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by gotostatement 5y ago
hmmm, I feel like that is "user-hostile", might not be a great idea for a nascent service. I think that if you're starting a new service you would want to pump it up, make every user feel awesome so they keep using it. you ca
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by gotostatement 5y ago
whats the purpose of showing "Free store" - why would a customer care about that, and why would a seller be okay with that?
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by gotostatement 5y ago
> It might seem attractive initially, but within a few months the status quo will have reset and those employees who were living paycheck to paycheck will still be living paycheck to paycheck, just now it will be day by day waiting for t
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by gotostatement 5y ago
>And the proposed solution doesn't fix that. Most of those people don't have a problem with unexpected expense once a year. They don't budget and are short on cash every month. So now imagine Bob needs money halfway throug
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by gotostatement 5y ago
I guess you could rephrase OP's argument in a sound way as: a set is countable if there's a way to order it such that between every two numbers there are finitely many numbers
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by gotostatement 5y ago
its worth noting that, in the article, the author explains that the moon phase function produced by copilot was actually incorrect
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by gotostatement 5y ago
the responses to this comment are the guy in the comic responding to "we should improve society somewhat" with "yet you participate in society. curious"
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by gotostatement 5y ago
I'm not saying necessarily it was unfair, I'm saying that unionizing can only make it more fair - there's no downside to unionizing.
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by gotostatement 5y ago
okay.. then unionizing and negotiating will reach a fair agreement. I dont understand how this is remotely an argument against unionizing.
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by gotostatement 5y ago
Upvoted. I think the only good use case for this is spitting out 10-line, annoying, commonly used API boilerplate for commonly used APIs
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by gotostatement 5y ago
its what plants crave!
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by gotostatement 5y ago
I think you'll struggle with a network effect issue. people aren't already on it - and already have plenty of places to discuss politics - so people won't come on the site and so people won't really care about the points
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by gotostatement 5y ago
my point is that since people don't care it might be hard to get people to use the site. And you might have trouble getting enough people to use it in the first place to get these discussions going - why wouldn't they just do it o
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by gotostatement 5y ago
the problem with this is that I think few people care enough to enter their preferences, let alone to come back and check. not to mention that most people don't really expect politicians to follow through on their promises, and anyone
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by gotostatement 5y ago
None of what you're saying has anything to do with the issue. The situation is that UHC is posting record profits but they are trying to implement a cost-cutting policy that will punish patients who make the "mistake" of not
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by gotostatement 5y ago
this has been going on since before COVID https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/big-name-payers-earne... In particular see the chart that shows 2018 and 2019 profits
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by gotostatement 5y ago
Be that as it may, this is not a decision made due to financial pressure on the insurance companies. "UHC’s parent company UnitedHealth Group posted a 35 percent year-over-year jump in operating profits in the first quarter of 2021. De
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by gotostatement 5y ago
the insurance companies have posted record profits. They're not having money trouble "UHC’s parent company UnitedHealth Group posted a 35 percent year-over-year jump in operating profits in the first quarter of 2021"
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by gotostatement 5y ago
The company claims this is cost-cutting: "Unnecessary use of the emergency room costs nearly $32 billion annually, driving up healthcare costs for everyone. We are taking steps to make care more affordable" But: "UHC’s parent
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by gotostatement 5y ago
it makes me sick to see everyone thinking that this is proof of cancel culture - LOOK THE DIVERSITY GUY WAS HOISTED BY HIS OWN DIVERSITY PETARD! NO. The people calling for this are not progressives - look them up - Simon Wiesenthal Center a
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by gotostatement 5y ago
interesting thanks for writing this out
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by gotostatement 5y ago
it seems like its a pragmatic question, almost an engineering question about how the legal system can work, and Im hopelessly out of my depth there
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by gotostatement 5y ago
wouldn't a philosophical/legal framework like "reckless endangerment" apply here? there's a line at which harm to future generations becomes reckless
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by gotostatement 5y ago
lol only on hacker news would this statement be controversial
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by gotostatement 5y ago
sounds dangerous to wear AR glasses while driving
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by gotostatement 5y ago
exactly. Im not saying ML should be used in more places. I'm saying that there's almost never a real need for it, despite how hyped it can be and how cool the math/algorithms are in theory
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by gotostatement 5y ago
for me its not that ML is uniquely inherently bad, its more that I was really excited about its applications but realized that, in practice, it's usually pretty simple algorithms, and the more complicated applications dont have much di
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by gotostatement 5y ago
I'm not saying every application is bad. It's just that most of the positive applications seem to mostly be data aggregation and cleaning problems, not hard ML problems. Most of the time it's really a simple algorithm with a
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by gotostatement 5y ago
I came out of college super excited about machine learning because the math was so interesting and there was a sense of boundless utility and applicability. I came to realize that, at least in industry, the utility is mostly ad targeting an
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by gotostatement 5y ago
The point in saying "race is a socially constructed category" is to counter the ideology that says that "race is a meaningful categorization of people" and, in particular, "it says meaningful things about people&#x2

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