Easy solution:

Delete: private insurers are limited to earn a profit as a certain percentage of their revenue for a given procedure

Add: private insurers are limited to earn a profit as a certain percentage of the Medicare rate for a given procedure

Solved

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Of course there are pros and cons of even having private health insurance and using government regulation to control their profit levels. Which will not fit in the margin of this comment.

Ah, thanks for explaining that, makes sense

Definitely not an abuse of market power and not a trust combination with phone makers to exclude competition.

Basically everybody knows about OF right now. How much more growth do they need?

Why can't people just be happy with making a decent product, and growing organically? That allows you to set your own rules and make your own product.

Can I please have a link to the source documents? i.e. the proposed draft regulations?

Well Home Depot has integrated PayPal payments. I don't know if anyone uses it or even if I used it.

But I know that Home Depot payment process is maybe the best I've seen~~everything is fast and clear, you can look up your past orders on the same credit card, points accumulate even if you don't have an account with them, etc.

So if HD was adding some more payment options I'm sure it would work out great and not be distracting. Maybe Walmart is in the same category.

The direct implication on policy decision making I'm hearing is: people that are vaccinated should not be excused from masking policies

Correcting myself-- using an iPad as a second display, not "sharing a screen".

And yes, if you take an account which does not have "iCloud" enabled, then when you turn on iPad as a second display it will at that point start uploading all your photos to Apple.

I am very stupid. And it is not obvious to me that deleting a photo and then deleting that from recently deleted photos will delete the same item from all of: Apple's servers, Apple's backup servers, and the many copies of Apple backup servers which are kept in Utah.

As always, the journalist asked the wrong question.

The correct question is:

"Apple, will you stop doing business in a country when they require you to add images to your image-checking program which you have not confirmed is actually child porn?"

Another PSA

Apple turns unencrypted syncing of all your photos to the cloud on every time you do some or all of these:

- Update iOS
- Turn on find my iPhone
- Turn on copy-paste between your iPhone and Mac
- Turn on screen sharing between your iPad and Mac

unless you turn it off after each of those cases. And even still, the uploading of your photos begins immediately and the time between when you turn on, say iPad screen sharing, and when you turn off photo sharing may upload some photos and it is not clear how to remove them.

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In this case ^ "unencrypted" means employees have access to your photos and can print them, modify them in your account, and do anything they want with them.

Let me guess...

- Apple will roll this out
- They won't respond to any reporters' questions about this
- You can't turn it off
- They won't publish documentation or commitments about how it works (and what it doesn't do) other than a vague advertisement
- This will have full access to the personal lives of more humans than were alive on Earth in 1900

It's funny how they publish how many government requests and NSL requests they get. But they don't publish employee misuse of data--and still we don't know how many subject accounts are affected by these.

Government requests at least have an overt purpose for public safety and may even possibly be helpful for public safety.

Employee mishandling of subject data is always for fraud and bad purposes (otherwise it would be called "handling" not "mishandling").

It's almost as though Google publishes the one and not the other because it makes them look good rather than actually providing transparency to their subjects.

Yes, the plain view is this is a stupidly priced product.

But when they switch to-per hour billing this makes a lot of sense.

If I could pay a few dollars to RDP into whatever the latest Windows is to check how my website or whatever software works --- or use some website open some DOCX file that won't open on Mac a few times a year -- then this is valuable to me.

Even in the year 2051 there are some websites/files you can't open on Mac.

It would be super if they can double the price and include a bunch of software. But even if I have to install whatever Adobe/office crap that is needed I'll be happy for what I need.

... but who will do the audits if you are unable to hire auditors?

This what I call actual journalism.

Can you imagine living in a world where these kind of things happen but nobody says anything publicly about it?