akramachamarei

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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
This is a great answer.
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
I am deeply offended by your allegation. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a shill. I would not make the same accusations about you, nor would I act as if I can estimate the probability that you are. HN's commentary guidelines add
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
Seems like a pretty good yardstick to me. Ultimately, it shows (partially) how much money is going through an insurer vs to an insurer. The revenue flow graph is included for UnitedHealth Group, for example, and about 2/3 is going
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
Of course, it wouldn't be a 22% decrease, it might be an 11% decrease if we assume optimistically that operating costs are cut in half. I don't know if administrative efficiency is exactly a strength of the government, either.
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
What you wrote seems fully consistent with the blogpost. Unless you are suggesting that health insurance companies collude with providers to raise the cost of medical service?
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
How would spurious denials drive up the cost of medical service?
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
I'm sometimes puzzled by the way people use "circular" to describe an economic system pejoratively. (Not to suggest you are.) Seems like any worthwhile economic system is ultimately cyclical. Pulling resources into the loop i
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
Update: this is the most up-to-date info I could find: Case 15-25-00202-CV https://search.txcourts.gov/Case.aspx?cn=15-25-00202-CV&coa=... Pamela Griffin, Ralph Griffin, Michelle Griffin, Corey Griffin, Individually and
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_(law) the requirements for standing were developed in the Constitution and elaborated in some later cases. To quote from the article, the apt criteria seem to me (2 o
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
I went through high school until almost 16 with no phone whatsoever. Twas fine. I remember peers around me for the most part had smartphones at the start of high school, maybe even some in middle school? I don't want to say exactly whe
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
Using em-dash is as much a sign that a writer (1) knows how to produce documents properly and (2) has a good grasp of the English language as it a sign of LLM usage.
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by akramachamarei 4mo ago
Dumbphones are still a thing
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
I'm finding it interesting to reason about this subject, not being a geologist and what not. It seems that there is a relatively stable rate at which the farms output nitrates regardless of how much water Amazon pumps from the aquifer.
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
They only have a balanced budget until their deferred bills come due, bills deferred precisely so they can declare the budget balanced, bills such as paying pensions.
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
It shouldn't seem that weird. One can like democracy while also disliking its outcomes sometimes.
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
I like to see this. Especially this part: > Under [Condorcet voting], [… candidates] would have to worry about how voters of the other party would fill out their ballots. This is key. On the other hand, I really don't like the sound
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Yes, we should really be concerned about the government repressing internet users on its network. Surely you've noticed the hubbub about age verification recently. Maybe not Marquette, but in other places I certainly would expect the g
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
I see the comparison--like AI companies are mining value out of public corpora, somewhat like how an oil or mining company extracts resources from the earth. An important difference being that when minerals are extracted they are removed fr
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Um, not that I know of. There probably are some, but very small. Depends on what you mean by area. When I spoke of "not necessary or sufficient", I thought I was careful to quantify that expression over individuals; sharing your o
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
> liting [sic] ~800M people out of extreme poverty. What has the West done in that time? Well, producing the demand for those manufacturing jobs, for one thing.
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Hackers should think of slavery reparations when they think of Sanders' proposal. Not as an equivalent, but as a more credible and similarly untenable idea. Sanders' being to take from those who produce to give to those who likel
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Besides economic and historical facts, I think one of the biggest reasons to flee municipal broadband is its liability to become a tool of government repression. What we're essentially proposing is that at the dusk of paper and analo
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Can you? If the government decides to take another grand, that's money I can't use. If I publish a blog post about why I hate videogames, and an AI company trains a model on it, I still have my article, I still have the same numbe
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Neither is using "Nazi" as a pejorative, but these kinds of comparisons can be valuable when they identify commonalities between modern proposal and historical approaches to governance that went horribly wrong. (Obviously)
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
That's not quite true either. State protection is neither necessary nor sufficient to consistently ensure safety for any particular person or their property. Obviously, there's a sweet spot.
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
If understand you correctly, your answer to my question would be "never", that is, you would always attribute some blame to historical causes. Okay. I am left with more questions, however. To paraphrase your final paragraph, you e
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Allow me to propose a model for this score-based ordering with fuzziness. (Perhaps we can call this problem probabilistic rasterization.) The final output of an execution of the system, given a static, complete set of applicants is a partic
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Would this be fixed buckets? I.e. would you treat 649-650 more predictive than 648-649? Presumably that wouldn't work. I'm sure there's some algorithm that could do this but it seems subtle. Obviously, if a school has a cutof
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
Personally, I don't think they actually believe it's paradoxical, I think the authors are just trying to be polite to those who criticize standardized testing with identity politics. Politeness can aid in persuasion, so I don&#x27
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by akramachamarei 5mo ago
> the kids that are failing have parents that won't be paying for good education As in, they would be spending their vouchers on things besides education? Because typically when people speak of privatizing education it means creatin

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