Twitch.tv channels are like 50/50 right now. Some are ok, some aren't.

Basically all Riot Games (League, Valorant, TFT) are down, dunno about LoR.

They bought it after it had already established its market presence.

They have tried to launch at least 2 of their own, and both flopped hard.

Ninja, the biggest (English-language) video game streamer in the world, just posted yesterday that he's deleting TikTok for these concerns.

I'm not going to get into whether or not this actually makes sense, but he is a massive celebrity among young millennials/gen-z.

After going to mixer I'm not sure we ought to take Ninja as the authoritative voice on social media platforms

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He definitely made a ton of money, probably most of the money Mixer was investing in their entire launch, and now he's completely free to triumphantly return to Twitch (or take another deal).

I'm not sure how going to Mixer is a knock on him.

I strongly agree. This extends to reddit as well. Whenever it comes up, there is the overwhelming consensus of "I love WFH/dumb middle-managers are wasting everyone's time to feel useful". And while I agree there is definitely a bias towards demanding in-office working which is probably excessive, and that many people can be very successful working remotely, I feel like much of this attitude is romanticization.

Personally, I struggle to focus at home, and I have a pretty ideal WFH situation. I am fortunate enough/foolish enough to pay for a trivial commute, but I'm simply more productive in-office. And I don't think it is just me, many many problems can be solved in-office quickly without having to set up online calls (or letting an email thread drag on for weeks).

And the larger attitude among my office was that working from home is a burden. We're all software devs, we all have no strict barriers to WFH, but most people prefer going into the office most of the time.

Double benefit in that it might encourage others to help too.

I can easily believe it. I believe there was another famous pre-crypto version of this run by a guy... Madoff or something? I wonder how that's going today.

The difference between MakerDAO and Madoff is that MakerDAO, being on the blockchain, is completely auditable. You can see exactly where money is coming in and where money is going out. Websites such as DaiStats [1] provide basic stats based on this ability to audit MakerDAO. For instance, as of this post, there are 74,223,081.54 Dai in existence, 1,591,183 Ether currently being collateralized for Dai loans, and a bank surplus of 257,346.17 Dai collected in interest.

This level of transparency is the very opposite of Madoff.

[1] https://daistats.com/

There are some ways, but they are often somewhat invasive, and basically none are possible for a human player to use while in game.

Reading the article, the trick here is exploiting a loophole that exists specifically within private healthcare.

The doctor part owns/is associated with an "out-of-network" lab where the tests were sent. Healthcare providers have default listings which are typically outrageously high, and negotiate with insurers for their "actual" rates. But by the in-network doctor quietly sending the tests "out-of-network", the insurer could be charged the outrageous fee.

With single payer, the price is the price. No bullshit, shady multilateral private negotiations in a marketplace where people's health is what is being wagered.

>Rather than people just demanding non-insane private healthcare

There is no such thing. A free market for healthcare will end up with people being trapped or simply lacking access. The entire concept of insurance is just a middle-man on a necessary service, one which should be considered a right for a society as rich as ours.

You either massively regulate private companies to force them to cover sick poor people at a big loss and compensate by making healthy people pay more, or you just get rid of the middleman and cover everyone directly (single payer).

Seriously, what value do insurance companies provide? How is it not just rent-seeking on people's health?

Can you buy Amazon products anywhere except Amazon?

I feel like this would be more legitimately "anti-competitive" if these products were available in all sorts of places (like most of Amazon's merchandise). But the only place to buy Kindles and Echos is Amazon.

You can buy Kindles and Echos and Rings at Best Buy, Target, and Office Depot. You can also buy Echos and Rings, but not Kindles, at Lowes. Home Depot has Rings, but not Echos or Kindles as far as I can tell.