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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Medicare Advantage is a clusterfuck from start to finish (denying more claims than Medicare while also costing taxpayers more), precisely because it tries to micro-manage KPIs. If you want to look at them done correctly, look at the FEP pro
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
In my experience Kaiser / the Blues have their issues (mostly inefficiency), but not nearly as many directly anti-patient incentives as United Healthcare et al. Generally speaking, you get decent outcomes with {not for profit} + {effic
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
I'd be fascinated on the economics of this from Google's perspective: specifically the unit economics on generating updated-once-a-year results to queried-once-in-a-million searches. Tl;dr: I feel like the long-tail web (90s) was
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Miami, Tokyo, Zurich top UBS housing bubble risk(ubs.com)
2 points by ethbr1 7mo ago|0 comments
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
> The entire point of the insurance business model is to avoid paying for [human well-being] as much as possible For-profit health insurance. Which imho should be illegal. A lot of the US' quasi free-market, in-name-only health
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
At least it's not Unix.
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Indeed, and yet Israel has a seemingly strong alliance with the world's strongest military and normalized relations with many of its Arab neighbors. I'm no fan of Israel's current insane government, but strategically they out
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
From a company perspective, compiling a quarterly report is a non-trivial amount of effort. The company is employing additional resources (accountants) and distracting leadership (prepping talking points). I'm not firmly in one camp or
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
It's not you; it's media (including TV). Post-1990s, directors forgot how to mix audio for stereo. And streaming services assumed you had at least a 5.1 system with a dedicated center channel.
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
They miscalculated the consequences of being an international pariah. Not many countries will lift a serious finger when a rogue country complains about others violating the rules-based international order against it. Sure, there will be ge
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
It's almost like the stuff right wing media falsely claimed Obama and Biden were doing. Like they were preparing for someone to actually do it, because it already happened with the last guy, right?
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
E.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgmlzg0p8k2o
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Contrary take: it's easier to move "should" regulation to "must" regulation than it is to create the latter from nothing. E.g. HIPAA security rule updates
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
> (Though one retired special ops guy who started military contracting kept a map of the bunkers. I think as a joke. The saying being a well-stocked bunker owned by an asshole is a good target for a group of guys with guns.) This made
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
If the debate here is that sustained ethno-political campaigns are slightly shifting Wikipedia over time in a way that requires an academic paper to detect... Vs. What Elon is doing... Then we're not even comparing fruits to fruits.
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Woosh.
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Isn't the real underlying risk here concentration, as opposed to diversification? If you have unlimited capital and time horizon, because you're a nation with the power to tax and print money, then you can keep this game going for
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
*SAFe has entered the chat* https://framework.scaledagile.com/safe-6-0-configurations/
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
The issue with N-flagging is that every flag needs to be universally-defined and equally applied. If one person's humor is another person's satire is another person's political, then splitting it into N options muddles the si
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
> the tool itself isn't the issue, but rather the abdication of responsibility by the author The biggest current social problem with AI content is our collective lack of transparency into how much human responsibility was taken.
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Don't forget your car. Definitely can't trust that without airgapping it.
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
> How would you look at the panel, then? You only view your TV from inside the Faraday cage, of course.
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Anyone who lets their TV on their network is naive. It has one job. I never would have thought Zero Trust would be a requirement for home networking, but here we are since ~2020.
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
I mean in the sense that if there's a morally distasteful business choice, but corporate officers pursue it, then are sued, a solid defense is claiming fiduciary duty. To wit, they thought it would make the company money.
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
I was under the impression the application was more akin to 'fiduciary duty provides an executive shield for morally reprehensible corporate choices' rather than 'it provides an ability to sue someone for not following it.&#x
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
> no I dont know how O(n) is calculated when reading a function 1. Confidently state "O(n)" 2. If they give you a look, say "O(1) with some tricks" 3. If they still give you a look, say "Just joking!
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Ask HN: How will AI-generated code be vetted?
3 points by ethbr1 7mo ago|1 comments
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
A prior ill doesn't excuse a subsequent one. That Sinclair, Nexstar, CC/iHeartMedia were allowed to consolidate in the 90s is bad. That Google et al. decimated newspaper revenue from the mid-00s onwards without replacing their ne
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
> but traditional media has all been captured and the algorithms have done the rest We should be explicit about what happened: Google and Facebook skimmed off most of advertising revenue that previously supported journalism. Then neith
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
100% ^ The loop seems to go like this: remote working + increasingly isolated-by-default urban cultures => social depression => not having the energy to go out => more social depression Spending too much time on the internet exacer

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