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Commenting wholesale on some folks who are asking for hard evidence. I cannot provide that either but can contribute some empirical data. I have been working on a project with abou…

Good article. Appreciate the bread (machine) analogy. One thing to add: software maintenance costs. The build has never been the bottleneck. The notion that most companies will sud…

These articles on using AI for writing are all very binary. You can use AI in a variety of ways when writing: improve grammar, correct typos, better organize ideas/concepts/sentenc…

I keep seeing articles like this that extrapolate from token pricing onto token costs. This is wrong. Companies don’t sell their goods/services at cost. A model’s being priced at, …

SaaS’s competitive advantage is not tech but distribution. Just because the stock market dips, and a bunch of media outlets ascribe this to AI doesn’t mean that AI ‘caused’ the dip…

I’ve found that task isolation, rather than preserving your current session’s context budget, is where subagents shine. In other words, when I have a task that specifically should …

As someone mentioned already, list prices are completely fictitious. Their purpose is to anchor medical payers during reimbursement negotiations and satisfy PBMs (see below). The a…

Perhaps it has to do with the fact that Germany has a written legal code. This could mean that punishments are more strictly classified than under a, say, precedence-based common l…

It may not be a sustainable business with current business models. But if cures came with a "post-scription" model where the cured patient paid, say, 0.5% - 1% of their income to t…

Thank you! I was just about to rant about this and decided to scroll to see if anyone had already called this out. The article is quite embarrassing - it’s ok if you don’t know how…

Non-salary cost such as payroll taxes, benefits, workers comp, training, equipment, space add another 25-50% typically.

This is not something that can be done with a C Corp. All gains and losses are within the entity only.

Two quick questions: any plans on being hipaa compliant? Probably one of the biggest use cases for this is in health insurance, etc. How do your capabilities compare to Google Docu…

Ok, yet another personality test that has no demonstrated scientific validity. The only one that does is the Big Five, I believe. Personally, I’m a fan of the Enneagram. But it, to…

I would prefer no rewards. Rewards transfer wealth from poorer people to wealthier people, because the latter spend more absolute dollars on rewards cards. This regressive effect i…

My dad introduced me to it after he started using it when it came out in 1996. It’s great, quick image editing. My only gripe with it is that cropping is unnecessarily convoluted…

I’ve been using DMS for years and think it’s excellent. It’s not a hassle at all: once a month, I get an email and all I need to do is click on the link in it. That’s it. Also, I u…

OPT hires are easy. You’ll just do an at will contract as you would for any employee or consultant who’s not a foreigner. In other words, nothing needs to be filed or done by you. …

I just want any map provider to make the compass feature work reliably and easily visible. That’s all I want. But for whatever reason both Google and Apple seem incapable of doing …

I’ve been playing it for several days now without fully understanding all the rules. I like it but I win every game easily. I just neutralize the opponent’s marks and then lock the…

Hmm. So, we don’t know if working and short term memory are even the same thing. We also cannot say for sure that the same type of processes would be handled by short term and long…

Only saw his opening remark and was immediately tuned off by the fact that he announces his opposition to classic liberal ideas and education, while getting his Greek and Latin syl…

Sounds like you don’t wanna do it and are just looking for confirmation of that. If that assessment is incorrect and you do wanna do it, then what are you waiting for? Get going an…

Still sounds pretty fake to me. There’s a hurriedness to the speech and a monotonic uniformity in enunciation that is uncannily machine. Good to know that voice actors will have jo…

Yeah, I have personally made that experience and received the same feedback directly from hiring companies and headhunters. A close friend of mine had to emigrate to another countr…