This may seem to be common sense, bur there simply is no empirical evidence for this in medicine. I don't go to the doctor because I have some disposable income and I don't feel like seeing a movie. I go to the doctor because I am sick or because it is time for a check up. If I don't do either of these things, the overall cost of healthcare actually goes up. When is the last time you heard somebody say, I was going to have cancer, but I realized I couldn't afford it? The economics of health care simply don't map well to the sort of market system we have set up in the U.S.
Why do you think this? Insurance companies profit by denying coverage and accepting premiums. What is the benefit to the government in denying coverage? I lived in Europe and this shit just never happened.
I also saw several reasons for the lower cost of (superior) care:
Doctors need much less staff.
I actually saw an autoclave! they don't have to throw away everything after one use.
When my daughter was born, there was a midwife in the hospital (at Orsay). The pediatrician dropped in from time to time, but routine deliveries were by a midwife. The atmosphere was remarkably laid back. This has to be cheaper than the highly regimentation typical in a US hospital.
What Google could do is to see what browser is being used and they will offer the 'best' user experience for the end user. Go to Browserspy.dk and look at all of the Info at their disposal. The can offer HTML5 if your browser supports that. They could offer JavaFX is you have Java 6 installed and enabled. They can then use Silverlight or Flash if needed. If I am running Safari, and you are running Chrome, we will have a better experience than my friend with IE. She will not have a 'degraded' QoS as much as we will have an enhanced experience.
If you want to control garbage collection, you should use the real time version of Java. Go to youtube and view Java RTSJ on Wall Street pt1. Here are folks that greatly value deterministic behavior, and they are choosing Java over C++. Why? Because it is predictable and you get access to the tools, developers and tools of the Java World.
From Wikipedia:
In 1995, Graham and Robert Morris founded Viaweb, the first application service provider (ASP). Viaweb's software, originally written mostly in Common Lisp, allowed users to make their own Internet stores. In the summer of 1998 Viaweb was sold to Yahoo! for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! stock, valued at $49.6 million.[2] At Yahoo! the product became Yahoo! Store.
Some scientest are found in Misoury, where Schrodinger's cat lives or not in the 'show me state'. But all scientests are skeptics who don't accept anything without validation, the origin of the word is "science test".
It is claimed by Muhammad 'Alà al-SammÃn that he and had brothers killed Ahmed Isma'il in a blood feud and ate his heart. This was in December, 1945. The story was told becuase the blood feud lead to the discovery of the Nag Hammadi. The Nag Hammadi contained the 'Gnostic Gospels' and were written around 350-400 BCE.
The story was recently recounted on PBS's Frontline. I was quite surprised that modern blood feuds would lead to cannibalism, but I guess they are called blood feuds for a reason.
This is similar to the 1918 killer flu. From genetic experiments, it seems that there are two critical mutations that made the 1918 flue so deadly. The virus only has RNA (no double helix here), so is mutates very rapidly. It may only be dumb luck that is separating us from a killer of 10s of millions.
The problem is that there is no such thing as a model for an individual that you can integrate. The point of a black swan is that nobody saw it company because it is intrinsically unpredictable. You are correct that the reason for this is a lack of information. But neither you, nor me, nor the CIA, or all the quants on Wall Street can obtain the information you would need to predict at the level needed. This is one of Taleb's key points. Hari Seldon only exists in fiction.
the shoes with separate toes are found at http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/ This is as close as you can get to running barefoot without running barefoot.
I worked on the 'Old Skyhook Ranch' near Round Up, Montana. They said to bring boots, so I got cowboy boots. My job was hauling irrigation pipe by hand. The mud held the boots and I stepped right out of them. So I went barefoot. After a couple of weeks, I didn't mind stepping on Canada thistle. As Kinnell notes, your feet become leathery.
I also ran cross country barefoot. My only problem occurred the week the acorns fell.
You're playing a dangerous game!
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If you run with this one, somebody is going to loose an eye.
Oracle as backoffice coupled to OS/X front office?
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It seems that Oracle and Apple can make a reasonable stab at offering an integrated high-end service for folks with money. This market has already moved to iPhones and Power Books (look at many presentations at places like Davos, Power Books are everywhere). If you can get iMacs ( or a Mac Mini for the interns), you can take over the office. They could offer a MobileMe-like service, only one that is tied to a private network rather than a web service where you are always worried about the security of somebody else's network. Run all network traffic over IPSec, drop to https as needed on the firewall. Offer Solaris with Oracle servers with tight security. You might have a product worthy of law offices and Wall Street.
Since the back office is not mobile and caters to groupware, the cloud service could be called ImmobileUs, but I think marketing may object.
