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And the money is actually from the Insurance industry, whose goal is to drive down utilization while driving up fee-for-service. This way, they make a little money on non-insured p…

They're starting to break the code on it, but there are concrete docks that Rome built 2000 years ago that still exist today - we have trouble building salt resistant concrete dock…

Spent three years an eight months working in retail hell, and this was exactly what the company pushed employees to do - they were kind enough to sell shares to employees at a 10% …

This times a million.

Someone who reports to the poster took three weeks off and the powers that be wanted the poster to have a "talk" with that person.

Total tangent, I used to have the Office 365 subscription but canceled it, yet I can still use word/excel - I've just lost access to the cloud features which I wasn't using to begi…

Oh but LA does have an awesome cheesesteak place - it's called Big Mike's and it's located in El Segundo and Hermosa Beach. Amazing cheesesteaks...

Blame the insurance companies - most major insurance companies use your SSN as a mechanism for identifying the patient. The member ID #'s can be used but it's quicker to just input…

This exactly. The cold war was ended by the Strategic Defense Initiative - not because it worked but because we forced the USSR to pour resources into matching us and it bankrupted…

tl;dr - Buy this stock of FX160's on ebay now, they're better I promise.

A million years? I think you over-estimate how insignificant we are to this planet. I'm not advocating we destroy the environment, but we really can't do a whole darn lot to it. Ca…

I think the general point holds as $19.5B is a rounding error in the US's budget. There are issues with the lack of funding to EPA but with respect to this discussion it's a straw-…

Of course peoples greed contributes to this problem. Each and every one of us have some suspect ancestors in our gene pool. It's how evolution works, so saying "But we're greedy an…

I would argue that actually it does - in order to bring the world commodity market crashing, as is suggested by the article, it requires iron coming down to earth and bringing mass…

You do realize that we're still dealing with the world of models that need be trained. Models are only as good as the data that is given to them, and data is only as good as those …

It's like every seminar and workshop about getting rich quick, write a book, run a seminar and get back to pay you for four hours a week about how to only work for four hours a wee…

The entire tone of the article is rather off-putting. Through portions of the article there tended to be this sense of having pulled one over on corporate America, when that is har…

There's a lot of intuition and experience that is required to be a talented statistician; once the test has begun things are pretty much locked down (ie, if you know the math there…

If memory serves though, the further out you push your sigma's the greater the likelihood of introducing a type-2 error. There is no easy answer in statistics!

Interesting post though I feel the author is somewhat missing the forest for the trees; the issue isn't about "real-time" the issue is that many people conducting A/B tests don't u…