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Insurance companies have started requiring folks to remove them or pay extra for liability coverage from them. Someone told me the cost difference was worth swapping to electric fences and losing up to 6 cattle a year. I don't think they're accounting for who gets sued when their cows wander into the highway, tho.
Yes, the price before insurance is generally higher, but reguated by the public insurance. See one of the price catalogs here: https://www.g-drg.de/aG-DRG-System_2021/Fallpauschalen-Katal...

You do not need to pay extra for dental if you choose the most basic treatment. Most people like their dental work to look like their natural teeth which does not count as most basic. That is why you had to pay, but only the price difference to the basic treatment.

And, of course, the doc likes to sell you some extra treatment (say "professional tooth cleaning") which will make her/him some extra money.

Same for glasses. The most basic option is free. If you don't like the coke bottle bottoms then you will have to cover the difference yourself.
Our mostly private health care system is twice as expensive as the social systems in other developed countries because the government got involved?

By what fraction will the new set of tweaks have to shrink costs to pay for the last 30 years of the private health care market's failure to deliver on its "more efficient" promise? Remember, it has to cut them by 50% just to break even, and it'll have to go further to make this experiment worthwhile. A lot further.

Spoiler alert: it won't even get to 50%. It won't even get close to 50%.
> Art NFTs are a social signal.

Which is what makes art NFTs particularly mockworthy.
Is the poster you’re replying to saying anything about the ease of parsing their policy? He doesn’t seem to be calling it confusing. Rather, he seems to be attacking the supposed (il)logic of its contentions and the resulting consequences.

At the moment this back and forth feels like you’re talking past his actual point(s).
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> On average if I was charged 20$ a month for anonomised technical search services then I am fairly confident that they would be making more money than if I just ad-block everything like I currently do.

You should check out Gigablast (https://www.gigablast.com/). I came across their site yesterday, as one of a very few search engines who maintain their own index of the internet rather than relying on Google or Bing. It's delightfully antique, and surprisingly good for all but the most arcane searches.
> it took Apple many years to come out with a mini model

Apple has always had a mini model, they just haven't named them as such. For example, the iPhone 8 (2017) and the iPhone 13 Mini (2021) are almost the same size (incidentally about the same size as the S10e from 2019). Phones before the 8 were smaller, and there have been several models of equivalent size (SE 1, SE 2, 12 Mini) in the intervening years.
The doctors likely aren't the ones coding the visit. That is often done by separate back-office staff (especially in case like this, where the physician is working for a medical staffing company).

Most medical practices employee (or outsource) medical "coders" whose job it is to take the notes written by the doctor and determine which procedure codes should be applied (which then determine what gets billed for)
Unihertz have some interesting form factors. https://www.unihertz.com/
This reminds me of the ESS surgery I took last Sunday. The bill came at approximately $4,900, and approximately 60% goes to the physician. I didn't have insurance, so I have to pay them in full.

Although I enrolled in the universal healthcare scheme (which allowed me to pay up to $1 for treatment), my sinusitis is more serious such that I don't think UHS will properly cure me, causing me to pursue special clinic at public hospitals (where more experienced physicians are available).
You think that's all it costs? According to wikipedia, German health care is 77% government-funded.
Public money, that as you might know comes from a variety of sources, including taxes. But to say some taxpayer is paying your "free" treatments is a grotesque simplification.
Even with my $0 deductible insurance that I paid several hundred a month for, I just got through a months long battle with my insurance over a $10,000 ER bill and additional $2,000 bill they deemed ‘not medically necessary’ — my partner was bleeding from their mouth and unable to eat or drink for more than 2 days after a surgery. It took multiple calls to the doctor and insurance and haggling with the billing department to get the final charges reduced to $0 and $100 respectively.

Even as a well paid software engineer, I’m strongly eying other countries where your life and death isn’t seen as a massive profit center for investors.
That sounds scary. I'm vaccinated twice and I've decided that I won't mix vaccines for the booster. I'm staying with what I know isn't hurting me.

Yet I'm tracking a lot of my sporting data (I do at least 1h of bike riding a day) and noticed that I'm not as energetic as half a year ago. But this may also be because of an accident I had where I hurt my shoulder pretty bad and I'm also not eating as much in order to loose some weight. I've been thinking about analyzing all that data to find out when this "decay" started.
A German State Is Saying Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux
If Apple was going to nix the mini altogether, they wouldn't have just introduced the iPhone 13 mini.
> the victim has never even heard of Zelle, nor did they realize they could move money that way.

Financial institutions do not take security seriously, and they don’t take their customers time seriously.

The onus is always on the consumer to protect their accounts. When institutions decide to change their features the customer is not at the table, they’re on the menu.
> Someone is lying.