I think this is exactly right. Now every time IT installs a MySQL database, the CEO will see 'Oracle'. They will have warm fuzzy feelings because they know Oracle is serious software(TM). They will also see that Oracle doesn't have to be expensive. They will then have the same sort of up sell opportunity that Microsoft had with Access to SQL Server, except of course that MySQL is not as f***ed up as Access. For MS, the upsell occurred as soon as you moved from personal to departmental. With Oracle, the line of division will be (roughly) division and enterprise.
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I was wondering that too.
I thought this was insightful.
This may seem to be common sense, bur there simply is no empirical evidence for this in medicine. I don't go to the doctor because I have some disposable income and I don't feel like seeing a movie. I go to the doctor because I am sick or because it is time for a check up. If I don't do either of these things, the overall cost of healthcare actually goes up. When is the last time you heard somebody say, I was going to have cancer, but I realized I couldn't afford it? The economics of health care simply don't map well to the sort of market system we have set up in the U.S.
Why do you think this? Insurance companies profit by denying coverage and accepting premiums. What is the benefit to the government in denying coverage? I lived in Europe and this shit just never happened.
I also saw several reasons for the lower cost of (superior) care:
What Google could do is to see what browser is being used and they will offer the 'best' user experience for the end user. Go to Browserspy.dk and look at all of the Info at their disposal. The can offer HTML5 if your browser supports that. They could offer JavaFX is you have Java 6 installed and enabled. They can then use Silverlight or Flash if needed. If I am running Safari, and you are running Chrome, we will have a better experience than my friend with IE. She will not have a 'degraded' QoS as much as we will have an enhanced experience.
You can use OS/X on other machines, just Google Hackintosh
40 year old Eunuchs and 21 year old Minx, seems rather sad actually
If you want to control garbage collection, you should use the real time version of Java. Go to youtube and view Java RTSJ on Wall Street pt1. Here are folks that greatly value deterministic behavior, and they are choosing Java over C++. Why? Because it is predictable and you get access to the tools, developers and tools of the Java World.
From Wikipedia: In 1995, Graham and Robert Morris founded Viaweb, the first application service provider (ASP). Viaweb's software, originally written mostly in Common Lisp, allowed users to make their own Internet stores. In the summer of 1998 Viaweb was sold to Yahoo! for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! stock, valued at $49.6 million.[2] At Yahoo! the product became Yahoo! Store.
Some scientest are found in Misoury, where Schrodinger's cat lives or not in the 'show me state'. But all scientests are skeptics who don't accept anything without validation, the origin of the word is "science test".
The story was recently recounted on PBS's Frontline. I was quite surprised that modern blood feuds would lead to cannibalism, but I guess they are called blood feuds for a reason.
This is similar to the 1918 killer flu. From genetic experiments, it seems that there are two critical mutations that made the 1918 flue so deadly. The virus only has RNA (no double helix here), so is mutates very rapidly. It may only be dumb luck that is separating us from a killer of 10s of millions.
of the death of Rene Descartes. After a particularly large meal, he was asked if he cared for desert. He replied, 'I think not.'
"Oh wait, that means we end up paying the US to hire us..."
That's called an internship. We only do that to college students.
The problem is that there is no such thing as a model for an individual that you can integrate. The point of a black swan is that nobody saw it company because it is intrinsically unpredictable. You are correct that the reason for this is a lack of information. But neither you, nor me, nor the CIA, or all the quants on Wall Street can obtain the information you would need to predict at the level needed. This is one of Taleb's key points. Hari Seldon only exists in fiction.
the shoes with separate toes are found at http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/ This is as close as you can get to running barefoot without running barefoot.
I worked on the 'Old Skyhook Ranch' near Round Up, Montana. They said to bring boots, so I got cowboy boots. My job was hauling irrigation pipe by hand. The mud held the boots and I stepped right out of them. So I went barefoot. After a couple of weeks, I didn't mind stepping on Canada thistle. As Kinnell notes, your feet become leathery. I also ran cross country barefoot. My only problem occurred the week the acorns fell.
I was intending to agree with TheRaven64.
If you run with this one, somebody is going to loose an eye.
Since the back office is not mobile and caters to groupware, the cloud service could be called ImmobileUs, but I think marketing may object.
After all, these are both California companies, so they are offering a premo hash.
This will be Oracles 'beachfront' for low cost, state of the Arta services.
I think this is exactly right. Now every time IT installs a MySQL database, the CEO will see 'Oracle'. They will have warm fuzzy feelings because they know Oracle is serious software(TM). They will also see that Oracle doesn't have to be expensive. They will then have the same sort of up sell opportunity that Microsoft had with Access to SQL Server, except of course that MySQL is not as f***ed up as Access. For MS, the upsell occurred as soon as you moved from personal to departmental. With Oracle, the line of division will be (roughly) division and enterprise.