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All these complicated incentives make it hard to figure out who's responsible, so let me ask a question:

What if a manufacturer lowered the price of insulin to $10 a month and gave no rebates at all? Would insurance companies refuse to cover it and pharmacies refuse to carry it?

Their claim is that if the pharma companies lowered the cost of insulin but then refused to give rebates to insurance companies for it, the insurance companies would stop covering insulin for diabetic patients? And they're using a diagram created by a pharmaceutical trade group to explain this? I'll be honest: I'm skeptical.

I test numbers for divisibility by 7 in my head almost every time I do a daily KenKen puzzle. There's usually a four or five-digit number in there whose factors I don't know off the top of my head, so I'll give it a quick check for sevens just to get my bearings.

But a python notebook could definitely beat me in a race.

I don't think people usually start coming to terms with death by their mid-fifties. Where I live they mostly seem to be training for their first triathlons.

It would probably be racist if you were only allowed to use the one most closely matching your skin tone. Fortunately we get to choose, so it's not.

I like getting to pick colors for things. It's fun. I use colored fonts too sometimes.

Yeah, it's all been downhill since they shut down the Chitlin' Circuit and people like Richard Pryor started showing up in mainstream venues.

Taking a quick look through your comment history, I see you are generally an advocate for free speech and open scientific inquiry when it comes to, for example, looking for genetic differences between races and allowing Holocaust deniers the right to make their case. It's surprising then that you object to something as simple as looking at the basic demographics of this dataset.

120 extra calories a day is an extra 12 pounds a year. Combine that with your metabolism slowing down as you age and as the years pass you might find yourself expanding.

Also, the amount of oil you avoid by moving from deep frying to air frying, depending on portion sizes, can be much more than a tablespoon.

(Obviously, metabolism is more complex than this. I'm discounting the effects of adding fat on satiety, absorption rates, etc.)

Wow. I would gladly buy a whole book of bird stories, or really stories about anything, from this person.

Because a little bit of oil adds a lot of calories.

(And is the evidence about coconut oil conclusive? Last I heard it may or may not be good.)

I think you might be misunderstanding the point of the article. They're talking about the hurdles you have to jump in order to reprint or adapt his writings, not just read them.

It seems like it would be easier now than ever before! A source who wants to get their lies published can create entire networks of fake web pages that appear to back up their claims.

No duplicated logic at all? Does that mean a high-quality program should never contain more than one "for" loop?

> can't really be a physical phenomenon

Can you say more about that? What are the alternatives to being a physical phenomenon?

* Captains of Crush.

(There's only one captain of crunch, and he's too busy cleaning up after a berry-related mishap to help anyone.)

The video explains that these are DMCA notices but the problem is how YouTube is handling them.

Why is this an important argument to have now? As long as millions of voters believe the climate isn't changing or don't understand what kind of damage it's going to do, it seems like focusing on these details just adds to the noise.

It's worth noting that Ben Finegold is also a streamer and 99% of everything he says is a joke. There's some educational content on his streams, but mostly he hangs out, plays casual games, and insults the audience. It's fun.

Wait, Q started with a clear and verifiable prediction that a thing was about to happen very soon, and then that thing 100% did not happen? And then it grew from there? I thought I understood how the scam of fortune-telling worked, but apparently I do not!

The only way I could see that making you unpopular is if you heard people talking about global warming and you changed the subject to talk about other pollutants instead.

My insurance company didn't authorize a full sleep study because my overnight pulse oximeter results were normal, so it took me an extra couple of years to find out I needed a CPAP machine. It might have helped to know that my skin color could cause inaccurate results.

A real logician can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think those statements are considered "vacuously true" for the same reason we say the empty set is a member of every set and x^0 is 1: it makes the rules of calculation simpler if we define it that way than other ways. But you can't use these convenient definitions to learn anything new.

You can keep multiplying your equation by x^0 and union-ing your set with the empty set and or-ing your proposition with "If eggs are diamonds then fish can talk" all the livelong day, but you never gain any more information.

That's funny, I'm black too and I used to have white people misread my facial expression a lot. I ended up training myself to use a different, more "neutral-looking" resting face in public.

Scorn can feel more mature than enthusiasm to a young person, but if you're lucky that's just a phase too.

I think it would be clearer if you'd stop trying to use math terms entirely. Your point isn't that there's a horizontal asymptote, because a virus that kills everyone on Earth could still have one or two of those. Your point is that you think the growth rate is going to slow quickly and you are basing that on intuition rather than math,right?

Baby Hercules, avoid getting eaten by that serpent by strangling it.

vs.

The next time you catch one, Lennie, avoid killing a mouse by strangling it.

...

Do you strangle it to avoid it, or do you avoid strangling it? The age-old question.

"Don't ask for help and just figure it out yourself."

Seems like terrible career advice and terrible life advice to me, but I'm no expert on either.

I think overthinking and coming up with bad excuses is just a symptom, not a cause. First the human does something their rational mind didn't want to, because the rest of the brain outvoted it, and then the mind comes up with an explanation to feel more in control.

I'd actually be surprised if there's much correlation between understanding physics and having one's weight under control.

I disagree completely, but I'll accept that that's partly a matter of taste.

But the thing that shocks me most about how completely Perl has fallen out of fashion is that nowadays sysadmins will write a hundred-line bash script rather than a five-line Perl script because of the theory that Perl is hard to read.

Similarly, the proper economic arrangement for those who wish to consume art is patronage. If you want to view someone's creative work, you must hire them, come to an agreement about the subject to be depicted and materials to be used, and commit to paying the full amount upon delivery.

The idea of reproduction of artistic works from all over the world and from any time in the past? It makes everything too complicated to analyze in terms of what's fair!