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if you read it 4x and don't see his point, consider reading it another 4 times. you seem to be advocating that certain employees, "bottom of the food chain" in your parlance, aren'…

huh?

The stories I've heard from CPAs and other friends is that it it's amazing for small companies < ~$300K annual revenue and then falls apart pretty quickly once you need to do somet…

I don't think you understand the definition of the words that you are saying. Consider looking up the definition of e.g. fraud

Ummm unless lawyers somehow have evolved different brains than the rest of us, they, too, prefer to make more money vs less. So if they are billing hourly, then yes they all do wan…

>> I have a blocker for all news sites so i can't access them without going through like 20 steps. Then consider no longer commenting on news related articles, sources etc that you…

what you are saying is that you don't know any hikers that care significantly about weight. I can also state that the majority of people I know care so much about weight that they …

bold statement. I'm assuming you mean the potential env. damage, correct? Have you done a thorough analysis on, say, Blue Apron's impact on the environment? for example, do people …

you were the recipient of people that were terrible and/or just new at active listening. If it's done right, you just feel like you are enjoying the conversation. no different than…

thanks for reminding us - I just put in my card on a repeated monthly donation. Easier to keep giving if set on auto-pay vs forgetting

look at the government plans - police, fire, teachers etc.

you must not have gone to b-school, nor know many graduates. The one thing that b school doesn't do is teach people operations. Many professors consider operations easy / tactical …

any time a problem of this magnitude hasn't been solved AND you think the answer is 'blindingly obvious', consider that you don't fully grok the problem. I've been in healthcare an…

perhaps not insightful to you, someone with knowledge of the area. but how about others? how about me? where should I gain my insights into all of the various industries that I don…

please stop forcing your views of how this site should work on everyone else. this site doesn't exist solely for you and your views. Others, perhaps, have alternative views

well, sorry to say this but healthcare operates in a way that puts individuals at risk for the benefit of moving medicine forward. For example, surgeons tend to be at at their prim…

we started a practice ~1 month ago that a friend taught us. we now ask 3 questions of each other 1) How were you brave today? 2) How were you kind today? 3) How did you fail today?…

gini coefficient is probably pretty close to what you are looking for. it shows the delate in inqequality between high and low earners in [country/region]. haven't looked at that s…

the challenge is that ~40% of healthcare spend is even plausibly directed by the patient. the majority is not elective, a result of an acute situation, etc. The concept of free mar…

>>The problem with the "can't negotiate" argument is that insurers have every incentive to negotiate on behalf of the patients they cover. And they have scale—United Healthcare cov…

There's a great book catering to people just like who you described (me included) - "If you're so smart, why aren't you happy?" I'm part way through it and it's been helpful. https…

Essentially no researcher has found that your anecdotal belief matches the data they analyze. Why do you think all of the studies that indicate diminishing returns of income on hap…

What do you think happens to the person who receives a single lab result, out of many, indicating that they have cancer? Human nature is to focus on the negative. To assume that hu…

For those who haven't had a chance to read about the negative impact of testing, check out Atul Gawande's Overkill - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-g...…