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Bank of America Closes Roelof Botha’s Bank Account(twitter.com)
83 points by undefined3840 7y ago|12 comments
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by undefined3840 7y ago
I’m surprised this article is so upvoted. 1. The author took this nearly word for word from Thiel/Eric Weinstein, who have both discussed this point extensively, most recently on Weinstein’s podcast. 2. The author is using this click b
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by undefined3840 7y ago
What would happen if you transferred your student debt to a credit card and then declared bankruptcy?
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by undefined3840 7y ago
Why would you assume adult workers don’t care about Bitcoin? I follow “crypto twitter” a bit and there are certainly a decent number of adult workers that are interested in it. Most understand the benefits for an industry that is in a legal
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Uber Fined $649M for Saying Drivers Aren’t Employees(nytimes.com)
16 points by undefined3840 7y ago|2 comments
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by undefined3840 7y ago
I mean key word “generally”? I’m not suggesting that there’s a team of employees watching you every time you pick up a prescription, but of course they could access an individual claim if there was a legitimate reason to. Not sure why it’s
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by undefined3840 7y ago
Most companies use third party administrators to do the day to day management, but that doesn’t mean people in HR or Finance can’t access data on individual claims if there was a reason to. If an employee used $1M in healthcare believe me y
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by undefined3840 7y ago
Most companies use a Third Party Administrator (TPA) for the actual back office claims management. That doesn’t mean people in HR and Finance don’t have visibility into claims data.
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by undefined3840 7y ago
It’s actually pretty shocking how few people seem to realize this about large employers...this is clearly not well understood at all.
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by undefined3840 7y ago
Yes they do if they are self insured, meaning they are literally the insurance company taking on the risk. This is the norm for large companies.
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by undefined3840 7y ago
Self insured is definitely the norm for large companies in the US.
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by undefined3840 7y ago
They can access individual claims because they themselves are the insurer. Claims have medical codes that map to treatments, diseases, prescriptions, doctor visits, etc. That’s what I mean by visibility.
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by undefined3840 7y ago
It’s a lesser of two evils thing. Personally I find it creepier for a private employer to have that data than a (non-authoritarian) gov’t.
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by undefined3840 7y ago
I mean claims data, which is arguably a good record of your present health care intersections while employed at that company. They definitely have access to it.
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by undefined3840 7y ago
Claims are a pretty solid proxy for health care interactions. That’s what I mean.
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by undefined3840 7y ago
Anyone else find it strange in the US with the self-insured health care plans (the norm with large companies) your company has complete visibility into every health care interaction you have while employed through claims data?
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by undefined3840 7y ago
Have no idea what your point it. You’re suggesting this is a backend change, meaning that Facebook is going to stop tracking like count, but all they are doing is hiding it in the app. Users can still see their own like count.
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by undefined3840 7y ago
This is a step above but I use an app that reminds me daily I will die.
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by undefined3840 7y ago
If I understand it correctly, the user bought stock in a company (in this case $F) and then sold deep in the money call options, which is returned to your account as cash which is being mistakenly calculated as additional buying power. He t
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Robinhood user exploiting margin loophole to turn $4k into $1M position(reddit.com)
12 points by undefined3840 7y ago|2 comments
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Airbnb will start banning “party houses”(twitter.com)
1 points by undefined3840 7y ago|0 comments
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by undefined3840 7y ago
Some backstory: a Reddit user this past week started with $2k and somehow bought $50k worth of puts on Apple ahead of their earnings on margin on Robinhood and lost it all when Apple beat earnings and rose 2% the next day. This should not h
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Robinhood bug allows for “infinite leverage”(reddit.com)
4 points by undefined3840 7y ago|1 comments
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by undefined3840 7y ago
I read an a16z blog post on the thesis behind their investment in substack, which is the belief that there will be this big “passion” economy where millions of people will be able to make careers out of making podcasts, writing, etc. I don’
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by undefined3840 7y ago
Twitter really screwed up by shutting down Vine. What a crazy thing to think that by doing so they may have generated a national security issue? Wild.
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by undefined3840 7y ago
Yeah but Facebook got sued for that because those violated existing laws. There’s no regulation around using any data for targeting purposes for most regular or political online ads, and I’m saying that should be the focus when it comes to
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by undefined3840 7y ago
I think all this talk about Facebook and paid political ads missing the key problem I have with ads-based businesses and that is there are certain things you just shouldn’t be able to target ads to people with, including health information.
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by undefined3840 7y ago
I don’t know how anyone can buy the free speech argument from Facebook when they are extremely strict on any display of adult nudity...
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by undefined3840 7y ago
For some reason I‘m basically locked out of any paid Google product because my Google Pay account is disabled for whatever reason. I think it might have been flagged for fraud years ago and now cannot use it at all, including for Fi. It’s c
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by undefined3840 7y ago
Why is this clickbait? The story is not what the contaminant was but that a senior executive at the company was alarmed enough with whatever defect there was to raise the issue, fully aware that recalling the product would have huge financi

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