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The sketchy aura of cryptocurrencies(at least with regards to Bitcoin and Ethereum) seems to be progressively fading away. And if you’re solely looking at cryptocurrencies as a long term investment vehicle, it makes sense for Fidelity to have an offering for their customers.

The value add is an enthusiastic pursuit of profit. Ownership by a collection of doctors drives lower margins/profits than ownership by a private equity firm. Economies of scale can also help, but that’s not the driving reason behind PE acquisitions. There’s a degree of good faith/naïveté when medical providers and pharmacies bill insurance providers. PE firms can leverage this expectation and push for increased costs with little, if any, additional overhead.

Yes, they do by default if I’m not mistaken. The output “cells” are saved alongside the code.

You can view them just as easily as you would a pdf. Running the code inside them is what takes extra effort. Which isn’t necessary if you just want to understand the processes being applied.

I think it’s worth pointing out. We see the same ‘we can’t find people to hire’ point being made by tech companies trying to find developers. The solution is the same for both: pay more. If you’re going to use shorthand it make it accurate. Just say ‘we can’t/don’t want to pay for the workers we need’.

Postgres RDS limits you to only the extensions they make available to you. That alone can be enough to turn off some people.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_...

My go to for this is question is the `Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male` (aka. Tuskegee Experiments). Where government clinicians withheld the diagnose and treatment of syphilis from the 'participants'. The men were instead told they had 'bad blood'. This lasted into the 1970s. Only ending due to an upstanding epidemiologist, Peter Buxtun, going to the press.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buxtun

Wow! This looks awesome. After signing up and playing around with it; I can actually see this fitting in to my real workflows. I see you guys have integrations coming soon, and the only request I would have is Asana support.

"Granted they could use the data and then somehow make up an excuse for coming up with another reason to observe something but that too would be kinda clunky and obvious and would come up."

It's actually a very common technique known as parallel construction. Apologies in advance if you were being sarcastic; I'm not great at reading tone in comments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction#By_the_U...

"you must have an Established Business Relationship"

They say on the prospecting page:

"UPLOAD YOUR LIST: Upload a list of target businesses to call. We can help you finding one too."

It doesn't sound like you need an Established Business Relationship.

"These are not cold calls"

When you hover over the solutions options they literally say

"Prospecting: We cold call businesses and generate new leads for you."

>I would argue that since both Mysql and PostgreSQL are JSON document stores with mostly the same capabilities when it comes to querying and aggregation...

I agree with your overall argument of PostgreSQL & MySQL >> MongoDB(for querying and aggregation). But in all the experiences I’ve had doing analytical work with both; Postgres easily comes out ahead. If you’re starting from a blank slate, I’d definitely recommend it over MySQL. Just update/feature addition rate along with the better community quality are enough for me to prefer Postgres over MySQL.

Ah, I misunderstood. You mentioned a $6 CPL as seeming like 'too much' and in my experience it wouldn't be. I've seen targeted data request campaigns hit that with generic survey data gathered from completely unrelated businesses/industries.(Partially qualified warm transfers usually costing at least 4-5 times that) Especially when factoring in the ease of, and revenue gained from financing deals. After accounting for, what has to be, one of the lowest costs for re-possession out of any industry; I wouldn't be surprised if they made more money from loans that defaulted/sold to collections than anything else.

Don't forget to consider the revenue side of the equation. I imagine these promotions wouldn't exist if they didn't make money, for at least a few, business entities in the chain.

If they have:

0.3% conversion;

$25,000 average price;

20% margins

Which aren't unrealistic numbers for timeshares. They break even at $15 cost per lead when ignoring call center costs and other overhead. It's pretty easy to find people to work at an outbound call center for a campaign like this for $9-$12 an hour. (that's without looking offshore) There's also the possibility for additional revenue on customer financing and data resale.

When I was a very very broke college student, I worked on cold calling campaigns trying to set appointments to sell security systems. Now I do analytics for a a business that is happy with doing outbound dials on $20 CPL for largely semi-qualified leads. It ain't the most fulfilling work. But it does pay well and the owners have never, and will never take outside investment.

These types strategies, along with persistence are what got me through a math degree that I felt highly unqualified for, especially when I started. They’ve served me well professionally as well. As an “analyst” techniques have served me well in producing actionable/appreciated insights. For anyone aspiring:struggling in depths of mathematics I would suggest reading up on the lives of historical mathematicians.(I’m A big fan of Galois) It’s important to remember that we are truly humble in the face of ignorance. mathematics, and only through the endeavors of struggle and confusion do we chip away at the moutain of ignorance. Good luck to all those to venture into the darkness.

It's worth noting the distinction between social class and socioeconomic class/status. Socioeconomic status plays a larger role in United States relative to the UK. Social class refers to one's fixed sociocultural background and plays a far larger role in the UK compared to the US.

I'm not the parent comment, but I used to get offered Uber pass immediately after the previous one expired. Recently they switched over to option to auto-renew rather than having to manually buy a new pass each time. I'm in Portland, OR so it may be location specific.

