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by Blammar 4y ago
Look up Barrett's Esophagus and the recommended treatment for it.
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by Blammar 4y ago
I'm fully aware that both plans are private.
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by Blammar 4y ago
Want to see my bills? I don't shred paperwork until 3 years go by, so they're around somewhere. We were able to afford it, though it did take a good chunk of our retirement income away. And it was less in previous years. The goal
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by Blammar 4y ago
Hmm. It wasn't that we didn't have coverage -- that's a separate penalty instilled by the ACA. It was that, after 65, you're supposed to be on Medicare. Period. And they way they enforce it is they charge you extra when
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by Blammar 4y ago
As I mentioned elsewhere, the MA covers the same health center we've used for 40+ years as a HMO. I've had no issues with getting stuff approved. Her surgery was approved in less than a month and it's scheduled in a month. Sh
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by Blammar 4y ago
Indeed. Got to play the hand dealt.
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by Blammar 4y ago
See above.
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by Blammar 4y ago
Sorry for the lack of an immediate response. Yes, both of us are over 65. The insurance was a high end PPO with no lifetime max and $20 copay. My wife is a cancer survivor, and I take drugs to minimize my cancer risk. Additionally, the prem
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by Blammar 4y ago
I can speak about an apparently non-scam Medicare Advantage plan that my wife and I are on. It is effectively a PPO (similar to the Kaiser plan someone else mentioned), so we have access to exactly the same physicians that we had already wh
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by Blammar 4y ago
Perhaps because rich people would pay more, so they tell their pet legislators that bill better not pass? It's always about the money. I'm not saying this is actually true -- it's just my hypothesis.
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by Blammar 4y ago
You'll have your frozen balls in Chicago, too. I remember a Sun-Times cover when I was in grad school saying: WIND CHILL TODAY -89F!!
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by Blammar 4y ago
Am I missing something? I completed a picture with two rotations left, and nothing happened. I was optimal in the number of rotations (always 1 or 2 rotations.) I checked I was right by clicking the eye. The cute cat just sits there...
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by Blammar 4y ago
Can you explain why one ICU room costs millions, and why they cost 10k a day even if no one is in them? Neither makes sense to me. I can imagine say 100k in monitoring equipment in a room. Maybe it's the hospital inflation applied to e
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by Blammar 4y ago
My First Computer Was A LGP-30 at age 14. 5 bit Friden Flexowriter punching paper tape for coding in machine language. Coding sheets. Weird hexadecimal digits 0-9fgjkqw (it took me a while to adapt to 0-9a-f when I first saw them!) Ordering
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by Blammar 4y ago
You mean, you'd kill yourself 30,000x faster 8-). If it matters to communicate outside, sure. But if you're inside a synthworld with everyone at the same timebase, it's not a problem. Essentially, you're evolving 30,000x
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by Blammar 4y ago
"very hard" -> formidable ? I don't agree because there are multiple interpretations. I would have liked multiple results, e.g., formidable, diamond-like, arduous, etc. In other words, don't use this site blindly.
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by Blammar 4y ago
Exactly. And now it's time for Godwin, more or less: would you have followed the laws in Nazi Germany that made Jews less than human?
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by Blammar 4y ago
(For those that don't get the reference: https://www.kleinbottle.com/ )
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by Blammar 4y ago
I want to see a braided rope made with this stuff...
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by Blammar 4y ago
Guess we'll figure out how to make mice immortal sometime soon, and sadly realize that the drug cocktail doesn't work on humans. Then the meek mice take over the earth as humanity dies off...
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by Blammar 4y ago
Oh, I can upscale with no issues using other networks. What I lose doing that is any extra information that stable diffusion includes.
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by Blammar 4y ago
RAM size is the issue. I can't run stable diffusion at 1k x 1k on my 2080ti because I run out of vram.
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by Blammar 4y ago
Hey, I can make random accurate guesses too! I just don't tell you about my failures...
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by Blammar 4y ago
Don't take this the wrong way, but in my opinion, the story would get a form rejection letter from a SF magazine, but with a handwritten note saying, interesting pictures!
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by Blammar 4y ago
Thanks for the links!
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by Blammar 4y ago
Got a citation for your claim about the U supply? And there are reactor designs that burn much more of the U in the fuel...
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by Blammar 4y ago
Except for an occasional mild snowstorm, Antarctica looks pretty safe (as long as you're upwind from Mt. Erebus.) 8-)
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by Blammar 4y ago
This is one book on infinitesimal calculus: https://www.amazon.com/Infinitesimal-Calculus-Dover-Books-Ma... . However, and this is very amusing to me, it turns out that the process of automatic differentiation (see https:&
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by Blammar 4y ago
If I can access the fuel remaining in the rods, sure! I always wanted a 15kw thermal reactor in my back yard... just need a few cubic meters of Peltier pods...
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by Blammar 4y ago
? That was Edsger Dijkstra's article, if I recall correctly. The standard joke is "Europeans refer to him by reference, as Nicklaus Wirth, and Americans - by value, as Nickel's Worth."

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