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You wrote:

you know Allstate isn't going to be looking for social media information that HELPS your claim.

But from the article:

As for use cases for social media during the insurance claims process, Carpe Data cited two examples. The first one was where a customer was paralyzed. A social media search helped confirm the information more quickly through pictures of the customer in a wheelchair, which ultimately led to the claim being settled and paid out faster.

It's presumably in Allstate's interest to identify fraud, but also to process claims as efficiently as possible, no?
And it's easy to speculate how someone would come up with something like that to help adjudicate disputes after having enough he said/she said arguments.

Literally chisel some hash-marks into a rock so people don't "forget" and problem solved.
My understanding is that the clear plastic things don't work as quickly or solve as many problems.

I have one of them for my retainer, which is quite a bit nicer than the plastic and wire retainers of old.

Of course, this was like 13 years ago, so I'm sure times have changed.
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It seems like a pretty simple solution to me, make bluetooth headphones that also have an analog jack on them. It may not work for earbuds, but I gotta say my favorite feature of my Bose QC35's is if my device doesn't support bluetooth I can always use the cable to plug it in. It works when the battery dies too.

Granted the jack on the headphones themselves is 2.5mm so you need a 2.5mm to 3.5mm cable which makes it a little annoying.

Headphone manufacturers should stick to using either 2.5mm or 3.5mm jacks on their headphones. Give the option of bluetooth or no bluetooth. Then separately manufacture wires that have DACs in them. It increases compatibility, potentially increases profits by double dipping, and makes "repairs" simple.
Should they pull their Messages app for the same reason? How about any ios email clients?
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I would hate to have to go through the effort to try and sue my insurance company to get this information.
> First and foremost, land has intrinsic value. You can grow food, build shelter and have access to water. If you’re very lucky there might even be oil below it. On the other hand, Bitcoin won’t help you survive very long.

Thats the inelastic demand I'm talking about: if bitcion finds a use case where it shines above all else, even if it is something like sending money overseas, the demand will be inelastic and with diminishing supply its price will tend to be infinite.

> Second, Bitcoins can be divided infinitely. Today I pay 1 BTC for a car. Tomorrow I pay 0.5 BTC. It really does not matter how many BTCs is the maximum.

So can money and so can land...this is a Zeno's paradox reasoning.

> Land, on the contrary, loses value proportionnaly as you divide it. 50% of the land means 50% of food, water, shelter, etc.

That's not true for land because the value of land is determined by the difference in fertility between lands which is something bitcoin doesnt have as each is the same as any other. But lets assume that is true for the purpose of argument: BTC does not have immediate transactional capacity, that is the limit of use. So if you want to have your operation happen you need to pay for it to happen. And moving more btc is cheaper than moving less btc. So yes, smaller amounts of btc are less useful than bigger BTC.

> Finally, Bitcoin price will never reach infinity because there is a physical limit to the real value Earth and humans can produce.

Its a theoretical concept, much like saying that if there wer eonly 1 cup of water its value would be infinite.
> So this story clearly happened, it is clearly real, so it doesn't qualify as a myth.

The myth is that of social mobility (upwards and downwards) based on merit, being the primary way that society stratifies itself.

I have seen an inverse relationship between hard work and wealth within people I know, and even periods of my own life.
Maybe for us on the younger side but I guarantee there are many ways teeth/gums/bone fail with age, no matter how well you brush and floss.
Are you sure? ISIS has been coordinating operations and attacks via Telegram for its entire existence, and I don't see a lot of Apple backlash in either of your courts. (Rightly, I believe. Would you go after HTC or Sprint for a phone being used as a detonator?)
It's a rare mobile or web framework that's even ten years old.
Hello Inc (sense sleep tracker) sources public on GitHub
This is correct. Implants are no match for the real thing. They wear away your jaw bone over time. Dentures are the same way. You're just buying another decade until you have no teeth.
The question that needs to be asked is this... were Intel subject to the same products liability laws as auto manufacturers or drug makers, would it make Meldown, Spectre and the ME vulnerabilities less likely? We know from other industries that products liability laws make for safer products, but we refuse to acknowledge that our CPU's are critical to safety because we don't pay much attention to how pervasively they are used, or the 2nd and 3rd order effects of flaws in the chips.