It’s you, to yourself. What we have is not by any stretch of the imagination a free market solution. It’s insane amounts of paper pushers created by the government. The whole insurance system we have is an impractical mess designed to fail. The free market would never have designed something so customer unfriendly, people would have gone elsewhere had competing solutions been allowed to exist. In a free market, you are free to go somewhere else.

Our health system is designed by the government, by way of outlawing everything else. If you want to talk free market, in the early 1900s it was common for large companies to keep a doctor on staff and offer their services to employees. That was essentially outlawed.

The rise of cash only flat rate doctors in current years is the closest thing we have to free market, and they’re great. Prices posted up front. No back and forth with insurance companies.
Interestingly Windows 8 and windows phones in general had the url bar at the bottom
They do that because of regulation, not because they want to.
Not so sure for the impact of regulatory. Tons of other countries/areas have equivalent regulatories req, if not more strict, yet does not yield to absolutely insane prices.

Regulatory is there to prevent e.g. killing patients in a Therac-25 like events. When you have a too weak reg, you end up with things like 737-max situations.

Now maybe regulatory can also go too far in some niches, but the correct solution is not to blindly go in the other direction.

And anyway, absurd prices in cases of e.g. ER are most of the time explained not by the cost of medical supplies but by random attempts to purely extorts the patients: 6 stiches and a shot do not imply thousands of dollar of BOM, nor are physicians paid hundreds per minute. Look at the cost of covid vaccines if you want to know more realistic costs.
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I had so many of the things just lying around for so long. I got rid of more of those keyboards than I ever used.

Today I bought a 30 year old model M for $150 :/

I guess it’s still a good deal, but I feel kind of stupid now.
Exactly the same situation is in rest of the world, no patient is shopping around. just goes usually to closest/biggest hospital. Yet we don't have this tragic mess US has. So its not about shopping around, rather some other reason like regulations, wrong dynamics between hospitals and insurances etc.

You don't have better equipment nor doctors in US compared to biggest hospitals in Switzerland for example. Yet we have fraction of the costs as patients, and its not due to low doctors/staff salaries. Equipment is also top notch everywhere, new machines in all departments.
We have more "regulatory factors" in Europe, and much cheaper treatment... Like 1/40 or so as much in this case...
From the maker of the best ( and expensive ) Japanese toaster, Balmuda. But it is $900 though. Even smaller than the original iPhone.

>shown by the iPhone mini.

If anything iPhone mini has shown the market for expensive, mini iPhone is rather small. iPhone SE are still selling well because it fits the market of both price and size conscious segment. Possibly Touch ID although we dont have any Data to back this.

Even in Japan, the market which typically prefer smaller size phones, iPhone Mini has not been making as much sales as many have hoped.

So the people who want smaller phone are also those generally dont care much about latest camera, screen, or tech. And these market also tends to be low margin. iPhone SE starting at $399 is already considered expensive for a small phone.

I guess that is part of the reason why supply chain sources are pointing to a iPhone 14 Max rather than iPhone 14 Mini. Personally I am waiting for the iPhone 13 Mini to drop in price. Or if possible updated iPhone SE with Touch ID on power button.

https://www.engadget.com/japanese-toaster-maker-balmuda-firs...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/meet-this-unique-com...
For comparison, I got my wisdom tooth extracted for INR 3500 (AUD 65) in India a few weeks ago.
Yeah that doesn’t preclude the farmer from having an opinion about the proposition.

Why do you think this discrepancy occurs?
Tim Berners-Lee will be so happy when he sees Microsoft has fully realized the potential of the web!
I'll be working on a personal project I have been working for a few years now called Exomind[1]. It's a personal knowledge management tool that takes the form of a unified inbox in which you can have your emails, tasks, notes and bookmarks organized into collections. I have iOS and web/electron clients at the moment and a simple browser extension for bookmarking.

Its backend (Exocore[2]) is built on top of a personal / private blockchain and is made from the ground up to be hosted in a semi-decentralized fashion on your own personal devices (your computer, raspberry pi, a cloud instance, etc.). It is written in Rust and has iOS, C and Web (WASM) clients. It's extensible via WebAssembly written applications.

It has very rough edges, but I'm using it daily to organize my life. It has also been my learning playground to improve my Rust, TypeScript and Swift skills over the last two years (it was on another tech stack before).

[1]: https://github.com/appaquet/exomind [2]: https://github.com/appaquet/exocore
Medical tourism is a good business in India to cater to exactly such cases. They also advertise these all inclusive prices.
Ask HN: Lives with Twists
I really enjoy reading biographies or articles about the interesting lives of more or less famous people (not just in the IT industry). Thanks a lot to anyone who will recommend books or articles on interesting lives especially those with amazing twists
Proof of steak: a scalable, efficient, protein-rich algorithm
In the case where an ER doctor isn’t employed by the hospital, they are likely employed by a physicians’s group. These used to be ran by physicians, but now many of them have been bought up and consolidated by private equity.

