We have a whole department whose job is to wrestle with insirance insurance companies. They may be as vital to the life of th he business as we are. And needing that is a big reason that smaller practices are dying out.
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Yet another reason for single-payer. There will still be need for coders, but at least there would be one code instead of dozens.
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Someday- my coffee cans full of pennies will all be valuable antiques.
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It also ended because “Won’t someone think of the landlords?!” I know this because I heard it from a friend of mine who had one rental property, and she genuinely believed that laws around tenants and evictions weigh too heavily in favor of tenants. I tried to argue with her, but I got nowhere.
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It’s deeply frustrating when landlords think that they’re in a business that is supposed to be risk-free for them.
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They’re not the only ones…
Not only are there questions about risk on IRS tax forms (because there may be profit and loss in business), but also most investors sign off on risks before they buy shares. Of course they could claim that the language was unclear or too broad, but I’m sure the lawyers who drafted those statements and disclaimers will be prepared for that. 
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Once again, the ghost of de Gaulle is feeling very justified in their actions
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There’s some shitty “both sides” reporting in that article.
By automating, of course, the consultant means being replaced with AI as part of the second apparent phase of the tech industry’s latest crash following major layoffs in recent years. Michael Ryan, another of Newsweek’s experts, suggested that recent CS grads are, somehow, doing a crappier job than their AI competition.
“Every kid with a laptop thinks they’re the next Zuckerberg,” the finance guru behind MichaelRyanMoney.com told the magazine, “but most can’t debug their way out of a paper bag.”
Ah, yes. I see. It’s actually their own fault they can’t get hired. They suck! Well that explains everything, then. AI is just better. Nothing to see here, move along. /s
They’re recent grads with zero experience. I’m sure they’re not as good at some tasks as AI, but if Newsweek’s “expert” is going to throw out a comment like that as fact, somebody should really try to back it up with some date, because otherwise, that’s just a meaningless opinion masquerading as fact. And what makes this guy an expert? He’s not a coder. He’s not a computer scientist or engineer. He’s a retired financial planner who started a website, and hawks himself out to media as an expert on all kinds of things he’s not actually an expert on. If you want retirement planning advice, he might be the right guy to go to (he’s no longer a licensed financial planner), but he’s absolutely not an expert on computer science or coding.
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As boomers are forced to ‘unretire’ because they’ve not saved enough, 6-year-olds in Germany could soon have retirement accounts
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Ok, they’re basing that on a survey, so I decided to go read the actual survey. Here’s the question he’s talking about and its results:
And it continued on the next page on various other issues. This isn’t really showing what people think about the Democratic Party’s views on anything. This is showing that we have a bipartisan system, but that roughly a third of people don’t agree with either party. So sure, more people say they agree with Republicans on the economy than Democrats, but since Republicans are currently in charge, it feels important to me to point out that 61% of people don’t agree with Republicans on the economy. Frankly, I often don’t agree with Democrats on the economy, because I’m further to the left than most elected Democrats. Harry Enten is another ass who used to work for the chief data analysis ass, Nate Silver.
Also, the shitty current state of the economy, including the volatile stark market, isn’t something most likely Republican voters are aware of because they get all their information from right wing sources who tell them the economy is better than it’s ever been and that we’re in a new Golden Age. Democratic voters don’t get exposed to that kind of blatant propaganda from more balanced news sources (there aren’t really any major left wing news sources). Democrats aren’t behind in that poll because their policy ideas are bad. They’re behind in that poll largely because of misinformation and disinformation.
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