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by bduerst 7y ago
>A small tweak to this approach would be to precompute and cache the entire chunk-graph distance matrix, so the chunk-distance between any two chunks can be computed by a lookup, instead of searching. Doesn't this just move the inte
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by bduerst 7y ago
And why do you think that is? Part C and D have privatized options because it offers gap coverage from Part A and B, so yes, privatized Part C and D would disappear if the gaps are closed.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Medicare for all doesn't eliminate other payers, and is more similar to the European system than what we have now.
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by bduerst 7y ago
This is great. Can someone do it for direct mail marketing as well? It's more of a mine field than email.
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by bduerst 7y ago
What are the requirements? If having power is the top priority requirement, then China's information censorship is okay.
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by bduerst 7y ago
I didn't bring it up - I was explaining how it's different and not a form of government censorship.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Harm principle. The government doesn't ban firearms, automobiles, knives, etc. because they have potential to cause harm, so why would the government break freedoms to censor information on the basis that it has potential to cause
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by bduerst 7y ago
Yup. Governments enforcing information about individuals to be deleted is a form of censorship that violates the first amendment. GDPR tries to make stipulations about how deletions related to 'public interest' do not need to be
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by bduerst 7y ago
I would honestly probably pay if they gave better controls on gif conversion. There's a ton of gif websites but they don't do longer gifs / multiple scene text editing very well.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Which startups?
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by bduerst 7y ago
Their target market is internet users who can install a browser. This include markets outside of yourself and nursing homes, and includes the audience of Mr Robot .
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by bduerst 7y ago
Penetration tests are a huge deal right now. Many companies outsource it to security agencies who then perform the pen tests and report results.
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by bduerst 7y ago
No idea about Mozilla but it's a large enough organization and user base that those 100 people could be working on: - Acquisition: Managing channels like search and social ads to grow the user base, upsell browser usage across devices,
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by bduerst 7y ago
Rural US, right? Keep in mind that the providers in your area are also in areas where they compete with others on premium price. Just because you anecdotally don't see it doesn't mean the competition isn't happening.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Sure, but consider what Jefferson would have also said about the internet, social media, and recent elections.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Disagree. Media has always centralized on key players who distribute the information, from newspapers to radio towers to broadcast TV to cable networks, all who maintained a modicum of quality. The internet is a turn in the opposite direct
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by bduerst 7y ago
The counterargument to this is always what is the tool designed to do ? - Should the layperson be allowed to own weapons-grade plutonium? - How about being able to buy and cultivate your own anthrax cultures? - Why shouldn't I be able
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by bduerst 7y ago
Okay, but how do you know Duck Duck Go is privacy orientated? Duck Duck Go is: - A privately-owned, for-profit corporation based in the U.S. and subject to its laws - Closed source software that is not open to the open-source community -
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by bduerst 7y ago
DDG is Bing search (unless you search in Russian, then it's Yandex). You may as well just keep using Bing and get the rewards.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Yes. I have actually bought my own insurance through one of the state-run exchanges in the past.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Doubtful. Doctors are incentivized to not have to write prescriptions, because it legally shifts the liability (and malpractice claims) to them.
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by bduerst 7y ago
How exactly does networks complicate that? Insurers had to scale (i.e. increase costs) after ACA was implemented because number of uninsured Americans went from 18 to 11%.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Except that the ACA also instututes marketplaces and enforces insurance standards, so that consumers can shop and switch between substitute services if one insurer tries to hike premiums.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Which is why ACA also instituted marketplaces and insurance standards, so that competition across substitute services keeps premiums competitive. E.g. Anthem is more than free to double the premium on their bronze plan to increase net pro
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by bduerst 7y ago
Which is why legislation like the affordable care act that limits premiums helps keep stupid behavior from insurance companies in check.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Market availability isn't the same as OTC distribution though. The expensive clinical regulations that creates barriers to entry for the market and leads to monopolistic incumbents is not the same to being able to buy the good with or
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by bduerst 7y ago
My point is not that safety needs to be increased to the maximum. It's assumed the current level of safety takes into consideration existing market signals and the economic trade-off of diminishing returns. My point is that trading sa
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by bduerst 7y ago
Incumbents have a monopoly because of safety regulatory controls inherent to the market, not "indirection". Companies that have the capital to invest into 15 years of clinical trials are going to dominate the market. Rather the lo
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by bduerst 7y ago
The max discount I've ever seen is $0.20 for Chevron, but tends to be $0.10. Chevron is much less rare than a Safeway-branded gas station. Currently west coast gasoline is ~$4.00/g, so that's about 2.5-5.0% discount, which i
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by bduerst 7y ago
I was going to say just mechanical turk parking lot pictures.

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