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Yes. Television is in the midst of one now.

They are optimizing for posts that generate revenue. Since users don’t pay, the news feed is optimized for advertisers and the user posts that lead to more advertiser engagement.

The dismantling of the Fed Gov is decades in the making. While there may be recent foreign influence on the margins, the Kochs, Adelson, Mercer, and the rest of the GOP donor class are the originators of this GOP agenda.

This is 100% Driven by Americans. See “Freedom Caucus.”

This is just a focus group of one, but I really want to see two problems solved in email:

1) Trusted identity assertion: I want to know with confidence (at a glance) that the sender is who I think they are.

2) Secure communication: I want the visual metaphor of email (private correspondence) to match the reality of email.

How great would it be if Mozilla lead the way to for email clients to adopt open standards to do easily do these things.

How does this keep people from using your ssn and other stolen information to get a credit card or loan in your name?

Step 1) Become indispensable in your current job.

Step 2) Move.

Marketing is a fool me once scenario. Quality products earn repeat purchases. You don't become the world's most valuable company with one-and-done sales.

There were provisions that addressed cost containment (ACOs, Quality-Based reimbursement models for Medicare). In fact, medical cost inflation has come more in line with general inflation since about 2009/2010. But, you're right, the market based reforms like cost and quality transparency were left to fight another day. The ACA focused more on access to coverage than it did cost.

I would not put too much weight on conspiracy theories though. The healthcare system is massively complex. It will take multiple reforms to eat this elephant.

It was a problem before ACA; it's a problem now. The law didn't really change that aspect of the system.

Do you have any price comparisons between for-profit and non-profit hospitals?

The ultimate reason behind hospitals attempting to charge exorbitant prices is that you have no choice but to pay.

Payors are healthcare wholesalers. They can buy health services from physicians and facilities at about a third to a tenth of the cost you can because: 1) It's not life or death for them; and 2) They can buy in bulk

This kind of proves the thesis. EV is a hobby for the legacy guys that competes with much more powerful (by revenue) business units in the company. It's like expecting Kodak to compete and win with their own digital camera.

I wonder if this a a compromise for tuition free education? Start with medicine.

The margins are much higher in Rx. About 8% for payors, 12% for providers, and 20% for drugs.

Man, I'm going to miss Gwen Ifill.

Don't confuse being known with being trusted. One is a prerequisite for the other, but they are not the same thing. It's not so much who you know as it is who trusts you.

I think the large compensation helps the CEO act on what he/she feels is in the best interest of the company. When you make enough in one year to retire, you can make decisions with a lot more courage.

Having an effective strategy to skirt regulations probably requires just as much knowledge of the regs as a company who complies with them.

Also known as: "Works well with others."

If you want to get maximum compensation for the value you create, become a founder.

They could be like Marvel. Tons of characters and story lines to license for film and games.

Space/Mars could start to be in play before the century is over. That's one example of a (literal) new frontier for growth.

I think tough shit works for everything but healthcare. When even the private solution (health insurnce) is essentially needs based, it's pretty hard to escape some kind of policy-driven rationing.

The Chinese government could certainly come up with an excuse to block Uber in China.

Don't we all want to hide our payment information when we buy stuff online? Modern commerce is built on identity assertion and securing payments between two parties over the wire.

Gotta pay the testers, trainers, contracts team, and sales commission.

This is not surprising given IBM developed the Consulting Industry Complex standard for blaming the client for failure: The Rational Unified Process.

It would work if you organized globally. Masonry guilds did it 700 years ago.