rwissmann

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by rwissmann 3y ago
Getting timely, accurate data from the insurance companies on this intuitively feels hard. What are the guarantees around those APIs? There are so many path-dependent factors, like outstanding claims, readjudication of old claims, or "
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by rwissmann 3y ago
How do you handle the interaction with insurance plan information like accrued deductible? Certainly aims to guarantee the patient responsibility, right? Love to see innovation in this space! The challenge of not knowing what other services
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by rwissmann 5y ago
You are actually largely in agreement with the author of the article. It just takes a a while to get there (and criticizes those conclusions from a slightly different angle).
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by rwissmann 5y ago
You can get to big numbers on global capital markets, for sure. I was wondering whether you a consulting/VC-style estimate given how specific the statements was: "Smart Markets hold the potential to eliminate that loss" of &q
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by rwissmann 5y ago
Exciting implementation of a really cool concept. > Today's market structure costs institutional investors (and by extension households) at least a trillion dollars annually (and Smart Markets hold the potential to eliminate that lo
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by rwissmann 11y ago
ORMs are pretty terrible for anything to do with analytics or data science, for example.
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by rwissmann 11y ago
Stalin's military lacked in organization, tactics and strategy due to the purges and was surprised by Operation Barbarossa's timeline, but it was well armed and well equipped. Case in point being the Soviet tank forces, which were
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by rwissmann 11y ago
Fairly sure that is indeed a typo, in particular given how F+ is introduced a few lines above.
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by rwissmann 11y ago
There has been no large scale war between major powers since WWII, let alone between the world's leading superpowers.
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by rwissmann 11y ago
If you want to enact change, you have to use whatever means is appropriate. In a democratic country that is supposed to uphold human rights, public acts such as these can have a strong positive impact. In an autocratic country such as china
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by rwissmann 12y ago
I agree with everything but the last paragraph. As much as I would like it to be different, we are still at least one or two decades away from an effective European deterrent against Russian aggression. If only because of our inability to c
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by rwissmann 12y ago
A countries sovereignty has exactly zero to do with whether or not the are foreign military bases on their soil...
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by rwissmann 12y ago
They likely already record and store all the necessary data (and more) in order to build out people's listener profiles. Pools of money is not really a relevant metric. They collect all the subscription premiums and pay a portion of th
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by rwissmann 12y ago
Yes, the article really missed this point. One could also mentioned some sort of tiered payout scheme or a non-linear minimum after a certain amount of plays plus a percentage above that. Likely something that Spotify will experiment with o
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by rwissmann 12y ago
Germany had anemic economic growth about 15-20 years ago. After hard political fighting these sort of reforms were enacted. Competition is global. Greece is not just not competitive with Germany, but also with China, the US, Japan, Australi
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by rwissmann 12y ago
15-20 years ago Germany was the sick man of Europe. Labour market reforms in line with an industrialization boom in Asia restored the competitiveness of her industrial economy. The real problem with this argument is that they are too short-
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by rwissmann 12y ago
Thank you for sharing this. While reading the summary and the paper abstract, I thought this was all way overstated and trivially so. Glad to see someone professionally working in quantum computing thinks so, too.
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by rwissmann 12y ago
The paper furthermore appears to rely on specific interpretations of quantum mechanics. In the Many-Worlds Interpretation, the computing apparatus itself 'grows' exponentially over time.
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by rwissmann 12y ago
"therefore there is selection pressure for longer (reproductive) life spans" this is too simplistic. there is also selection pressure for shorter generational cycles, leading to faster evolution. keeping older generations around w
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by rwissmann 12y ago
The majority of rocket technology was fuelled by and developed because of WWII and the Cold War.
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by rwissmann 12y ago
Plus, from a quick glance, it looks like in-sample data with optimisation of parameters around scaling and holding periods. Fee-less trading on in-sample data. You can get the same return on futures markets with that.
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by rwissmann 12y ago
Precisely. As a small, personal investor the last thing you is to make frequent trades thinking that you can beat the market- unless it is your toy money. Wealthfront and others are making the stock market better for individual investors, r
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by rwissmann 12y ago
Instagram was a steal (and Google fucked up). WhatsApp was pricey, but that was driven by defensive strategy rather then pure financials.
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by rwissmann 12y ago
Nice catch. However, Labcorp has almost no revenue and profit growth in an increasingly competitive industry. A valuation at 15.5x LTM profit does not seem unreasonable. Comparing the valuation of a growing startup with a stagnant incumbent
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by rwissmann 12y ago
Until you have reached a very large subset of all available information, more data allows you to make better predictions. Period. That is as true for machine learning as it is of the human brain. You often want your models to also perform w
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by rwissmann 12y ago
Actually, in many countries the courts are much more reasonable with regards to interpretation and application of the law. Not just that, but they care about balance between intent of the law, effect and means. There is no way that say in G
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by rwissmann 12y ago
The problem regards people who already have Ebola. Of course, if you have just a less severe condition, staying a way form a hospital might during an epidemic might be a reasonable move. Treating those with Ebola at home is a recipe for cat
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by rwissmann 12y ago
True. What protects him at the moment are international customs. This is way too small a matter for the UK to risk international backlash by raiding an embassy.
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by rwissmann 12y ago
Exactly. And that approach seems to work well in just about every other Western country.
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by rwissmann 12y ago
The death of journalists during intense fighting is - while extremely tragic and hopefully rare - not at all comparable to them getting sentenced by courts for simply reporting news. The former is to some degree unavoidable (if they got tar

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