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In my example in the grandparent post to yours, it was actually the empathy of the medical provider toward my paying the bill that prevented the unnecessary test.

Setting prices by supply-and-demand and having insurance "pay for whatever is needed regardless of the cost" are incompatible. Insurance blocks the pricing cost signal back to the …

Agreed that sometimes it is appropriate for insurance to say no. After one round of physical therapy for tennis elbow, which made some progress but didn't completely clear up the i…

HN and Desiring God are my two favorite websites.

Here are a few key paragraphs from a sermon that has the most compelling explanation of that sentence that I've heard: > When Paul said in 1 Timothy 6:10, “The love of money is the…

The Bible speaks about this: “But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food…

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The book "Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail" by Ray Dalio compares the rise (and decline) of the American "world empire" to prior w…

The heat flux through the walls depends on the temperature of your apartment and your neighbor's apartments -- not on if your thermostat is on or off. So even if you leave your the…

Fair enough. In your earlier comment you mentioned: > MBTI has the predictive value of horoscopes, more or less My understanding of MBTI is that it's not supposed to be predictive,…

Five Dysfunctions of a Team completely was absolutely revolutionary for me and my team. It's not about MBTI at all, but MBTI is just a tool it mentions to help with dysfunction one…

Where are you selling it? I want to know where to buy a used 16” MBP.

I looked at a SBA loan several years ago and it required a personal guarantee. Almost all small business loans require this.

That stretch of road serves 40 houses. So paving every 20 years works out to $125/year/house. Median home value is $105,000 so that costs 0.12% of home value per year. Not unreason…

Population was 277 at the last census. Yes, we experience freezing temperatures.

This interested me enough to read some of that chapter. Here are a few quotes that give more context: > Traditional operations teams and their counterparts in product development t…

My small town resurfaced (grinding and re-paving) 5/12ths of a mile for about $100,000. That's about $240,000 per mile. Or actually $120,000 per "lane-mile". However, we could only…

We also have a one-time purchase option. Although it starts at $6,000. We serve a lot of larger businesses with higher volumes, like Six Flags or Fry's Electronics, and email servi…

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You're right! Most of what I described is common to the Pomodoro technique. I was never able to stick to the Pomodoro technique. The accountability of the timer being a person is h…

It's been a huge value for me, and I get a ton more done with it. No joke, I would pay $100/month. (See my other comment about this article for how its been so valuable to me.)

I've been using focusmate for four months. It's been absolutely revolutionary for me. (I work remote at home, so YMMV.) Here are some of the ways: (1) I’ve been getting a ton more …

This is genius. If you don't enforce a trademark you can loose it. So this is probably helping protect their trademark. And this also draws attention -- in a potentially viral way …