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But prices are going up. Look at the statements your insurance company provides about the reimbursed "cost" of covered generics: Some experts report that PBMs overcharge for generics; The W…

The US did this to a slate of Hong Kong administrators in 2020 for implementing China's repressive national security law. It didn't seem to act as a deterrent, as the US did it again to a di…

Regarding the darkness trend, a great HN comment from a few years ago by @atoav who worked as a director of photography: Movies have dark scenes nowadays mainly because it is a trend. On top of that…

For anyone with Apple News+ or Apple One subscriptions, The New Yorker is included: https://apple.news/I8nGwNFiZSGKO9nZxZQ8jMQ …

Thank you for responding. Sometimes it is absolutely necessary to bypass standard “customer service“ channels to get results.

It was signaling to Wall Street and the rest of the tech industry. They want to be seen as profit focused and innovation driven.

> Many countries have no issue with that, serving time is considered enough of a punishment. The idea of (especially mandatory) deporting of criminals is relatively new Paul McCartney would like to…

The article suggests Larry thinks his son has demonstrated brilliance as a media executive: Their relationship grew warmer as David Ellison achieved professional success, they said. Larry Ellison has…

The article mentions he was convicted of falsifying records. Kind of surprised Japan lets foreigners with criminal records stay in the country. And: At shells.com, his personal cloud computing platfo…

What was the response?

> Things got washed out in a bright room compared to a direct-view CRT. You're right about that. A friend's dad was a gearhead and had one of those. It always seemed dim, practically unwa…

> I helped my dad transport the 35" which, from memory, was 150 or 180lbs. It was likely the largest CRT commercially available I helped friends move one of these old monsters out of an apartm…

Worse still, the war also revealed an alarming side of his own character – a ‘viciousness’ and ‘cruelty’ of which he had, until then, been only dimly aware. He realised that, beneath the veneer of mi…

I am too. Gemini 3.0 fast on old scrawled diary entries in English from 100+ years ago got them 95% right. It also added historical context when I prefaced the images with the identity of the writer, …

From dang's 2022 comment about traffic: The most interesting number is the 1300 submissions because that hasn't grown since 2011 - it just fluctuates. Everything else has been growing more …

You should have seen Taiwan in the 1990s. It was a hot mess of older Western romanization systems, historical and dialectical exceptions, competing Taiwanese and pro-China sensibilities, a widely used…

There’s a really good interview with Rob Reiner on Fresh Air, recorded as Spinal Tap 2 was being released a few months back. He talks all about the many movies he’s worked on as well as growing up in …

> I grew up playing a lot of jazz in the late 2000s and there was always a strict canon - big band was seen as kind of cutesy and not worth putting much effort into Rock used to be this way too. It…

“People don’t want to come out and drink anymore. They’d rather sit at home and get drunk, or surf the Internet." There's also the question of what kind of music people want to listen to. Ro…