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  • Video: How to permanently disable macOS High Sierra upgrade notifications

    sandorsandor
    This is quite useful, as we have a couple of older iMacs that keep hounding the users to install 10.13, even though they are unsupported.
    xzu

  • Amazon, big finance spearhead healthcare effort without 'profit-making incentives'

    sandorsandor
    SpamSandwich said:
    This really could swing either way - companies will have a far greater incentive to focus on preventative health care, which is far more cost effective that the treatments cost years or decades later (smoking, sugar intake, lack of exercise, regular checkups). Also if they can do something about the insane cost of healthcare in the US, than can only be a good thing. Insurance companies have never addressed that.

    On the other hand, your employer knowing everything about your health might not be a good thing. You can see a future where compensation, promotion and other decisions could be made with health considerations in mind, or even decisions about lay-offs. Employees could be more dependent than ever on their employers (COBRA isn't great but it can give you a cushion) so losing your job or quitting because of some unacceptable factor at work, would cost you more than ever.

    Of course, the fact that this is even something they need to consider doing, because healthcare in this county is such a freaking mess, is the real tragedy.
    Regarding your last paragraph, the US isn’t the USSR. We don’t need or want Government Healthcare. There is nothing that can be done by the private sector that cannot be made worse when the Federal government gets involved. The entire insurance and healthcare industries are ripe for massive deregulation and innovation shakeups. People will (against current beliefs) come to see that less interference is better and more competition is much better.

    https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2018/01/30/the-amazon-effect-rattles-health-care-stocks/
    Highly profitable healthcare middle-men like Aetna and the Blues are who is rattled.

    Employers of over 1 million Americans just realized how much money they can save by cutting out the middleman.

    Look up the quarterly reports & profit margins of these companies & realize exactly why health insurance in the US is so expensive, and has some of the worst outcomes in the developed world. These middlemen decrease access through cost & closed networks all while delaying treatment & more importantly *not* supporting preventive care.

    Other countries have limited this via centralized government regulation, we have let it run amuck in the free market & enrich a few at the expense of our populations life expectancy.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • HomePod: Everything you need to know about Apple's smart speaker

    sandorsandor
    larrya said:
    4” “subwoofer”
    Yeah, I think woofer is more accurate. Poor woofers are always getting subbed for.
    well, is Apple using it for 20Hz to 2 KHz or 20Hz to 200Hz??
    size isn't the differential, what frequencies Apple is sending to the speaker is what makes the difference.




    king editor the grate

  • Microsoft, Signal add end-to-end encryption to Skype

    sandorsandor
    If WhatsApp, FaceBook & Google have it, then Skype is the 4th, right?
    And Signal already has it in their messaging app, so Skype would be the 5th.
    watto_cobra

  • ConnectSense announces Apple HomeKit and Siri-ready In-Wall Outlet

    sandorsandor
    wassimj said:
    superkloton said:
    Rayz2016 said:
    Mmm. I would still say that thing adds bulk. 
    Well the article says "flush with the walls" so the picture might not show the actual product since that is clearly not in-wall but very bulky indeed. Wouldn’t wanna have that in my home.
    It clearly says the second picture is of their older model. The new one mounts inside the wall and is flush.

    And the new one doesn't look much different in size than a standard 20 amp GFCI outlet.

    The bigger question with devices like this (and outlets with USB ports, etc) is whether or not they are UL listed/approved. If not, they may void your renters or homeowners insurance in case of a fire/damage.
    wassimj