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On US healthcare bills there is: Billed Amount - what the provider/health system tags as the “billed amount” Allowed Amount - what the insurer sets as the actual total $ allowed to…

Although there are separate China & non-Chinese apps, you hit the nail on the head for why a potential acquisition both has serious risk and is going to be a fire sale of TikTok gi…

Anecdotally, although I still rate TikTok's algorithm as better than youtube, the real difference is the long-term engagement. TikTok is always able to deliver content that is inte…

Were you trying to persuade the coworker, or trying to persuade your boss with your coworker being against?

It's definitely a dangerous attitude, this is also the problem with anecdotes, we all start postulating strawmans. I would point out though that in the financing-focused case you g…

So I'm probably getting blinded by availability bias bc you said finance, but these T-shirts look solid. I can't really think of anything etsy-like that would fit. I'd assume he's …

Original WSJ article here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/tencent-buys-stake-in-u-s-game-m... Tencent bought a 14.6% stake in Glu Mobile less than 15 days ago. UoP is said to be for g…

You're crazy man. Where do you get these ideas? Next you'll tell me that my opinions formed after 10 minutes of perusing a forum are subject to cognitive bias.

Interested in market/economics as in he's a professional (or extremely serious individual investor), or interested as in he's a hobbyist who likes reading finance news and occasion…

What do you think of this extension of your analogy: Financial debt has an interest rate, but you take it out because you believe the return on the proceeds raised adds more value …

While I agree with you on time vs. shortcuts, I do think it's a question of valuing explicit time vs. opportunity cost that's a depper issue here. My opinion is that whether it's p…