than writing code, playing the piano etc. related, som
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by bigchewy 10y ago
thanks for reminding us - I just put in my card on a repeated monthly donation. Easier to keep giving if set on auto-pay vs forgetting
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by bigchewy 10y ago
look at the government plans - police, fire, teachers etc.
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by bigchewy 10y ago
you must not have gone to b-school, nor know many graduates. The one thing that b school doesn't do is teach people operations. Many professors consider operations easy / tactical / something vs strategy. I actually think b s
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by bigchewy 10y ago
any time a problem of this magnitude hasn't been solved AND you think the answer is 'blindingly obvious', consider that you don't fully grok the problem. I've been in healthcare analytics for 10+ years and it's
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by bigchewy 10y ago
perhaps not insightful to you, someone with knowledge of the area. but how about others? how about me? where should I gain my insights into all of the various industries that I don't have direct knowledge of today?
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by bigchewy 10y ago
please stop forcing your views of how this site should work on everyone else. this site doesn't exist solely for you and your views. Others, perhaps, have alternative views
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by bigchewy 10y ago
well, sorry to say this but healthcare operates in a way that puts individuals at risk for the benefit of moving medicine forward. For example, surgeons tend to be at at their prime in their early to mid 40s. Getting operated on by a typica
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by bigchewy 10y ago
we started a practice ~1 month ago that a friend taught us. we now ask 3 questions of each other 1) How were you brave today? 2) How were you kind today? 3) How did you fail today? I've found it amazing how much conversation and learni
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by bigchewy 10y ago
gini coefficient is probably pretty close to what you are looking for. it shows the delate in inqequality between high and low earners in [country/region]. haven't looked at that stuff for a while but, traditionally, much of S Ame
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by bigchewy 10y ago
the challenge is that ~40% of healthcare spend is even plausibly directed by the patient. the majority is not elective, a result of an acute situation, etc. The concept of free market, unfortunately, doesn't work. It's easy to con
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by bigchewy 10y ago
>>The problem with the "can't negotiate" argument is that insurers have every incentive to negotiate on behalf of the patients they cover. And they have scale—United Healthcare covers more lives than the NHS. No, they d
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by bigchewy 10y ago
There's a great book catering to people just like who you described (me included) - "If you're so smart, why aren't you happy?" I'm part way through it and it's been helpful. https://www.amazon.
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by bigchewy 10y ago
Essentially no researcher has found that your anecdotal belief matches the data they analyze. Why do you think all of the studies that indicate diminishing returns of income on happiness are wrong?
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by bigchewy 10y ago
What do you think happens to the person who receives a single lab result, out of many, indicating that they have cancer? Human nature is to focus on the negative. To assume that humans can, by looking at a multitude of data points, ignore t
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by bigchewy 10y ago
For those who haven't had a chance to read about the negative impact of testing, check out Atul Gawande's Overkill - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-g... It explains
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by bigchewy 10y ago
what do you say to the 73% whose lives got negatively impacted? Prostate screening is a great example. Elevated PSAs are indicative of cancer, which people want to get rid of. So they have a procedure done, which often leaves them incontine
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by bigchewy 10y ago
Given the overall sales numbers and your survey of 0 out of 75, I think your opinions may be shining through despite your efforts to contain them. My equally anecodatal evidence is the opposite - Probably a dozen of my friends have purchase
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by bigchewy 10y ago
in the early 2000s I was a young guy and board observer on a .com that was growing extremely rapidly and had a 9 day complete outage. The venture funds, including the one I was part of, came in screaming, "who's getting fired for
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by bigchewy 11y ago
I largely agree. We got one in October and use it every day. The sonos devices now gather dust. Now we have expanded to 8-10 more use cases largely due to the integration with IFTTTHE. e.g. It took 5 minutes to set up my niece's echo
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by bigchewy 11y ago
if you like this area, I highly recommend reading Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction - The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. It takes an economics lens on Nazi Germany both pre and during the war. A lot of the book centers on

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