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by zephen 4mo ago
He's not a centrist in any case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508905
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by zephen 4mo ago
> A completely partisan, hate-filled/inducing rant Those of us who live in reality might or might not find it a bit over the top, but fully understand that if a relatively accurate description of reality, hyperbolic or not, appea
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by zephen 4mo ago
To be scrupulously fair, the SSRI thing was a conspiracy theory well before RFK Jr. came into the spotlight.
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by zephen 4mo ago
After trying and failing multiple times to get any LLM to create exactly the picture that I was trying to make, I have to admit that, at one point, if one of them had succeeded, I would have felt a quantum of accomplishment. But, since I&
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by zephen 4mo ago
> But that doesn't get into the reasons why the claims were denied in the first place. The first link in that article does. It starts off by noting that this the third level review, so there were ample chances for the insurance com
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by zephen 4mo ago
The question is, is not immediately disrupting service a courtesy, or a dark pattern? I think it boils down to intent, and now we can't have proof of intent since the OP paid up, but the wording of the messages he received could cert
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by zephen 4mo ago
I mean, the dude didn't even try to say he wasn't warned: > We're writing to inform you that you've used up 80% of your free minutes for the forestwalklabs org this month. Please add a credit card on file to avoid dis
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by zephen 4mo ago
> I am deeply offended by your allegation. Be offended all you want. It's a free country, but, to be perfectly frank, you are still making it difficult to believe you are writing in good faith, as I will show. > You can consid
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by zephen 4mo ago
By adding tons of paperwork and time and effort. When a denial happens, often the doctor himself has to communicate with the insurance company via phone, instead of, you know, doctoring. This often proceeds over multiple rounds. And the
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by zephen 4mo ago
Spurious denials. It's easy to find documentation of this. For example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10391242/ https://phrma.org/blog/70-denied-how-insurance-denials-are-d...
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by zephen 4mo ago
> the only way for them grow profits is to increase cost. And, of course, things like spurious denials drive up costs for them and for the providers. More direct costs, more costs at the provider they have to cover... From the insurance
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by zephen 4mo ago
> That’s $130b on a pointless activity that uses up physical resources that would be better deployed elsewhere in the economy. No, it's much worse than that. How much time and money is spent by medical providers dealing with the
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by zephen 4mo ago
> exploiting a difference between expectations and reality is a common way to make money Maybe? Or maybe expectations catch up with reality? I mean, does anybody really go into a car dealership thinking the dealer isn't going to
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by zephen 4mo ago
There are two possibilities here: 1) They intended a bait-and-switch, where they were going to go after everybody for non-payment. According to the article, they might not even have a leg to stand on here. 2) If you take the quote from the
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by zephen 4mo ago
If you read the other comments, you're certainly an outlier in this belief. My own answer is that there is nothing (incromulent? uncromulent? well, anyway, not cromulent) about suing people who knowingly and deliberately racked up
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by zephen 4mo ago
> Billing statements disguised as marketing nudges is a cromulent business practice until the SaaS start sending bills to collections. Well, I should have probably said that instead of sued. But the intent is the same. > I think the
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by zephen 4mo ago
tl;dr: "Don't do this. It works, but I don't like it." It seems like a perfectly cromulent business practice to me, unless they start suing people who didn't give them credit cards. You use the service. You'
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by zephen 4mo ago
I have exactly the same problem. > I mean, I get it. I don't. Seriously, that's a huge fricking red flag. Obviously, most of those companies I would never do business with anyway, but this puts it over the line for all the oth
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by zephen 4mo ago
Yeah, different batteries, different purposes. Keeping the data center up is completely different from keeping the grid up. Not only are the batteries too small; they're also on the wrong side of the disconnect.
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by zephen 5mo ago
Fidelity to infidelity?
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by zephen 5mo ago
That, sadly, makes sense. You would hope a light bulb would turn on, but management who needs those sorts of conversations might often not have the wherewithal to do the right thing, never mind respond positively.
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by zephen 5mo ago
> People start out wanting to achieve things, change things to be better, do a good job. Like all generalizations, this is only partly true. There are bad actors. > The active issue is disempowerment, created by other people (usually
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by zephen 5mo ago
New user. Single comment. Completely ignores the rest of the ongoing salient discussion about how, yeah, Flux-AI isn't really working for a lot of people here. Astroturf probability > three nines. It must be a difficult realization,
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by zephen 5mo ago
The analogy is pretty straightforward. When you have a 12 inch ruler, you effectively have 13 numbers on the ruler. The fact that zero isn't marked is neither here nor there -- the numeral one is not at the far end of the ruler. So if
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by zephen 5mo ago
> Codeberg and Gitlab exist though. Soooo... Let me preface this by saying this is an old (so things are different) anecdote (which is not the singular of data), but... a) I had never heard of codeberg. b) My company used an on-prem gitl
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by zephen 5mo ago
Mo-go?
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by zephen 5mo ago
When I was reasonably experienced, and about 6 months into a new job, one of my co-workers, Fred, had been there for a very long time. Fred was very knowledgeable, and Fred could think . But Fred had deeply held preconceived notions that
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by zephen 5mo ago
The article specifically states "If you aren't gcc, clang, or tcc, tough luck." It doesn't work. For no good reason. Because there are a few anointed compilers. That it wasn't on purpose doesn't make it not h
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by zephen 5mo ago
Which sometimes works. But maybe not in the case of "all it took to get the internet connected was connecting the internet."
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by zephen 5mo ago
"In the end, all it took to break the impasse was a few copper wires, laid across the Gulf of Mexico to a high-energy physics lab just outside of Chicago, in 1991." Make it make sense. Either in how Chicago is close to the Gulf,

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