That is not a fantastic deal. When insurers are denying 1/3 of claims, and providers are charging insured rates 10 times higher than uninsured rates, that is not a good deal at all.
It is a travesty that government props up this horseshit system. They should be arresting everyone involved with the health insurance industry for perpetrating a massive fraud on the American people.
What I especially love is that providers charge a much higher price if you use insurance. A $100 procedure becomes a $1000 procedure if you try to use insurance to pay for it. Then your insurance says “sorry, you haven’t reached your deductible”, and the provider bills you the full amount.
I discovered a simple upgrade for the infotainment systems in most cars. The screens work perfectly well with either suction or adhesive-mount phone holders.
Even the shittiest phone is a major upgrade compared to any built-in infotainment system.
$300 before or after the subsidy?
It is not universal. There is a coverage gap just below the poverty line, between losing eligibility for Medicaid, and becoming eligible for ACA premium subsidies. Just a complete lack of coverage for the people with the greatest need.
(Edit: to be fair, that gap was supposed to be filled by Medicaid expansion, but that largely fell through)
The fundamental reliance on private insurers is the biggest gap in universality. Public healthcare is subject to the private sector’s willingness to permit treatment. With some companies boasting >30% denial rates, that “gap” is a gaping chasm.
The ACA was the best that could be done at the time, but it is a steaming turd and needs to be replaced with Universal Healthcare.
Are you sure you’re not Joe Biden?
https://jontic.com/two-ais-realize-theyre-talking-to-each-other-and-switch-to-a-secret-language/
Prior to the two AIs switching languages, this was two machines using “voice” to convey data.
Technically, they weren’t using “Internet Protocol” over that voice link.
https://jontic.com/two-ais-realize-theyre-talking-to-each-other-and-switch-to-a-secret-language/
Technically, it’s not internet protocol over voice, but the two AIs are initially using voice to convey (meta) data.
I never got beyond proof of concept, and definitely didn’t keep any documentation.
I used voip.ms as a VPN trunk provider. They handled the incoming and outgoing calls to/from the PSTN, connecting them to my server.
If you’re not familiar with Tasker, I wholeheartedly endorse it. I thought it was a little unintuitive at first, but I use it for all kinds of things now.
I had a setup with a remote Asterisk server, and a Tasker app on my phone.
If I pressed a button on the phone, it placed a call to the Asterisk server, which dumped the call into a recorded conference room.
That was simple enough. The fun part happened next. The cops are always shown telling stopped subjects to stop recording and hang up phones. They’ll take the phone out of your hand, and attempt to delete recordings. I wanted to address that.
I worked out a script on the Asterisk server where if the phone hung up, it would immediately dial back, and dump the call right back in the recorded conference room. Tasker on the phone would silently answer a call from that number.
That was about as far as I got. I had planned on some way of the asterisk server dialing a contact list and adding them to the conference.
I didn’t even know I needed to edit my prompt, but now I don’t know how I have lived with it for so long.
They just aren’t given enough to do what needs doing.
Guillotines are on back order, with earliest ship dates after December 4th.
The entire premise of the joke is that we could mistake a sufficiently detailed image of a road for an actual road. That humans are susceptible to such a failure does not mean it is reasonable for a robot to share the same flaw.
Israel: “There’s no such thing as an innocent Palestinian.”
The URL you posted is not what I received.
Some sort of deanonymizing and/or tracking is the only thing that makes sense here.
A VPN is called for any time we might receive a Nicole message, or any time we access a previously received message.
Which means any time we access Lemmy.
The hurdle to this kind of fast charging isn’t the tech in the car nor is it the tech in the charger. It’s powering the fucking things.
Agreed.
would require a nuclear reactor sitting out back to supply the required 1.2 Megawatts of power!
Eh…
At 5 minutes a car, each charger would be able to accommodate 12 cars per hour. The 12-charger station, fed by that nuclear reactor, would be able to handle 144 per hour.
A typical gas station that size has an 8500 gallon tank, and refills 2-5 times per week. That amount of fuel will serve somewhere between 1000 to 3000 cars per week, or about 6 to 18 cars per hour.
This doesn’t call for a nuclear reactor at the station. This calls for a sufficiently large battery pack at each station that can “trickle” charge continuously. I say “trickle” - if I did my math right, it would be about as much power as 15 hot tubs or 60 water heaters. About as much as a grocery store, with all its freezers, refrigerators, lights, HVAC, etc.
Certainly a lot of power, but certainly not outside the realm of possibility. On-site solar installations could offset a significant percentage of that demand.
Ooh, I like… I think you might want to add some sharp cheddar.
Spaghetti belongs in a taco, not a pizza.
You can wake up from a nightmare.