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by colbyh 7y ago
This is great! A really even discussion of the situation and concrete ways to make sure kids stay safe. Far too much fear mongering content online already, thanks for keeping it informative!
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by colbyh 7y ago
Yeah I think the big problem here is related to the scale, not the fact that it's cheaper when you pay in cash. But that insurance would pay $500 (after negotiating the price down) and then push a > $1k charge to the patient when th
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by colbyh 7y ago
I work in the industry. Fee schedules are an upper bound, but the lower bound is very hard to get numbers on and often approaches 0. If I go in for a procedure at a medium sized specialist clinic they are going to take the fee schedule for
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by colbyh 7y ago
One of my favorite things about the US insurance market is that the lack of transparency into pricing actually hurts both the insured and the institutions providing care. Small and medium size practices have very few guarantees about how mu
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by colbyh 7y ago
"You should be, the Facebook app explicitly does listen to the mic unless you opt out." Evidence? Every time someone claims this it gets debunked.
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by colbyh 7y ago
From the early/mid 90s all the way into the early aughts there was a subculture in punk and hardcore dedicated to veganism and straight edge. The majority of them acted exactly like this and I can only imagine how insane things would h
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by colbyh 8y ago
This feels like pseudoscience dressed up as the real thing. "Getting stronger only takes 13 minutes three times a week" starts off with a reference to a recently published paper that looks promising, but the second paragraph is ab
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by colbyh 8y ago
the four listed are the biggest products in the world in their space. the first three would be multi billion dollar companies outside of Google. not to mention Search itself, Docs has become a fantastic product as has Photos. of course they
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by colbyh 8y ago
This sounds like pure marketing to me. Statements like "Cockroaches are also a raw material in traditional Chinese medicine, known to be able to promote detoxification" and "found that chickens fed with the powder were not on
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by colbyh 8y ago
You bought a billboard before launching on HN? Not sure if very impressed or very confused.
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by colbyh 8y ago
I understand that the term "growth hack" isn't well defined but still - most of these are just old school marketing techniques used by tech cos. A few novel ideas worth learning from but that's about it.
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by colbyh 8y ago
They still are, IMO.
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by colbyh 9y ago
I've paired a lot and see a lot of value in it but I disagree with most of this, honestly. Agreed on onboarding, but only if that's what works best for the incoming engineer. Two junior engineers pairing rarely increases productiv
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The Inside Story of Airbnb’s Management Shakeup(skift.com)
2 points by colbyh 9y ago|1 comments
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by colbyh 9y ago
It would benefit Github to own a CI/CD tool if said tool was used in the vast majority of projects and there was little worry about disrupting the rest. E.g. if Codeship was used by 99% of Github customers it would totally make sense f
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by colbyh 9y ago
Forgive me if I read the response wrong but that seems like exactly what the author is saying? Do your computing in Python/R, export a generated CSV, and then present it in Observable?
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by colbyh 9y ago
Lockup period means this ICO will behave differently than some of the other coins that have come out recently, and there's no way to tell what the market (or regulatory atmosphere) will be like in 6-18 month. It's speculation, jus
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by colbyh 9y ago
Thanks for the reminder! And this is my bad because I was paywalled on my phone and didn't see that it was, in fact, a mersenne prime that was found.
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by colbyh 9y ago
1. Essentially, yes there's a list. Since there doesn't exist a higher level formula to identify primes it's been verified by some variation of a brute force method. 2. That all smaller primes are known can't be verified
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by colbyh 9y ago
This was an internal email to investors. You have no idea what convos she's had with them previously about the situation but you're very quick to assume she's some self-important Jobsian figure. Be human, chill on the assumpt
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A16Z Launches Bio Fund II(a16z.com)
1 points by colbyh 9y ago|0 comments
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As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard(polygon.com)
125 points by colbyh 9y ago|165 comments
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by colbyh 9y ago
This works for some people but not all, fwiw. I know founders of very successful companies that paid themselves well from the start because they needed to focus on the company and not whether their credit card was getting paid off on time o
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by colbyh 9y ago
We're close with Michelin-star sushi chef and he's never tried to hide the fact that all of their fish has been frozen at some point. He finds it odd that diners care about it so much, but he's also of the opinion that all fi
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by colbyh 9y ago
Unpopular opinion, but I actually think this is very good advice in certain situations. If your startup is using a technology tangentially related to your core product it can totally make sense to use "boring" tech. The simplest v
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by colbyh 9y ago
To put skepticism aside for a second - I could see this working (maybe) in a field where face to face communication is incredibly important (e.g. sales). But the vast majority of roles in a modern company don't need people that are goo
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by colbyh 9y ago
well by logical extension the theorem provides that at least one of these frameworks should end up being Shakespeare..so at least we have that going for us?
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by colbyh 9y ago
Porn has led the way on a number of technological innovations, I'm surprised there aren't more billionaire porn kings/queens. edit - modifiers are hard
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by colbyh 9y ago
But he starts by saying that people are using git "wrong" (or suboptimally). If git fits my needs why should I worry about how this dude or Linus or the prime emporer of gitland thinks it should be used? I think the author has a g
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by colbyh 9y ago
Author seems to assume that all software development is like Linux development and it isn't. I can't have 10 different versions of my order processing service floating around doing different things for different people.

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