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Walmart could acquire the health insurer Humana, in a deal reminiscent of CVS's acquisition of Aetna:
Walmart Inc. is in preliminary talks to buy insurer Humana Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, a deal that would mark a dramatic shift for the retail behemoth and the latest in a recent flurry of big deals in health-care services.
It isn't clear what terms the companies may be discussing, and there is no guarantee they will strike a deal. If they do, the deal would be big: Humana currently has a market value of about $37 billion. It also would be Walmart's largest deal by far, eclipsing its 1999 acquisition of the U.K.'s Asda Group PLC for $10.8 billion. Walmart, which in addition to being the world's biggest retailer is also a major drugstore operator, has a market value of about $260 billion.
[...] Walmart has a vast pharmacy business, with locations in most of its roughly 4,700 U.S. stores and in many of it Sam's Club warehouse locations. Humana is a Medicare-focused insurer that could deepen Walmart's relationship with a key demographic—seniors—at a time when the retailer is being threatened by Amazon on several fronts.
Also at CNN.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 31 2018, @03:38PM (10 children)
Stop talking to yourself.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @03:59PM (8 children)
You want higher quality threads? Enhance this website in 3 ways:
Allow each user to edit a comment after posting; this would still work for an AC, by means of session cookies.
Reduce the draconian censorial nature of downmodding; it's ridiculous that one downmod can tank a legitimate comment.
Relax the throttling of AC comments, so that actual conversations can take place in a dynamic fashion.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday March 31 2018, @05:25PM (5 children)
There are good arguments for being able to edit a posted comment until someone else has replied to it. Or possibly for the first two minutes, but no replies allowed during that period.
The rest of your suggestions seem, at best dubious. There are already too many trolls and stupid comments.
But I would like for there to be a "stupid" downmod. Often something isn't a troll or flamebait, but is just uninformed. Or possibly some of those are trolls, but that's a judgment call, whereas stupid is nearly objective.
OTOH, if you disagree with the way people downmod, just browse at -1. That's what I do.
P.S.: Since many have requested the ability to edit a post after posting, and it hasn't been implemented, I would guess that it's harder than it appears. Perhaps there are lots of edge cases.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @05:41PM (1 child)
One man's "Stupid" is another man's "Insightful", and some of the historically "Stupidest" ideas ended up becoming recognized as some of the most "Insightful" in history.
So, fuck you.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Whoever on Saturday March 31 2018, @06:22PM
Yeah, a vanishingly small number of them. The rest of them were and remain stupid.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday March 31 2018, @09:55PM (2 children)
For how long after posting should you be able to edit?
If its a spelling error, or a forgotten word or link that's one thing.
But being able to come back three hours later and change the entire conversation seems disruptive. You can easily make others look stupid by inserting stuff after the fact that you originally left out or changing your position entirely.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday March 31 2018, @11:31PM (1 child)
I'd suggest two minutes. Five would generally be acceptable. One is probably too short.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @01:32AM
I think five or if someone responds, whichever is first. However, my exact suggestion depends on what isolation level the DB uses.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday March 31 2018, @09:49PM
Sign up with a fake name for christ sake! Grow up and learn how to use the internet.
You can not have an actual conversation with a hundred voices shouting insults from a darkened theater. That's called heckling. It doesn't work.
Its disruptive to conversation. Its destructive to discussions,
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 01 2018, @02:28PM
Not interested over here. Aside from the problem that AC comments tend to be crap even by our low standards, no one can tell them apart. You can't have "dynamic conversation" when several ACs are involved and moving in and out of the conversation.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Whoever on Saturday March 31 2018, @06:26PM
Don't reply to the trolls, because their comments become visible even though they may be modded down to -1 because of your reply. The visibility may depend on your settings.