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Reddit was born in the last years of the "old internet" when free speech meant "freedom from religious conservatives trying to take down porn and sometimes first-person shooters." And so we tried to preserve that ideal.
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, cloud computing is a “model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources.” By the same definition, the five hallmark characteristics of the cloud are (1) on demand service; (2) broad network access; (3) resource pooling; (4) rapid elasticity; and (5) measured service, or the ability to monitor or limit quantities used.
Bank Use of Cloud Technology
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What exactly is “market price” for a drug in the US? Consumers don’t pay for drugs directly; only insurance companies pay for drugs. In Germany, all the insurance companies get together and form a Drug Price Bargaining Group, which bargains with drug companies the same way a government would. Why don’t insurance companies do that in America? Is the problem just that this would be a monopoly (technically a monopsony, I guess?)
Book Review: Which Country Has The World's Best Health Care?
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