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by avocado4 7y ago
If 125% of Medicare is below cost of goods sold then costs need to come down. Medicare reimbursement rates are too high compared to the rest of the world. Nobody needs to be paid $300 for a 5 minute visit to get a prescription for routine i
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by avocado4 7y ago
Hospitals / insurance can do these things because of state legislature that's written or influences by doctors. Check who's sitting on your local Medical Board. Doctors "only" collect <20% of all medical expenses
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by avocado4 7y ago
Medical cartel (i.e. doctors) have successfully convinced the public to blame insurance, pharma, government, and whoever else for high prices of healthcare. The reality is that since the days of Flexner Report doctors are the supply side of
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California's ‘Surprise’ Billing Law Is Protecting Patients and Angering Doctors(nytimes.com)
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by avocado4 7y ago
Internet access should be a "dangerous" permission, i.e. user should have to grant access explicitly during runtime, similarly to location. I don't need a flashlight app uploading my data to their server.
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Buying birth control online is a peek into the future of medicine(technologyreview.com)
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by avocado4 7y ago
It's a bad practice according to Google, but not forbidden. https://developer.android.com/training/articles/user-data-id...
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by avocado4 7y ago
Also if you check the AndroidManifest.xml of TikTok app you'll see they are tracking persistent device identifiers coupled with phone #. Then if you uninstall TikTok you'll still have a bunch of their files in shared space that ot
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How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing(theguardian.com)
245 points by avocado4 7y ago|87 comments
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by avocado4 7y ago
In other news, Fremont police is driving Teslas.
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by avocado4 7y ago
It applies to everyone starting 2021, and to large volume shippers starting July 2020.
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by avocado4 7y ago
7 months is very short when it comes to international agreements. Also it applies to every country from 2021, i.e. Canada and EU will be able to set their own rates as well.
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Chinese app files on my Pixel phone?
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Why I changed my opinion on China [video](youtube.com)
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The Medical Cartel Is Keeping Health Care Costs High(fee.org)
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by avocado4 7y ago
That's just one study's result. Sample size 1500.
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LGBT Rights by Country(en.wikipedia.org)
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by avocado4 7y ago
Because China doesn't believe in individualism. You are defined by your party affiliation, friends, family, race (Han vs non-Han), and skin color (brown/"dirty"脏 Asian vs white Asian).
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by avocado4 7y ago
Yemen is a really poor country, they don't have this capability. This is a proxy war, we had a lot of them in the past 100 years.
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by avocado4 7y ago
(removed)
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by avocado4 7y ago
France/Germany is not Soviet Union. Defence industry is alive and well, and it's not a bad thing if regulated properly.
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by avocado4 7y ago
My guilty pleasure is to binge play a day-long game of Civ or Minecraft every 2 months or so. Really helps to switch gears in the brain away from business / social obligations / continuing education / exercise / outdoors
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by avocado4 7y ago
Medical cartel needs to be investigated by FTC. HHS and Medical Boards are infiltrated with physicians with conflict of interest, so their supervision is not enough.
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Tech giants Alibaba and Tencent present similar risks as Huawei(qz.com)
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by avocado4 7y ago
Real solution is universal healthcare.
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by avocado4 7y ago
You mean taxis?
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by avocado4 7y ago
China ruined their future for the next few decades through 1 child policy. It's a demographic time bomb.
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by avocado4 7y ago
It doesn't look like Brexit is going to happen as of now.
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by avocado4 7y ago
Yes, if you have enough points (young, educated, skilled, self-sufficient).
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by avocado4 7y ago
Sadly Canadian points-based system is a non starter with Democrats and some nativist Republicans in the US.

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