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451.
by dv_dt 2y ago
The cap advantage is multiple - that a banks will lend them more, there is no insurance company profit margin, they can rebuild faster w/o that same insurance company approval red tape. With renters they can price up faster than indivi
452.
by dv_dt 2y ago
Not the first whiff of risk, a solid look at increasing risk due to climate change. This is one company now, but is an issue which is going to keep hittiong more companies & more home owners.
453.
by dv_dt 2y ago
It will bring home ownership costs way up as it has in Florida. It would also allow corporations who can self-insure to have a leveraged capital advantage to buying up homes - which doesn't help individual people who want to own homes.
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by dv_dt 2y ago
This seems like a random meme designed to avoid drawing a basic line of responsiblity between fossil fuel emissions and the costs they impose on many people. That's one discussion. Another discussion is if you chose to connect those -
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by dv_dt 2y ago
Why would you assume that a hybrid scheme would shift that any more or less than the private insurance companies were already doing?
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by dv_dt 2y ago
Leaving it to market also won’t take care of the problem and would instead cause chaos in the home ownership market for no beneficial reason. The market can’t do the correct thing unless the cost is correctly linked to the reason for the in
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by dv_dt 2y ago
The HIPPA rules may be strict, but my most frequent breach notification for loss of personal info (averaging once every 2-3 years) is from health insurers and practice companies losing my information.
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by dv_dt 2y ago
thinking reading and doing edits as less work than entering it yourself is exactly what will cause critical errors to be made. It may not suggest that but just like there are Tesla drivers who are supposed to watch the road there are users
459.
by dv_dt 2y ago
IMHO it’s because they can try to apply a dark pattern to have users accidentally consent to more tracking than they might normally agree to.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
In the US a lot of the ag coops seem to be marketing oriented with maybe some capital equipment sharing (regional packing shipping facilities, etc).
461.
by dv_dt 3y ago
There are a lot of different co-op structures and different aspects of the broad term co-op. Employee ownership is one aspect that could be further broken down. Profit participation, worker-led governance and decision making, formal legal
462.
by dv_dt 3y ago
While the majority of inflation today seems to be driven by companies increasing the profit margin, Climate change is a strong contributor to inflation of fundamental economic costs. Food price inflation is increased by increased heat waves
463.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Casting this as a cost problem is part of the political problem. There is little discussion of sticking to narrow market solutions when it comes to war, yet we blithely put out billions dollars for various form of defense and really don’t a
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Well if there are high denial rates for procedures that are within the accepted body of medical practice then the claims process is standing in the way of individual healthcare. Who validates that a procedure is accepted practice, doctors o
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Agreed, I think of a standardized clerical process (even if wholly administered by humans) as an algorithm. I’m not a lawyer but I suspect there are regulations that apply to unjustified denial of insurance healthcare services - they don’t
466.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Using unvalidated algorithms (including AI) when life is on the line should not be legal. This is clearly the direct case for medical devices, but there should also be a standard when algorithms are being applied that moderate access to hea
467.
by dv_dt 3y ago
If it can be used for rapid detection of viral airborne diseases it can be pretty useful for Covid or bird flu etc.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
A lot of the IT depts in medium to large size companies I've talked to routinely do repairs on their hardware, e.g. swapping out laptop motherboards, memory, drives, etc as part of maintenance (on and off warranty). Hardware explicitly
469.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Wouldn't this systemd feature add a convenient centralized point of attack to inject libraries? Not as open at the user level, but similar to a LD_PRELOAD kind of vulnerability.
470.
by dv_dt 3y ago
I wonder if there is some isolation dampers that could be added to the mounts (sounds fancy, but think rubber or silicon grommets).
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by dv_dt 3y ago
This kind of thing is exactly why I say the US is blase about production logistics. After decades offshoring any product or process that could be cheaper outside the nation - we barely have the know how understand how small interruptions in
472.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Americans and their leadership are far too blasé about logistical disruption. I don’t think the US would do well in a world war where global shipping were seriously and intentionally disrupted. Covid was the easier case and we did terribly.
473.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Yes to be clear I very much agree that Boeing leadership chose wrong. I was aiming to speak to the impression that companies somehow had to respond to short term investors - they very much don’t and can justify financial outcomes on consist
474.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Amazon succeeded in large part because they ignored the complaints of short term investors for years. So while I think that the widespread short term outlook is definitely an issue, it is a choice of boards and CEOs. Ultimately if the compa
475.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Has someone created an enshittification standard scale (ESS) where we can just rate what stage a company is at? It could actually be useful as I would guess that there is probably a good correlation to poor long term financial performance a
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by dv_dt 3y ago
The form already does import most of the info from the IRS...
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Colleges are a major purchases where in the negotiation of the transaction, the seller gets to review detailed financial data of the buyer before offering a price.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Given how poorly privatized healthcare plans cover mental health, getting diagnosed let alone regularly treated for mental health is a luxury for many.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
It’s a shame they did not name the car model Deliverator
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Momentum of batch buys is running out with new buys coming at a cost? If your chips aren’t performance competitive in processing or energy, you have to discount until you hit cost parity.

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