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by bawana 9y ago
I didnt say it wasnt worth it. I just said that the value of a relationship requires a certain amount of time. As you approach the end of your life, the equilibrium of a friendship will not be attained and interpersonal relationships may be
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by bawana 9y ago
no it doesnt work. the insurance companies restrict reimbursement even for those people who pay premiums. I have seen deductibles now in the $5000 to $10000 range. The costs and fees have been inflated beyond reality to facilitate their pro
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by bawana 9y ago
thank you all for your input. The hospital you linked in Asia. It seems that SE Asia has leapfrogged us in the concept of capitalism and the free market. Indeed, it is a 'free-for-all' in terms of lack of regulation, but certainly
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by bawana 9y ago
Hospitals should post prices of their procedures in the lobby. A surgeon gets $500 to repair a hernia and the hospital pulls in $5k for the ancillary services. The surgeon has to see the patient,make the diagnosis, provide the treatment, pr
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by bawana 9y ago
The older you get, the clearer you see the end of the tunnel. You've heard the quip 'Life is too short'. Well, the work of making friends , of defining how much committment there is to a relationship, etc...is not worth it. H
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by bawana 9y ago
Since sandy bridge, I thought all CPUs had AES-NI baked into the silicon. Hardware based crypto is much faster than software based so why is core count a concern?
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by bawana 9y ago
Brave new world. The new model to enforce compliance - steal valuable customer info which will be used to make the customer's life hell if he/she does not comply. Pre-emptive hostage taking as a security model?
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by bawana 9y ago
Please clarify the model that describe the mechanism of the observations. Is it A) a photon travels through a medium and changes the state of an atom in some way. Another photon travels through the medium and interacts with the same ‘excite
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by bawana 9y ago
I went to the Apple Store in Burlington, MA yesterday (2/16/2018) None of the 'geniuses' there knew about this bug or how to fix it. They reminded me of microsoft drones following a troubleshooting script. 1) Reboot the
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by bawana 9y ago
Did retail ever deserve to live anyway? What kind of life and satisfaction does one get by selling someone else's work? It's easy, low skill and is just plain 'busy work'. Perhaps we are entering the golden age where one
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by bawana 9y ago
The article would have been more interesting if they addressed the peculiar fact that half of all women and all of spiders are tetrachromats. It would be interesting to add the cones for additional frequencies into a genetically engineered
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by bawana 9y ago
doesn't apple still make a macbook pro without the touchbar?
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by bawana 9y ago
there is no 'reason' as to why physicians are paid what they are paid. It's simply supply and demand. A typical physician has to care for 5000 patients a year (that is the size of a full panel, btw) and gets 150k a year. Do t
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by bawana 9y ago
Insurance companies give me 90 days to submit a claim, then they do not have to pay it. I guess their rationale is that if I did not bother to submit an invoice, then why should they pay? And by the way, a lot of them will not accept paper
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by bawana 9y ago
going through the earth is a shorter distance but unfortunately light speed is slower that way
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by bawana 9y ago
We could adopt two simple precepts from this example of private enterprise. transparency and consistency. If this were applied to our healthcare system pricing would fix a lot.
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by bawana 9y ago
bertolini walked away with 500 million when cvs bought aetna. those were health care dollars paid by working people as premiums
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by bawana 9y ago
sorry. i failed in a moment of weakness.
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by bawana 9y ago
sounds just like a New Yorker
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by bawana 9y ago
HMOs were a minor player 50 years ago. They are a euphemism for the corporate cancer that maximizes profits at the expense of the sick. Even when I started working in Mass 25 years ago, it was one of the few states with HMOs. They have cont
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by bawana 9y ago
Bertolini the CEO of Aetna walked away with a $500 million parting gift. Courtesy of your healthcare premiums. There's the fox guarding the henhouse off to a new henhouse. STOP THIS OBSCENITY of administrators paying themselves so much
532.
by bawana 9y ago
Finally. Time for the sword of Damocles to fall on those overpaid administrators.
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by bawana 9y ago
Corporations increase complexity as they grow - each department needs to maximize its revenue - thus complexification is justification for increased budgetary needs. Healthcare is becoming increasingly corporatized. All the talk about outc
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by bawana 9y ago
so does the concept of the 'browser is the OS' , improve security? Is it analogous to a hypervisor running on a server somewhere, then when you log into the server, it spins up a vm os just for you . Now any hacking done on that
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by bawana 9y ago
and this is whats happening in medicine. it's going from an activity where the doctor and patient are trying to 'learn' about an illness to a business where the 'client' must be pleased by the 'provider'.
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by bawana 9y ago
actually, most of my patients were not interested in reimbursing me for the cost of the usb stick, although they would gladly accept it for free. I was willing to provide their ENTIRE medical record, but they were not interested. I think pe
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by bawana 9y ago
Physician here. SV Tech will win because it is customer centric. Traditional Healthcare tech is enterprise centric - the precept on which they base their strategies is 'economies of scale'. People are not widgets. Economies of sca
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by bawana 9y ago
if google wants data, why don't they just ask the public for it? You know the old fashioned way. Open a store, staff it with real humans who can talk to real humans. My guess is that they are trying a 'heuristic' solution- tr
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by bawana 9y ago
so who was the DNS hosting provider? one of these? https://www.keycdn.com/blog/best-free-dns-hosting-providers/ DNS is REALLY a weak link. Another one is the border gateway protocol. I recently read about all GOOG
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by bawana 9y ago
basically, a more specific routing address is used to direct packets through a specific route. In the earlier instance( the second example) Japan was the target. It is easy to see how the routing system in japan could have been crashed thro

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