Check out page 21 of the source linked below, the original claim is a quite a bit off, but United Healthcare did implement an AI system that increased overall denial rates, especially in the category of post-acute care (the kind of stuff people need after a major procedure to safely recover).

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Profit (or loss) is the difference between the total revenues of a business and the total costs of a business. And although this is a somewhat simplified view of the facts, the profit in this scenario is directly representative of the amount of money people paid into premiums that was pocketed by the healthcare corporation rather than being paid out in medical coverage.

It is impossible to be objective when it comes to ethical dilemmas (an inherently subjective matter), but let me leave you with a couple questions: How bad does a person’s actions have to be to deserve death? How many people do they have to let die for personal (or corporate) gains?

The blame for the numerous unnecessary deaths United Healthcare played a part in can obviously not be ascribed to one person, but Brian Thompson was at least complicit in all of those deaths. He was the one with a lot of the decision-making power in all of those individual situations, and chose to strengthen a system that causes so much suffering when we have plenty of examples of a better way to handle these problems.

I always upvote people who always upvote people who always upvote people spreading the good word. Although, this is my first time doing it I think.

If you aren’t paying for something, then you are probably the product, so you really only have a two options:

• Pay for one
• Run your own

It’s just very lossy compression /s

I like to think of the multiverse as an infinite field of colored static, and our universe is just a tiny segment that managed to represent a comprehensible world.

If Musk had legitimate criticism of the bill grounded in facts, then I believe it would have been perfectly reasonable to make an attempt to try to influence lawmakers. The issue here was the use of misinformation, influencing lawmakers to make decisions contrary to what a factual argument would lead them to have made.

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Yes, SDR is less efficient than a specially designed radio chip, but what you gain is flexibility. With SDR, your radio can use any transmission encoding, you are mainly just limited by your polling rate.

Specially designed radio chips thrive in constrained, high-volume manufactured devices. However, for development purposes, being able to use LoRa with an SDR is an amazing step up.

“I can get out anytime I want, I just like it here” - vim user

First of all, Linux is not a desktop environment. If you meant “desktop operating system” in that statement, there are still a lot of problems with that.

Windows does have a lot going for it, wide app support, ubiquitous use in industry, and the backing of one of the biggest tech companies in the world. But for most people, linux has enough app support for their workflow with only minor modifications.

Email, web browsing, and office apps are all that a vast majority of people use their computers for. And all of these work “out of the box” in all mainstream linux distros. It just looks different than what people are used to, so they are hesitant to try it when offered, but can usually find their way around given a little instruction and time.

Look at chromeOS as an example, definitely not your traditional linux OS, but still runs on the linux kernel and has all the issues that come with that. However, chromebooks are still one of the most popular laptops for use in high schools. Schools may have ulterior motives for this choice of device such as surveillance, but the devices still work for 99% of what those students need for their classes. And a traditional linux operating system is even more flexible.

There are some apps that the libre alternatives are objectively worse (photoshop and CAD software come to mind), but people that use these kinds apps are a minority of desktop users. And support for them would likely increase significantly with more users moving to linux, making the area more profitable for companies to support.

We are all biased towards what we are used to, and that means that I am biased towards linux. However, from my experience helping others learn how to use linux, they generally don’t care all that much. For personal computers, the biggest concern they usual have is about games working, but those issues are getting easier to fix by the day

Much better target than the internet archive

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No, part of the antitrust requirements would likely be them having to stay out of the browser market for a set number of years.

Dude, we don’t upvote anything, we just really love the choice of beans.

The reason I say we can “prove” our consciousness is not because we can prove it to others, I mean we can prove it to ourselves because we can experience it. Anything outside our current consciousness, however, is not available with such ready belief. For everything else we must be taught to trust that it is true, even if it is impossible to have absolute proof of it.

I think the main reason of the “default assumption” that only humans have consciousness is that we ourselves are human, and we are only able to prove our own consciousness. Culturally, at least in the Western worldview, humans are framed as equal. This means that we feel comfortable saying that other humans have consciousness as well, but start to get a little antsy about saying that “lesser” creatures have that same experience.