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Stuff I’ve been reading this week
September 24, 2016
- The Vagina Dispatches (must watch video)
- Massive Yahoo data breach
- Gaming the Mayo markets
- Big data meets insurance, there’s an explosion
- Wells Fargo employees were fired for whistleblowing
- Low-value customers are NOT always right
- Amazon does not give customers the best deal
- Why the mainstream media is ignoring the nationwide prison strike
- Gun rights are for white people
- Drowning in systemic injustice
I also discussed a bunch of these topics on this week’s Slate Money.
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Here are the guts of one (important) application. You don’t have to read it all, but it does show what can be done AND HOW TO DO IT.
View at Medium.com
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Just click the picture.
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If you missed this one, and actually many TV stations ran it too, a woman who’s denied payment on a $54,000 hospital bill due to her alcohol content at home when she tripped over a grand child’s sledding board. She was in her own home, not out driving and the health insurer stated that from her records at the hospital, she was legally drunk at home and they have a clause where they use and not pay. Anyone can trip and fall, alcohol or no alcohol is the question here.
http://fox2now.com/2016/09/19/insurance-refuses-to-cover-womans-54k-bill-because-of-alcohol-use/
When you go to the UK, it might be interesting to see how much the use of Chatham House rules has increased as they are starting to use this here in the US, to where folks can contribute, but the origins of any contributions in groups is kept anonymous, business meetings.
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While we’re on the subject of current events, a recent story that has my attention is the Hanjin bankruptcy. It made me think of the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings—except Hanjin seems a lot more like an albatross than a butterfly. Brief summary here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-20/u-s-commerce-department-urged-to-resolve-hanjin-shipping-crisis
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