Comment Seems like this could be overturned (Score 1) 107
Isn't this essentially the same as the recently decided Van Buren v United States? https://m.slashdot.org/story/3...
Comment Re: Ponzi schemes and not ponzi schemes (Score 1) 390
This is true only as a percentage of claim dollars, which given the Medicare demographic tends to be much, much higher than private insurers. In actual dollars per beneficiary most private insurers spend less on administrative costs.
Comment Re:Trump (Score 1) 232
That 20% will be much higher when they report the correct counts.
Unlike every other state with major outbreaks, New York only counts residents who died on nursing home property and not those who were transported to hospitals and died there...
How big a difference could it make? Since May, federal regulators have required nursing homes to submit data on coronavirus deaths each week, whether or not residents died in the facility or at a hospital. Because the requirement came after the height of New York‘s outbreak, the available data is relatively small. According to the federal data, roughly a fifth of the state‘s homes reported resident deaths from early June to mid July a tally of 323 dead, 65 percent higher than the state‘s count of 195 during that time period.
Comment Re: nobody has been forced (Score 1) 60
The assets must be offset by liabilities. The only way you are measuring in trillions is market cap, which is speculation of future performance. For example Apple has a market cap of nearly $2T but its net worth is less than $75B. The dollars you want to take are not there.
Comment Re:So much for states' rights (Score 1) 191
and now that I look further, even these are no longer needed due to ACA's removal of pre-existing condition exclusions. I suppose if ACA 2.0/AHCA or whatever gets passed this might change but for now this is a non-issue.
Comment Re:So much for states' rights (Score 1) 191
someone can't move from one state to another without losing health coverage
HIPAA already covers this... you get a "Certificate of Creditable Coverage" from your old insurance/State and give it to the new insurance/State and you're usually good to go.
Comment Re: Correct! (Score 1) 289
That is an great idea which sounds plausible but would actually make things much worse.
The most dangerous person in the world would be a climate scientist who figures out how to completely eliminate CO2.
Comment Re:Really.. (Score 1) 209
Dell charges $350 to go from HD to 4K on the same configuration so $600 for 6K isn't really that out of line. But another item you neglected to mention is that the SB comes with GTX 965M with 2GB dedicated graphics vs the MBP coming with Intel Iris Graphics 540 with shared memory. The GTX benchmarks are over twice the Iris.
I am not at all saying that the MBP is a bad machine, if it works for you great! But you just can't compare the MBP directly to a SB, they have completely different features.
I am not at all saying that the MBP is a bad machine, if it works for you great! But you just can't compare the MBP directly to a SB, they have completely different features.
Comment Re:Really.. (Score 1) 209
Then buy the MBP. If you are not planning on doing any drawing or you do and already have a Wacom to attach to the MBP then obviously the Surface is not for you.
Just don't pretend that you are comparing two similar machines to show an Apple price advantage because they are not at all similar. The 50% screen resolution difference alone justifies the difference in price.
Just don't pretend that you are comparing two similar machines to show an Apple price advantage because they are not at all similar. The 50% screen resolution difference alone justifies the difference in price.
Comment Re:Really.. (Score 1) 209
I have a Surface Pro 3 and haven't had any issues with the touch screen, but of course that is anecdotal. As I mentioned above the Surface Book is really a full fledged drawing tablet with 50% more resolution than the MBP. It is just not a fair comparison.
Comment Re:Really.. (Score 1) 209
In most cases I would agree but the Surface is not just touch sensitive it has 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity. There are professional artists who actually use it for production work.
On top of that the screen has 50% more resolution packed in... 6 MP vs 4 MP, so again you are really comparing an Apple to an Orange.
Comment Re:Really.. (Score 1) 209
You're comparing an Apple and an Orange though, unless you somehow configured the MacBook Pro with a touch screen.
Comment Re: I always quit without notice (Score 1) 765
In most cases you probably got 2 weeks pay in lieu of notice, perhaps even 60 days if the WARN Act was triggered.
Comment Re: It's Heartbreaking you're not in Jail (Score 1) 482
In a lot of these cases the company is holding severance hostage which can be several times your $5000 demand.
Comment Re:Hasn't replaced my lockscreen (Score 2) 249
No it actually comes baked into ES. If you accidentally tap the prominent "Charging Boost ... ENABLE" box which takes up the lower third of the ES screen it gets enabled without going to Google Play at all. And then there is no way to disable it from ES or manage application... you have to put the phone on a charger and trigger the app, then choose the gear icon in the upper right to change the app setting to off.