The doctors likely have very little say in the pricing.
Except the real value is in the painting. If it were destroyed, then the certificate would be worthless. If the certificate were destroyed, you could have experts inspect the painting to see how old it is and compare minor defects to those found in duplicates to show its authenticity. No one would want to buy the certificate from you but let you keep the painting in your vaults
> arbitrary religious dogma

"arbitrary political view"

there's a difference, it matters.
You’re missing two key element of the process - the willingness to exploit, and the lack of alternatives.
>Would you rather make 300k and pay 4k for the occasional ER visit or make 50k after tax and pay 100 for the occasional ER visit?

The trend you're describing is true, but this is an extremely unrealistic average comparison designed only to support a point of view.
Whoever categorized the subject’s stitches as a Level 4 trauma, for starters. That was damn near fraudulent.
I'm typing this comment on a Leopold Topre keyboard. It is far and away my favorite keyboard. I like it more than my Moonlander or any other mechanical keyboard I've ever owned.
Also why is there no ipod nano/shuffle alternative? I was hoping an apple watch would do the job but you can't download music onto it.
battery is one.. Android phones in general, even the Pixels, are already less energy efficient compared to the iPhones.. it will be much harder to work around that restriction with a smaller phone...

I use a Galaxy S10e, which is a "flagship" compact phone from few years back, and it has been a great phone that I still use today, but even on the day I bought it, battery life has been much shorter than what I was used (an IP8) to I suspected I got a lemon...
Very nice. They even have phones with a keyboard.
I assumed only BlackBerry had this.
no. he is calling it deceptive, which is even stronger than confusing. his statement was:

> They are deceiving people into believing they are not running proprietary software

edit:
as regards FSF's logic i am not informed enough to comment so i didnt. but the conversation (this thread) was definitely about deceptiveness
Eliminate all political donations from non-humans.

That is the biggest issue, thanks to Citizens United Ruling by Republican Supreme Court Appointees, people in the US votes have no power any more. As soon as someone gets elected the do not give a crap about the public. That is when money starts flowing to them in large amounts to push corporate agendas.

Republicans are very good at this game, notice how they are able to block even tiniest efforts are political reform.
Ok, I'll take all of that at face value and as given. It just sounds completely broken over there and I'm not sure I will manage to wrap my head around it.

All I know is simpler systems around the world exist and work such that those 10 middle class families would never get stiffed like that, whilst also looking after the needy.

I can't fathom it.
It seems like you've done the research here: how do you know how you are supposed(?) to do the test in the US?

Here in my municipality in Norway the media keeps repeating how/where/when to get tested, and if anything important changes the municipality will literally send a SMS to all its citizens to ensure as many as possible are up to date.

From my admittedly limited experience with the US (NYC/tri-state area) I get the impression that information is often hard to find and hard to understand. This could of course be caused by cultural or lingual differences since I'm neither American nor a native English speaker.
Isn't that pretty much how we actually manage huge organizations ?

A top general in ww2 (modern armies are much smaller despite the world having tripled in population) could manage literally millions of people in a direct chain of command for a single purpose, mostly through the use of hierarchically nested units which each had similar substructures.
For values of "Western" equal to "the USA"?
You’d think someone would make exact duplicates, but I haven’t found any of those.
Care the share the story behind that trail name?

(I have a pretty good bear story myself, and that's just from a week-long hike on the AT.)
the big companies need to go away don't they?
> And if you were to suggest a standard leetcode test for software engineering job candidates? Man, this place would go up in flames.

I'd love to have a standard test for software engineering jobs that was accepted in the place of building yet another 8-hour sample React app.
Part of the reason for restrictions is because the popularity of the area overwhelms the natural area and causes too much human impact, thus restrictions get put in place so the area can be protected.

I for one would love to see more permitting used in the white mountains.
How much did you pay in the end?
If true, I don't understand how this is surprising. Google has been using all possible tactics to convince users to give them ("sync") all their data, including bookmarks and passwords. So from the point of view of Nadella, why should MS be any different?
I don't see how it's fee for service if nobody can tell you what it's going to cost upfront.
> My experience with qemu's usermode emulation is it only wraps syscalls and some ioctls. So you need a complete userland in the target arch.

Yes, but that's required because the native userland would have a totally different ABI, so it's just not going to work with the target code even in emulated form. The best you can do is have the "target" userland marshal calls to the native userland, translating across native and target ABI. But even that is likely unfeasible in the general case.
One more reason not to log in using your Microsoft account at all.
BetterC is a subset of D aimed at producing libraries that can be used from C.

https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
Distinctive thing I found in the US is that hospitals are always big and do everything under one roof. There are some smaller clinics run by chains in some states but they operate primarily only for insurance money and are not common. At the bottom of the chain, some doctors run their own operations from a strip mall like place but they again provide very minimal service.

