For anyone looking for side gigs, are websites still the number one option? Also, it's nice to see that social media has not eaten the whole internet yet.
>Another thing to note is, do these Googlers honestly think Russia and China and others aren't working on the same thing to be used by their military? Are these Googlers actively trying to persuade those countries not to work on this business of war at the same time?
Some people don't want to take part in automated killing. It is not their duty to stop others.
I worked with health insurance as a software developer (in Brazil so maybe it's all different, but still) and here are my observations.
1. Making claim submission impossible
He said he tried to submit a claim at the last minute. I believe the hidden page was just lazy work, because the page has to be visible again soon. If they hid the page at an appropiate time I don't know.
2. Routinely denying claim submissions
As far as I can tell, in Brazil a regulated health insurance plan can't deny you service based on how many claims of a certain kind you submited. They could before.
But the industry will find other ways to not lose money. Readjust prices based on number claims (from all users), prevent you from entering the plan and making a claim right away, pay for a quota of every procedure you take.
All these mechanisms already existed, but if they can't deny claims anymore they will tweak the other points.
3. Saying the customer has other insurance
This is fucked up. I can't find a explanation that isn't malicious.
Here is one similar case that happens in Brazil though. If you have health insurance and use the free health insurance (SUS). The Union will charge back your plan, not you. It's their job to sort it out not yours.
I do believe they are capturing microphone data because I can't think of any other explanation for the japanese ads (not about japanese stuff but actually written in japanese) I saw when rewatching my old anime DVDs.
I was watching anime in a old TV without any internet connection and at the same time browsing reddit on my laptop. Things like this make me feel no guilt for using ad-blocks.
I think it might be one of those situations where the microphone data is being captured using some other app and then shared into a data network as tar-getting data, providing a convenient and plausible deniability to Google and Facebook for shady practices.
If we really dig for an example - mountain climbing guides for Mount Everest, certain groups of people have evolutionary advantages that make them more suited for the job.
In an extreme environment where advantages of the tail end of population distributions are important then it's less likely the market will choose a diversified workforce.
Things seem kind of bimodal there, though. If you're part of a new technology or movement, generally there aren't any stable jobs with retirement plans. So someone has to get entrepreneurial...and then they are CEO.
