Comment Re: On the subjec of 'IQ' (Score 1) 22
Because the world is full of people who see hyperbolic statements and integrate them into their world view as if they were literally true.
For examples, see: Politics.
Because the world is full of people who see hyperbolic statements and integrate them into their world view as if they were literally true.
For examples, see: Politics.
there's an equal and opposite adaptation.
Not adaptations, but similar. Case in point or counter point? Armageddon and Deep Impact
Not sure it's something you want to hear, especially if you're a pedestrian.
Calling a post a "truth" is an attempt to poison the English language.
To be fair, naming the site "Irony Social" and posts "ironies" probably wouldn't have sold as well.
The fact is that Twitter has done a horrible job keep third-party developers happy for over a year now.
Twitter? You mean X -- which means Elon Musk.
We'll have to wait to see how things turn out.
From The Guardian (and other sources):
Ahead of the announcement, Digital World’s stock price was $44, suggesting the new company will debut with a value of more than $5bn.
Trading in Digital World has been particularly volatile – and its shares sank by nearly 14% after Friday’s vote – raising questions about how Trump Media will fare on the stock market before Trump can sell any of his stake.
He will not be able to cash in this stake straight away, however, as key shareholders in the company are unable to sell stock for six months after the merger.
Also noting The last time a Trump company went public it didn't go well for investors. Trump made money but the company -- a casino -- went bankrupt:
Donald Trump’s social media company could go public as soon as next week, paving the way for a potentially huge windfall for a former president who raked in tens of millions of dollars the last time one of his companies was listed on a stock exchange.
That previous, decades-ago experience, however, did not end well for the company or its investors. While a 2016 Washington Post review found that Trump made over $44 million, the company — Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts — lost more than $1 billion and ended up in bankruptcy.
Whether poison oak is worse is highly variable. I have had only mild reactions to poison oak. And some people have REALLY bad reactions to chicken pox.
Chickenpox is an all-over experience from the start while the extent of poison oak/ivy (usually) depends on how soon you discover you've been exposed before you've spread it all over yourself. I had chickenpox when I was young and poison oak (or more likely ivy) as an adult after climbing up a tree to retrieve something (and, stupidly, not noticing the stuff). I needed calamine lotion for the chickenpox but oral steroids for the poison oak/ivy -- the latter treatment worked better than the former btw.
From TFA:
You can uninstall all of this garbage
So... what's the problem? Instead of spending most of the article complaining why not publish an article about how to remove the apps and clean things up, instead of just adding a one-liner at the end?
Talking about the weather app in TFA (emphasis mine):
The “About” section in the weather app says it comes from a service called OneLouder. OneLouder, it turns out, is owned by Pinsight media, which was formerly owned by Sprint and now owned by a company called InMobi. To be clear, this app asks for constant access to your location. At the very least, it should be clear exactly what company you’re giving that permission to!
To be fair, a weather app needs to know where you are to be useful.
"Personal car ownership is about to get A LOT more expensive as it will have to carry the costs of deep discounts to entice EV sales," adds Slashdot reader sinij.
[citation needed]
The US government expects health care to be over 80% for individual insurance
Not just expects, it's written into the ACA. From Medical Loss Ratio (and other sources):
The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to spend at least 80% or 85% of premium dollars on medical care, with the rate review provisions imposing tighter limits on health insurance rate increases. If an issuer fails to meet the applicable MLR standard in any given year, as of 2012, the issuer is required to provide a rebate to its customers.
I gotten a few of those rebates over the years for a couple hundred dollars each.
That leaves 15-20% for administrative costs (and other, like advertising). For comparison, the administrative costs for Medicare is 2-5% (usually closer to 2) -- for Social Security it's less than 2%. (Noting that comparing private and public program costs to each other can be tricky.)
Major U.S. broadband internet providers must start displaying information similar to nutrition labels on food products
A higher fiber content is probably better for you. With an ISP, I imagine you want the insoluble kind.
Lilo and Stitch earned more than $200 million at the box office and generated more than a billion dollars in merchandising revenue.
I bet neither of them got a penny of that.
But why does it cherry-pick its locations?
Why don't cherries grow everywhere?
Following up
While users can remain anonymous, this change raises some potential concerns about data privacy and anonymity, Aaron Mackey, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), told Ars.
But it's on them to be proactive about it. Even so, this also removes the option for users to not share their personal information with Glassdoor at all making that information available for legal actions and leaks, etc...
The EFF regularly defends Glassdoor users from being unmasked by retaliating employers. Particularly for employees who fear retaliation for reviews, Mackey said that Glassdoor users could historically choose never to share their real names, and the company now storing names for all users makes it much more likely that users could be linked to their reviews should Glassdoor's data ever be subpoenaed or leaked. That's what had Monica so concerned, too.
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