Its very possible, perhaps even likely, that Intel may profit more from the replacement of impacted chips, then it will lose settling various class action cases it faces. Its questionable if Intel's competition can or will grow manufacturing capacity such that Intel faces a real competitive threat.

It isn't that Intel is too big to be allowed to fail. Its that Intel is actually too big to fail; and that does not provide them the right incentives where product safety and quality is concerned in my opinion.
The language is PHP.

The instant reload and not losing your place is because changes to the server do not affect what's in the browser.

Customers sharing a system works because you can just have directories of PHP files.

PHP was developed without any kind of object system.

PHP is completely cross-platform because the UI is in the browser.

PHP powered Facebook.

PHP has a very poor reputation here.

PHP is in the top 10 tags on StackOverflow.
AMD to ramp up GPU production, but RAM a limiting factor
No, I wouldn't. Bruce Lee once said, "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." The opportunity cost of learning 25 new technologies is that you miss out on learning any one of them very well.

I've seen lots of companies throw a giant mess of libraries/frameworks/services at a problem, even though nobody working on it really understands any of them, so they resort to solving every problem by googling. If expertise is to be replaced by StackOverflow, what's the point of requiring it?

I don't think I could have a "deep understanding" of more than a handful of these, in a lifetime.
Some of the wealthiest people I know are also the cheapest. The other week my gf's parents (very well off) refused to go to a clinic that their insurance didn't work at after their son cut off the tip of his finger. Took them and hour to find a place to go. It seemed absurd from my perspective to put a few hundred dollars in front of a medical emergency when you can afford a private plane, but I guess that's part of why they're rich.
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"If anyone could identify early-stage companies with a 75-100% chance of being profitable, wouldn't we see an investor niche that supports this?"

We can't do that for the current style of VC investing. Why would we need to do it for a more modest form?

The other bonus is that profitable startups usually need less VC money. So given the same amount of funds, VCs could spread their investments out over even more companies.
It's supposedly more secure than the normal internet.

But ya figure for a large company of creative geniuses they could figure out how to democratize security so that the whole system isn't wholly owned and controlled by a single entity.
Friend's father is thoroughly blue blooded and won't even eat fries with his fingers (will use a knife and fork)
This article, in various forms, gets posted more or less annually, no?
I disagree vehemently to this proposition. I have never agreed or voted to get those regulations in place. They are not voluntary. But anyone falling for tether today is making an individual decision.
If Tether was FDIC backed, it'd essentially be a bank with weird procedures for putting money in and getting money out.
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How about "eleven"? :)
Morphological changes seem to happen very early in domestication. Anyone interested in this should read about Belyaev's fox domestication experiments... super fascinating!

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160912-a-soviet-scientist-c...
IDK, it sounds like a cyber defense contractor using a sourceforge email for some reason.
In the UK its still an unspoken rule don't wear brown (shoes) in town - work in the city and you will still be looked at oddly.
Race? I'm not sure what that would do here, especially since race usually doesn't change a lot between parents and their children.
What you describe is how I imagine the first recognizably intelligent AI system being built -- a set of communicating independent modules all running at the same time.
I guess that has nothing to do with tech. I had a canal treatment a couple years ago that took almost two hours, fully modern clinic (own cerec mill and all).
"Of course maybe they're not actually crooks and they do have the money."

Well then, an audit by competent third parties, inspecting where they got their funds, how much they actually have on hand, and whether it covers all potential liabilities (including calls on the supposedly dollar-backed tethers) would go a long way to clearing up the matter.

