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Well, I'm sure your doctor will see your blog post and write up a new letter for you. Of course in the off chance that this method is ineffective you could, y'know, call or e-mail the doctor's office and ask them to write the letter your insurance company wants. Honestly, I don't see what the insurance company is doing wrong at this point. They've told you exactly what you need in order get your surgery covered yet your refuse to provide the document that they are reasonably asking for. You have two super simple steps to recovering 10s of thousands of dollars:

(1) Claim your expenses that are clearly covered by your policy. The care in Bali, taxi ride in Bali, Flight to Singapore, Taxi in Singapore, Hospital stay, and the hotel in Singapore. That's gotta be at least $6,000 that you're just leaving on the table.

(2) Call your Doctor and ask him to write a better letter in support of your claim. It should be something like this:

To Whom it may concern,

I have reviewed the IATA manual and my patient Mr. Badger was unfit to fly pending his surgery. The manual states:

The following tables are provided as a guide to the timeframe that should elapse between a medical
event and the intended flight. The timeframes may be changed following considered medical
assessment of a specific case.

After my medical assessment I found Mr. Badger unfit to fly because:

(1) [Bad thing that might happen] because [medical reason bad thing might happen]
(2) [Bad thing that might happen] because [medical reason bad thing might happen]
(3) [Bad thing that might happen] because [medical reason bad thing might happen]

Thank You,

Dr So and So
As an owner of a car with ACC and lane keeping, I frequently get to experience the always fun sensation of my car accelerating full bore at a turn. My understanding is that Tesla actually made the two systems talk to each other, which is definitely not the case in my Honda. Calling it "just" ACC and lane keeping is disingenuous.
I think he just needs people not constantly shitting on his companies. The man is building a car and space company from scratch and every tweet he posts, every interview he does, every time he opens his mouth an army of trolls and haters besiege him ignoring his victories and highlighting every setback or temporary failure.

I think he also needs a proper vacation with zero internet or telephones for a week.
I've made a similar realization early on in my studies. If I learn a lot more things than necessary, but only imperfectly I do much better in the same time than someone who learned exactly what is necessary but perfectly. Because you often make extra connections and discoveries when you go beyond what is required.

This is one reason why I think we need a school reform where exams aren't rated as much on perfectionism, but more on broad knowledge.

I.e. if you can only solve a part of the questions but more of the questions then you can still receive a good grade. Basically make the tests longer and more broad than what you expect and give 150% of the points. That way you can either solve 2/3 like normal, or you solve more of the problems imperfectly and get the same result. It allows for more learning styles.

This way you could probably cover much more knowledge in a shorter time frame. Because a lot of the imperfect knowledge will get better over time eventually when you learn knowledge that builds upon it.
That is true and I do agree. Thanks for clarifying and for the informative write-up, it's a great use of bloom filters.
What's the problem with routes getting saturated? The consumers are paying for bandwidth and if they're using it all for Netflix, that's their choice.

The only problem is if the ISP can't actually deliver the bandwidth that they promised in exchange for taking the consumers money. That's called a scam.
Yes, we all do stuff like that.

I may have worded my reply too strongly, see another comment about "second set of eyes".

But this is dangerous. When I open a bottle in my car, I know that it's a more dangerous situation than usual, I pay more attention, choose the right moment and see that I finish drinking quickly.

A Tesla driver can easily fool himself into "everything's fine, let me sip from the bottle for sevetal minutes and maybe search through my audio CDs".
Simple. IBM filed first.

Reminds me of the "online shopping cart" patent that was sueing all major e-retailers years ago. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/how-newegg-crush...

The difference here, is IBM loves to license out their innovations. And I think that makes it easier (cheaper) for Facebook, Google, Amazon, to decide to pay the fee rather than battle in court.
This is hilarious, given that the big drawback with DOS was single-tasking. Whats old is new again. I would agree that there are a ton of distractions now and sometimes I need to close my email/chat to get any work done.
> If a company simply ignores fines

it'd be interesting to imagine how a company could potentially still operate in a hostile country, if said company is only dealing with cyberspace products (such as software/saas).

Would they be able to continously ignore any/all rulings, by operating the datacenter, and any payment mechanisms, outside said hostile country?
Oh wow, the arrogance they show with that "It's easy to replace an app" video.

Yes, it is, which is why the EU commission have a whole section on explicitly why "default install" is still anti-competitive.
Apple should be forced to pay back 10x what they gained in this illegal deal.

It's bleedingly obvious that it's illegal to be taxed differently than other companies. Paying back €13bn is nothing.

Companies that "make deals" on tax anywhere in the world should be effectively banned from the EU market. It's pure evil. Or pay 10x of any gain they have made anywhere in the world by "making deals" on tax, thereby undercutting fair competition in a free market.
You sound like you are projecting, honestly. Maybe you've been around perfectionists that worked against you rather than with you.

