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omegadeep10 commented on Living Wage Calculator livingwage.mit.edu/... · Posted by u/mitchbob

omegadeep10 · 3 years ago

From FAQ - "No, the living wage currently does not factor in savings, leisure expenditures, emergency expenses, or other cost categories beyond basic needs. We are open to partnerships that explore this question."

In Atlanta GA, for 2 adults (both working) and 2 children you would need a combined annual income of $103,459 just to meet basic needs according to this data.

omegadeep10 commented on TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016) vox.com/science-and-healt... · Posted by u/paulpauper

hollosi · 3 years ago

The real question is why the insurance companies are pushing the annual exams very hard, not just in consumer ads, but using lots of incentives for primary care physicians.

One would assume they would not want to pay for unnecessary tests for healthy people.

So either their own research shows they save money with annual checkups in spite of what the article says, or more sinisterly, they do want to spend money to be able to justify higher premiums, because in several states they are required to spend around 80% of the premiums, and this is one easily plannable way.

Does anyone know? Perhaps someone working for an insurance company?

omegadeep10 · 3 years ago

I work at at a large health insurance company, though not involved in decision-making around annual exams or rate-setting so take that as you will.

A lot the decision-making we do is around trying to improve the health outcomes for large populations of members at scale. When dealing with millions of members, interventions that require lots of effort and time are hard to scale up. If the data shows members with annual checkups have better health outcomes on average than members without annual checkups, that is something that's relatively cheap and easy to do with potentially significant impact.

There are other benefits to annual checkups as well - catching an expensive condition early can be the difference between a $100,000 episode of care vs. a $10,000 episode of care.

To be honest internally I've noticed the tide is shifting on annual checkups. Physician time is limited and every slot is valuable. I believe we're currently exploring virtual care options as a better alternative.

omegadeep10 commented on Fastly acquires Glitch fastly.com/blog/fastly-an... · Posted by u/0xedb

funOtter · 4 years ago

I was using Glitch before they renamed it to Glitch - does anyone remember that name? I can't remember and can't find it on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(company)

omegadeep10 · 4 years ago

Gomix I believe. https://blog.glitch.com/post/welcome-to-glitch

omegadeep10 commented on A single memory is stored across many connected brain regions news.mit.edu/2022/single-... · Posted by u/gigama

miika · 4 years ago

There is also another model about memory which I totally love. In that memory is not stored but brain is more like an antenna which can retrieve information from the space time coordinates where events actually took place.

Because everything is constantly moving around something each event in the universe probably has unique location, a real physical place where it happened.

So, the idea is that as we’re moving through space we’re leaving a trail as the events are (lack of better word) “printed” in the fabric of space. Then as apparently Space is not empty at all but filled with Planck scale micro wormholes entangling all things into this one universal neural network, then our brains should be very well capable of tracing back our unique trails through space and retrieve information through those micro wormholes.

As developer I think it would make most sense to only save references rather than trying store all events inside everyones brains. That would be huge waste of resources and just damn stupid.

And probably the way we humans have built our computers also reflects how the universe really works, because after all we are bits of the universe doing whatever the universe is doing.

Peace

omegadeep10 · 4 years ago

This reminds me of the book Recursion by Blake Crouch. In the book, scientists figure out how to use memories to time travel. Interesting concept.

omegadeep10 commented on The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed askamanager.org/2022/01/t... · Posted by u/amadeuspzs

throwaway9191aa · 4 years ago

But... is the interviewee proxy doing this as a side gig? If they are good enough to get paid (presumably) for taking interviews, how can that be more valuable than just taking one of the jobs they successfully interview for?

omegadeep10 · 4 years ago

I think the interviewee proxy is probably located in a non-US country where they wouldn't be able to work for a well-paying tech company.

They could also be doing it for cash on the side. A few hours of interviews a week for a significant chunk of change.

omegadeep10 commented on Notion for everyone notion.so/personal... · Posted by u/FireBeyond

avolcano · 6 years ago

This is kinda weird, because I was happily giving them $4/month after running out of space in their trial plan, and now I absolutely have no reason to keep giving them money.

Which, sure, I guess I'll take it. My $4/month isn't going to make or break their business and they probably barely give a shit about getting money for personal usage. Does remind me that my usage of their app doesn't align with their business model, which makes it feel rather... tenuous? Like at any time they might say "actually we're going to only support paid enterprise usage now" or "oh we're shutting down because companies just used Confluence and Airtable instead" (I have yet to sell any employer on using Notion because it's too unstructured for them to grok the benefits of :\).

omegadeep10 · 6 years ago

I too was happily paying for my personal plan.

Recently they have been hiring aggressively and expanding their templates for specific use cases. Coming from a cynical HN perspective, this looks like another promising startup falling into the vicious cycle of using VC money to fund hyper growth.

However their founder Ivan Zhao has been outspoken about not taking more VC money than necessary, and creating sustainable growth. So for now I'm approaching this news with cautious optimism.

omegadeep10 commented on Show HN: Visual SQL chartio.com/blog/why-we-m... · Posted by u/thingsilearned

trts · 6 years ago

I've seen a lot of products similar to this, and it looks like one of the nicer ones. But the use case in the video and screenshots make me immediately think it wouldn't be viable in any of the organizations I've written SQL for in the past 10 years.

At least 95% of the challenge in querying data doesn't come from the difficulty of writing SQL statements IMO, but from the complexity/brokenness of the data itself. Especially with the move to unstructured data streams, most data warehouses seem to have become pretty bad when it comes to extracting truth out of the information within. Many business users know some SQL but blanch at creating coherent reports from what's available to them. What BI people are paid for seems to be having knowledge about the problems particular to a domain.

If your data is relatively clean and follows a good model, this would be a great way to help someone join, group, and aggregate their data without knowing SQL. I think a lot of people would use Tableau for this if it didn't also have a steep learning curve / high expense. However as soon as you get into data where you're writing case statements, coalescing null fields, matching on different data types, decoding, partitioning over streaming data etc., it doesn't help someone without knowledge of the caveats within the data sources themselves. Show me someone who doesn't know SQL using this to produce insight out of compromised data and I will be impressed.

omegadeep10 · 6 years ago

I agree with this as well. Products like this seem to be designed primarily for well-structured and lovingly maintained databases. If you are lucky enough to have one of those, congrats!

omegadeep10 commented on Apple, Firefox tools aim to thwart Facebook, Google tracking apnews.com/98a66a02aa984f... · Posted by u/octosphere

davedx · 7 years ago

OK so now I'm considering switching my primary work browser to Safari instead of Chrome (I use Firefox for a lot of my general/personal browsing already). The one thing holding me back is development tools. Which has better devtools, Firefox or Safari? (I've tried both several times but always ended up running back to Chrome...)

omegadeep10 · 7 years ago

I personally use Firefox dev tools about 99% of the time. I prefer it to Chrome. It's different from Chrome, but the performance and features are comparable, if not better.