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Bubbacub posted:Elizabeth Holmes is presenting Theranos data at the AACC conference today. If she presents a pile of bullshit, it definitely won't fly in front a room full of scientists. Why even do this? She's largely dead in the water, and the scientific community has lambasted her already.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:It's even better than that. They installed fake Web browsers in their stores so the salesperson could go to Bestbuy.com and show you the deal you wanted didn't really exist. Best Buy has been noted for their bait and switch tactics in the past. I briefly worked for Geek Squad when I was a teen, and was the only one actually with any certifications. Initially, it was all about fixing customer's machines (Best Buy had JUST acquired Geek Squad), but then it became about selling people new computers, even lying about their machine being infected beyond the point of no return.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:There was a time when -- I am not making this up -- Best Buy would kick you out if they saw you writing down prices for comparison. They still do. Happened to me, I was comparing prices to Frys and Microcenter. Some floor manager came up to me and told me I'd have to leave.
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cowofwar posted:Bigbox is on the way out. For the most part yet, but you still have Frys and Microcenter that have low overhead, few stores, and are very hobbyist friendly, so they keep customers.
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cowofwar posted:Our local Asian computer store chains, Canada Computers in Ontario and NCIX(Netlink) in BC are doing well and expanding but their stores are like 1/100th of the size yet somehow more useful. Local Microcenter has tons of Arduino/Hobbyist Electronics stuff, and is not even a quarter of the size of Best Buy, but has more products and better selection. Its been my go to since Radioshack finally shriveled.
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Aug 10, 2016 20:10
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Everyone is ditching Skype for Slack
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Aug 13, 2016 23:32
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Lady Naga posted:Slack is Discord for yuppies and old people. Its an IRC reboot
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Aug 14, 2016 00:57
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Cisco is dying outside of long haul datacenter poo poo. Good to see too, because they take such an antiquated engineering view of long haul networks.
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Aug 18, 2016 23:37
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Atlanta's "Solution" is to build more toll lanes. gently caress you Atlanta. gently caress you.
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Aug 22, 2016 19:59
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i'm glad that gawker is dead and that florida man teamed up w/ the libertarian vampire to do it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/23/first-thiel-now-the-trumps-how-billionaires-threaten-free-speech quote:Less than 24 hours after Gawker.com was killed by billionaire Peter Thiel’s legal crusade against it, another billionaire couple – Donald and Melania Trump – is already using the same law firm Thiel did to threaten more media organizations into silence. And this time, it could have a direct effect on the presidential election.
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Non Serviam posted:EDIT: Theranos withdrew the request for emergency clearance of their Zika test. I thought Theranos was basically done for?
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Non Serviam posted:They're fighting that status. I guess the real question is how many actual Scientists and Engineers they can actually keep now? I doubt many are not spit shining their resumes and getting interviews.
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Halloween Jack posted:I'm pretty sure Holmes is a supervillain. The movie should end with Ben Affleck throwing her in Arkham Asylum for the rest of her natural life. The worst part is its the stereotypical story: Clueless Management who don't understand the technology they are trying to invent/market, who just try to hush up their actual employees who know anything, all while giving presentations and songs and dances about something that they don't even grasp.
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VideoGameVet posted:I'm just saying that a bicycle is a nice way of running errands and possibly commuting. If you have hills in your area, the training benefits are there as well. Yeah but you live in American where people drive like assholes and very few bike lanes actually go the entire way from your house/apartment to a store. Also makes a lot of assumptions about the health/physical capabilities of the average American. Honestly, suggesting people bike everywhere feels classist in the United States at least. Speaking of Smart TVs and tech nightmares: https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1406887601647370240?s=20 CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Jun 23, 2021 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Yeah. Many older American houses have "cross-ventilation", where many/most rooms have two windows placed so that the wind can blow in one window and out the other. A lot of newer houses have one window per room. Our house has an attic fan that's mounted in the ceiling kind of for this purpose, where you can suck air into the house and blow it out the attic.
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Jun 23, 2021 18:18
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Fame Douglas posted:Most keyless entry systems are hilariously insecure, they're not adding to the security. Yeah keyless systems are hilariously easy to do replay attacks on. There's no added security.
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Volmarias posted:Yeah, there's this too. When I got my car the salesman looked at me like I had a second head when I tried explaining that I don't actually want keyless. My Q7 TDI came with keyless and I disabled it with the VAGCOM and just use the keyslot, because the Q7 still had both the normal ignition key slot and keyless in 2010.
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Apples motivation is to lock you into their ecosystem and make you buy new products every year, or at least that's what they pitch to their investors.
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It runs an ancient Debian variant, give the security issues of your average SOHO devices like Routers and NAS's this happens surprisingly often.
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TACD posted:I don’t even understand who’s making money from this? Probably being used to do sales analytics and see how people respond to products. Either way its loving dystopian and stupid.
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Solkanar512 posted:The comments, holy poo poo. Dynamic pricing AKA the more people buy it they'll start driving up the price. Jesus. They want to scarcity price products on demand, that's dystopian as hell.
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Booourns posted:"We're not price gouging by charging $100 for a case of water, the algorithm dynamically decided to charge that much so it's OK" "Our Algorithms were built and programmed by the cheapest possible outsourcing team we could find in East Asia"
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Because of China cracking down on Bitcoin miners (rightfully so) they are moving.... .....to Texas. A state whose power grid could be described as less than adequate for even its current demand https://twitter.com/notbind/status/1409532427047899139?s=20
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We bought a brand new Samsung Smart TV, and not only was the SmartTV portion slower than molasses, I noticed it was dumping traffic on my IoT VLAN, lots of advertising and trackers. Not really scary, but very noisy and not ideal.
