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by labcomputer 1y ago
Ok, I'll call and raise you the same quote! If I can cut my company's ad spend by an order of magnitude and still get the same sales... you really expect me to believe I won't get a fat bonus next year? Really?
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by labcomputer 1y ago
Amazon is not a good example of contextual ads, though. It doesn't generalize: 1. You can easily argue that these "context sensitive" ads are actually personalized ads: They're personalized based on the search query you
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by labcomputer 1y ago
> What's wrong with "personalized ads"? They are fundamentally rooted in the past --- and the past is often no longer relevant. Just because I searched for a car last week doesn't mean I haven't bought one alread
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by labcomputer 1y ago
> Ahh... the required "guest" account with no password on it. That plus the lack of a default /etc/shadow, because reasons, made for fun times. ;-)
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by labcomputer 1y ago
Maybe that’s the point? So that you have to watch soccer on TV? The purpose of a system is what it does, after all.
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by labcomputer 1y ago
I think we agree. The main point I was making is that doctors and lawyers (and tech workers!) are not members of some "upper" or "capitalist" (depending on which terms you prefer) class, irrespective of their income, be
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by labcomputer 1y ago
Lol. Doctors and lawyers are the very definition of middle class! Middle class is people who trade labor for money, but who sometimes have a (full or partial) ownership stake in the business they work for. They are what marxists might call
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by labcomputer 1y ago
One of the oddities of California is that you frequently see shabby, cheaply constructed houses of no significance selling for millions of dollars. That is because some mid-century developer built it as middle-class housing. A middle-class
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by labcomputer 1y ago
Right, but the problem with CHERI is that you may (probabilistically) continue to have that capability even after you shouldn't. That's the problem. That's because the capability (tagged pointer) itself is what gives you the
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by labcomputer 1y ago
So one problem with a nurse -> MD career track is that they are just fundamentally different roles. It's not (just) number of years of schooling, but what they study. Nurses don't do diagnoses or prescriptions, and don't
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by labcomputer 1y ago
And I think you're vastly underestimating the silliness of the requirements to get into medical school. Medical schools care whether you got an A or B in your undergrad physics-for-life-sciences lab (I know this because I had to deal w
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by labcomputer 1y ago
1. In the United States, insurance companies are legally mandated to pay out at least 85% of premiums as medical expenses. It's called the Medical Loss Ratio if you care to Google it. That stipulation is part of the ACA / "
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by labcomputer 1y ago
Those graphs don't really refute the point. Look at the buckets: Things like Dental Services, Home Health Care, Nursing Care Facilities... This tells you about healthcare spending at the macro level, but doesn't explain why a part
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by labcomputer 1y ago
Well, I happen agree with this allegedly controversial opinion, but the fact that we invent legal fictions like "nurse practitioners" and "physicians assistants" I think sort of proves the point that it is controversia
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by labcomputer 1y ago
> The alternative is, if you don't incentivize someone financially to spend a decade studying medicine, they won't or they will immigrate to somewhere where they can. People already have plenty of incentive to become doctors. W
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by labcomputer 1y ago
> The ideal that actually lets customers see pricing info is: a health savings account, a high-deductible insurance with no cap, and then as a cost savings measure the insurance company can incentivize yearly check-ups. Well, that's
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by labcomputer 1y ago
"Death panels" is an unfortunate name, but they exist in all systems. The current system in my country and your country has them. Any future system in either our countries will have them. It does not matter if the system is pub
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by labcomputer 1y ago
> It's also weird to think that someone with a rare, degenerative illness should have to evaluate whether their quality or length of life is "worth" the money that a specific specialist will cost. But all countries do that
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by labcomputer 1y ago
That sounds like a terrible idea. Suppose a malicious actor wants to prevent something you support. They can simply bring a bill with a poison pill. To use the prior example: They could create a criminal reform act which makes weed legal,
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by labcomputer 1y ago
Double jeopardy in the US means being prosecuted for the exact same crime more than once. It does not, however, prevent being prosecuted for similar or related crimes. For instance, when local white juries would acquit white defendants i
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by labcomputer 1y ago
Or maybe the iPhone should be that phone and those who don’t like the closed ecosystem should get something else? Why would buy a phone that doesn’t work the way you like when alternatives exist?
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by labcomputer 1y ago
> No one is saying you can't keep choosing Apple's walled-garden app store as the only store provider or that you shouldn't be able to block any or even all app stores Err.. Isn’t that exactly what the EU is saying?
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by labcomputer 1y ago
Well, some of the permissions include things like “allow the app to track the user for advertising purposes”. There isn’t a technical way to enforce that with virtualization and sandboxing. You can enforce it by booting misbehaving apps fr
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by labcomputer 1y ago
But, like, why fight your tools? Why not just accept that iOS has coddling, and that your preferences are better served by the competition? As you said, Android has permission prompts. They have folding phones. Android phones regularly b
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by labcomputer 1y ago
I don’t know whether to feel happy or sad for you. Happy because you have nobody in your life in a vulnerable position to be taken advantage of the inevitable malware that will be installed on their device as a result of your wish. Or sad b
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by labcomputer 1y ago
> beyond conveying the ability to charge ordinary people with structuring [1]. It doesn't, lol. Structuring is when you make several smaller transactions to avoid a CTR. If a CTR was created, you aren't structuring. And if
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by labcomputer 1y ago
> All too predictably, a recent investigation [1] found Brightline is the deadliest passenger railroad in the US. Gosh, why won't those awful railroad do something to stop their trains from suddenly and completely unpredictably sw
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by labcomputer 1y ago
Without commenting on the overall conclusion, these parts not correct: "it can distinguish testosterone from any other molecule based on its exact molecular weight and fragmentation pattern. This means that does NOT fall for the bait t
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by labcomputer 1y ago
There was never any vetting process for airline lounges. You pay your $500/year and visit any time you have a flight. That's how it has always been. Sometimes you got a membership discount for having one of the higher status tiers
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by labcomputer 1y ago
> The idea that actually the real reason why aircraft are operating more slowly and delayed more is because there aren't enough ATCs in position doesn't pass the sniff test at all for anyone that knows the slightest thing about

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