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There's a level of navel gazing in large swathes of the startup community that assumes that no one else works as hard or needs as much knowledge.

In the beginning, his copywriter made the same 0.05$/word and the poster was making 0$/month.

So the copywriter has shouldered no risk either. He's also free to try and get more per word but he might be in a place where 0.05USD/word is actually pretty decent income.

I think that was sarcasm but maybe a little too dry.

It doesn't but the method they used might hurt their conversion ratio from free to paid accounts.

That's still true with web.skype.com being down for 3 days ealier this year for me (wouldn't render in chrome.)

You're probably aware, but CAD is a staple of modern mammo interpretation workflows. Products like Hologic ImageChecker CAD.

Using the small supplier exemption seems really doubtful to me. That pushes the tax collection liability on the driver (who can't collect taxes, since payment is through Uber app) and the limit for that is 30k$ so a lot of drivers should probably have charged taxes since they may have earned more.

In addition, my understanding (not a tax/law person) is that the 30k$ would be for the whole fare, not the driver's cut.

GST rate is 5%... But provincial sales tax could apply, at least in provinces where there is HST (Harmonized Sales Tax, administered by fed gov, divided with province.) HST varies from 13% to 15%. I wonder if we'll see provinces going after the drivers for back taxes. Revenue Quebec is notoriously aggressive in going after people for sales tax.

My experience is that "some configuration" translates to 6 months and 50k$. Especially when the really big vendors are involved and when those vendors have competing products.

It's kind of funny cause I'm in the imaging side and there's a buzz now about "deconstructed PACS" where centers will mix and match different vendors to provide radiologist workflow, image storage, DMWL worklist, Diagnostics Viewer, VR, distribution and analytics.

Right now, that's quite niche and arguably the DICOM space is the most open part of Health IT, but perhaps that will eventually percolate up to EMRs. Maybe once FHIR catches on or whatever will replace FHIR. I'm frankly still using HL7 2.x and mostly 2.2/2.3 level features.

He's probably limiting the definition to the kind of overarching EMR that fully replaces paper charts for all departments and provide a single view of the patients.

I've also done migrations (I'm in radiology systems, PACS and RIS) where clients had reports going back to the early 1980s. Not very common mind you, especially in private practices (which we get a lot of) and rural hospitals (the kind of places with CPSI/Evident or, god forbid, Healthland.)

I work in healthcare integration. I have interfaced with EPIC and Cerner and pretty much all the other main EHR platforms and seen my clients struggle with their IT.

You sir are absolutely spot on.

As for single-payer, well yes it does make a huge difference on the billing side which is often the biggest IT/tech user of an hospital. My canadian clients still have to worry about billing but they only have 1 insurance carrier to deal with and they know precisely how much everything will earn them upfront. Everyone else (tourists, out of region people, folks who let their healthcare ID lapse) pays cash at basically the same rates, thank you.

Fun fact, the oldest healthcare products like Meditech started from Billing and grew from there, it shows throughout the software still (and not just because they're written in MUMPS / InterSystems Caché). In Meditech results don't actually need a patient ID to be accepted (via electronic messaging/HL7), they need an account number so they can be billed on the right invoice. Nope the software will not figure out from the Order ID which account it goes to... Downstream systems are expected to keep those account numbers around and up to date, a patient might have 2-4 of them at the same time.

If I was to hazard a guess, minute irregularities of film blending the details instead of forcing them into a discrete grid.

The drone swarm folks are persistent and resist the facts that as drone lethality approaches fighter jet, so does the size, complexity, cost and operational requirement of the drone.

It's one thing for a drone to carry a few hellfires and be remotely controlled over air space where completely supremacy as been achieved or access granted versus actually having autonomous drones do strikes in hostile air space.

I mean, the later kind of drone exists of course, they're called cruise missiles and they cost 1.6m$ each (Tomahawk Block IV, 2014 price).

Instagram has notionally the same dynamic as twitter but somehow they do a lot better at convincing their eye balls that they are welcome on the platform and have a voice. Or at least it seems to me.

HP LaserJet 4200dtn and 20 lb white paper.

I believe this is called "Job security." I've seen it a few times including a dev deleting the source code repo and substituting all copy of a set of scripts he was responsible for with compiled binaries. This was discovered due to a platform incompatibility between one of the hosts running the script and the binary wrapping. Data was then restored from backups and dev was summarily let go.

There's a followup article pointing out that the track of green on their revenue graph is actyually the poor part of town and going over some reason why that may be:

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/10/poor-neighborho...

If it was for free, the FBI would get tipped off when a Geek Squad employee accidentally came upon something incriminating. No worries there.

By paying them 500$ (remembering that Geek Squad pay is shit) they incentivize the GS employees to go out of their way to snoop and, quite frankly, to try to broaden the range of what is incriminating as far as they can get away with while still getting a commission. How long before someone with a need for cash decides to plant evidence?

This is different. It's a fishing expedition outsourced to skirt over the 4th amendment.

Apache did the same thing in 1.3.xx (I'm not familiar with the 2.x codebase, it was not popular in 2000). You had a per-request pool to allocate from and once the request was done, the whole pool was free()'d. It was my first encounter with that strategy and it's always struck me as the sanest way to go for a long-lived process with C's memory model.

The independence of microservice is not always achieved. You often end up with a mess of interrelated services depending on fairly narrow version ranges to retain compatibility. The more homogeneous your production environment is, the less that's a problem. The worst case is when you have a dozen (or hundreds...) of production clusters that are all independent and not necessarily in-synch as far as deployed version goes.

If you take the low estimate of 3m$ a day, this is $1B a year. The often quoted figure I've seen for the size of the ad fraud "market" is $7B. That's a big chunk of a "market" that is mostly cottage industry. And as a bonus, they target the highly profitable end of the spectrum.

They only have to do the very minimum to recover from detection. The incentive is for them to keep the largest possible bag of tricks ready to deploy every time they get a dip in revenue due to fraud detection to milk the fraud. Besides, most of the countermeasure takes the form of javascript to be executed by the client, since the fraudsters control the client, they can alter the operating environment of the fraud detection as needed.

And I've lost track of the web UIs that pretend that everyone has and will game the web page 1920 pixels of width (while writing this, I'm glaring at JIRA in 1200x1920, portrait mode.)

Most Parisian apartments are tiny. You can forget about owning a free standing house. If you can afford that, you don't need investors in your start up... Or you're not in Paris at all. Think Manhattan. Paris' overall population density is comparable to Manhattan and much higher than overall NYC density.

You're missing a cottage industry finding exploitable bug in some bad bitcoin libraries' key generation or signing code that will then be used to recover private key and salvage formerly lost bitcoins that are now worth an absolute fortune through rarity.

Bitcoin is the world's most successful ransom payment system.

The "free" phone conference service work in a somewhat similar way. There's a fee charged for long distance call even in the US/Canada. The fee is low enough that most people now get free long distance.

The free phone conference services are terminated at tiny little telcos that charge a much higher than normal fee for a north american long distance and the fee is split between the conference service operator and the telco (which may or may not be the same.)

Some of these services cannot be dialed via some VOIP providers (like Google Talk) for that reason.

Didn't know that. The numbers sold are tiny.

Wow, I didn't realize Intel still made Itaniums and that HP still sold box built around them. Or that HP-UX 11i was, like a Zombie, still alive somehow.

One can probably argue the other way, the downward (market) slide is what led to the Oracle acquisition.