Bitfinex announced an audit with great fanfare early last year. They disclosed last weekend that their relationship with the auditor had "dissolved". Funny, that.

https://www.coindesk.com/tether-confirms-relationship-audito...
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Why is this posted on HN?
> ... an intentional act on the part of others? Getting people to leave on their own is substantially easier on the long-term financials of a company

A great point and it absolutely happens.
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Frankly I think a lot of it has to do with money. Not sure exactly what ophthalmology tech you're referring to, but when I go to the eye doctor they have a few machines that offer additional services for an additional fee. The doctors buy these devices in the hopes they will collect enough additional "per click" rev to be profitable. A lot of ophth, as well as derm, is cash pay, so companies can develop and sell these products to doctors who then market them to patients for a relatively low cost and avoid having to get insurance coverage to pay

Dentistry has these things too. I think some whitening products are an example. Turns out you don't actually need to be a dentist (from a technical / clinical knowledge perspective) to sell these products, so a lot of random retailers started selling them for a lot cheaper. Dentists got mad, and in these situations the ADA or regional dental associations can drive legislative change. Not saying this always happens, and it certainly isn't unique to dentistry, but these economic issues often dictate what tech gets marketed and what doesnt. If the tech offers a real and meaningful clinical improvement however (whitening does not count) then the tech gets to the market eventually

The issue I see with this approach is that 1) the risk / benefit is not super great, and not better than standard of care from what I can tell. Fillings work pretty well, and if there is any risk you can get cancer or other bad things happen from this regenerative med, it wouldn't be responsible to prescribe it. Further, marketing this would require expensive clinical studies, and you'd never be able to charge enough to recoup this cost. Unless there is a significant clinical benefit, no insurance company would pay for an expensive med vs a simple filling.

This is why most drug developers using cutting edge tech target areas of significant unmet need, like late stage cancer. If it works, you really provide a ton of value to patients (extending health span and life), so insurers will pay you for that value. If you are offering a "cooler" alternative to something that pretty much works, not so much
Some background on the notion of “breaking the vacuum” as it’s put in this article.

http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/8167-theoretical-breakthrou...
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> It does not have end-to-end encryption by default

That doesn't mean it "has a poor security record" (implying that the security is broken), it means it is not as secure as other options.

> not at all for group chats

May not be a requirement for group chats

> the cryptography is a bigger unknown than with others

Unknown does not mean bad, it means unknown. Almost definitely worse than Signal, but almost definitely better than Facebook Messenger.

To say Telegram is less secure than e.g. Signal is true. To say it "has a poor security record" is disingenuous and misleading. Once Telegram has had several security breaches, then that would be a fair phrase. Until then, there are levels of security for given threat models, and Telegram's is not as secure as others', by design.
If this was a problem then Whatsapp and every other secure chat app should be banned as well.
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can you use MRI machines?
Fair enough. I think I understand a little better. I'm sorry i don't think have much advice on that. I'm a little lost in that way myself at this point. I've just been dealing with it by not thinking too much into life. It is what it its. A bunch of shit happens and you die. But it has helped me appreciate little things more. I wish you luck on your quest for life's meaning.
It's cool! I didn't take it as a jab :)

I meant this extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=webfreak...

> The normal Rust plugin

Which one are you talking about? There are three of them: one is abandoned.

> you can install the Rust plugin with IntelliJ Community Edition. Which is free.

My understanding is that you can install it, but it does not include debugging support, that's what you have to pay for.
> I often wonder why no one's mother didn't fill the these people's mouth with dawn liquid soap and slap the child silly, but then I realize that honesty wasn't a life or death situation for them.

What? This is just child abuse. Please expand on what circumstances in which this considered OK?
I disagree. If the state wants to offer some certification of regulation and an exchange is willing to go through that process to capture consumers, let them be.

Thats not bitfinex nor tether. Let people choose. If the SEC had its way, bitfinex would have not existed and millions of people wouldn't have been served.
If Mr Modi has rolled out free health care to 500 million people, saving millions of lives, probably a good thing and I hope it wins him some votes!
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My experience with dentists is that they're less about preventative care and more about expensive procedures. It's unfortunate that our health care centers are profit focused.