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by after_care 5y ago
Insurance companies operate at about 17% over premiums. Which means, for every dollar someone spends on insurance the company pays $0.83 in claims. This happens at a population level. Maybe you individually have a statistically above ave
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by after_care 5y ago
This is such a moonshot. Right now, give all warning signs we know if, if you could identified the 100 most likely people in America to attempt suicide in the next 24 hours that haven’t had a previous suicide attempt or previously announce
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by after_care 5y ago
Inflation rate minus T-bill interest.
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by after_care 5y ago
I think they appeared in the start menu. I only briefly used windows 10.
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by after_care 5y ago
This hasn't been the case for many years. I paid for a Windows 10 home license in 2017 ($119) and received ads inside the product. I pay for Dash Pass ($9.99/mo) and they attempt to send push notification ads.
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by after_care 5y ago
Every app gets to send me exactly one spam notification, after which I either silence notifications from that specific app or uninstall the application. This behavior is so common and so fixable, I don't see why this is news worthy.
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by after_care 5y ago
I really enjoy the 49" ultra-wide curved form factor Samsung has pioneered and is on the second generation of.
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by after_care 5y ago
> crypto more broadly Think about all of the licensing, money printing, and registration agencies to ever exist. What percentage of them have significant corruption? Blockchains provides a lot of stability in a way more traditional hum
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by after_care 5y ago
I don’t really see the either/or situation here. It seems like two ways in which states can control citizens, and with actors in the modern world taking lessons from both mixed with other sources.
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by after_care 5y ago
> Only 13% of Americans scored as “proficient,” while over half were “basic” or “below basic.” A score of below basic (being unable to sum two monetary values) should be viewed as a failure of the education system on the same level as il
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by after_care 5y ago
I always found the context in which I’m solving a word problem to be the most critical piece to accurately solving it —- and the reason they aren’t that great. Oh, I’m taking a test it over polynomial expressions —- I already know how I’m g
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by after_care 5y ago
I find math to be incredibly useful in my day-to-day life, and am constantly quantifying things and making computations based on those quantifications. I specifically find double booking accounting, geometry, probability, and set theory to
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by after_care 5y ago
I have 100% opened up a laptop and tuned out a meeting like that. Never go to a corporate meeting without a laptop.
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by after_care 5y ago
Real estate is the safe harbor. It has intrinsic value. Low mortgage interest rates means cash flow can be manageable even if real asset prices drop. Population trends are predictable, so the future demand is basically a known factor. Down
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by after_care 5y ago
The market is full of bulls and bears, and a large portion of why the market behaves how it behaves is how people expect the market to behave. This is a persuasive piece, attempting to manifest the future.
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by after_care 5y ago
There is the personal story told of “I use to use Nokia and Razer and they were good, but I’ve been using Apple products for the last 11 years and I like them a lot” which is a story about brand loyalty developing in an article about an art
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by after_care 5y ago
You dropped so many brand names I’m starting to think there is something to this status symbol theory.
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by after_care 5y ago
Apple has >1billion active units worldwide, or one for every three and a half people on the internet. While the USA market is highly profitable their operational scope is much larger.
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by after_care 5y ago
This is well studied. The summary is that they target isolated or vulnerable people. It's the same with cults, diploma mills, and multi-level marketing schemes.
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by after_care 5y ago
> Optimizing predictions for sounding good as stories, when nature optimizes for no such thing, creates a bias that Nick Bostrom has termed good-story bias. [0] If you do not think you suffer from this bias I suggest you review the bias
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by after_care 5y ago
Without constantly loading cached data into dram the number of writes to it would be significantly lower.
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by after_care 5y ago
Would anyone here be comfortable using their official identity to confound a company with a pseudonymous cofounder? To me this feels like a gross asymmetrical information disclosure.
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by after_care 5y ago
It was a really good upgrade to make the power for HomePod minis be usb-c so there is some data connection. I am hoping for a HomePod2 (or HomePod pro?) that has the same usb-c connection.
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by after_care 5y ago
That’s because they are both in the money cluster. People that want to post/comment in one subreddit about money are more likely than the average population to want to post in another subreddit about money.
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by after_care 5y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/us/california-population-... CA lost population in 2020.
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by after_care 5y ago
It’s very hard to do the math here. It’s largely invisible to me how much my employer is paying in health insurance premiums and it’s unknown that they will add that sum to my salary.
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by after_care 5y ago
1. Simplify the tax code for farms under a certain size. Farms basically require itemization for every expense. 2. Right to repair. Seriously, they cannot repair their own equipment. 3. Add legal protections against GMO companies. Or other
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by after_care 5y ago
What? One of the hallmarks of a tech company is that the costs associated with producing the product is relatively flat and the revenue from the product goes up linearly with usage. Most tech companies then spend their money on recruiting
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by after_care 5y ago
What’s the difference between a pivot and an expansion? Did Netflix pivot to online streaming, or did they expand into online streaming?
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by after_care 5y ago
I’m not sure I believe in 100% strict liability. Imagine if someone were to perform a B&E or armored robbery at a physical location to steal hard copies of records. Clearly if someone uses a zero day to steal personal information from

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