I may have misunderstood your question.

>But black voters didn't turn out to vote for Hillary in support of Mexicans and Muslims. Why should we now help you?

Seemed like the opposite of coming together. My reading of it is; you're accusing black people of being unsupportive of the democratic candidate, and that consequently black people aren't owed the same unity you seem to be arguing for in later comments.

"Why should we now help you? Serious question."

"We all need to step up and get in the game for all"

You answered your own question.

Your link only talks about early voting in South Carolina. I haven't been able to find a source on black voter turnout numbers nationwide in 2016. As I said in my previous comment, voter turnout was down across all demographics[1]. It's very difficult to vote more loyally to the democratic party than black people have over the past two decades or so.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics/popular-vote-turnout-...

In response to your second edit; the vast majority of black voters voted for Hillary, a significantly greater proportion than any other race. Hillary ended up with 88%[1] of the black vote. Furthermore turnout was down across all demographics in 2016.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/e...

The National Association for the Deaf settled with Netflix in 2012. I couldn't find any follow up lawsuits since. It seems like an advocacy group just trying to make sure their members are represented.

"This is probably just a shakedown -- it'll be cheaper to settle than it will be to defend against this lawsuit, so the game is to find a mistake that could plausibly fall afoul of the ADA and file away."

Unless I'm mistaken, the article says that National Association of the Deaf requested Harvard and MIT provide options accessible to the deaf on multiples occasions. They're seeking comparable materials for the hearing impaired, not millions of dollars.

>I saw a junior engineer try to add a patchwork of libraries just because he was not confident in his ability to do something correctly, leading to a lot of maintenance overhead that grew very quickly.

That's why they're called junior and they get paid less. They're meant to be supervised to some extent. If the problem is only caught long after the damage is done then the issues run deeper than the capacities of a single junior engineer. Junior is just a nice way of saying inexperienced. Experienced != good, but inexperienced almost always means some degree of bad.

>Conversely, cancer research isn't represented well in pop culture

I'd disagree, with that sentiment(cancer awareness, research and prevention are widely popular; otherwise we wouldn't so tightly associate the color pink and breast cancer), but that's not really what I was getting at.

> that doesn't mean it doesn't warrant pursuit.

What I'm suggesting isn't that we should tailor our spending to match the frequency in which a subject appears in pop culture, but that humanity has an innate drive to explore. This drive manifests in both real attempts at exploration(NASA, WHOI, ESA, etc.) and fictional dramatizations of exploration that appear in pop culture.

Maybe a better example of a similarly inherent drive influencing pop culture is the one for sex. Pop culture's fascination with sex(and exploration) is merely a consequence fundamental human pursuits.

>I feel like the significance of humans going to Mars is largely attributed to movies and pop culture. It's the Paris Hilton of the astronomical world.

I think that may be conflating cause and effect. I'd argue a manned trip to Mars is a focus of pop culture because it resonates strongly with so many. The drive to explore has always been etched into a portion of humanity. For many(myself included) Mars stands as the currently realistic pinnacle of exploration for humanity. Along with accessibility of understanding the accomplishment you end up with our current Martian fascination.

>I don't want to be labeled a cynic, but do the benefits of sending humans to Mars outweigh the costs?

With anything as expensive and complex as a manned mission to mars, we honestly can never know until we try. It's impossible to predict what fruits, if any, it would bear for humanity. That's the nature of exploration and discovery. For all we know there's some infeasible to overcome barrier that makes the task of manned travel to Mars impossible.

Due to the intractable nature of quantifying the value of manned Mars missions I think the reasoning for doing so falls to a far more base human condition than a positive cost benefit analysis. On a personal level the desire for continued human exploration is hard to explain to those who don't possess it. There's an intensely disquieting internal sensation that comes with feeling stagnation at the bounds of human capability. It's not dissimilar to the urge for preservation of the Earth for future generations, or to rid the world of undue suffering. These drives, like exploration, aren't built on entirely pragmatic foundations. They can and do often fail to justify themselves on purely practical terms.

Just for clarity, my response isn't made with the purpose of persuasion. It's to help convey my entirely subjective view of things and perhaps illuminate the thinking behind some proponents for space exploration.

Eugène Atget is probably worth reading about if you're into the history of street photography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Atget

"food, shelter, access to education and healthcare, job"

All of these things can hinge on having money.

What you're describing is how most young people(early to mid twenties) I know work. The best you can hope for is to set your availability while applying or during the hiring process so you at least have a few days of the week where you can consistently work on other things. This lessens your chance of getting hired and typically reduces the number of hours you work even on the days you're available.

Not all jeans, even within a brand are created equal. Levi's quality varies greatly between product lines. The jeans they sell at Kohl's for $35 and the ones they sell at their own stores are completely different products. I own a couple pairs of Levi's Commuter jeans/pants and as a daily bike commuter in Portland they've definitely been worth the price difference. There's far more to clothing than how it looks.