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It depends. If your employer is part of a self-funded group of other employers, then there is a group of trustees from all the employers that can approve.

If it's a 'fully insured' group plan then the insurance company is technically in charge, but your company can do an Employer-paid exception (aka carve-out reimbursement) to cover something thats getting rejected. They also have the option to purchase add-on policies to add coverage for upper class stuff like fertility treatments, weight loss drugs, or gender-affirming care.

In a monarchy all justice, authority, and moral order are centered on the person of the monarch, symbolically and legally.

In medieval and early modern English law, the “King’s peace” was the fundamental idea behind criminal justice. The Peace was not an abstract civic order; it was the personal peace of the Sovereign, extended to the realm.

The Crown was the earthly reflection of divine order. To offend that order — whether by sedition or obscenity — was symbolically akin to rebellion against the sovereign.

Pretty cool to think about how different that was, compared to today when people want the law to be based on maximizing the greatest good. What if this was banned simply because it offends the King?

Here's a point about all the insurance companies: UHC administers the medical plan on behalf of your employer. For all practical purposes, they are a whipping boy for the real 'man behind the curtain' (your employer).

Your company (for self-funded plans) actually decides what’s covered and what isn’t, sets copays and deductibles, and ultimately saves or spends money on healthcare costs. UHC’s role is to apply those rules, maintain the provider network, and handle the billing and customer service.

If your company offers insurance, there is someone who can tell the "insurance company" to cover the service they are not covering. Usually the HR Benefits Administrator, or 'plan sponsor'. And they do it all the time! If you have a sad story and the budget is ok for the quarter, they will help! If you are a company officer, you can also have whatever your company can afford.

There are all sorts of ugly industrialized systems required to support our world of 8 billion people.

It's incredibly difficult to square them with how we want to perceive life. Your brain immediately wants to slip into a counterfactual fantasy, "Meat isn't required, we could all be vegetarian" etc.

I don't have an answer to it. Factory farming is a nightmare beyond most horror. It's hard enough to even make a list of all these ugly areas. I think the necessity of plastics is another, lesser example.

It's too big of a topic for a HN comment but do a google or LLM search and see. One widely-accepted aspect is that a child can not "self soothe" until 5-7 years. It's not developmentally possible, and using that language is a bit of a PR move to gloss over what is actually happening.

https://www.google.com/search?q=infant+co-regulation+vs+self...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_self-regulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-regulation_(communication)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory

May our children live to use high-end diamond cookware

Are there any other animals that have a system of writing?

Vices like gambling are not about one person’s money— they create addiction, crime, and family harm that spill over into society at large.

Could you explain more about it? I assumed the maintainers are doing it as part of their jobs for a company (completely baseless assumption)

Where did you find De Mysteriis? Any edition you recommend?

>math-based cryptography is becoming very vulnerable

Can you explain this a bit more?

I hope you are making a humorous understatement

Im not sure we were on the same page. I'm saying that the importance of these agribusinesses is similar to the importance of the military- so something like insect damage or hormonal disruption, soil erosion, etc don't rank as factors that count.

The highly optimized manufacturing operation has made farming into a powerful tool of statecraft internationally. Other countries become dependent on our beans and corn to [indirectly] feed their people or for inputs for their own industries. That gives us diplomatic leverage.

Once you start thinking about that, a lot of the mystery or 'inefficiency' of farming in the USA makes more sense. For example, the subsidies to grow corn and soy but not kale and squash or whatever was in the article- growing kale and squash isn't a strategic priority.

The way I'm interpreting what you said, it feels like you're dismissing the state's role in protecting the health of citizens. Especially children, who are known to be deficient in their judgement and decision making.

It's not reasonable to say "every parent should learn about the dangers of different types of electric vehicle through the injury of a child in their peer group"

"Connecticut already uses the common three-class system that codifies legal e-bikes as up to 20 mph (32 km/h) and 750W (one horsepower) for Class 1 and 2, or up to 28 mph (45 km/h) for Class 3 e-bikes.

But now the state is updating its e-bike laws, adding that any e-bike with over 750W of power will be considered a “motor-driven cycle” and require a driver’s license. Over 3,500W? That will be considered a motorcycle and require a motorcycle endorsement to legally ride, as well as registration and insurance like a motorcycle. "

I love PEVs and this basically makes sense to me.

I’m having trouble distilling the essence of your message in a way that leaves us with any common moral ground.

Would you agree that “an eye for an eye” type justice is undesirable? Because it seems like you are advocating for genocide as a response to the oct attack, going well beyond “eye for an eye”!

This is what it means to own

DALY - disability adjusted life years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted_life_yea...

Thanks for helping people understand this concept!

Would love to see examples of what they were posting

First off I just wanna say awesome and I send positive energy to you and you’re gonna do great.

But then I just wanna talk about how long life is in terms of weight gain! Even two years is an “short” amount of time!

Last month, I looked over my doc where I keep track of my weight and I’ve been gaining about 1 pound a year since I started tracking it… 20 years ago. That’s a significant amount and I maybe have 30 years left to go! (this comment is not about you specifically, just musing on how long life is in terms of weight gain)

People make noise about a lot of subjects, but money is what really talks. Whatever is cheaper will end up gaining market share until it wins.

Don’t know what part of the country you’re in, but in Chicago even the basic chain grocery stores carry fresh unprocessed turmeric now.

There’s basically no reason to ever use powdered or dried.

In most companies the CI/Dev Tools team is a career dead end. There is no possibility to show a business impact, it's just a money pit that leadership can't/won't understand (and if they do start to understand it, then it becomes _their_ money pit, which is a career dead end for them) So no one who has their head on straight wants to spend time improving it.

And you can't even really say it's a short sighted attitude. It definitely is from a developer's perspective, and maybe it is for the company if dev time is what decides the success of the business overall.

In the USA we have huge waitlists for most all types of healthcare. Private healthcare doesn't provide surplus capacity either.

There was a finance charge on your loan that was probably around $1k so that's 5% the dealer made right there instantly for no work

This happened to me and the water itself caught on fire somehow

This is a real Rip Van Winkle style take (posted with gentle humor)

“Our study suggests that policy efforts should move away from generic limits on screen time and instead focus on identifying and addressing addictive patterns of screen use,” said Yunyu Xiao, the study’s lead author and an assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medicine/New York-Presbyterian.

“This challenges the prevailing narrative, which often equates more screen time with greater harm. In contrast, we found that it is how young people use technology — not how much — that matters most.”

Nice to see we’re starting to dig into the complexity of this issue.

Small and scrappy teams work when the team has less than 8 hours of corporate busywork to do a day (Jira, compliance training, triaging 10k alerts from the new scanning software, etc)