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by unishark 6y ago
> Of course you have. The first thing you did when you walked in was hand them your ID and coverage info. You think hospitals operate on the honor system? They mail you these paper forms known as "bills". I have examples I can
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by unishark 6y ago
> The debt was incurred once the service was rendered, and you are now liable. 66.5% of all bankruptcies in the US are medical -- are they just bad negotiators? The overwhelming vast majority of people have health insurance. However, due
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by unishark 6y ago
> You either have insurance or you're driven into Chapter 11. Further I suspect this is not due to good will but rather government intervention. You really are making a lot of bold assertions. If you declare bankruptcy, the hospital
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by unishark 6y ago
They also mark up everything to cover uninsured patients. Who by the way commonly use the ER for primary care and probably explain a lot of that 10 percent.
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by unishark 6y ago
I think they mean government regulations providing protection from competitors specifically. Not just all possible govt protection that everyone gets including competitors, for example from being robbed or invaded by Russia or whatever.
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by unishark 6y ago
Personally I've never been told to pay up before receiving treatment at a hospital. Especially when I arrive there unconscious. And Herb Cohen would say once you've received the service, you're actually in a great negotiating
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by unishark 6y ago
Or a genius could discover some killer application for one of 1000 different competing technologies that are not quantum computing but replace current technology instead. This giant ramp up of something that is still long-term high-risk is
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by unishark 6y ago
Its not a complicated concept, just a stretch of the concept of memory. Training in deep learning is done in batches. So "learning" (i.e. the gradient updates to weights) that happens due to your early batches of data can be undon
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by unishark 6y ago
What are the actual odds? Last I saw for engineering, something like 10 percent of phd's find a tenure track job _somewhere_ (and it was double that ten years ago). You're comparing the difficulty of getting a job at a single sel
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by unishark 6y ago
One of my favorite demotivational posters https://despair.com/products/stupidity
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by unishark 6y ago
> Yep they do. They don't do it they don't get paid. They decide to do it, they get paid. They can count the difference in revenue and profit from those two alternatives. I I happily censor everything the government demands. Ye
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by unishark 6y ago
I have a variation where I start with no problems. But someone thinks I have a problem (in reality they have the problem). So I need to create a bunch of complex debug code to test the situation. Of course the debug code has bugs. Now I hav
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by unishark 6y ago
perhaps a third party both sides trust is hired to appraise the value
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by unishark 6y ago
It differs from blackmail because you the sick person are the one requiring others to perform a service for your benefit. With blackmail (and generally extortion) you are threatening to take an action unless someone pays you not to.
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by unishark 6y ago
I agree there is a moving goalpost for what counts as good enough to call "AI". But with the recent revolution in machine learning the goalpost kind of went backwards. The successes in machine learning problems have tended to come
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by unishark 6y ago
We already knew it was a bull market for technology. When absurd deals are happening it could mean the bubble is about to burst though.
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by unishark 6y ago
So do you also agree with sanctions against the population? In a sense, censorship is an inaction for a communications company, not a positive act of assistance. Apple doesn't get paid for actually censoring anything. They get paid for
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by unishark 6y ago
I think there's plenty examples on the entire spectrum. Though I'd also say the ones that are seen as "too positive" like Jack Ryan, get criticism from the media even when they try to please both sides by talking of &quo
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by unishark 6y ago
I don't think they meant binge drinking. In many cultures, drinking is fine throughout the day, and it does not imply continuing until drunk.
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by unishark 6y ago
I think the point is when it comes to censorship, taking the high road of refusing to collude with the government and ceasing to operate in the country (whether willingly or by non-compliance leading to being banned yourself) has ultimately
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by unishark 6y ago
You would need it to support one-dimensional views (unless your data is just stored as one-dimensional to begin with). Certainly matlab and Julia do. Don't know of any new 1-based languages either way.
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by unishark 6y ago
Even in a language without pointers, in a multidimensional array you can index the data one-dimensionally by array[index0 + N * index1] with 0-based indexing, as opposed to array[index0 + N * (index1-1)]. Where N is the length of the inner
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by unishark 6y ago
In an at-will employment state (i.e. most of them) companies do not need reasons. Maybe you mean to help their chances in a lawsuit or something?
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by unishark 6y ago
The common "nice" way to remove non-performers is a "Reduction in force", also known as "layoff" where they let multiple people go ritualistically, though I've seen it for as few as two people. Then they c
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by unishark 6y ago
If you mean the big consulting firms, they got taken out first. And they still prove the point don't they? The constraints got tightened, but it's still a bell curve with most people at the lowest level that makes it past the cons
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by unishark 6y ago
Yes I believe the carrier has to go under the seat. It is basically a piece of luggage.
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by unishark 6y ago
Seems like a bad idea to allow a corporation to reinterpret immigration law to mix and match visas and green cards in whatever ways that best fits its goals. You can pretty much bet it will be used in a way that gets around some aspect of t
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by unishark 6y ago
Companies don't just hire the best people, otherwise they would not be advertising for new graduates and intermediate levels of experience. They hire the cheapest people they can get for the skills they need.
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by unishark 6y ago
> That being said it feels like a slightly out-of-place comment when much of this allegation is about hiring for jobs as part of the PERM process. If Facebook is purposely going through the PERM process with these employees, it is active
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by unishark 6y ago
Delta allows pets in the cabin. Was your dog too big or something?

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