It's not gambling when a participant can act on insider information.It's a rigged system.
Are you under the impression that horse races aren't, occasionally, rigged? That the 'insiders' bet based on insights they get from owners, trainers, stable hands, and jockeys?
How is this any different from the outcome at local horse race tracks that offer gambling?
I think you're being a bit aggressive in your HIPPA explaination.
They aren't sharing specific, identity-revealing medical information about anyone.
Knowing that a user visited a website for pregnant, low-income DACA participants doesn't confirm the user is pregnant, low-income, or enrolled in DACA.
It's like saying by observing someone walk into an abortion clinic that violates HIPPA because now I know they are pregnant. I can prove no such thing from that visit - they could work at the clinic, they could be going in with someone that is pregnant, or they could be going to the clinic for any of the plethora of non-abortion related treatments and tests.
To violate HIPPA you need to have sufficient identity information to identify an individual and reveal their personal medical info. That's simplified, but knowing a person looked for information on a website doesn't *prove* anything.
As this story is about healthcare exchanges, you might have a hard time finding a printed application form.
I don't think they support a model where:
- you send in your demographic info,
- they send you a list of choices based on your information,
- you mail them your selection from the list provided,
- they send you a confirmation letter in the mail.
I don't think the open-enrollment window is long enough to facilitate that interaction.
A lot of the automated "site-builder" tools include these trackers by default. Some of the trackers (like the Google one) are useful for site-operators to track metrics (# of individual visitors vs repeat visitors, referring source, etc.)
A reasonable explanation/theory, but based on the ab-so-lute-ly ludicrous money spent to create these federally-funded websites, why were they relying on, as you describe them , "automated site builder tools"?
The time and cost involved reminded of the story around the build-out of Xerox PARC - they started with nothing, had to invent their workstations and invent a means to network those machines, then design and build the physical servers the sites ran on...
Bottom line, including tools to capture metrics around usage is a perfectly valid thing to include in these sites, but using a "free" tool that harvests user data on a gov't website is a big no-no!
Miami is the opposite problem - they built it on a flood zone that keeps getting more and more water.
New Orleans and a whole bunch of other cities around the world...
"Because Mexico City and its surrounds were built on an ancient lake bed, the soil beneath the city is extremely soft. When water is pumped out of the aquifer below, this clay-like earth compacts, resulting in a city that is quietly sinking."
The crisis is also self-reinforcing: as the city sinks, aging pipes crack and leak, causing Mexico City to lose an estimated 40% of its water, even as drought and climate change make supplies more fragile.
So they pump water out of the water table below the city, and it flows thru pipes under the city, which are broken, so the water returns to (ultimately) the water table...right?
"The Epstein class"
What is that, former Math teachers?
Randomly charge customers pass through effectively federal taxes that end up as corporate rebate kickbacks.
What are you talking about? Did you get distracted halfway through typing that and lose your thought? What do you mean "Randomly charge customers pass through"?
I hate to point this out to you but poor people, by definition, don't have money - they are poor. And the poor don't pay taxes (at least not in America) - the lower 47% of income tax filers (and as a reminder, more than half of Americans don't even file income taxes) either pay zero net income taxes or collect a refund in excess of any monies withheld from their paycheck. A person with no debt and $1,000 in their bank account has a greater net worth than something like 20% of all Americans COMBINED.
In NYC the top 2% of earners pay 48% of all collected city income taxes, yet only take in 20% of all the income in the state... Please, for everyone's sake, when you want to complain about the rich not paying "their fair share" have the decency to explain what your definition of "fair share" and explain why one person's "fair share" is different from someone else's "fair share".
Twelve of the 25 chief financial officers interviewed said their company plans to apply for tariff refunds, however, none intend to lower prices in response.
Only 12 out of 25 CEO even plan to apply for tariff refunds? Why would a CEO choose not to seek reimbursement for tariffs they paid previously?
That doesn't sound right.
As for the "none intend to lower prices in response" comment, why would they?
First off, half the CEOs aren't even planning on requesting the tariff refunds, so why would they lower prices? As for the other half of the CEOs, let's understand what we are talking about:
a) Tariffs were only charged for a defined period, a fraction of a year, if you will,
b) Tariffs were charged at a fraction of the imported value of a good - not retail or "market" price
So let's say I was subject to a tariff for, say, 6 months (half a year), and I was assessed a 20% tariff on my imported goods, and the imported items had a 100% markup between import value and consumer price - that would mean if I were to fold the refund back into lowering prices, it would mean a 5% drop for the consumer for one year of sales, that's it. (The math looks like this - 6 months of 20% tariff equals one year of 10% tariff, and since that 10% is before the 100% markup in price, the customer only sees a 5% savings.) That short-term 5% savings will quickly be eaten up by inflation, and then when prices bounce back to market levels, the customer will feel taken advantage of, complaining about over-sized price increases.
It's easier to just absorb the windfall, let the stock value nudge up a little, and maybe put off the next price increase for, say, another quarter.
They can double their market cap by issuing new stock that reflects the increased value of GameStop & eBay. In effect, eBay's current share holders collectively will still hold shares equal to about half the sale price of eBay.
The Fine Summary says the offer of $56BN is half cash, half stock - that means $28BN is stock in the company they just sold.
So then we need to find $28BN in cash - as TFS mentions, TD Bank has guaranteed a $20BN loan, so that leaves $8BN that needs to be found - GameStop apparently has about $9BN in cash and cash equivalent.
So there you go, that's how GameStop can buy eBay.
Amazing - this story went from using soundwaves to put out wildfires ("Former NASA Engineers Create Ingenious Way To Save Homes From Wildfires Using Noise" ) to Experts are skeptical?
WTF, pick a side Slashdot - is Sonic fire suppression a practical solution to a problem or not?
Wait, I'm confused, I thought CO2 was bad (a so-called 'Greenhouse Gas'), are you really saying we need MORE CO2 for plants?
Please expand on your answer, thank you.
Maybe we could first focus on getting everyone access to clean, safe, drinking water?
Just a thought.
From the FACE act:
(2) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship; or
(3) intentionally damages or destroys the property of a facility, or attempts to do so, because such facility provides reproductive health services, or intentionally damages or destroys the property of a place of religious worship,
This is the law Don Lemon and the protesters violated when they stormed the church in Minneapolis because they thought a part-time preacher there was an ICE agent.
APL is a write-only language. I can write programs in APL, but I can't read any of them. -- Roy Keir
