Taikonerd

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by Taikonerd 11mo ago
> for all of that, you earn a 2% to 3% profit margin. Yeah -- it seems like a paradox that the insurance companies charge so many people so much money, yet struggle to make a profit. I've heard that they spend a lot of money handl
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by Taikonerd 11mo ago
Executive order 14221 (passed in 2021, [0]) was supposed to provide transparency about what the actual negotiated rates were. The idea was that it would be a lot harder for hospitals to engage in price discrimination when they had to publi
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by Taikonerd 11mo ago
My big question about DPC is: what about people who just don't think about primary care until they have something wrong? How long is the wait list at that point? Or can they go see a doctor for $X as a one-off, without a subscription
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
Frankly, I'm a fan of anything that isn't the traditional fee-for-service model.
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Direct primary care gains traction in the US(cbsnews.com)
4 points by Taikonerd 1y ago|2 comments
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
Oh, this was the plot of the Mexican sci-fi movie The Sleep Dealer: [0] From Wikipedia: " A fortified wall has ended unauthorized Mexico-US immigration, but migrant workers are replaced by robots, remotely controlled by the same class
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
Well, in any case, I would make it a contrasting color.
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
Hi Alixander! I started using D2 just a couple months ago -- the first time I had to design a system at work. I'm really happy with it -- I was amazed how easy it was to pick up. TBH, I don't think these fancy animations are nec
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
I'm not the OP, but the reason I started using D2 as opposed to Mermaid is that D2 supports animations: https://d2lang.com/tour/composition/ In other words, you can have one D2 file that generates `step1.png,
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
Depends how bored I was at work ;-)
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
I think it's also important that HN doesn't have infinite scrolling. It's old-school: 30 items per page, click at the bottom to go to the next page. I made a rule for myself that I would never go past page 2 of HN. So, each
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
Yes! I was a CS major. But when I got my first job out of school in 2005, I had never encountered version control before. It was very hard learning that from zero, on top of everything else that everyone learns in their first job. All of
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
Interestingly, it's not a totally new drug. It's an extended-release version of the existing hair-loss drug minoxidil.
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
What I wonder is: how is Paraguay perceived by other South Americans? If you're (for example) Argentinian, but someone pitches you on moving to Paraguay for work... does that sound reasonable, or crazy?
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Paraguay – The Silicon Valley of South America?(bbc.com)
5 points by Taikonerd 1y ago|2 comments
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
> In germany, there is a price catalog for any service, with only few exceptions, and doctors/hospitals cannot legally charge anything else for these covered services. Now guess what the US does not have Well, we sort of do: we ha
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
The real problem is the billing model we have, where every individual act a clinician performs is separately billable... and separately haggle-able. One model that has shown promise is "bundled payments." For example, imagine tha
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
> some standard that the hyperscalers implement themselves I'm kind of amazed that they haven't already. It would be such a good selling point for Azure, or GCP, etc. "We have a UI like Heroku or Vercel. Compare that
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
Hi Tomas! I wanted to ask: is the name "Arden Vox" significant? Aarden in Dutch means "earth" or "earthly", and Vox in Latin means "voice." So his name kinda means "voice of Earth" --
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
Oh, that's a great connection to make! It was very George Saunders-y.
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
I had thought: what's the business model for Arbitrus? Is it going to be a sort of "suggested finding" tool for judges? Or are law firms going to use it to screen cases, so they can pick winners? It seems like the answer is
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
I was worried about explainability, too. If the classifier just spat out "INNOCENT" or "GUILTY," it would be useless -- the legal reasoning has to be part of the output. Looking at the paper, the classifier definitely d
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
Thank you, I thought this was interesting!
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
For anyone who's wondering who the author is: Chris Arnade got a Ph.D. in particle physics at Johns Hopkins University, and then worked for 20 years as a bond trader on Wall Street. In 2011, he became interested in social class in the
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
That's the idea of the Orca app/standard: https://orca-app.dev/ "What if we made a new WASM-based platform for apps, separate from the browser?"
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
They've done a series of these NES-themed demos of their fuzzer. What's neat is that they're not just mechanically applying the same techniques to new games! Each game has been harder to fuzz (larger state space, implicit co
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
I would say ReasonML also needed more follow-through. It seems like the OCaml community hasn't really rallied behind it.
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
> Compared with other countries, the inefficiency of for-profit healthcare is a far worse problem than the amount of profit they make. Yes! That's a really pithy way of saying it. The big insurers spent a lot of money internally
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
There's actually been significant progress towards interop in the last 10 years. HIEs (Health Information Exchanges) such as CommonWell are steadily improving and covering more patients. Recently there's been a big push for TEFCA
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by Taikonerd 1y ago
I had this thought recently: "different hospitals have different workflows, and they want to see different stuff in the UI. But obviously they all want domain objects like "a patient," "an appointment," etc. Some

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