The point of perfectionism is to be more talented. If you read too deeply into that and don't look at the whole picture, of course it's going to be annoying. But the root starts with a desire to be better because the feeling of stagnation is intolerable.
They peer with Netflix for free then demand extra money to actually keep peering for free at proper capacity. They want money for connecting an extra cable to their router. It’s a protection racket pure and simple.
Interesting. The mockup on their homepage give some prices. With their 1610$ example, one could rent a whole datacenter (1000 i3 with 4Gb and 4Tb HDD at 1.6$ per day - 50$ per month).

I sent you a mail yesterday. Maybe it went to the spam folder.
My uncle owns a Tesla Model 3 and my dad owns a Lexus RX350. I find the adaptive cruise and lane keeping algorithm in the Lexus much more comfortable and ergonomic. I find the Tesla sometimes make jerky decisions while the Lexus is more predictable. Also, the car's advertising never made claims about autopilot even though both cars provide the same feature.
Harmful to innovation laws absolutely crushed innovation in Europe. I'm guessing this is one of the few ways they can get any revenue from innovation anymore
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This was not the case when these complaints were originally filled.
They'd avoid bad press like this story though
This literally strengthens Apple because they'll keep shipping services with integrated features (banning competition) while Android devices will be banned from providing the same integrated experience.
I find this incredibly beautiful. Short papers that introduce a "general" audience to a supposedly well-known mathematical idea should really be seen as a valuable contribution in mathematics.

Granted, I am a pure maths PhD. I would be really curious to know how many non-mathematicians can glean value/enjoyment from reading this paper, and what if anything could constitute a necessary/sufficient condition for achieving that.
It also needs data when you click on a link it created in the past, which there's no real way for it to know in advance. (It could possibly use a custom protocol but it would break backwards compatibility with HTTP which would be a big downside)
I strongly disagree.
Just FYI: I saw this comment and:

1) went to your link -> intensive blinking, firefox reporting that it "forbade access to graphics card" for whichever reason

2) Was impressed that Windows file is only 1 MB (turns out the installer downloads a lot more than that, which is ok but could be mentioned)

3) Started the program and agreed with tutorial

4) Followed tutorial to C:\Users\myusername\Desktop

5) Followed tutorial by pressing Backspace -> program stopped working and crashed

No hate intended, but if you want people to use this, you should probably think about fixing some of the steps to be less cumbersome :).

FWIW the program looks cool.
FYI Paywall/article limit.
Yes, the diffraction limit is meant here. The VLT has four 8 m mirrors, for each of them the angular resolution limit is = wavelength/diameter = 8 * 10^(-8) rad.
The practical resolution of the new narrow-field mode is about 4*10^(-7) rad, and it was one order of magnitude larger before.

Adaptive optics is the key invention here. As far as I know, it works better in the near-infrared than in the red part of the optical range, and it gets worse toward the blue part. Due to this, our resolution changes as a function of the wavenlength, since MUSE captures the flux from all wavelengths at the same time.

ESO wants to achieve an even higher resolution at the 40m Extremely Large Telescope (another order of magnitude better): https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/elt/

It's funny that your mention super-resolution microscopy because Stefan Hell, one of the Nobel Prize winners for advances in that field, works in the same city as we do. So far, I don't think we have any overlap with what he does.
Can you give an example of a morbidly-beyond-ridiculous firing?
This metric is at best misleading. It's presented as a proxy for safety, but that should only apply to a single hardware/software combination.

I want to know how many miles are driven (both IRL and in simulation) per software release?

If you accept that the Autopilot software improves over time, then you accept that it changes over time. If it's changing, then there will be situations that will behave differently in the future. The implicit assumption is "the software will only make better driving decisions with each point release", but that doesn't follow! There's no proof that a situation that was driven safely by version 1.1 will also be driven safely by version 1.2 (unless it was tested in simulation).

If this means the pace of self-driving development would slow down, then so be it. I wouldn't let a driver turn on Autopilot with me in it.
Is this yet another case of trying to apply an American interpretation to a European law? I thought we all had a similar discussion when GDPR came into effect.
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I was 25 when I backed this game. Not only am I hugely disappointed in the waterfall approach, and feature creep that pushed this over the edge.

But I am 33 today! My desire to play MMOs has also slowly evaporated.
If Google had gone the open source route out of the goodness of their hearts, you'd have an argument. Google went the open source route to bootstrap on top of a well known operating system (Linux), as well as to accelerate adoption and catch up to Apple as fast as they could. Then once they got market dominance, they abused their position to stifle competition.
Compare the process for "Star Citizen" to "Rimworld", another kickstarted project which is nearing a 1.0 release after years of development.

