KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: Houston homeowners unaware that reservoir neighbourhoods are designed to flood
Flood insurance can be revoked in the way you describe but it is a federal matter not a Texas one.
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KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: DIY recipes to make your own expensive pharma drugs
But I'm talking about deaths, I have yet to see even one case yet this is supposedly an epidemic. Sorry if I'm not convinced by statistical handwaving.
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: DIY recipes to make your own expensive pharma drugs
So according to your response they don't die from a doctor refusing to provide care as much as they die from fear of bankruptcy? Aren't they poor? So isn't it safe to assume they don't have tons of assets to lose when bankruptcy actually happens? (Also it doesn't even really work that way https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-17/the-myth-...)
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: DIY recipes to make your own expensive pharma drugs
Because I'm responding to "Then why are people having to go without prescription medication they can't afford?"
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: DIY recipes to make your own expensive pharma drugs
Certainly 10 specific cases would be an easy find right? Seriously go look. You can't find them. Studies like this claim cases like "well if we found this cancer earlier" but I'm looking for "he couldn't afford this drug so he died". Should be millions of them according to the rhetoric.
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: DIY recipes to make your own expensive pharma drugs
45,000!?! you should easily be able to point out say 10 specific cases where lack of access to a drug killed someone in the last year right?
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: DIY recipes to make your own expensive pharma drugs
Have any examples of deaths? Should be thousands available.
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: Are rich people meaner? Two teams find errors in each other’s work
Why not give to charity? That's what I do.
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: No Comments
I had a software company put me into their newsletter list once.
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: Multiple Heap Buffer Overflows In the Windows DNS Client
Also no one: "let's fix it so it won't crash constantly"
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: Are rich people meaner? Two teams find errors in each other’s work
Lets say you work hard and with some savings you go ahead and buy an iPhone, that iPhone is produced by workers in the third world who make much less than you and costs much more than they will make in a month.
Now lets say we add a few zeros to your income to move you from the top 1% globally to the top .1%. Jobs that pay this kind of money are difficult, so you work really hard as well. Instead of an iPhone made in the third world you buy a yacht or sports car made in the first. The first world workers make much less than you do, but have a pretty good standard of living globally speaking (but not compared to you).
What is fundamentally different about those two cases? Can it really be said with a straight face that one is greedier than the other? In fact, it seems the "wealthy" person actually created better outcomes for the people creating his luxury product as compared to the first example.
This is a glass house sort of situation when you really consider it.
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: Are rich people meaner? Two teams find errors in each other’s work
The super wealthy proclaiming without citing evidence that the mega wealthy are evil or cheated somehow is a pet peeve of mine, it just seems petty when you put it into a global context.
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: Are rich people meaner? Two teams find errors in each other’s work
>Rich people are assholes in my experience. They may have better manners and stuff, but their intentions are evil
I'd keep that attitude in check, if you are in a western nation you are likely in the top 1% - 2% in terms of income globally. Things would end pretty badly for you if 98% of the planet decided people like you are evil.
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: Google is building an anti-Amazon alliance, and Target is the latest to join
YES! finally the 3rd party shipper Amazon uses will be as convenient and efficient as the postal service!
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U
Man I wish he was my math teacher, I probably would of been much more engaged back then.
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: Multiple Heap Buffer Overflows In the Windows DNS Client
>The DNS caching service that handles the storage of DNS responses automatically restarts when it crashes, and it won’t notify the user of the crash.
Programmer one: "It keeps crashing!"
Programmer two: "Just remove the bit that tells the user it crashed and ship it!"
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: Tech companies are misusing creativity in their quest to change the world
If that was true we would have tons of restaurants serving caviar and foie gras and very few serving fast food.
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: Tech companies are misusing creativity in their quest to change the world
Communism Light, all that great communism flavor with less murder (so far)
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in age bias
I think it depends on the applicant, I'm willing to do such a project but the prices I will demand if hired will be markedly higher than a firm that offered me a simpler project that consumed less time. The way I see it is you have limited the risk you have undertaken in hiring me thus I can see more of the fruits of my labor.
KekDemaga | 8 years ago | on: Identifying a Large Number of Fake Followers on Instagram
Alternative idea for a service: Identify other “influencers” in your market niche and buy them thousands of obviously fake followers, when in discussions with advertisers point this out: "X has more followers, that is true, but look at the quality of them most of these are obvious bots. That is why my rates are 20% higher."