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2y ago
Why don't you tell us about all them?
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2y ago
There's no shortage of people sneering and getting angry and billionaires and their money.
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2y ago
Surely both the government and rich people can fund research. One doesn't preclude the other.
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2y ago
Because in the madness of our economy we've decided that people need to pay for their healthcare either out of pocket or through their employer. They have limited choices and often need to take the cheapest because its all they can af
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2y ago
These companies - every company - know how to maximize profit. They know how many claims they can deny, they know what kind of claims they can deny, they know who is or isn't likely to fight back. Hint - the people with the fewest res
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I'm very sorry to hear that, I've been through any number of ER visits with my child. I have not personally had any issues with hospital billing departments, so perhaps I have been lucky. It is only the insurance I've had p
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2y ago
The goal is to wear you out and it's the context missing from the discussion. An external observer could look at any of my contested insurance claims and say 'They asked for more information, you gave it to them, the claim was ap
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2y ago
> the claim should have been denied because it was filed incorrectly Spoken like someone who has never spent hours online with an insurance company. They have told me that they can't see uploaded forms due to a 'glitch'.
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2y ago
All of the job of for-profit health insurance companies is to make money for their investors. Everything else they do works towards that goal. Now all of the job of any for-profit company is to make money for their investors, that in and o
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The call center employee said 'at your convivence' knowing full well that they'd never be available at a convenient time.
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> the UHC rep asked for her to call back when convenient (not in the middle of surgery) I'll echo the above poster - when an insurance rep calls us we drop everything on the floor and rush to answer it because otherwise they will c
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2y ago
Question from someone who's not going to even pretend to understand quantum physics.. The explanation says the visualization shows the coin in all possible states. I'm trying to count quickly and it seems like about 8. Does all
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2y ago
The greater powers control these platforms and want to keep us engaged so we believe what they want us to believe.
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Been there, done that. I've tried to stay informed but not outraged for the last 8 years and it didn't make a damn bit of difference. I got involved in local issues, I phone banked, I tried to put my money where it would do the
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2y ago
Alternatively carefully curate your social media accounts. My reddit home page is all books and formula 1. I'm quick to hit 'show me less like this' when anything drifts in from the front page. My Facebook feed is all frie
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2y ago
Twice I've been unsure how to move move money with their site and twice I've contacted their customer service center who was more than happy to guide me through the process.
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2y ago
The idea of making financial decisions based on UI/UX is extraordinary to me.
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There's 'a lot of women' and then there's the poster's life partner. If he can't express his feelings to her than he's got bigger problems than 'kin work. Feminism has its ups and downs but its not g
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2y ago
I just sent out some invitations with evite and it's one of those 'begging for disruption' applications. Everything about it is unnecessarily difficult and stupid.
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> I’ll say it again: kin work definitely does not need to be carried out by any particular gender. It is just work The author addresses that and it fits into her desire to move away from 'emotional labor', as 'emotional&#x
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I think the nuance is between you and your wife and it is truly a pity if you feel you can't tell her that you need a rest. The other nuance is the continuing pressure on men to show no weakness. I keep hoping for some change here bu
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reddit is all rage bait at this point and if the big subreddits aren't over 50% propaganda I'll eat my hat. The recent election shows how out of touch the front page is and you can conclude that the average poster is hopelessly o
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I don't think this is a good place to go in with hard and fast rules. Every kid is different, everything change. What your kid wants and needs may be different from everyone else. Having said that, my broad rule is to keep my kid fro
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The poster above references the 'average person'. Do you think that the average person is not going to be a good influence?
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I wonder the same thing, I have friends who send their kids there and are happy with it. Not surprisingly for SF, most of the parents are educated with good incomes and expect their kids to go to college. That has its own set of downsides
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Have you ever seen a homeless Indian in India? I would assume not, since evidently Indians have intact familial cultures that churn out good citizens.
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I'd like to live in Honolulu.
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People who opposed demolishing the neighborhoods would be called NIMBYs today and would be blamed for the housing crisis. I'm not saying this to be snarky, just that there is a real push and pull there that I don't think is appre
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>>> a) start by stating what you think OOP is >> A. OOP as practically implemented for the last 25 years is glueing functions to state > I see you opt to go with a huge amount of handwaving over the question. I think the
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> OP complained about accidental complexity, not subjective takes on how hard it is to refactor code. The biggest problem with accidental complexity _is_ how hard it is to refactor code. Refactoring code is a huge part of software develo
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