Rimworld had a public beta and has been iterating and incorporating feedback and while the end-result might not be as ambitious as someone with $200m might care to dream up (rimworld raised ~$250k) but it's a very fun game which most importantly actually exists.

In fact existing in some form allowed the community to write mods and extensions many of which have ended up patched into the game itself as it nears release.
You switch out the map app like this, same way you change the default app for anything else: https://360.here.com/2015/01/29/swap-google-maps-here-androi... (The instructions for switching to, say, Google's own Waze app are pretty much the same too.) This is as I understand it not possible on Apple's iOS; even if you install a third-party mapping application, everything else on the system which opens up a map will still use Apple's map.
> They're a part of the same suite of apps that provide the "Android experience"

Offering the open source Gallery app is the "Android experience". Offering Google Photos is not the Android experience, but the "Google experience". It's different.

> zero customers want a vendor to do anything different

Citation needed. I mean I don't want the vendors to add bloatware to a smartphone, just like I don't want Google to add bloatware (like the search bar or the News app). But that doesn't mean I wouldn't like actually innovative features. And even if I as a "stock Android" fan, that doesn't mean everyone is.
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"They're a part of the same suite of apps that provide the "Android experience". They manifestly have a profound connection with each other."

Google has worked very hard to integrate their app suite at such a deep level with Android to the point that they can steer what can be done with the OS just by using that one lever.

Anyone paying attention in the past decade will remember plenty of complaints about the GApps infesting Android.

But yes, if just looks at the situation as it is today, they could be excused for thinking that everything is normal.
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Nope. I see that argument many times relating to crowd funding and it just isn't the case.

When you pledge to a kickstarter, they're committing to providing the rewards stated for the money provided.

The difference between that and a standard purchase is that the product generally doesn't exist yet, which is why there is a risks section attached to every campaign, so that backers are aware that the product could run into problems.

However it's not a donation.
Is GTA V Online a good example? Most of the delivered updates have just been additional vehicles and a few more game modes. I don't mean to sound like I'm shitting on the hard work they do, but GTA V Online wasn't really an "MVP".
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There's a video by the NYT chronicling the creation of "The Middle" by Zedd, Maren Morris, and Grey. [1]

It began with a girl who recorded a short demo on her phone. After a year of workshopping and 15 different vocalists, they finally had their radio hit.

It's like a blockbuster movie. Big money goes in, big returns are expected, and lots of suits are involved. It's fun entertainment that needs to sell, but there's real talent there too.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/music/100000005858557/wat...
They have plenty of influence for developers, which means they have influence for consumers. They have a huge say in what apps and websites get built and how because everybody has to play by their rules to get on their lucrative platform. Do you think you could launch a successful search engine today that wasn't available on iOS?

Take Safari as a case in point. Apple doesn't allow other browsers on their platform which means webdevs have been limited to the parts of the web stack that Apple supports. Which, until recently, was falling pretty far behind the state of the art.
I wonder how many people driving a lexus ended up decapitated under a tractor trailer.
Amazing how your single data point lead you to that conclusion..
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> You sound like you are projecting, honestly.

Spot on.

> Maybe you've been around perfectionists that worked against you rather than with you.

That would have been me :-)

> The point of perfectionism is to be more talented.

That's part of what I meant when I said "Resolution lies on either end, depending on how possible/practical it is to improve a given skill."

Another way to resolve the tension is to accept to have lower standards and go on with your life.

Both options can be valid, depending on the circumstances.

Edit: Also sometimes, no one can humanly become as talented as one would like, yet going at it over and over until you're satisfied is the right thing to do.
I thought it was don't point it at anything you don't want dead i.e always assume there's a round in the chamber.
The logic is that you're not allowed to use your position in one marked to gain influence in another.

Google knows that most manufacturer needs their devices to ship with the Play Store, because that's where the apps are and smartphone without apps are useless. But they use the Play Store as leverage, forcing manufactures to also ship Chrome, rather than Opera, Firefox or their own browser and that's the bit that is illegal.

Imagine that Apple forced telcos to block Spotify, to force users to iTunes, and if they didn't then no iPhones on that carriers network.

That being said I don't think Google is using the Play Store to force installations of Chrome or the Google search app, that's just weird. People would install Chrome anyway and they already dominate search, so why bother. I think the reason is technical, but the end result is still illegal.
There is an excellent quote from the actual link:

> Nevertheless, the Commission investigated to what extent competition for end users (downstream), in particular between Apple and Android devices, could indirectly constrain Google's market power for the licensing of Android to device manufacturers (upstream). The Commission found that this competition does not sufficiently constrain Google upstream for a number of reasons, including:

They are not punished for their behavior in the downstream market (in which they barely participate). They are punished for their behavior in the upstream market. We consumers do not participate in the upstream market.

