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by sailfast 7y ago
I liked this article and it was nice to think through some of these things in these contexts. That said, if I was speaking at a big government meeting (where the sign on the door often indicates a classification that is above what you can s
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by sailfast 7y ago
I don’t disagree in principle, but historically speaking that has not typically been the role of governments.
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by sailfast 7y ago
I mean... if drivers aren’t in the picture it might work, no? That said, the odds of that happening any time soon or that Uber / Lyft are the first to do it are pretty low - but markets can be irrational for a long time! Not where I’d
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by sailfast 7y ago
They say multiple times that this decrease was unexpected but it seemed to be pretty well telegraphed based on my read of the situation. Is this article for customers that don’t know what interest rates are so they are not upset about a low
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by sailfast 7y ago
Much cheaper than I was expecting or thought possible. I guess it's like an insurance model. I'm glad to see this and apologies for my skepticism.
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by sailfast 7y ago
Reading the actual memo in the Tweet, it says that US Companies contracted by the UK were provided access to the data. So, as a made up example, [Massive US-based multinational consulting firm - IBM was listed in the euobserver article)] wa
937.
by sailfast 7y ago
Clear from the anecdotes and downvotes I was totally wrong about this and Apple’s way behind for consumers. Something to be said for available parts and easily repairable machines for sure.
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by sailfast 7y ago
Solid deal! Do you know if they went via third party for the repair or employed their own techs?
939.
by sailfast 7y ago
That’s amazing. Certainly my expectations have just been too low for too long!
940.
by sailfast 7y ago
What do you (or your company) pay for that level of support annually? How much per user? How many users?
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by sailfast 7y ago
In order to support such a high level of service, one would basically need their own IT support shop, ready to (in one day?) re-image a hard drive, swap out laptops (and have spare supply), deliver them in that time, etc. The typical cost f
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by sailfast 7y ago
Everything "free" on the internet could potentially have a reduced revenue stream. People will have to make up the difference somewhere in order to provide these services if they can no longer monetize the data. Users that already
943.
by sailfast 7y ago
Thanks for this clarification. My original read on your comment was "an individual should not be able to sell their data" which is clearly well within their rights. I wouldn't do it for $10, but if someone offered me enough t
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by sailfast 7y ago
There are too many things you do not know about how a person got there to make an adequate comparison to yourself and your situation. Be joyful for them. You made different choices. You valued different things at different times. If you opt
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by sailfast 7y ago
Note: I don't agree with the above poster's "speech therapy" comments at all and I'm assuming this question was asked in good faith (which can be a mistake)... This kind of drop accent happens in all sorts of langua
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by sailfast 7y ago
When I bought my new house, I got to join the neighborhood Facebook group. That’s where all the news happens. They used to have a listserv, but the on onboarding is better / easier on Facebook and you get more features than a listserv
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by sailfast 7y ago
“Bots are not people” - ok, but if they’re written by people for a specific intent meant as speech, is that no longer protected speech? If I program a bot to chant slogans on Twitter, isn’t that something I’d have the right to do? I’d argue
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by sailfast 7y ago
True, but then it's pretty easy to reverse-engineer what your actual email address is for later.
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by sailfast 7y ago
He’s Dutch. This statement sounds about right to me given that country’s understanding of these events, and that’s how they view them. All that said: They made the software to stop bar fights in Groningen, not to stop shootings. I don’t rea
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by sailfast 7y ago
Maybe? There's a huge distinction between warrant-breakable encryption as a default (because it's easier) and enforcing that nobody can encrypt data unless it's encrypted using biometric data (or other information that is ava
951.
by sailfast 7y ago
Perhaps we need to address the definition and scope of lawful warrants in this case. Not a lawyer (clearly) but there is a big gap between "requesting data (that may be gibberish bytes when encrypted" ("here's the hard d
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by sailfast 7y ago
It's strange to me that this isn't somehow covered under the 5th amendment. How can you be compelled to provide something (say, an encryption key) that might incriminate you?
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by sailfast 7y ago
I kind of imagine that the targets folks are looking for would likely be wearing body armor a significant percentage of the time as a precaution. I wonder if this always requires the chest as a target area or if you could also focus on othe
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by sailfast 7y ago
To clarify - you mean that if you have access to the database then you can see all messages?
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by sailfast 7y ago
If your employer is of smaller size, they will have greater leverage to match rates with larger plans because of transparency which could help you a great deal. Further, your company could have leverage with their insurance broker to provid
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by sailfast 7y ago
Because HHS / CMS negotiates all of these rates I think it might be hard for voters to draw a path between rates / expenditures and their care, for the same reasons they fail to draw a line between their current insurer's neg
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by sailfast 7y ago
I'm interested to know why you think the government is incentivized to negotiate the best pricing for citizens. They would fill the same role as existing insurers, but instead of multiple black boxes there would be one. There is no way
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by sailfast 7y ago
This would allow you to choose your insurer based on rates and copays for common treatments - that could be a win even if there is only a single provider. Furthermore, if other competing providers see room to compete on price because of tra
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by sailfast 7y ago
As for the physicians and pricing - I have some sympathy there. First, I'm happy that they are not making medical decisions based on overall price but instead based on risk. This seems to be the best way to treat me the patient and not
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by sailfast 7y ago
> Industry groups are mobilizing to fight back, saying any requirement that hospitals and insurers disclose negotiated rates would go too far. This kind of effort is what is required in order to allow for comparison shopping to occur. Ma

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