jwbwater

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by jwbwater 7y ago
This is why I have low expectations of government solutions to high healthcare costs. How about a radical experiment in price transparency like we have with every other commodity? Rather than the US healthcare system becoming more like the
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by jwbwater 7y ago
Healthcare is different. If you get diagnosed with a chronic illness you will have it, and high healthcare expenses, for the rest of your life. If your house burns down that does not mean your house is more likely to burn down for the rest
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by jwbwater 7y ago
Stop being so rational and go yell at some conservatives.
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by jwbwater 7y ago
This is a natural advantage of legalized bribery and SCOTUS's disastrous money == speech decision.
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by jwbwater 7y ago
You are my first hacker news crush.
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by jwbwater 7y ago
How about someone on the conservative, rah rah free-markets will solve all our problems, side? Oh yeah, they're getting campaign contributions from big business.
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by jwbwater 7y ago
Not arguably, it definitely makes the "free market" for labor less free when workers have to think about possible gaps in coverage before changing jobs. And prior to Obamacare the first year(s) of self-employment were a huge risk.
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by jwbwater 7y ago
No market has perfect information, but many still work pretty well. Just knowing what a healthcare service would cost before you get it would be a huge improvement in the US. And how about requiring providers to charge everyone the same pr
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by jwbwater 7y ago
It's definitely live or die in America. If you need a stem cell transplant to avoid dying from leukemia, they won't do it unless you can afford the medications you will need after the transplant, which almost no one can afford wit
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by jwbwater 7y ago
Much easier for consumers to control food spending than drug spending. Lots of cheap food to choose from. Many chronic illnesses require medications for which there is no good substitute. Too much regulation is not responsible for high drug
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by jwbwater 8y ago
Any main stream technology stack will work. The best one to use is the one you already know the most about. Another way to choose and a good way to get up and running quickly is to look for online courses about building web apps. I can reco
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by jwbwater 8y ago
I feel you. I was drinking a coke at dinner with a friend who started talking about how sugar suppresses the immune system. The coke just didn't taste the same after that.
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by jwbwater 8y ago
Consuming too much xylitol gives me a stomach ache. I tried adding it to water for dental health on multiple occasions and got a stomach ache each time.
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by jwbwater 8y ago
I've found that some brands of stevia taste much better than others.
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by jwbwater 8y ago
SEEKING WORK | Central Illinois | Remote PhD in electrical engineering with experience developing both software and hardware. I also have a strong quantitative background after spending the last three years in a computational neuroscience g
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by jwbwater 8y ago
You should post to the comp-neuro mailing list. I used it to find a postdoc in computational neuroscience. That should give you access to a lot of neuroengineering types. http://www.tnb.ua.ac.be/mailman/listinfo/co
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by jwbwater 8y ago
I came to this same conclusion while working at Intel in the late 90s. To Intel's credit every incoming employee had to take a class on effective meetings which covered having an agenda and a clear purpose for the meeting, but I don&#x