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Yup, they call it "commingling". So even if you make sure it says "sold by and ships from Amazon", and Amazon itself only buys from legitimate vendors, you could still wind up with a counterfeit item introduced by a third party seller.

Excel and COBOL will both still be around in 50 years. The entire global financial system depends on them, and will probably continue to do so at least until the Cyborg Uprising.

You might already have read this, but Daniel Yergin's The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is a great overview of all the ways lust for oil has messed with so much of recent history. He also wrote follow-up, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World which I have not read but also may be of interest regarding energy economics.

I wonder how much of that is due to the strong disincentives to misuse of health data by providers.

I suspect many people are more willing to be honest with health care providers about illegal or embarrassing or “wrong” activities because they know there is legal protection and harsh sanctions (e.g. loss of license, prosecution, requirements for professional education and exams in ethics as part of education/licensing, etc) if the provider breaches that trust. That sort of thing isn't typically present in the tech industry.

This is a good point and also worth pointing out (in the US at least) that most ophthalmologists will be covered under your medical insurance not your eye insurance (if any) because they are medical doctors.

I was getting my contact lens exam/fitting recently and the optometrist wanted me to get something checked later by an ophthalmologist. He said it was probably nothing to worry about but made it clear that it was outside his scope of expertise to diagnose or make medical recommendations.

> "how the EU is hobbling the UK"

Sorry if I'm misreading, but do you mean "how the EU is being hobbled by the UK"? In the sentence above it sounds like the EU wanted the agreement but the UK (and May's veto) prevented the EU from doing it.

It looks like when the script fed the titles into the Goodreads API, it picks the most common (popular?) book with that title. Since the subtitles were stripped out it got confused.

In the original thread, the two books were: -Linear Algebra, A First Course by Kutler -A Concise Introduction to Linear Algebra by Schay both in JabavuAdams' post.

Then there was a mention of the Linear B language elsewhere

"5. He operated under a cloak of secrecy..."

Well, they say He works in mysterious ways...

Yes, not to mention that nearly every casino/hotel on the Strip is owned by either Caesar's Entertainment or MGM Resorts. They are huge publicly-traded companies who want to minimize risk.

MGM Resorts Properties: Bellagio Circus Circus CityCenter (50% joint venture with Dubai World) Aria Resort & Casino Mandarin Oriental Excalibur Luxor Mandalay Bay MGM Grand The Mirage New York-New York Park MGM

Caesars Entertainment Corp: Bally's Caesars Palace Harrah's The Cromwell Flamingo Las Vegas The Linq Las Vegas Planet Hollywood Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino

Yep:

"Dunder Mifflin Infinity" - Season 4 Episode 3/4