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BiggerBoat posted:And Texas deserves them. Watch Chinese Venture Capitalist techbros buy out ERCOT.
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Tehdas posted:Prolly the few exceptions would be in environmental impact, which is a big fat negative. (OTOH the the pre-IR just lacked the ability to gently caress up the environment, it’s not like their societies were setup to avoid environmental damage) While they couldn't gently caress up the global environment, their local environments were their own kind of hell, especially in big cities.  (not pre-industrial, but the Thames was heavily polluted even before the industrial age) CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Jun 30, 2021 |
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duz posted:they have been doing that for like a year now, im not sure anyone has confirmed it actually works There's groups that will remove and filter the copyrighted music for you, so it really only stops people unaware of that.
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MickeyFinn posted:Based on the use of “perpetual motion,” someone is trolling. In this case it's a true believer sort
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Karia posted:A "30 year veteran" in blockchain and decentralized finance? Sure, buddy. Sure. Well, he was a thought leader, so he thought about it before it was even a thing, man...
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https://twitter.com/bigendiansmalls/status/1412583168998350848?s=19 This is good, don't know how enforceable it'll be, but Right to Repair is a big deal to me.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:America spends 18% of it's GDP on healthcare, when even rich european nations spend 11%-12% for much better quality service. While I agree that those jobs can be cut and it would only increase quality of care, cutting 4%-5% of your GDP in spending is going to have massive short term economic damage, even if it will be better used in the long run. Most of the jobs impacted would be insurance middle management and employees as well as hospital administration, since that's where the vast majority of our healthcare spend goes. https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1410974462531440641?s=20 CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Jul 7, 2021 |
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Doggles posted:https://twitter.com/DeanTrantalis/status/1412563013383737344 If we start calling Subways Pods instead, think people will bite?
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Beelzebufo posted:has the boring company actually managed to make a tunnel yet? I thought that the one in Vegas fell apart before they even started digging. How credulous do you have to be to believe the claims of a company with no sucessful projects to date. Its under construction, but given that its entirely dependent upon personal vehicles, we can practically predict its failure with certainty. https://twitter.com/wtyppod/status/1412692769550880768?s=20 CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Jul 7, 2021 |
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Mister Facetious posted:They're privately owned and run To build on this: In many cases, the doctors and nurses in the hospital are not even employees of the hospital but contractors working for smaller groups. This is what enables surprise billing even when a hospital says your insurance covers something. Oh, the hospital covers it, but Doctor Z is actually with so-and-so LLC who does not accept your insurance.
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human garbage bag posted:Ok, this doesn't seem to be the fault of the insurance companies though. More of a problem of education where patients don't understand who they have to pay for service. The insurance companies benefit, because they don't have to pay. And the doctors specifically avoid education the patients for this exact reason. So no, the insurance companies are not innocent to this. They don't WANT to pay. Surprise Billing benefits them as much as it benefits the doctors who do it. human garbage bag posted:Consent is required before performing paid work. I can't just walk over to your car and pump up your tires and then demand payment, you have to agree to the service first. The same goes for hospitals. I remember when I was in there for surgery I had to sign an agreement with every single doctor who worked with me. Only the nurses were covered by the hospital agreement. That consent in no way tells you whether you are covered by your insurance, you actually have to go after the doctors and DEMAND they tell you whether they accept your insurance. How do you do that when you are keeled over in pain or unconscious and bleeding and just arrived by (a very expensive, often not covered) ambulance?
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human garbage bag posted:The doctor is not the one doing the MRI, so it's ok that they don't know what it costs. The MRI center will know that. When I had my MRI the doctor just referred me to the MRI center, and then I did business with them separately. "Oops. the hospital said it was covered, but we decided it was unnecessary and out of network anyways." - Literally what my Health Insurance pulled on me with an MRI for severe gastro pains. No amount of checking (and I did check to see if it was covered, if the person doing it was covered) prepares you for it. "Sorry your leg was crushed for 45 minutes and an ER doctor verified the need for a life flight to prevent you losing it, but it was not medically neccessary in our eyes so you owe us $90,000" - My health insurance after having a car crush my leg despite the ER docs insistence that it was both necessary and in network. You really seem out of touch with how bad the US Healthcare industry is.
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human garbage bag posted:I would call ahead of time to make sure they took my insurance, or told me the cost if I'm uninsured. I wouldn't buy a candy bar if I didn't know the price, let alone a health procedure. "Yes hello I'm bent over in pain please give me your best price for an MRI to help solve the excruciating pain. Oh, you don't know and I'm about about to pass out from the pain, well let me shop around." IK: I'm gonna call this your warning Human Garbage Bag, knock it off with the hot takes CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Jul 7, 2021 |
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HootTheOwl posted:That sounds like a rational, patient, decision you wouldn't actually make because as stated: You're in continuous pain with no end in sight. The price is irrelevant, it could be infinity dollars and you'd pay it because the choice are find out what's wrong with you or kill yourself. Oh man, imagine you being unconscious and having to shop around for best price. A healthcare shoppers paradise.
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HootTheOwl posted:Have a list of acceptable hospitals tattooed to your chest along with instructions to call ahead to make sure there's been no update in their insurance policy. A big tattooed list you have to check off with sharpies before the doctor can continue.
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