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md2be··on Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade
Trump derangement syndrome
md2be··on A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R
Completely disagree
md2be··on Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes
Tim Draper and the VCs of his generation were born on the technological equivalent of 3rd base.
md2be··on Patent Review System Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court
Wrong on both points.
md2be··on Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It
This is typical NYT writing articles that support its one agenda. if we need to replace something it’s the nyt
md2be··on Federal Circuit Should Not Allow Patents on Inventions That Belong to the Public
Eff might be wrong on this one, The problem with the provisional: is it apparently does not fully support any of the claims pending in the Fan application as published. That is, the invention as claimed was NOT in the public domain.
md2be··on Berkshire Hathaway 2017 Annual Letter [pdf]
Best take away (though not expressly stated), one never needs more than 20% annual return if compounded for 50 years! $19 to 211,000 ! That’s more than the networth of 50 % of Americans. Compounding, Still the greatest lesson in the world.
md2be··on How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life
It’s a very labor intensive, capital intensive business. It’s why you can get open heart surgery at 3AM 365 days a year.
md2be··on How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life
You Havnt said what your income is ? But Talk to the hospital and make an offer.

BTW, tech is far from immune at charging high process. I paid for 30K for a buggy website.

md2be··on Show HN: A HN/Reddit-style site for scientific pre-prints and publications
Can you open source this on github? Or share directly ?
md2be··on Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2
Imagine if Amazon single handedly turned Staten Island into Brooklyn
md2be··on Dogecoin's inventor looks to the past for insight into the future
And it’s the reason why we have such an incredible economy.
md2be··on Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read?
Morrison and Boyd, Organic chemistry

Guidurati, Econometrics

Samuelson, Economics

md2be··on The Failed War on Drugs
What are you high? Marajuania is the most harmful drug for the sub <30 population. It derails the populations dreams and ambitions. If your family is free of addictions, pain killers are not a threat to even a toddler.

Big Pharma has lowered childhood mortalities to levels unimaginable 100 years ago.

md2be··on It Looks Like Nobel Economics Laureates Don't Like Bitcoin
Look at the early investors of Bitcoin, they all invested because they saw it as a currency. When this didn't materialize, the hyped it as an investment.
md2be··on It Looks Like Nobel Economics Laureates Don't Like Bitcoin
The global risks for bitcoin far exceed its utility. Take a look at the work of the macroeconomic scholars and see just how risky it is for create more unknowns into our money supply. To date, Bitcoin is nothing more than a ponzu.
md2be··on A basic income could boost the US economy by $2.5 trillion
The authors are fools. Would the money just picked from the money tree? Increasing the money supply supply would result in an increase in housing inflation, just as it has now.
md2be··on Training crows to pick up cigarette butts for food
Why aren't we ticketing / fining people who litter in this way? To all the hippocrite smoking environmentalists, I say F U.
md2be··on The great thaw of America’s north is coming
It was a very cool winter last year here in lA
md2be··on Universal Basic Income and the threat of tyranny
UBI is freedom ? Tell that to the the generational families of the projects of Chicago.
md2be··on Cost of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Rises Toward $19k a Year
There are simple answers Health Insurance affordability in the US. Rationing. No NOT via a single payer system where some all-knowing official decides who does and does not get care. Rather, the rationing is done by the buyer. For example, Buyer one could decide to only buy a policy which covers only generic drugs, which would exclude all patented drugs (newer and even superior), Buyer 2 could decide to buy a policy which covers generic drugs and patented drugs in one or more specialties (e.g., cardiac). The theme is let the buyer decide, not everyone wants to live the last 10 years of their life struggling to regain their youth.
md2be··on Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
Instacarte is screwed
md2be··on Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV
This is a play on the large soft drink beverage companies who are literally thirsty for companies to replace their soda portfolios. Bai was recentesly aquifed by Dr Pepper for almost 2 billion. So a 10x return for this round is certainly possible.
md2be··on “Millennial savages me on Glassdoor for giving constructive feedback”
Dig a little deeper (or at least clean the dirt off the nameplate). This is a legal position and the written product is what they essentially sell. Your argument is the equivalent of hiring an applicant who submitted a regression analysis to handle time series data.
md2be··on I Joined Airbnb at 52, Here’s What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and Tech Industry
Those of us born in after 1965 are not baby boomers. We are gen x. I don't buy that there much different between gen x and gen y
md2be··on Robinhood stock trading app valued at $1.3B with big raise from DST
I'm not sure what you mean by "playing" the market but there has been no better creator of wealth for the working professional than owning, (yes that what you are doing when you "play") the total stock maket index. conpanies
md2be··on Robinhood stock trading app valued at $1.3B with big raise from DST
Wow, what a ignorant comment. You buy order would have to be in excess of $1000 for a transaction cost of $10 to be insignificant. As for the buy and hold remark, read the literature.
md2be··on Affordable Care
There is a solution to this paradox. If individuals without insurance were required to repay, at the time of their death, the cost of their healthcare over the last 5 years of life, the economic incentives would change overnight. We already do this and more when it comes to assisted living facilities.
md2be··on India’s Call-Center Talents Put to a Criminal Use: Swindling Americans
What's the India's governments postion on this?
md2be··on Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
BC under old rule, the term was 17 years from issue date (not filing date)
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