Depending on your situation, if non emergency and you were able to ask the cash price beforehand you might be surprised that you can get the same CT scan for less than what insurance ultimately paid. At least that’s my experience ($450 vs $1200). You may have to ask at a diagnostic imaging place, not the hospital since the hospitals can never tell you what anything costs they aren’t set up for it. (Of course I went through insurance since I didn’t want to pay out of pocket, but it was an interesting lesson in one of the reasons why healthcare is unnecessarily expensive in the US.)
We used to have Google search and Google maps which solved this problem of finding information about symptoms and finding medical centers near you. LLM doesn’t make anything better it just confidently asserts things about medicine that may be wrong and always need to be verified with the real sources anyway.
The US isn’t pouring money into Ukraine. Under the PURL agreement this year it has switched to selling weapons at a mark up that is being paid for by NATO allies. So this plan is not only screwing our own defense industry in the short term, it is doing so in the long term by showing any agreement with the US can’t be trusted and if you agree to buy weapons from the US you may find your supply cut off randomly as you need them.
Can’t you just limit scope for section 230 by revenue or users?
E.g. it only applies to companies with revenue <$10m. Or services with <10,000 active users. This allows blogs and small forums to continue as is, but once you’re making meaningful money or have a meaningful user base you become responsible for what you’re publishing.
Yet residual or enlarged thymus is seen as a potential cause for autoimmune conditions like Myasthenia Gravis. And it’s often removed in these cases. So is it really good to have a thymus after 30 or not?
It is so hard to believe there was a time where bundling a browser with an operating system was a huge scandal requiring a huge government antitrust case to correct.
Maybe it’s just that I’m old and crotchety but we need regulation to debundle everything, including phones. Yes iCloud, so forth no longer is bundled with a phone you have to choose the providers you want and those providers have to compete and no the Apple company isn’t allowed to make its phone work better for its own products. Just like Microsoft once upon a time wasn’t allowed to make its OS work better for its own browser (how quaint).
You’re seriously cherry picking the best authoritarian comparison here. Singapore is definitely an outsider. Let’s also include Russia, Belarus, Venezuela, Iran, China, North Korea, Afghanistan, Angola, Congo, etc.
> Treasury’s efforts to shore up Argentina’s currency are part of a broader effort by Secretary Scott Bessent to stabilize the South American economy before President Javier Milei’s party faces midterm elections Sunday
Things like this used to be the job of the IMF, stepping in when there were genuine crisis, in theory with experts advising or demanding policy changes to prevent further crisis.
But it seems the crisis here is all self inflicted and the bail out is politically motivated. Is the expectation that after Sunday this won’t be needed and things will stabilized or is this structural and we’ll be on the hook holding the Peso’s peg forever?
> And then there's little bugs everywhere that just grind away at you on a daily basis:
When I create a new folder or file in a directory in explorer it hangs for a bit and doesn’t show up unless I click refresh. Ditto if I save a file to a directory that is open in explorer.
Thinking about trying to get a copy of Win 10 IoT LTSC instead at this point.
I'm using Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC to write this and using Massgrave(l) it's activated to 2038 or something now. The only thing I wanted that LTSC didn't have out of the box was the Microsoft Store but you install that from PowerShell with the command "wsreset -i" and wait for 30s or so :)
You don't need IoT, just the normal LTSC (2027, and then security updates until 2032, iirc). And there are easy ways to swap to it, present on GitHub...
Main downside is other applications dropping support for 10, if relevant. I only swapped my main system due to Fusion 360 notifying me they were dropping 10 in January 2026.
I'd love to know how many people are verifying checksums, and sourcing the checksums themselves from reputable sources. An event like this seems like a prime opportunity for someone to insert something extra into one of the components needed and a proportion of users will pick it up, whether the security cure is worse than the disease of an unsupported OS.
Just as an example of this everyone points out Massgrave for activation on a version of windows I doubt many are properly licensed for, and one of the methods used relies on periodically talking to KMS servers they provide including some on a Chinese TLD [0]. Personally I'd be charitable and say it's probably well intentioned using the cheap resources they can get (there's no mention of donations on the site), but I wonder how many are aware of what is involved and this is just something they rush through to get rid of the big scary warning that windows puts up and tech news hysteria.
