trocadero

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by trocadero 8y ago
A coach is different because the players get one chance to play the game. Art can be redone as many times as you have the time and resources for. When doing that directing the iterations and making the final selection becomes the importan
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by trocadero 8y ago
They aren't unprofitable. Their EBIT last year was 2.2 billion dollars.
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by trocadero 8y ago
That depends on the state. Even if it's not a lawyer, you still have to send someone. Between salary costs and travel it's still in the thousands.
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by trocadero 8y ago
It is if you have to pay a lawyer to represent you. Between responding and showing up in court it's probably several thousand dollars in billable hours.
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by trocadero 8y ago
Well, I'm sure your doctor will see your blog post and write up a new letter for you. Of course in the off chance that this method is ineffective you could, y'know, call or e-mail the doctor's office and ask them to write th
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by trocadero 8y ago
Your booklet says: We will not cover the following: 2. Any treatment or surgery which we think you do not need immediately and can wait until you return home. Our decision is final. That's what travel insurance is. It's there to
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by trocadero 8y ago
>Standard medical advice? Are you even reading what he wrote? His doctor did not clear him to fly. That's not how insurance works. They aren't going to pay for stuff on the say so of one doctor. The expectation is that they p
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by trocadero 8y ago
As an insurance company what would you do? On one hand, you have published medical standards saying that he is fit to fly. You also have your own doctors review the x-rays and find no reason that he can't fly. On the other hand you ha
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by trocadero 8y ago
>Your attitude is disgusting. Oooh please elaborate on your personal insult. >Do you work for the insurance company or something? I am a software consultant, which, I suppose gives me a higher than normal aversion to people trying to
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by trocadero 8y ago
Here's the handbook for the policy he bought: https://www.insureandgo.com/media/1228/iag_mf_pw_adv_0518.pd... Page 20 says: What you are covered for We will pay up to the amount shown in the table of benefits
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by trocadero 8y ago
>You've also mistaken his desire to finish receiving treatment in Singapore as a desire to avoid the NHS It's right there in his e-mail. He was concerned: "About potential waiting times on the NHS". >They were ask
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by trocadero 8y ago
Did you do this? >The patient may want to forward onto the treating doctor to help point out to us where in the manual the reason why he is not fit to fly as our decision would still be curtailment and he would have been fit to fly. htt
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by trocadero 8y ago
>I felt that paragraph was the most relevant to me And not the one specifically dealing with broken bones? >I wasn't going to ignore the advice of a DR who was holding my X-rays to appease an insurance company who doesn't gi
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by trocadero 8y ago
>I felt I shouldn't claim the first bills because I hadn't informed them before the procedure. And yes, because it turned out to be a fairly manageable bill. What you did after the accident was reasonable. Claim the bills that
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by trocadero 8y ago
Right, but I wouldn't call 5 days later "immediately following an accident". It boils down to the question of whether or not he was fit to fly back to the UK to have that surgery there. Even if he wasn't, the documenta
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by trocadero 8y ago
He's being willfully ignorant there. That quote comes from the section saying when an airline requires medical clearance. Two pages later there are several pages of specific medical conditions and guidance on if they should fly. One
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by trocadero 8y ago
Nah, travel insurance is to cover emergency medical expenses abroad. Long term care is taken care of by your local insurance or government system.
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by trocadero 8y ago
>Yeah, it's unclear to me why he didn't ask for/demand coverage for the emergency finger-attaching procedure. That's bizarre to me as well. Why does he think not claiming reimbursement for covered expenses is being r
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by trocadero 8y ago
I'm somewhat sympathetic to the insurance company here. Travel insurance is there to take care of emergency medical care. It's not for long term care. The guy clearly didn't want to travel because he preferred to be cared i
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by trocadero 8y ago
And a ridiculous amount of gifs of random crap
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by trocadero 8y ago
Amazon (probably) makes about as much money from advertising as they do from their retail operations. When the margins for advertising is ~50% and retail is ~5% a little bit of ad revenue can go farther than a lot of retail revenue. Of cou
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by trocadero 8y ago
The article waves away the stealth benefits but that's the number one issue. If a low radar signature is important then everything else is irrelevant. And I think it is. It doesn't matter if a F-16 can out dog fight a F-35 beca
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by trocadero 8y ago
> https://www.thenation.com/article/economic-anxiety-didnt-mak... . >We created a stereotyping scale which measures views like believing people of color are more violent or lazier than whites, but it was not includ
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by trocadero 8y ago
This is definitely a partisan issue. It's true that there was always a low level pro-privacy/anti-fb sentiment, but it's the perception that FB was used to get Trump elected turned it into an inferno. If Clinton had won the
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by trocadero 8y ago
That's how it was always going to end up. You can't reduce the money going into TV from ~$60 a customer to $10 a customer and expect the same content quality. Netflix had a relatively brief moment in the sun where they could buy