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by willcipriano 2y ago
Its likely true that more procedures are performed and more prescriptions written, but why are those procedures and prescriptions many times more expensive? Economies of scale should make them cheaper. An MRI machine and technician that sit
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by willcipriano 2y ago
MRIs only cost that much in the US[0](2015 prices: $1,145 in America and $138 in Switzerland), everything is inexplicably ten fold more expensive here. That more expensive care doesn't result in ten fold better outcomes as all the heal
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by willcipriano 2y ago
Every other nation on earth somehow finds a way to deal with that. Given the US is 48th in life expectancy[0] behind all these other nations that spend much less, that explanation doesn't seem to hold much water. [0] https://
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by willcipriano 2y ago
The United States spends more per capita on socialized medicine than any other nation on earth[0]. US socialized medicine spending per capita is more than any other nation spends total between both public and private in fact, it just fails
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by willcipriano 2y ago
Regulatory capture most likely
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by willcipriano 2y ago
This is how a lot of consumer businesses are pricing now. Then they use the same consulting firm as their competitors to set prices.
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by willcipriano 2y ago
> 85% of all consumer purchases in the U.S. are made by women. https://www.mccormickfona.com/articles/2014/12/purchasing-po...
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by willcipriano 2y ago
ChatGPriceyT
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by willcipriano 2y ago
Even worse the people nearest the money printers are largely engaged in the business of starting (and most frequently losing) foreign wars of choice. The human suffering created by the system is immense.
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by willcipriano 2y ago
> "want to know how to disable a burglar alarm with aluminum foil?" He just saw Beverly Hills Cop and wanted to sound impressive. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DupMnMsQXxM
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by willcipriano 2y ago
When I go over my household budget I'd notice if I wasn't paying my mortgage even if someone deleted it from my spreadsheet. It's important enough to me that it's front of mind when I'm thinking about money. I expec
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by willcipriano 2y ago
Regulations are written in blood! (by people with lead poisoning who used cocaine for medicine)
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by willcipriano 2y ago
Hire junior aerospace engineer with senior aerospace experience. Subject engineer to working conditions and long hours that domestic labor wouldn't tolerate. Get 1.5 - 3 senior aerospace engineers for the price of 1 junior.
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by willcipriano 2y ago
Need to do something with all the savings over the current system.
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by willcipriano 2y ago
US politians are routinely bought for numbers similar to the UK ones. They will often vote in a way that their constituents do not want for ~10k in campaign contributions. They didn't have to worry about the voters finding out about it
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by willcipriano 2y ago
The NHS in the UK costs less per capita than CMS currently spends. Fire many administrators and managers over there, put a lot of them in prison and tell them to start again.
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by willcipriano 2y ago
In future court appointments her taking a year long vacation with the kids will be used as an argument that she should get them (and he should pay more child support) beacuse she already spends the most time with them.
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by willcipriano 2y ago
Cured my asthma with cardio exercise and weight loss. Western populations are overweight and sedentary. Correlation isn't causation but seems like that has to be a major factor.
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by willcipriano 2y ago
You don't have teams of economists go over your grocery list to minimize inflation? Next you'll tell me you can't eat iPads.
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by willcipriano 2y ago
> some other more neutral term Nutrient dense/high calorie is probably more accurate.
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by willcipriano 2y ago
I'd rather go to the gym than be in a car for the same effect.
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by willcipriano 2y ago
I can pick when I go to sleep and wake, I've worked 3rd shift, 9 - 5 and resturant hours with no issue. Wouldn't a tribe that is able to do as I can have the greatest evolutionary advantage and thus outcompete the tribes requiring
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by willcipriano 2y ago
We had to keep our daughter on a photocopier looking device for bilirubin as well as the tests. Nobody told me how common this is so I also got to enjoy a feeling of panic and dread while that was going on. Plus my boss kept calling me.
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by willcipriano 2y ago
As per the terms here: https://www.keycloak.org/pricing
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by willcipriano 2y ago
Customers have been refunded in full.
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by willcipriano 2y ago
Can you do a distributed HyperLogLog? Wouldn't you have to have a single instance of it somewhere?
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by willcipriano 2y ago
If they are transparent, what is leaking?
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by willcipriano 2y ago
Related recent news: https://pagesix.com/2024/11/13/celebrity-news/jamie-lee-curt...
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by willcipriano 2y ago
Take code you have written or want to understand and ask it to add comments in line with the Google style guide.
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by willcipriano 2y ago
> if you want further career advancement Job advancement rather. Career advancement is possible by making users happy and telling executives at other companies "I did that". It's a better story if you had to fight for it.

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