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by anthuswilliams 10mo ago
> And premiums would go up. Yes. As I wrote above, insurers compete on premiums, and they do do so by using rebates to subsidize those premiums by spreading patients' deductibles across the insured population. As far as profits go,
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by anthuswilliams 10mo ago
Insurance companies absolutely benefit from the higher and opaque prices, because they negotiate rebates with providers. This allows them to maximize patient copays and ensures they hit their deductible, i.e. paying as much as possible unde
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by anthuswilliams 10mo ago
Agree with this framing. They are like RAG setups that you can compose together without needing to build a dedicated app to do it.
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by anthuswilliams 10mo ago
> How do you handle versioning/updates when datasets change? For data MCPs, we use remote MCPs that are served over an stdio bridge. So our configuration is just mcp-proxy[0] pointed at a fixed URL we control. The server has an &#x2
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by anthuswilliams 10mo ago
Sure, absolutely. Before I do, let me just say, this tooling took a lot of work and problem solving to establish in the enterprise, and it's still far from perfect. MCPs are extremely useful IMO, but there are a lot of bad MCP servers
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by anthuswilliams 10mo ago
I have found MCPs to be very useful (albeit with some severe and problematic limitations in the protocol's design). You can bundle them and configure them with a desktop LLM client and distribute them to an organization via something l
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by anthuswilliams 1y ago
If you had developed novel techniques of sfumato and chiaroscuro, spun new theories of perspective and human anatomy, invented new pigments, and then explained all of that to a journeyman painter, with enough coaching, detail, and oversight
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by anthuswilliams 1y ago
The article is reporting on randomized clinical trials, which are not subject to this dynamic.
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by anthuswilliams 2y ago
I'm no fan of tariffs, but oh please. Last time their prices went up because of COVID and because of supply chain disruptions. Now they are going up because of tariffs. All of their earnings calls are filled with analyses of their &quo
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by anthuswilliams 2y ago
This does not at all resonate with my experience with human researchers, even highly paid ones. You still have to do a lot of work to verify their claims.
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by anthuswilliams 2y ago
I see, thank you. I missed that they were the only users affected. I misread it as saying Yahoo was an emblematic example.
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by anthuswilliams 2y ago
Yes, I did. My point is that the author might be jumping to conclusions. It is far more likely that they introduced a bug in their content than it is that a bunch of email providers who haven't changed in a decade suddenly released the
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by anthuswilliams 2y ago
This seems like the simplest explanation. Why are we all brigading about AI hallucinations?
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by anthuswilliams 2y ago
> Just because a thing exists in market and checks a box, doesn’t mean it works very well. Now there is a quote I should frame and hang in the company break room.
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by anthuswilliams 2y ago
Theoretically the role they serve is that they can negotiate with pharmacies and develop a formulary which insurers package into their various offerings. PBMs can negotiate with pharmacies by sending them lots of customers in exchange for n
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by anthuswilliams 2y ago
That would exclude approximately 99% of all the businesses that have ever existed (including most of those that claim to have some other, loftier goal)
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by anthuswilliams 2y ago
The author doesn't claim that the imbalance is a reason to doubt the study. His claim is that the imbalance is a reason to doubt the claim that an underlying shift in cultural norms explains why the results might have been valid in 200
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by anthuswilliams 3y ago
From the company's perspective, dividends and buybacks are economically equivalent (i.e. they are giving a certain quantity of cash to shareholders) However, from the shareholder perspective, buybacks are more tax-efficient since those
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by anthuswilliams 3y ago
My first thought was BRA as well, but I don't see how it works with the 'LL' clue?
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by anthuswilliams 3y ago
Hi, you have your links backward. The Director role links to the Data Eng role, and vice versa.
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by anthuswilliams 3y ago
I imagine you'd use it in combination with uBlock Origin. The latter would prevent ads from being loaded in the first place, but when the site itself is presenting you with sponsored results, email signup overlays, and so on, you'
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by anthuswilliams 3y ago
This is great! I would love to extend it to hide sponsored results, ads, and call-to-action popups.
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by anthuswilliams 3y ago
This sounds it might be like a hallucination. I've never heard of any "Domestic Bribery Act" and I'm unable to find one in cursory online searching. (In 18 USC there are prohibitions on bribing public officials, but that
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by anthuswilliams 4y ago
There's nothing 'unnecessary' about it. If you can't talk about technology in an interview for a software engineer, what else do you have to go on?
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by anthuswilliams 4y ago
The article seems pretty clearly to indicate that this is far from "just a special case". It cites data that show that the rewards to thin women relative to fat ones far outpace the differences in reward for men on their own axes
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by anthuswilliams 4y ago
No, in fact it is quite common to do "open label" clinical studies in which patients know what drug they are getting and no one is given the current standard of care. This is especially common in cancer, where the standard of care
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by anthuswilliams 4y ago
My mom used to say I "worked for Google" (back when that was considered respectable) when I participated in Summer of Code one year.
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by anthuswilliams 4y ago
I don't personally pirate much, but I take umbrage at you characterizing it in this way. You seem to think that the issues of accessing media without subjecting yourself to user-hostile behaviors are wholly orthogonal to the issue of a
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
In the article they said > I had a hard time thinking strategically about product. I was too busy supporting the entire organization on all things related to the product. so that's a pretty clear indication of what was missing. Inst
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
SO itself offers a private version of its project for this purpose.

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