Meanwhile, in developing countries, it's not that hard to find a decently qualified doctor running his own small clinic with couple of nurses in a busy street. And to the next level, there is always a small 20-bed hospital around with 3-4 doctors and a bunch of nurses. And options keeps increasing in size and cost from small to the big hospitals like you typically see in the US. Almost 95% of primary healthcare are met by these small-mid level operations and people go to the big hospitals only for complicated surgeries and intensive care.

In this example of just 6 stitches, it probably would have been administered by a nurse in a 20-bed hospital for fraction of the cost of a big hospital.
I can't speak for pip, but cargo, rust's package manager, packages disappear on reboot. Doesn't matter for development since libraries are stored with your project, but any tools you install via cargo are gone
WHen I stopped living in the USA, I realized that there is only one reason the USA is behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to healthcare, a social safety net and education. The USA likes it that way.

The American culture is one of rugged individualist pioneering cowboys who won't be told what to do, even if you're warning them that if they take another step they'll fall off a cliff.
What's the Breeches and Leather Uniform Fanclub got to do with it? :-)

Five seconds is rather impatient, and this notion that everything has to be a "product" which we immediately must know everything about makes me distinctly uncomfortable. Like, we're absolutely rushing through life. The video itself is maybe a couple of minutes long at most and does explain how it works, who it's for, and some of the backstory behind it.
There can never be a free market solution as long as there is a need allocate resources between those who have and those who do not have, without letting the latter not die on the street.

I'd be interested in how the free market develops that solution. At the very least, regulation would be involved. And we all know how adept the free market is at getting around regulation.

Anyway. I'm off to go lie to myself some more. Cheers.
Shopify is not a unicorn...sorry for nitpicking. Its a publicly traded company worth 210 billion dollars. It used to be a unicorn a long time ago.
The wrong call, because you can only reasonably develop drivers for uncrippled GPUs. The FSF was so caught up in maintaining a freedom from being _tempted_ to use proprietary software, that their solution would've taken away the freedom to develop your own free software.
There are no DMs on HN, and you don't have any contact info in your profile.
>Due to RSI I tried dozens of keyboards over the years. When I see these new keyboards being sold at these prices, especially the mechanical ones marketed with "improved layouts" and ergonomics, I have to laugh.

If you haven't got to the opensource crowd of the mechanical keyboard world yet, you should. Ergonomic is one of the problems that people are trying to solve, and their solutions are opensource.
SS7 was not really designed with any security. It assumed only telcos would be using it and that stopped being true in the 1980's/90's as the bar to entry for getting your own SS7 link was lowered. Even if SS7 were retrofitted to support this type of validation it would be negated by the fact that numbers are portable. A number can legally originate from anywhere. Validation will have to occur out of band by some other means or by replacing or deprecating the telco network entirely.
Most tech companies offer great insurance on top of higher salaries, so this doesn't really effect highly paid employees. For example, my insurance premium is around $200/month for my family and I have a maximum out of pocket cost of $3k a year.

So the system works well for me at least, but I know it is much much worse for others
I also should add that dental treatment is only covered when you get the most basic things. When you have bad teeth, you are f"""ed as you will have to pay the lion-share for your dentures.

But dont worry, there are insurances for that, too. The good ones cost you another 300-400 Euro per year. This makes another 30.000-50.000 Euro on top of what I already pay.
My wife and I never pay a fee to see our doctors. I pay $30 for sick visits for my kids. $100 seems really high. I’ve only had something like that for a test.
> Yes, you did. You said "the average human". All of those folks are average humans.

In that case, so are all other humans too. The GP did not mention any specific occupational or educational categories; that was all your own invention.
It looks like the mass market prefers huge 6in screen and big battery. I have difficulty to find new Android phone that does not make my not-so-big palm tired. I do not need big screen and battery, I will use my laptop or tv to watch videos. The closest decent model in this region is Xiaomi 11 Lite,150g, not too thick nor too wide, snapdragon 732 cpu, etc. It is around usd 250. I did a bit of g search, most of mini phones from other brands are either not produced anymore, low spec, too niche, etc.

I wish others would make something decent, similar to iphone se.
"Now [beep] your pants and [beep] over before
I call all the customer up here on Skype for a group show of you enjoying my [beep] service."

What exactly is the threat here? Lmaoo
Never fails:

> Every time someone talks about free this or that in the Nordic countries an American will pop his head up and yell "It's paid for with your taxes" without fail.

* https://satwcomic.com/every-time
I had to go to the ER in Hong Kong and I got better service uninsured for $35 US than I've ever gotten in the United States fully insured. And no surprise bills afterwards whatsoever.