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by qgin 3y ago
As long as you make at minimum 150% of the federal poverty line. Under that, you don't even qualify for ACA at all. States are supposed to provide Medicaid under that line but some have refused.
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by qgin 3y ago
The economics of the system are so convoluted I'm not sure if anyone can answer. There is no equilibrium. But maybe finding the breaking point would push us to untangle the perverse economics of our current system and do what every oth
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by qgin 3y ago
States without medicaid expansion are very rough. Most people don't realize that ACA plans have a minimum income to qualify. Medicaid was supposed to take over below that income level. If you're in Florida or Texas and are an adul
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by qgin 3y ago
That's the other half of the equation: the government is not actually doing what is required to replace the teachers, which would be to raise the wages. So you get paid the minimum required to replace you OR the maximum the employer is
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by qgin 3y ago
You can enter data manually, but there are also apps that will import data in various formats if you have them. If somehow you already have the data as CSV, you can use a third party app to import it.
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by qgin 3y ago
It's a classic Apple move to leak rumors of extremely high prices and then announcing only medium high prices that make people feel like it's cheap. The original iPad was rumored to cost $1500 to $1800. So when they finally announ
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by qgin 3y ago
> According to Blue Origin's lunar lander head John Couluris, Blue Origin privately contributed 'well north' of the contract's $3.4 billion payout. Seems like the NASA award is only is only paying for some minority of
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by qgin 3y ago
It’s easy to find friends in a group of people you have things in common with and spend lots of time with. I know not every job is like this, but some of my best lifelong friendships started at workplaces. (And outlasted the companies that
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by qgin 3y ago
Often in threads about loneliness, especially Ask HN threads about how to connect with people, there are some extremely terse replies to the effect of "Get married; have a family." And while I support doing that 100%, it is not th
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by qgin 3y ago
Absolutely. Aging is a reality, but I won’t stand for anyone romanticizing it. It is almost entirely a destructive force. The best we can say is that the limits it brings provides meaning to life. But even that does not ring true to what I’
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by qgin 3y ago
I’d much rather go to a store with self checkout than one that doesn’t have it.
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by qgin 3y ago
Excellent plan for driving AI research and ecosystem to every other country except the United States. Why would you even attempt to found a company here if this comes to pass?
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by qgin 3y ago
These things are the bane of my existence with my Mom's iphone. She is blind but is not able to use all the swiping/tapping features of Voiceover due to a tremor. She mostly uses the phone with Siri only and that works well enough
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by qgin 3y ago
These features that will be built into the operating system are things that otherwise would have cost someone hundreds to thousands of dollars before... if they even existed at all. I love that Apple chooses to invest in these areas of acce
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by qgin 3y ago
Wow, NYC has only half the rates for overweight status and obesity compared to the United States as a whole.
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by qgin 3y ago
The happiest older adults I know have one particular thing in common, at least it seems to me. They have been in a constant state of “re-launching” their entire lives. They have always been up for learning something new, trying something ne
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by qgin 3y ago
The number of scam or scam-adjacent calls my mother gets on her cellphone is unbelievable. Multiple a day, every day.
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by qgin 3y ago
A fun thing happens if you ever look at international health insurance plans. Usually there are 2 plans. One covering the whole world and one covering the whole world minus the United States which costs literally half as much. I’m not claim
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by qgin 3y ago
Depends on whether you mean access to giant TVs or stuff like education and healthcare and housing. It’s hard to usefully turn it into a single metric. Wages have remained flat, cost of consumer electronics have gone down, cost of education
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by qgin 3y ago
Would love to hear this line of thinking continued
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by qgin 3y ago
People want to get rich even if that means killing every incentive for productive use of capital in the process.
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by qgin 3y ago
10% of users intentionally choosing anything besides a default is crazy high
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by qgin 3y ago
It’s very true that trying dig out of lonelinesses in average American suburbia is playing on hard mode. Everything about the built environment says keep to yourself. People talk about taking a stroll at Target with a coffee purchased at th
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by qgin 3y ago
That’s really interesting. I’d love to hear from more people who went this route to see what their experiences have been, especially when it comes to not just getting by in life, but the emotional connection OP is looking for, people, maybe
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by qgin 3y ago
NextJS has some ways around it that don't end up duplicating any logic: https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/data...
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by qgin 3y ago
I think with caregiving of any type, there can be a split between loneliness and isolation. When I was the the caregiver for my mom when she was sick, I had no time to feel lonely, but after a few months the isolation of the situation reall
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by qgin 3y ago
I understand the truism, but in some ways telling someone struggling with loneliness to just get married is like telling someone who is starving to just eat more.
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by qgin 3y ago
I do think it’s worth having this conversation about what happened to the United States that the default condition now is isolation and it requires “putting in the work” to fight it. What if our default condition was connection?
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by qgin 3y ago
As long as native apps live alongside web, then the architecture of web is going to trend towards that of native apps, managing display state on the client while managing business state on server.
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It's interesting that this paradigm is especially popular on Hacker News. I see it pop up here pretty regularly and not many other places.

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