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by disabled 5y ago
I would give Europe a C- for scaling on R&D funding. The government that probably does the best is the US, and I would give them a B+, because R&D funding is always not enough for public and societal need. This is especially the cas
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by disabled 5y ago
Thank you! :-) True, but the issue is that medical underwriting is allowed on Medigap (Part B supplemental plans). So, once you are on a Medicare Advantage Plan, you basically cannot effectively go back, due to being unable to obtain a Medi
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by disabled 5y ago
That sounds exactly like dysautonomia (autonomic nervous system dysfunction/disorder), and specifically POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome). I have a rare form of dysautonomia. It is a very rare immune-mediated neurologica
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by disabled 5y ago
The Financial Times just put out an article on the front page on FT.com stating that the USA is going to investigate the leak of the records. Michael Bloomberg is angry, and he says that he is going to use "every resource possible&quot
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by disabled 5y ago
Thank you. Like another poster suggested, I will try to be more considerate next time. I am off disability, but I can theoretically keep Medicare for life. I was always on traditional Medicare, and my orphan drug (a blood product) was cover
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by disabled 5y ago
This is fine. I will try being more thoughtful next time.
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by disabled 5y ago
> I've read more than enough plan documents, and work with health actuaries every day. So, part of your job is to analyze health benefits plans (health insurance plans) that Americans get. You also work daily with actuaries in the l
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by disabled 5y ago
> The fact of the matter is that the majority of Americans have excellent, world class health coverage. The problem is that there exists a small percentage of Americans that are totally screwed, and this is a higher percentage than most
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by disabled 5y ago
The issue here is that Apple is facilitating wire fraud, which is extremely illegal in the United States. The bad actors who created that app are committing wire fraud on an Apple platform, which is of course colloquially known as the App S
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by disabled 5y ago
It's called government regulation, with true actionable penalties for not enforcing legal mandates. The laws should be enforceable even for open-source type App Stores, and operations that cannot follow the laws should not be available
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by disabled 5y ago
You're very welcome! :-) I also hope this helps. If you are looking in terms of software-based solutions for an issue like this, the best resource is likely via Stanford University's SNAP group, which publishes BioSNAP datasets [1
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by disabled 5y ago
Honestly, it is a lot of work. I searched for years, whenever I had "free time" in engineering school, because my problems never completely added up and I could never put my finger on it. I very well felt like I was on borrowed ti
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by disabled 5y ago
I have a very rare immune-mediated neurological disease affecting my peripheral nervous system, that started at age 5, in 1994. The disease was discovered on NIH research grant funds in the 2000s. But, the grant funding is never remotely en
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by disabled 5y ago
The best place to get started on that is with Corbett Lunsford's books/videos/podcasts. His book, "Home Performance Diagnostics", is the ultimate resource [1]. He also has a YouTube channel [2] that has a ton of use
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How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim(castel.dev)
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by disabled 5y ago
This is the most credible source for guidelines on image descriptions: http://diagramcenter.org/making-images-accessible.html I have a perceptual visual disability (severe convergence insufficiency) that does not affect act
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by disabled 5y ago
It’s extremely easy to learn, and takes a day of practice, at most. This is the place to learn how to do this as a sighted individual (type literary UEB [Unified English Braille] here): https://uebonline.org/ To start out,
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by disabled 5y ago
> You could try to find out by opening an account or alternatively with a GDPR request. Klarna AB (a Swedish company) is obliged to follow GDPR worldwide. So, this does warrant a GDPR inquiry.
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by disabled 5y ago
LOL do you think they actually carry badges? That would be quite incriminating. Instead, it’s more like they are carrying fake passports issued by the Russian Federation. But, one likely would not get caught traveling on a fake passport iss
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by disabled 5y ago
> Russia would assassinate people and the assassins would have safe travel home. They already largely do. Also, in many countries that have experienced illiberal trends recently, they can still get you emigrated abroad and they still hav
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by disabled 5y ago
Yeah, I agree with you on this. But, thank you for understanding. I really appreciate it. :-)
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by disabled 5y ago
Agreed. I am sorry that you are getting downvoted.
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by disabled 5y ago
> Social security is effectively a boomer ponzi scheme relying on infinite population growth to sustain itself. It falls apart the first time a generation realizes they can reap more than they sow by having/investing in fewer childr
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by disabled 5y ago
> London based corporate shill to take the heat off the City of London being a tax haven. Nice catch. It could be a Russian bot or just Russian activity. Will ‘Global Britain’ clamp down on money laundering?: Regulatory easing after Brex
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by disabled 5y ago
> benefits to people who pay very little tax This is extremely misinformed. Social Security Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance are entitlement programs, and by far account for the vast majority of this budget (along with the
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by disabled 5y ago
That is correct, and many of my family members are American accountants and/or CPAs. I suspect that this individual is mixing "fraud and abuse" for "things I don't like and/or agree with paying Uncle Sam [the U
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by disabled 5y ago
If passport control were to come into existence (whether by Congress or presidential executive order), and you can only leave on an American passport as an American citizen in America, then you can very easily be barred from leaving with a
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by disabled 5y ago
A few days before this hijacking occurred, I was wishing that I knew Russian better, because I knew that I was going to be missing out on the guaranteed show that was going to occur this summer. Yeah, nobody is going to do an invasion over
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by disabled 5y ago
> If you try to leave the US, no US official will stop you. That is not actually true, and I am saying this as a dual citizen who is culturally American. Under 8 USC section 1185(b) it is unlawful for any Untied States Citizen to depart
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by disabled 5y ago
Nobody likes paying taxes. I see it as my civic duty and absolutely worth it for a stable society. Of course Croatia is no role model society. Corruption is always widespread. However, we still do have it very good. That is a point that is

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