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by wjnc 5y ago
From the article: “working-age people who are employees of businesses with group life insurance policies” - that’s a quite comparable effect although indeed not via the individual health screening thus less pronounced. Those not working are
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Working as an actuary. The only way I can make sense of this headline (GDPR block) is: normally for age X deaths Y. Of those Y there are many with health preconditions that can’t get life coverage. Now a disease hits that kills some and eff
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I expect yours was pulled by a dentist and mine by a dental surgeon. The tariffs of dentists do not follow the same pricing as those of surgeons in NL. The former is a mandated maximum based on cost price plus, the latter based on bargainin
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It was for four teeth and with all-in I ment I had to pay for it out of pocket (first few hundred euro are at my own risk) and it (should) cover the whole price. No hidden subsidies. The insurer just billed me the full price they bargained
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How much did you pay if I may ask? It was € 428 a few months back in a Dutch hospital (under a system many people do not like, but I mostly do) with another € 30 for the dentist checking and referring. That’s an all-in price.
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One in this temperament: try accidently pasting a very large amount of data in the chatbox in Teams. Then spend the next 40 minutes re-starting Teams to try to remove the data from said box while your laptop tries to fly away and Teams keep
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Data Structures and Information Retrieval in Python(allendowney.github.io)
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The first bad sector I encountered in the 90s left me shaken for days. We stared eye to eye. The bad sector won. I had broken something my father worked a month for. But it didn't break. The bad sector was marked bad. The computer cont
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This would be a Quality of Lifesaver for me as well. Loss of cartilage in the hips due to excessive bone growth with only partial remediation with surgery. I've gone from full distance triathlete to walking in pain in a decade. Can&#x2
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There is no easy answer to that question to my knowledge. All of what hospitals do is translated into the Dutch equivalent of diagnosis-related groups. Those DRGs are standardized across the hospitals doing procedures. Insurers bargain with
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Counter argument: Medical personel is hard to find and expensive, as is IC infrastructure. Why would we've needed to keep spare IC capacity for decades only to find out we need it in case of a pandemic? The German argument could be re-
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My workplace had this last spring. Turns out if you let (Dutch) cycling enthusiasts work out during the workday they will go for 200km rides. Weekly. That's 6 hours of cycling. I was amazed that people took that liberty but the big bos
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Did you have stimulating parents, or a teacher, or was it purely on grit? I’m interested!
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A question for the mathematically inclined / advanced: Where do you feel your interest in math was mostly developed? For me it's clearly at home. My dad loved math and statistics, taught me concepts from a young age and a generati
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Proposed new tag: IMG (1993)(1997.webhistory.org)
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Thanks Satyam! That's glass half full if I read it correctly. Working models that need to be integrated into a workflow. What kind of firms are we talking about that could do that? (I know nothing of this tbh, except I once had a demo
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My initial thought was: "What a good way to dark pattern users into allowing Chrome to use the microphone". Tried it out and indeed using this on iOS 15 would give Chrome (seemingly permanent) microphone rights. So thanks, but no
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by wjnc 5y ago
Oh wow, the joys of the HN-community. Do you know the take of the neuroradiologists on this type of modelling? Are the models in a challenge like this already usable for enhanced decision-making by the experts?
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AIST++ Dance Motion Dataset(google.github.io)
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The Netherlands, a slow-mover in most environmental aspects, has a pact to try to meet the former guidelines in 2030. Compliance with the new WHO guidelines will outlive me, at least if no technical magic bullit outside of governements hand
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by wjnc 5y ago
So I started on the same work with the idea of extracting all relevant information from all cells (value ranges, values, formulas), exporting to TXT and then building a conversion layer. I didn’t get there but what was informative was the s
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My introduction in exponentials and logarithms was via growth rates. My dad used baby fish as an example and I grokked it in a fifteen minute ride. Perhaps not very suitable for the more advanced topics (changes in base rate, the why of e)
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A little tidbit is that unions in the Netherlands usually bargain for all employees, while that isn’t the case in the US in my understanding? You still get a few little union bonuses (like employers paying union fees) and bargaining by unio
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Thanks! This looks great and seems to be a solution to the metadata problem as described above. I’ll enjoy structuring my listening a bit with this.
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You live somewhere where people on the crosswalk don’t have right of way? That’s interesting. Where I live you have right of way on the crosswalk if you demonstrate intent to cross. There’s pretty much zero chance for the driver to not be l
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These are customers they already know I presume. So they have an inkling of the expected mileage (at least: we price on expected mileage). So you repeatedly sample dropping some samples to get enough filling in all mileage baskets. It’s a s
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Look I’m not defending Ariely, just saying that random sampling can be more complex than each record exactly the same sampling chance. And if the population has a few overpopulated groups but you’d like results for all groups, you don’t thr
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Theoretically, yes. I’ve used stratified sampling in this kind of research, since the underlying portfolio is so skewed.
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Perhaps I’m totally going Euro but shouldn’t the MBA in charge at least try to measure employee happiness, churn and absence to try and measure if the work is fulfilling? I work at a large listed insurer and I know nobody shits on the hard
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It’s not damning per se. That depends on the sampling (or otherwise it would be a tiny, tiny insurer). I’ve done studies where I sampled an insurance population to get equal group size on a few key parameters because we then did follow up q

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