davideous

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by davideous 2y ago
In my example in the grandparent post to yours, it was actually the empathy of the medical provider toward my paying the bill that prevented the unnecessary test.
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by davideous 2y ago
Setting prices by supply-and-demand and having insurance "pay for whatever is needed regardless of the cost" are incompatible. Insurance blocks the pricing cost signal back to the patient. Insurance also prevents better doctors th
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by davideous 2y ago
Agreed that sometimes it is appropriate for insurance to say no. After one round of physical therapy for tennis elbow, which made some progress but didn't completely clear up the issue, I got denied my insurer (not UHC) for the additio
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by davideous 2y ago
HN and Desiring God are my two favorite websites.
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by davideous 2y ago
Here are a few key paragraphs from a sermon that has the most compelling explanation of that sentence that I've heard: > When Paul said in 1 Timothy 6:10, “The love of money is the root of all evils,” what did he mean? He didn’t mea
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by davideous 2y ago
The Bible speaks about this: “But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. But those who
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by davideous 4y ago
https://archive.ph/Fay8D
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Twitter announces company will be sold to Elon Musk for $44bn(independent.co.uk)
2 points by davideous 4y ago|1 comments
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by davideous 5y ago
The book "Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail" by Ray Dalio compares the rise (and decline) of the American "world empire" to prior world empires. The two most recent are th
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by davideous 5y ago
The heat flux through the walls depends on the temperature of your apartment and your neighbor's apartments -- not on if your thermostat is on or off. So even if you leave your thermostat on at 19° you still benefit. And you have no ob
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by davideous 5y ago
Fair enough. In your earlier comment you mentioned: > MBTI has the predictive value of horoscopes, more or less My understanding of MBTI is that it's not supposed to be predictive, but it helps you understand a different person&#x27
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by davideous 5y ago
Five Dysfunctions of a Team completely was absolutely revolutionary for me and my team. It's not about MBTI at all, but MBTI is just a tool it mentions to help with dysfunction one. Here are the five dysfunctions: The foundational dysf
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by davideous 6y ago
Where are you selling it? I want to know where to buy a used 16” MBP.
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Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported(news.psu.edu)
4 points by davideous 6y ago|0 comments
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by davideous 6y ago
I looked at a SBA loan several years ago and it required a personal guarantee. Almost all small business loans require this.
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by davideous 7y ago
That stretch of road serves 40 houses. So paving every 20 years works out to $125/year/house. Median home value is $105,000 so that costs 0.12% of home value per year. Not unreasonable if planned for and if other expenses are not
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by davideous 7y ago
Population was 277 at the last census. Yes, we experience freezing temperatures.
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by davideous 7y ago
This interested me enough to read some of that chapter. Here are a few quotes that give more context: > Traditional operations teams and their counterparts in product development thus often end up in conflict, most visibly over how quick
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by davideous 7y ago
My small town resurfaced (grinding and re-paving) 5/12ths of a mile for about $100,000. That's about $240,000 per mile. Or actually $120,000 per "lane-mile". However, we could only afford it because we got a grant from t
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by davideous 7y ago
We also have a one-time purchase option. Although it starts at $6,000. We serve a lot of larger businesses with higher volumes, like Six Flags or Fry's Electronics, and email service providers.
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by davideous 7y ago
My company sells a self-hosted email list management solution that meets the requirements you mentioned: https://www.greenarrowemail.com/
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by davideous 7y ago
You're right! Most of what I described is common to the Pomodoro technique. I was never able to stick to the Pomodoro technique. The accountability of the timer being a person is huge. It's weird (but true) that disappointing a ra
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by davideous 7y ago
It's been a huge value for me, and I get a ton more done with it. No joke, I would pay $100/month. (See my other comment about this article for how its been so valuable to me.)
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by davideous 7y ago
I've been using focusmate for four months. It's been absolutely revolutionary for me. (I work remote at home, so YMMV.) Here are some of the ways: (1) I’ve been getting a ton more done and feeling better about it. (2) It really do
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by davideous 7y ago
This is genius. If you don't enforce a trademark you can loose it. So this is probably helping protect their trademark. And this also draws attention -- in a potentially viral way -- to their brand and the fact that velcro is distinct
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by davideous 8y ago
If she inherited it evenly with two other siblings and did not put any additional money down, then she has a loan-to-value of 66% (meaning 33% equity). That greatly reduces risk for the lender.
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by davideous 8y ago
Yes, that's the effect. But I'd only have to carry the generator portion when needed for a road trip. You could perhaps even rent it only when you need. Even if the generator was in a small trailer, that would provide the range fr
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by davideous 8y ago
Does any electric car have an option where you can place a portable gasoline generator in the frunk and then trickle charge the battery while you drive on a road trip (with appropriate venting of exhaust). If not, why not? I've seen ve
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by davideous 8y ago
I wear Etymotic Noise-Isolating Earphones in my ears (they are real earplugs with a small hole in the middle through which sound is piped), then I put Bose noise cancelling headphones over my ears, and then I play a rainfall noise through t
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by davideous 9y ago
If anyone from Slack is reading, I'm respectfully asking that they change the sunset date or invest the engineering effort to fix the performance regression before the sunset date. Perhaps management didn't know how much of a down

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