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by arkades 6y ago
I find an important take-away of that CO story was "The handwriting was nothing like mine. I pulled up my old lease and the writing on the notes is identical to the landlords'!" That suspicion went away as soon as he got his
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by arkades 6y ago
> his is the exact opposite of how burden of proof works. An extraordinary claim is being made. Person suffering hallucinations is concerned they have a brain tumor, experiences said concern in the form of hallucination, turns out to hav
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by arkades 6y ago
Case studies aren't science, and aren't meant to be. They're clinical medicine. They (not necessarily all applying to this one) illustrate that: (A) This fucking cool thing happened. (B) This weird presentation (or lab findi
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by arkades 6y ago
You don't see the difference between "let's hold companies responsible for what people do as part of utilizing their services, while utilizing their services" and "let's hold companies responsible for what peop
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by arkades 6y ago
> They are a monopoly, and this is unjust. Every store has a monopoly over the contents of their own shelves. That's why 'monopoly' is a concept that applies to markets, not to individual stores.
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by arkades 6y ago
> Am I just getting bad doctors? How do you find this type of buddy doctor that becomes a long term relationship and really cares about you personally, like I hear about other people seeming to have. Doc here: Stay in one place, go to th
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by arkades 6y ago
It doesn't matter if they're hypocrites. At all. It matters that we create reasonable and sane policies and enforce them evenly and fairly across all market participants. We don't apply them selectively based on whether the c
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by arkades 6y ago
> I understand Spotify's complaint about competing with Apple Music, and that does have merit, but at the same time I kind of just don't really care. Spotify is also in the process of ruining podcasts by making them exclusive t
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by arkades 6y ago
Other services are reporting failure to connect when trying to reach T-Mobile. I was just trying to call a coworker w/ T-Mobile, and the error message I received was "Verizon cannot complete this call." (I'm on VZ)
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by arkades 6y ago
As another poster included: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon... “ An anonymous caller had contacted the company to say Tripp was planning a mass shooting at the Gigafactory. When t
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by arkades 6y ago
Because plenty of them aren't out of print. Publishers may or may not give a shit if you put forward a book in a fashion that does not impact them monetarily. They give a shit if you do. They definitely don't care what the ratio
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by arkades 6y ago
Because one of those groups is a set of criminals that will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and the other one of those groups is a set of government agents with a history of not being held accountable for their actions. There&#
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by arkades 6y ago
> Always surprising to me how the basic structure of analogy is so commonly misunderstood. It's what happens when people don't have a rebuttal to the point being raised. It's generally a good sign that they're no long
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by arkades 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand your comment correctly. Are you saying that black communities should be reasonably crime-free before they can expect institutions not to systematically discriminate them and enact retributionless, extralegal v
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by arkades 6y ago
This is largely what's kept me away. I'm comfortable adding piles of sources and citations to pass through some sort of Wikipedia Peer Review-Lite, but if I put in the hard work of creating a repository of knowledge for free and j
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by arkades 6y ago
No offense taken. Weeding out for accuracy is a fair and important concern, and there's no reason to assume a random person on the internet is the expert they believe themselves to be. Though I'd point out that unless wikipedia ha
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by arkades 6y ago
People think Wikipedia is complete??? I could add stuff in my field of specialty constantly . I just don't want to jump through all the hoops that come with being a wikipedia contributor, so I keep all my notes on a private wiki.
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by arkades 6y ago
That's cool. I go through about two blades a week. I'm not sure either of those facts is relevant to the discussion.
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The plaintiff would have seven years in which to have the court claw back the transferred assets and, as there's no way that it would come close to looking like an ordinary course-of-business transfer, it would not only make them more
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by arkades 6y ago
Many libraries changed the policies you're describing during the pandemic. As though they, too, were responding to changes on the ground. NYPL, for instance, suspended address verification for issuing new e-library cards, with the cave
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by arkades 6y ago
> Why are companies driving away people who make multi-thousand dollar purchases with scummy behaviour that nets them spare change? Because high-margin goods aren't spare change. Look at the razor: I can sell you the razor at cost-p
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by arkades 6y ago
> No activation was not removed, a license is still required. This was even explicitly stated in the linked article, but for some reason people keep asserting in this thread that it was a cracked version of windows. Am I missing somethi
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by arkades 6y ago
> It's also quite difficult to get adequate sputum cultures Heck yes. PNA cx will come back negative a good 2/3 of the time. Doesn't mean an awful lot.
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by arkades 6y ago
It's a bad one. Controlling medical expenses isn't easy. Neither is getting admin + overhead under 10%. You need both to get a reasonably profitable insurance product.
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by arkades 6y ago
That applies to health insurance. I don't believe it applies to any other kind. Lemonade isn't a health insurer.
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by arkades 6y ago
The essay seemed to me a very lengthy rumination on the question that ultimately got scared and ran away from actually taking an unpopular stance on the answer.
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by arkades 6y ago
What university is this where tuition plus school-based insurance is < 20% of open market insurance?
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by arkades 6y ago
In the US the first two years of a PhD are heavily focused on classwork, with a research component; the latter years are the "sabbatical to focus on your own research." People who quit after the first two years are often granted a
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by arkades 6y ago
Comparing the field of people with PhDs to the field of people with BSs isn't exactly comparable to comparing PhDs to people with Master's degrees who are already doing all the relevant academic work and receiving academic acclaim
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> but I’m not sure I can ever go back to having to wake up early in the morning, sit in a boring seminar, be pressured to take on teaching duties, and not be able to escape to a warm country in the cold winter. Oh yeah. I went to med sch

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