Viewing profile — m16ghost

> (all in d/m/y format, mind you) The examples you gave are in m/d/y format though, and DATEVALUE() parses your examples correctly into Jan 15th, 2024 and January 3rd, 2024. DATEVA…

Here are some links that might help visualize what is going on: https://www.naftaliharris.com/blog/steinviz/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUqoHQDinCM (this video actually refere…

There seems to be a lot of discussion about stock buybacks vs. dividends. Note that Apple also announced an increase of their dividend from $0.24/share to $0.25/share[0], so they a…

Thanks. What I am getting from this is that pi is believed to have this property, but proving this is still an unresolved problem.

> Therefore, inside pi is contained every discovery and every work of art! Is this actually true? It is not clear to me that pi necessarily contains every possible sub-sequence.

I think we can agree that something will need to change as medical trend cannot outpace inflation forever. I don't think the issue is with executive compensation, because even if i…

>Having no idea what the real trend is, couldn't any other factors counteract the perverse effect, making both parent's and your observations true at the same time ? Absolutely. Th…

>The Affordable Care Act introduced the newer perverse incentive of insurance companies tolerating higher prices. Because if you can only pay your execs bonuses based on 20% of you…

You are correct, those are some of the advantages of claims-made vs. occurrence policies. Claims-made policies started because the industry went through a crisis in the 60's and 70…

> I recently just renewed my errors and omissions policy and was a little shocked to find out if you let the policy expire then the policy does not protect you even in past while t…

Which version of Python/JS do they implement? I think part of the problem is that any scripting language rolled directly into Excel will be expected to keep backwards compatibility…

It is not much better than the canonical example given in the article. It still has the following usability issues: -You still need to enumerate and label each new column and their…

>Pandas is a very popular tool for data analysis. It comes built-in with many useful features, it's battle tested and widely accepted. However, pandas is not always the best tool f…

>E.g. looking at early 3d games, they just feel dated. One cannot help but compare them to today's 3d graphics and of course the oldies fall short by a very far margin. Comparing p…

Healthcare in the United States is complicated with lots of different players. The article seems to hint at a key issue they faced: >But insiders claim that it will allow the found…

>Obamacare has a rule that insurers can have a maximum profit margin of 20%. So you have two ways to increase profits in the long run: >1) Increase number of subscribers. Possible …

This will be a good thing initially for consumers as it will allow people to comparison shop for the less complicated, non-life threatening medical treatments. It puts into place t…

All versions of Excel from 2013 and onward come with a tool that lists out cell by cell differences between two spreadsheets, called Spreadsheet Compare [0]. It lists side-by-side …

The Evolution of Trust[0] is a fun walkthrough of those game theory strategies. It adds the twist of miscommunication towards the end. [0] https://ncase.me/trust/

>They were numbering paragraphs, not line items, and lines that wrapped were supposed to be left-justified. I don't think this is a strawman. Word allows you to adjust the indentat…

This doesn't appear to be true. There are other ways for health insurance companies to increase profits. The US Health insurance industry spends on average, 86% of premiums on heal…

Alphabet owns a company called Verily, which is entering the health reinsurance space: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/25/21401124/alphabet-verily-... Verily already has its own sm…