He definitely made a ton of money, probably most of the money Mixer was investing in their entire launch, and now he's completely free to triumphantly return to Twitch (or take another deal).
I'm not sure how going to Mixer is a knock on him.
I strongly agree. This extends to reddit as well. Whenever it comes up, there is the overwhelming consensus of "I love WFH/dumb middle-managers are wasting everyone's time to feel useful". And while I agree there is definitely a bias towards demanding in-office working which is probably excessive, and that many people can be very successful working remotely, I feel like much of this attitude is romanticization.
Personally, I struggle to focus at home, and I have a pretty ideal WFH situation. I am fortunate enough/foolish enough to pay for a trivial commute, but I'm simply more productive in-office. And I don't think it is just me, many many problems can be solved in-office quickly without having to set up online calls (or letting an email thread drag on for weeks).
And the larger attitude among my office was that working from home is a burden. We're all software devs, we all have no strict barriers to WFH, but most people prefer going into the office most of the time.
I can easily believe it. I believe there was another famous pre-crypto version of this run by a guy... Madoff or something? I wonder how that's going today.
Reading the article, the trick here is exploiting a loophole that exists specifically within private healthcare.
The doctor part owns/is associated with an "out-of-network" lab where the tests were sent. Healthcare providers have default listings which are typically outrageously high, and negotiate with insurers for their "actual" rates. But by the in-network doctor quietly sending the tests "out-of-network", the insurer could be charged the outrageous fee.
With single payer, the price is the price. No bullshit, shady multilateral private negotiations in a marketplace where people's health is what is being wagered.
>Rather than people just demanding non-insane private healthcare
There is no such thing. A free market for healthcare will end up with people being trapped or simply lacking access. The entire concept of insurance is just a middle-man on a necessary service, one which should be considered a right for a society as rich as ours.
You either massively regulate private companies to force them to cover sick poor people at a big loss and compensate by making healthy people pay more, or you just get rid of the middleman and cover everyone directly (single payer).
Seriously, what value do insurance companies provide? How is it not just rent-seeking on people's health?
Can you buy Amazon products anywhere except Amazon?
I feel like this would be more legitimately "anti-competitive" if these products were available in all sorts of places (like most of Amazon's merchandise). But the only place to buy Kindles and Echos is Amazon.
It forces real-time immediate interaction and discussion rather than dealing with people that have varying levels of understanding and who may or may not have bothered to actually read the whole thing. And it forces all of the comments and suggestions to be hashed out in 30-60 minutes, rather than over weeks as people only check the doc maybe once a day if you are lucky so every back and forth takes forever, especially when a lot of it is dealing with the aforementioned sources of understanding.
A single hour-long in-person meeting can forgo a month of back-and-forth online.
It's hard to scale up individual institutions and maintain quality.
What needs to happen is a broadening of the definition of "top schools".
The issue is that a "top school" is a definition inherently limited in size. The top 10 is the top 10 regardless of whether there are 100 or 1000 schools being considered. Also, regardless of how many people there are, as an entire society we can only agree on a group so large before the "top schools" are no longer actually common knowledge (and thus not a "top school" in many important ways).
>Can the gas in the tank go bad? I know modern fuel has a lot of preservatives.
This is something that is occasionally mentioned in speculative apocalyptic scenarios. It will go bad, after about a year you wouldn't be able to use any random car without swapping out its gas with some from a better preserved source.
Kinda looks like p-hacking. They ran calculated the p-value for a bunch of different criteria until they found one that was "statistically significant" (in this case gender, specifically just one gender). The issue is that you'll find 5% outliers 5% of the time, so if you just keep looking you'll eventually find "significance".
Basically all Riot Games (League, Valorant, TFT) are down, dunno about LoR.