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by drtillberg 6y ago
The article is about auto accident claims data, which is a great clue that HIPAA actually doesn't apply. From a different part of the Internet[1]: "There are certain gaps [in HIPAA coverage], like if a person meets with an acci
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Golden opportunity for the taxicab industry to get its act together and compete on a semi-level playing field.
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This Land Is Your Land: Behind America's Best-Known Protest Song and Lost Verses(mentalfloss.com)
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On Misinformation, Social Media and Partisan Coverage Re Hydroxychloroquine(spectator.org)
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by drtillberg 6y ago
A central premise of this article is not correct. If an employer, for example, is using tens of thousands of background data points to deny employment to a person, the employer would need to disclose that to the applicant.[1]. If the thi
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by drtillberg 6y ago
For SaaS like Strava or something, I'm agnostic whether the notice should come before the shut-off alleging a TOS violation. For cellular service though, SMS is integral to life. 911 even accepts SMS. Imagine T-Mobile silently dropp
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Two words: Health care . The folks arguing this in Congress seem never to have faced the practical issues that come with loss of employment. Plus, I'll gander that among the 32% who qualified for the benefits noted, but whose income w
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by drtillberg 6y ago
> If there were a secret conspiracy running the liberal media, they could all decide they wanted to raise awareness of racist police brutality, pick the most clear-cut and sympathetic case, and make it non-stop news headlines for the nex
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Once in a similar management dynamic, at my manager's request I compiled a presentation of several key points for a one-hour discussion, that my manager immediately hijacked for the first 15 minutes to lecture about why in the world I
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by drtillberg 6y ago
You want to know if Garmin pushed malware/ransomware via its app onto 1 million smartphones? The apps seem to have been last updated July 21, and Garmin's systems were locked July 23, so.... ?
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Raikes incidentally pointed out that tech business leadership is inherently unstable. Writing of Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect: > They were the leaders and they could have chosen to cannibalize themselves. But they didn't act fast e
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Paperclip maximizing AI. It's so interesting that the long-form narrative of a trading house omits to dive into the detail of a single actual trade!
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Similar function to a consent judgment[1]. Remedies can include citation for contempt, continuing supervision . [1] https://www.lexisnexis.com/lexis-practice-advisor/the-journa...
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by drtillberg 6y ago
I understood the parent to be commenting that Garmin is repackaging customer revenue as a securities product, i.e., their common stock, which they sell to investors. Point being that investors are the key stakeholder, not customers. It&#x2
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Re: #2, that is active sonar, which is for useful for locating objects that are silent, e.g., rocks.[1] It also is very loud and disruptive for whales and dolphins.[2] [1] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sonar.html
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Luc Montagnier's theory is inconvenient in two ways: 1. it suggests that academic research concerning viruses is potentially catastrophically hazardous and 2. he predicted that the pandemic will dissapate all on its own because the man
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Florida's positive test rates are in dispute due to large irregularities, specifically, failure to report negative results.[1]. Chalk up The Hill report to more goalseeked nonsense. [1] https://www.usatoday.com/story&#x
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by drtillberg 6y ago
In practice, newspapers just have different thought leaders now. Once, reporters parroted "a government spokesman confirmed that" -- this was treated as pure fact. It wasn't perfect, but in the U.S. context it generally did
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by drtillberg 6y ago
If the hypothetical crisis divides up the Internet so, for example, U.S. users only can connect to U.S. nodes, and connect to U.S. miners -- and the same is true for Iceland and China and South Africa etc., it would become extremely perilou
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by drtillberg 6y ago
I'm cynical enough at this point to wonder whether the states will add these terrible losses to the COVID-19-related statistics to advocate for stricter and longer lock-downs.
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by drtillberg 6y ago
So maybe we ban all references to nations of individuals that have in the past committed war crimes? Even the limited to recent history, the list is sort of long[1], but African nations seem to be well represented. As a convenient shortha
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by drtillberg 6y ago
For the next act we'll censor images of the pyramids of Egypt, which were constructed by slave labor. And then we'll ban texts of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which was influenced by an enlightenment thinker, Volt
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Of course bailouts from the Fed "make" money. When the Fed increases its balance sheet by $2T, it "made" $2T. Indeed if it devoted the entire bailout to buying paperclips or Renaissance art, or S&P500 common stock,
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by drtillberg 6y ago
When the Fed creates $xxx billion it "makes" money. The real question is whether the Fed bought something worthwhile. The fact that a market coalesced around the asset isn't that significant because the Fed can't with
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by drtillberg 6y ago
A chaplin recently had to resign in apology at a distinguished academic institution for ... making factual and insightful comments about the George Floyd incident.[1] McCarthy eventually was shamed and disgraced by his casual destructivene
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by drtillberg 6y ago
I interpreted the report as: "There are 9 unguarded remote sites which, if damaged maliciously or accidentally, would lead to complete collapse of the U.S. as a nation." And then experts focus on 2 unlikely generalized scenarios o
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by drtillberg 6y ago
The explanation in the article is reassuring and all that, but even still RH was allowing $700k+ margin on a $16k account. Maybe they feel the risk is low for covered-options writing-- and justifiably. However, last I checked (some time ag
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Only the operators know for sure, but the site is so extremely contrarian one cannot always read a negative ZH headline and infer an intent that traders sell, or a positive headline and infer an intent that traders buy. Often the intent se
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by drtillberg 6y ago
>> the supercomputer simulations for the new study (35 years of calculations on a single PC)... Was the simulation saved all these years on a floppy disk running on an old 386 PC? Would have liked more explanation of the quote.
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by drtillberg 6y ago
The fundamentals of Hertz are terrible, but the market as a whole doesn't trade on fundamentals anymore, so this is unexpected as a matter of degree . Still, I suspect that despite the rhetoric surrounding this dead cat bounce, the no

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