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by ejb999 3y ago
paying what someone 'originally paid' for it? That won't fly - someone may have bought a valuable asset 50 years ago that is now worth 100X what they paid for it - only giving them what they paid for it can hardly be called &
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by ejb999 3y ago
Yep - I have several family members that work in primary care - many patients have filed formal complaints with the practice if the provider calls attention to the fact that someone is obese or is making unhealthy lifestyle choices and shou
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by ejb999 3y ago
unfortunately, many (most?) doctors have simply become prescription writing machines - "got a problem? there is a pill for that", and if that pill doesn't work, we will try something else. Good luck finding a MD that actually
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by ejb999 3y ago
had this debate with a family member, when I was pointing out the 'bias' in a particular newspaper - his contention that if the story was true, it couldn't be considered biased - he couldn't quite grasp that choosing (or
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by ejb999 3y ago
Probably for the best - been a VS developer for many, many years, since the first version - but the Mac version was never even close to as good as the Windows version - as much as I wished it was, as my Mac is my primary machine. They eithe
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by ejb999 3y ago
Is the 'system' failing, or did an individual fail to understand the system and then learn to adapt and overcome against the odds? I would prefer to vote for the person who grew up in poor/difficult circumstances and managed
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by ejb999 3y ago
Well I for one would much prefer people get rich in the private sector, and then go into politics, instead of going into politics and then getting rich, which seems to be standard-operating-procedure these days.
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by ejb999 3y ago
buying a house, I would want an attorney - selling the house, I agree, no need for a realtor or attorney if you are willing to do a bit of work yourself.
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by ejb999 3y ago
I agree - especially for the last few years, when in order to sell a house all you had to do was put in on the market - and then get 10-15-20 offers at or above listing price - no agent deserves a 6% commission for simply getting something
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by ejb999 3y ago
because public school kids never kill people?
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by ejb999 3y ago
there are plenty of public schools, despite spending 10-15-$20K per student are also not teaching those things. THAT ought to be stopped.
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by ejb999 3y ago
so kind of like public school then?
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by ejb999 3y ago
how is this worse than some schools not even requiring students to be able to read, write and do some mathematics in order to graduate with a HS diploma? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oregon-suspends-gradu
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by ejb999 3y ago
I don't disagree, but I don't see any solution that can fairly define what is harassment and what isn't - it is clearly in the eye of the beholder - and without a doubt, if a govt official can simply declare something harassm
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by ejb999 3y ago
ok - now define 'harass', and also tell me who gets to decide what is 'harassment' is and isn't - that is the crux of the problem. Disagreeing with a stated position of a government official - loudly and strongly -
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by ejb999 3y ago
I don't think most people posting on social media actually expect the politician/official to respond to a message - its more that it adds color, or perhaps another view, to the official message that is posted, so that others readi
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by ejb999 3y ago
sounds like you should go to medical school and prove the industry wrong then.
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by ejb999 3y ago
They are willing to answer some questions, I.e. the ones a nurse or medical assistant can answer; it’s the medical questions that only a provider can answer that they need to be able to bill for.
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by ejb999 3y ago
No way a typical question takes 3 minutes to answer; just by time you read the message, pull up the chart, read the chart, make the call, talk with the patient and then document the outcome of the call back into the chart, you are in it for
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by ejb999 3y ago
They don't want to solve your problem over a messaging system - and prefer you to come in - the MD can't bill anyone for answering you questions over the phone or even via messaging - which is why they push for an appointment. Not
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by ejb999 3y ago
breaking news: the harmful effects of sitting all day can be offset by not sitting all day. How much did this study cost? I could have saved them some money.
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by ejb999 3y ago
agreed - but not only did they know they didn't have all the information - so they were in effect making a guess based on the limited information they had - but they also took the extra step of discrediting anyone that held a differe
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by ejb999 3y ago
>>cardiologists are now admitting they are wrong. Not a surprise - almost everything initially said about covid was wrong; maybe next time people saying things should be so absolutely definitive about things they clear don't know
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by ejb999 3y ago
genuinely curious: what kind of anti-non-profit propaganda are you referring to?
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by ejb999 3y ago
not saying it is easy - but 'non-profit' is not 'non-revenue' - there are many big non-profits with thousands of employees and billions in revenue - i.e. MassGeneral medical system for example: 16 billion in revenue and
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by ejb999 3y ago
largely true of pharma companies as well - they are largely big marketing organizations, where most of the real R&D is done by small startups that can be purchased when necessary.
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by ejb999 3y ago
twitter is not an airport - no need to announce arrivals or departures.
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by ejb999 3y ago
I agree, but a lot of big companies are all in on Agile and you (as a developer) don't really get a lot of say on the matter. Some high-paid consultants got paid a lot of money to sell it to the CEO, who then mandates it....so we are s
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by ejb999 3y ago
not if interest rates go up at the same rate, or higher than inflation
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by ejb999 3y ago
>>Management has to push for lower estimates because developers have an incentive to overestimate to make life easier. Bingo, having just left a mega-corp this is the status-quo of a lot of projects I had visibility into - take a triv

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