Nevertheless, the EU commission considered whether the lack of a monopoly in the downstream market ameliorated the monopoly effects in the upstream market and found it did not.
> Calling it "just" ACC and lane keeping is disingenuous.

I'd rather err on the side of underselling it by calling it ACC than overselling it by calling it Auto Pilot. But I'm not in marketing so what do I know?
Its business!
Which "comparable western nations" are you referring to?
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Yeah I agree. This is a particularly interesting situation because I love part of google while simultaneously am afraid of parts of it as well.

I would be sad if google was beaten out of existence (seems unlikely I know) even though my permissions are probably being abused by google and their effect on me all in all may not be great. However, it makes me happy to see that the EU is working on making google better.
Thanks for the link, it was a good read. Most surprising part was his friend "who had been accidentally poked with a student's scalpel" dying just from that. Absolutely crazy the amount of death just from improper sterilization
I agree. Arguably, the GPL has probably done more harm than good to open source in the long run, and will continue to be a dividing issue for a long time, sadly
> "It's easy to replace an app"

Also, I don't think all Google apps can be uninstalled. Either way, I've certainly seen apps from other OEM partners that can be removed. That should outright be illegal within the EU. All apps that aren't strictly necessary for the functioning of the case operating system should be uninstallable.
I'm sure he didn't think of it this way, but I'm on a high-deductible health insurance plan and will not meet my deductible, so he was directly asking for the money from my pocket to his office revenue, with all the overhead of the insurance company and an additional office visit thrown in (1.5-2 hours of my time), instead of a 1-minute "write the prescription while we are here."

It was directly the grandparent's case, of doctors requiring unnecessary visits to maximize their profit.

Even if I had no deductible or co-pay, where do you think the insurance company gets the money to pay for this extra visit? It's from the insurance premiums we all complain about (that is, from my pocket).

Again, I don't think the doctor thinks of it that way. He just thinks, "We have to separate well-patient visits from any other services", not, "If I make this patient pay $300 and spend 2 hours, I can pocket another $100 for 1 minute's work."
> like 35c

> you cannot use your laptop unless you're indoors in air conditioned comfort

Maybe it's just me being used to colder climate, but I feel that laptop's thermal throttling is going to be a relatively small issue if trying to work in sunlight when air temperature is +35C out there.

I'd really seek some shade even when it's merely +25C...
Also good to reduce US surveillance in EU.
Exactly! One datacube that comes out from the instrument contains 300 x 300 spectra. This is actually the main capability of the instrument which has 24 individual spectrographs.
Here's a nice animation of the path the light takes inside MUSE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fh2Y6Zyhwc&feature=youtu.be...
> How does some EU committee get the idea that Google is anti-competitive here?

I imagine they read the antitrust law and then applied it. I could be wrong, though. Maybe it's because "they hate America for its freedoms."
Same press release but in PDF form: http://europa.eu/newsroom/rapid-failover/ip-18-4581_en.pdf
> If someone is a better than average driver themselves, then by using a "better than average" but lower than his capacity auto-pilot, they increase their risk, not decrease it.

This isn't a lowest common denominator issue, but rather addressing the swiss cheese model of driving safety. Autopilot catches problems that I, as a driver, might miss. At the same time, I catch problems that Autopilot might miss. The best example is emergency braking with this or any emergency braking system is truly superhuman. On the other hand, anticipating drivers that are about to veer into my lane is something I'll see before the car will.

Sure, if a great driver is not paying attention, then the safety of the car is completely left to the computer, but there's no evidence that this is done in large numbers. You can point me to some counterexamples on YouTube or that crash in Mountain View, but there's no evidence that this is done at scale.

> Yeah, who cares if it can kill you at any moment with some bizarro sudden move, since it's "so close to perfection on freeways".

I never said anything about almost killing me, and a blip of the brake pedal would only kill you in the event that someone is tailgating to an absurd degree, which is illegal and reckless by itself.

> Thankfully, early adopters will help improve ... the human evolutionary pool.

This is an unfounded statement. The death rate while using autopilot is still significantly lower than when not using it.
I agree completely, but what you say about my comment does not reflect the spirit of it, I'm sure I expressed myself wrongly. I understand, because it may seem that I'm criticizing pop music/artists when I'm really not. Also, I'm ignorant on the subject of music production, I just enjoy listening to it a lot.

I'm geniunely curious about the process. Because the level of production behind these songs and artists makes me believe that a lot of it could be orchestrated and pushed to us.

I could be totally overthinking it yes, and probably they follow the same rules as any business: decent product + marketing + a bit of luck.