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by ars 2y ago
What in the world is "php.ini level of madness"? If you are trying to attack php you are not doing a good job of it, especially because there were good reason for using a separate program for glob.
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by ars 2y ago
Goy is not a Yiddish word, it's a Hebrew word that means "nation", and is most commonly used to mean "a different nation than me". Like any word it can be used in a derogatory way or a neutral way.
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by ars 2y ago
http://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i...
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by ars 2y ago
Acrobat 9.5 works fine on Linux, if a little slow. This Tetris game makes it crash though.
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by ars 2y ago
> since now total costs have to go up for their profit to go up. And yet, they deny claims, despite that denying a claim reduces their profits. > to carry water for private insurers. Because insurance it utterly irrelevant to the issu
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by ars 2y ago
So the fun thing is that's already what happens! It's part of a law passed with the ACA called the Medical Loss Ratio rule. I've come to discover that most people really do not understand healthcare insurance at all. The true
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by ars 2y ago
> It is when the care is necessary; when the denial is part of a strategy to goose profits. Denying claims does NOT increases profits, in the US it actually decreases them. Read more here if you like: https://news.ycombinato
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by ars 2y ago
> lavish lifestyle funded by his company's industry-leading rate of coverage denials It's really astonishing how many people believe this. But actually in the US the higher the coverage denials the LOWER the company profits. Wh
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by ars 2y ago
This is simply not true. Denying claims does NOT increase insurance company profits, it actually DECREASES it. Read this thread I posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42642405
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by ars 2y ago
Expenses are irrelevant to the law, which looks at money in -> healthcare costs paid externally . Those expenses are internal and increasing them doesn't change the above at all, those expenses affect profit and that it. Insurance
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by ars 2y ago
What you posted is a completely separate topic though. That's an analysis of vertical integration. But it has nothing to do with the claim that "denying claims increases profits", which is simply not true.
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by ars 2y ago
> so they buy pharmacies and gouge the costs of cheap medicine to make up for the lost profits. Instead of paying $5 for insulin, they make you pay $60, which helps them hit the 80% rule. Yah, that's not really true. Sure if they ca
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by ars 2y ago
> to pad the bottom line I've never understood people who say this, insurance companies' profit margin is set by law and they can't change it. And reduction in claims paid just goes into lower premiums. And more claims pai
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by ars 2y ago
The issue is that Manhattan is not just a destination, it's also a transit - people often just want to go through Manhattan, and not into it. If you removed all the through traffic, leaving just people who want to stop there, that chan
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by ars 2y ago
Really? If I were rich, and in a hurry (as opposed to speeding for the thrill) it's exactly what I would do. How would you word this clause without people saying "I just hired him, I didn't tell him to speed"?
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by ars 2y ago
The downside is it creates a conflict between the city and the rest. The city is like "we want transit, everyone else go away". The rest are like "we want to give you business but your policies drive us away", and "
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by ars 2y ago
Me? Never. Someone really rich? Well, that's my question.
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by ars 2y ago
What I'm curious about is if business in the Manhattan will be lessened as a result of less people there. I know the goal is less cars, rather than less people, but I want to see if that's actually what will happen. As someone who
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by ars 2y ago
So you're saying that if I'm rich and I want to speed I hire a driver with no money and quietly cover the fine for him? I've always wondered about this loophole in that system.
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by ars 2y ago
Maybe one of these has it: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=BuqNOOwAAAAJ&hl=en Edit: It's here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-024-00194-4 But he's clearly spent his entir
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by ars 2y ago
This title needs that missing exclamation mark. I read it straight as a single sentence and wondered when people used needles on their wrist.
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by ars 2y ago
There is around 1 trillion tons of oxygen in the atmosphere, if you burned all the hydrogen you would deplete all of the oxygen on earth. Let's not. Although realistically we only need a tiny fraction of the hydrogen.
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by ars 2y ago
Did you catch the part that most of the plasticware had zero flame retardant? Rather they were just a few outliers that completely threw the average off?
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by ars 2y ago
The low power processors are not general purpose, they are fpga's, they get trained and then are highly optimized at their task. And they stay in the brain even when not used. You can ride a bike or play a piano years after stopping.
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by ars 2y ago
It depends on your goal: Do you just need that piece of paper with your name on it? Or are you going to school to really learn material?
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by ars 2y ago
If you use AI exclusively I assume they won't. But I feel like most people who use it, use it to save some time - like they have the general idea of what they want to say, and just need a little help polishing it into a final form. Lik
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Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn't matter(arstechnica.com)
173 points by ars 2y ago|112 comments
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by ars 2y ago
That only works if you have no family. Because you risk an emergency provider being unable to reach you if something happens, or even something as simple as your kid/spouse losing their phone and trying to call you from a borrowed phon
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by ars 2y ago
If they end up on this list they will shut down shortly after, and you better find out if it will be possible to transfer your number if that happens. I would contact the provider and ask them their intentions, and if you are not satisfied
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by ars 2y ago
> It is a holiday miracle for small low power handheld devices. Is it really? Isn't the signal blocked if a person simply walks between he devices? i.e. if you are wearing a receiver and just turn around you will lose connection.

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