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Because it costs $1000/mo and insurance wants to make it as hard as possible to get that covered because they cannot afford to pay $1000/mo * 45% of Americans without doing things to their rates that are forbidden by the ACA and, for that matter, any approximation of good sense. If people cannot afford an additional $450/mo each on average for their health care, how do you cover a critical long-term $1000/mo drug that 45% of the population needs?

Gating it behind mandatory expensive, difficult-to-schedule appointments with a specialist who is in abruptly short supply where the insurance company is doing their damndest to kick as many of them off their network as they can without getting caught to keep the shortage going is certainly part of that strategy. And the result is “people do not stay on the drug”, which is their goal, and if they don’t meet that goal they have an even bigger problem and can’t continue to exist as a functioning company.

Isn’t this already implemented by NSMutableArray in Apple SDKs/libraries?

That is the DOJ’s proposal, yes.

Even worse, sending a friendly affectionate yellow heart -- how was I supposed to know the recipient was using [Android 4.42](https://thenextweb.com/news/pink-hairy-hart-emoji)?

Cancer colonies self-sustain and self-replicate, causing local success, then kill the host without escaping it, causing colony failure and do not successfully become a new species of independent pathogen. Local optimization causes disaster at a larger scale, causing the system to collapse.

Nothing intelligent is happening. Zero-foresight self-amplifying systems that will inevitably crash out will simply amplify themselves to that point, then cease. Applications to areas outside of oncology are an exercise for the reader.

The No Google License functionally exists: it's the AGPL. https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66577374/olohan-v-googl...

The article suggests that Microsoft is attempting to defend against a lawsuit by Sony attempting to block an acquisition here, in which Sony is suggesting it would be anticompetitive because it would make a popular franchise platform-exclusive. This doesn't look to me like Microsoft is "crying foul" at all - instead, they're "crying fair", arguing that they should be allowed to do it because Sony is doing something similar.

This isn’t converting duplicate files to shortcuts - your workflow won’t change.

Google Drive allows files/folders to be in multiple locations at once. That’s not multiple copies of the file, that’s not shortcuts to a file with one real location, that is one file that is contained in two or more potentially-unrelated paths. Think of it as some kind of spatial anomaly.

A single file reachable by multiple non-shortcut paths is equally in all of those places. A shortcut to a file has one place for the “real” file and a bunch of references to that file. This change will pick a single spot for any files or folders you have that can be reached along multiple distinct file system paths, and put a shortcut to the new (single) path in all the places that used to refer to that file, but were not selected as its “real path”.

So, this has nothing to do with duplicates, and is unlikely to affect your use patterns.

Other things that lead to increased deaths: the Russian military intentionally bombing civilians.

I usually oppose “whataboutism” but I can’t bring myself to do it here. This is a war where the nation of Russia has decided to murder Ukrainians. Means to interfere with Russia’s blood-soaked campaign must be viewed not in isolation, but in the context of what they are attempting to stop.

To be clear, I am not making a general purpose “the end justifies the means” argument. I am making a narrow and specific “the circumstances justify extreme behavior with severe externalities” argument.

Because there is an obligation to stop the war by any means available. Since Putin will not stop voluntarily, he must be rendered unable to continue. Every possible tool to drain the resources and undermine the tenuous stability of Russia is necessary and appropriate.

War sucks for civilians. It sucks less for the civilians who get some files deleted than for the civilians who get their houses shelled by Russian and Belarusian artillery.

Does the NPM project have a general duty of good stewardship? Of course. Does the NPM project have a duty to interfere with a developer who chooses to increase the misery and pressure applied to a nation that has been committed to a path of an unjust war of aggression, which is deliberately bombing civilians? Fuck no.

Oh no, indeed, how could someone possibly object to killing civilians in cold blood with the full military force of an arguably-developed nation, while themselves committing such horrible crimes as - gasp! - deleting files? patterns of bits have human rights too!

Get over yourself.

That's Toyota, we're talking about Tesla.

Not everyone buying those graphics cards is a 14yo xXX_l33thaxor1ny0ma|\/|4_XXx who wants dragons and giant robots on their packaging.

I'm a professional software engineer and I want dragons and giant robots on my packaging. :(

(writing backends for web services that will never see the light of day outside where I work, of course, so I don't even have any packaging to make a branding argument about.)

Spot on about the UI, though. I just want my command line tools to have dragons and giant robots on their packaging.

There's one thing a VR arcade can have that very few consumers can have, in areas where VRcades might be likely to thrive: physical space.

Immersive VR requires at least some space to move around in, or set up a big omnidirectional treadmill in. As the human population grows but Earth stays the same size, personal living quarters will always be at a premium, the rent will always be too damn high, and space to set up this awesome VR rig will be prohibitively expensive.

VR machines could be consumer-grade and still draw an audience, because of the people locked out of the market due to lack of space to set up a rig. Consider what we have now that isn't even VR- I don't have space to use a Kinect.

Original results that were exactly on the borderline of statistical significance, with new results that were barely on the "fail" side of that line, but both sets of results are within the margin of error of each other?

(I am not a frequentist, so my bias may be showing through)