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So you’re saying that increasing the number of doctors will result in more medical services being consumed which means higher costs for the gov?

That’s the view of the government?

I don’t know about other countries but that’s absolutely the case for the US.

The culprit is the AMA.

> In the 20th century, the AMA has frequently lobbied to restrict the supply of physicians, contributing to a doctor shortage in the United States.[10][11][12] The organization has also lobbied against allowing physician assistants and other health care providers to perform basic forms of health care. The organization has historically lobbied against various of government-run health insurance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Medical_Association

> At least that's my observation

30 seconds of serious thought would tell you that your observation is wrong.

Again, a news organization can just change their robots.txt to block google from indexing their site.

They don't do that because that would instantly kill all their search traffic... and most likely kill their business.

If CNN changed their robots.txt to stop being indexed by Google, Google would literally lose 0 users.

> I wasn't picking a side as much as earnestly asking how OP concluded that its the news sites wanting something free from Google versus the other way around.

It's been explained to you several times. Instead you're more interested in acting self-righteous (it's honestly pretty cringeworthy).

What are you even talking about? That's not how SEO works in the slightest....?

Lol am I still reading HN or is this Reddit?

You can see the Core Web Vitals. What modern day news organizations are doing is nowhere close to that.

No but the company isn't trying to develop software that's best for the user. They're trying to develop software that's best for their bottom line.

Yeah, this guy clearly doesn't use Reddit

> while real applications have seemingly gotten worse

Can you elaborate on this? I'm not sure I agree.

Modern day applications are doing far, far more than they were 10-15 years ago. Much more traffic, much more data, much more tracking (unfortunately), etc.

I agree with you, but PG’s definition of rich in the article is people worth $10 billion dollars plus.

I don’t think he’s being malicious. I think he genuinely just doesnt see a $5-10m NW as rich.

That depends entirely on your definition of rich.

PG's definition of rich is probably 100x what yours is.

> Everyone should dislike Elon Musk. He's a horrible person and needlessly rich. The man has sociopathic tendencies. We just have to listen to his ethos to determine that.

Thanks for telling me what to think.

> But it is not designed for "depression-like symptoms". It is designed for acute depressive mood disorders and suicide ideation which cannot be treated by other means, similar to electroshock therapy or TMS.

That's literally not true. Spend a few mins reading a survey paper on it perhaps? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28249076/

I understand that the MSM hates Elon Musk but it's sad that they have to spread misinformation about Ketamine Therapy in their lust for clicks.

It's had amazing results for treating depression -> https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/ketamine-for-treatment-r...

This feels like using the internet in 1996 or the iPhone in 2010. Not quite there yet, but you can clearly see that this is going to be massive within a few years.

Yep, the only solution is more disinformation police.

Clearly they saved us during the pandemic!

theverge's coverage of anything not directly related to gadget reviews is always incredibly biased, sensationalist and usually wrong.

> But if what you say is actually true

You can google it if you want. It's all public info.

Isaacson also wrote a book on Musk and there's a chapter about this pay package and how absurd it was.

Let's go through the events here...

Tesla was close to bankruptcy where it needed to massively ramp up Model 3 production (and prove that there was demand for electric cars) in order to succeed. Tesla was the most shorted stock on the market and almost every hedge fund manager thought it was going bust.

Musk takes a pay package where he gets no salary or compensation if Tesla stock doesn't increase. For every $50 billion dollar increment in Tesla's valuation (Tesla was worth $60 billion at the time), Musk would get 1% of Tesla's outstanding shares at the time.

Basically everyone calls the pay package ludicrous and laughs at how ridiculous the deal is (no one thinks Musk will make any money).

Tesla manages to scale up Model 3 production and prove there is demand for electric cars.

Tesla proceeds to 10x (something very few people expected) and Tesla shareholders are massively rewarded. Every tesla shareholder is thrilled.

Musk makes $56 billion dollars but Tesla's valuation increases by $550 billion.

A tesla shareholder with 10 shares sues and says Musk's pay package was too large.

An activist judge agrees and now the lawyers want to walk away with $6 billion dollars.

Yeah.... summarizes the state of the US pretty well.

Punish risk takers & boldness. Award the lawyers.

If you spent 5 seconds looking at statistics about crime, cartels and drug use in Medellin vs cities in the US, you'd see that quality of life is significantly worse in Medellin.

Who do you think goes in these grocery stores?

Imagine having your mind so melted by politics that you’re supporting Boeing & Lockheed’s bullshit lobbying to get their revenue up.

There’s nothing to “realise” because you just made that up.

It’s hilarious how you can be condescending and wrong.

“Isolationism” is completely different from not wanting the US to get entangled in Europe’s BS.

Yeah it's just difficult to determine what one views as "counter-intuitive".

I guess the birthday paradox is one such example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem) but if you've taken a course in probability theory then it doesn't really seem counter-intuitive.

There's quite a few veridical paradoxes in probability theory

You might get a better response by providing an example of one such counter-intuitive argument that you find good.

His LinkedIn literally says he worked at Google Ventures.

I’d say you’re just not very good at reading comprehension.

Why is this article so ridiculously politically charged?

Is it impossible to just report on the blunder without having to bring up Biden, left/right, slave owners, yada yada yada?

Or does Techcrunch realize they don't have anything interesting to add to the conversation so they just add a bunch of unrelated politics BS to juice up engagement?

I understand this is a political topic, but this article takes it to overdrive for no reason.

This article is literally paywalled, so confused as to how it's getting upvoted...?

Do you view it as a security hazard to talk about this publicly (or tied to your username)?

I presume that bitcoin is now worth millions of dollars (at the very least)?

They used to have interesting journalism but the quality dropped massively over the last few years IMO.

You should be more specific. The issue here is the CIA.

A better solution would be to use the webcam to track what a user is looking at and just immediately move the pointer to that location.

I really hope the Apple Vision Pro convinces Zuck to get his shit together w.r.t. Oculus.

Oculus's software & apps suck. Air link fails 30-40% of the time for me.

Horizons Workplace could be an insanely good killer app but it's implementation is absolutely terrible. It's insane that a startup like Immersed could build a better VR desktop app than Meta (even though a solid VR desktop app alone would be a convincing reason to buy the Quest)