chimeracoder

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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> They supplement it, I don't believe they are leaving it, unless they are wealthy and can afford to pay out of pocket because they want to use a doctor that is not participating in the medicare program. Do you have a cite? No, thi
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Its quality has been found to generally exceed the quality of private hospitals. The media and conservatives paint this idea that the VA is "atrocious" but it has no basis in reality. That's certainly one way to summari
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Medicare is the universal insurer of last resort for elderly. Their lives would be much worse without this last resort insurer That's a far cry from "people don't seek to leave Medicare", which is literally the ori
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> We are in agreement that the American government can and does provide a health insurance program that covers lots of people and has the property that people don’t seek to leave it. People literally are leaving it, to the fullest extent
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> The VA is far from perfect and is really noticeably worse than many other country's nationalized health systems. But it's not obviously worse than private health insurance in the US and generally veterans are as happy with th
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> No, because it's free, but 1/3 of Medicare recipients opt to receive their coverage through private insurers that typically add on additional coverage They don't simply add on coverage; they replace it. Most people on Me
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Do Medicare recipients seek to leave it? That’s a government run healthcare system. Since you asked - yes, yes they do. Medicare patients can opt to receive their inpatient/outpatient benefits from a private insurer in lieu of tra
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> The VA was a good system not too long ago, but the past couple decades decades has seen it get extremely underfunded in a starve the beast strategy. It used to be a black eye in the Republican's view of healthcare, but they sure f
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Edit: I hate Amp but don't know, at a glance, how to get the full URL. What is the difference between the two for you? I'm on a desktop, and both the AMP and the non-AMP version look literally identical - somewhat mobile-opti
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Given that this was posted back in January and nobody else has chimed in with a "my computer too" or "oh my goodness that's how my peripherals all died" post, I'm guessing it's an isolated failure. P
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
This happened to me too, back in January. It managed to fry two different U2F devices as well as a cable, which were plugged into different ports. One of the devices got so hot before I noticed it that it actually melted the plastic on the
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> I am talking about their FREE streaming API that let's you stream millions of tweets per day. I am just trying to raise awareness about how easily people can pull user data en masse from Twitter, which is very relevant to the arti
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Maybe you are referring to their paid service, Gnip? Yes, you need to pay for that one, but they have a free version that you can indeed access within minutes. The streaming API is heavily rate-limited, so you can't realistically
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Twitter also gives away their data to anyone that wants it for free. You can be streaming millions of tweets per day within minutes of creating an account. That's news to me. I maintain the Twitter client library for Go[0], and I
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> We may argue that domain names are different from phone numbers because they are recognisable. They carry trademarks, and unlike phone numbers, are often the way we remember of an internet facing person or company. This isn't unli
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> That's the worst possible typo for this conversation. Damn autocorrect! And it's too late to edit it, too. Yes, that should say "provably irrational".
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> An infinitely long random sequence will probably hold every pattern possible (I'm not a mathematician so correct me if I'm wrong) but any structured or repeating sequence doesn't. This is not true. Pi is probably irratio
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Furthermore, sustainable implies that there would be no providers at medicares rates but that is not true: there would be less because they pay less, but you would still have providers. In most regions, Medicare reimburses rates that a
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> I don't believe this is accurate. The causality runs the other way. Medicare takes the oldest sickest patients away from private enterprise. Private insurance gets to cherry pick healthy people and aggressively denies coverage whe
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> 3. Totalitarian maintainer. Pwnies award for lamest vendor response 2017 covers my complaints there. It really doesn't. One of the pull requests they link to as the "lamest vendor response" literally has only three comme
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> I bet with systemd it is even higher, 100:1 or 1000:1, but the few haters are extremely noisy. People who have positive things to say about systemd have learned long ago to stay away from most discussions about it on places like Hac
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> I don't follow your reasoning. Private insurance pays physicians more than medicare, producing the implied subsidy you mention (as they pay less). But once patients get onto medicare, they dont go to private insurance anymore so
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> That effect goes both ways: medicare gets patients that are old and have more expensive and chronic diseases, thus their spending per service might be very efficient. It doesn't really matter, if they're reimbursing below COG
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> How this isn't already mandated by law is baffling. It's not baffling if you look at the way the medical billing system actually works. In short, Medicare is able to use existing laws (the requirement that Medicare receive th
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Multiple the medicare spending for the amount of population it serves and rejoice in a 40% GDP spending on healthcare. Don't forget to account for the fact that Medicare's reimbursement rates are not self-sufficient - they&#
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> The insurer doesn't know what each hospital charges. Posting costs online is just to make it more convenient to find the information. Every hospital charges more than the maximum reimbursable amount for the insurer. If they don&#
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> I'd imagine hospitals hate this. Not as much as you might think. The biggest beneficiary of price opacity is, actually Medicare itself. Because prices are opaque, and because it's illegal to charge private insurers less than
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> The North is dominated by a centre-right democratic party and a far-right nationalist party, whereas the South is a cacophony of center-right to far-left parties Literally the two most left-eing democratic governments in the history of
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
Can we please keep rape jokes off of HN? Thanks.
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Not sure if I'm 100% right here, but knowing all my contacts and when I communicate with whom is an awful much. Signal actually doesn't know all your contacts - you can check the source code to confirm that it doesn't kn

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