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Captainant

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  1. It's more that I would love to not have to deal with a middleman entity at all. But insurance companies have ensured that I have no choice but to go through them to get healthcare for my family. I have no say in what hospitals and doctors charge - they use some arcane medical billing coding mechanism that's deisgned to be impenetrable, so that only they and the insurance companies know how much things actually cost. Hell, I had a 6mo checkup for my daughter that comprised: getting weighed, length measured with a measuring tape, physical inspection by her pediatrician, and second round of vaccines. Somehow that got coded into a $3,600 visit for "medical services" according to my EOB, insurance "covered" it all, but it all just seems like funny money designed to inflate the costs and keep anyone else but them from making decisions.
  2. Ah, the 2020 COVID response playbook. A classic.
  3. Denying more than one third of claims. Using known broken AI models to programmatically deny care, and then arguing that the sick patients should go through a years long appeals process. Administering one of the most restrictive Medicare Advantage programs in the nation. Fuck him and every other entity profiting off of systemic denial of care.
  4. His company is responsible for millions of such tragedies every. single. year. And they make a FAT fuckin margin every time they get away with it. Rest in piss
  5. Getting postponed for a couple months to see a specialist does not sound foreign to my American medical experience. After my wife's cancer doctor became arbitrarily "out of network", it took us nearly six extra months to get her next screening. My sister had to fight for nearly a year to see a thyroid cancer specialist after her insurance-approved doctor retired. Don't even try to argue that there's no months long waits for specialists in the US
  6. No, memecoins and alt coins generally exist to drive demand for BTC and give it some sort of utility.
  7. https://www.newsweek.com/brian-thompsons-killer-becomes-focus-deny-defend-depose-crypto-1995931 Anyone getting on this hot new store of value??
  8. Almost certainly the reference being made, the casings make me think of the book DELAY, DENY, DEFEND. I'd bet a dollar this was a response to their coverage denials
  9. The real scam is that it's systemically impossible to self-insure unless you're independently wealthy. Wage earners are bound to their employers, lest they fall ill and have zero options but wither away and die. And that may still happen, even if you have coverage thanks to the UHG's of America
  10. Dude you need to step back off the conspiracy Twitter lol. All that false victimization mindset is gonna burn you up The """sector""" is literally just financialized FOMO. The tokens serve no purpose but to be sold to someone later for a hopefully higher price. I'm happy that y'all have been able to build wealth by selling digital beanie babies to other collectors Edit: your leading source on all your conspiracy theories also believes that Ukraine is the aggressor against russia. Yeah I'd bet that guy wants fewer restrictions on laundering his money with crypto lol
  11. It's the height of irony that BTC needed the government to back it to break the barrier. I thought the whole idea was to get away from centralized powers and banking! It truly beggars belief how malleable the argument for bitcoin is, and how little the substance actually matters
  12. This is a really solid write up on where Intel is at, product wise. They've got abandoned products from 2017 that are still offers of magnitude better than the completion today, but lack the leadership and long term vision to do anything more than stock buybacks https://blog.ameri.coffee/intel-becoming-known-for-past-glories The news yesterday that Pat Gelsinger has been forced out of Intel can only mean one of two things: Intel's upcoming 18A node (which Intel promised would leapfrog TSMC) is having problems, is delayed, or is not meeting performance or yield expectations; or Intel's board has given in to pressure from short-term-focused investors and is going to stop investing in R&D and in cutting-edge nodes to meet short-term profitability goals. Neither of these is good.
  13. Texas Observer doing work with unmasking racist Twitter trolls https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/
  14. This news broke just before Thanksgiving too, it's surprising that the FBI saying it got more people to pay attention https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/fbi-uncovers-china-hackers-spying-network-targetting-us-telecommunication/5982866/ Funny thing is, they're mainly just collecting metadata on the calls not the content itself. You know, that stuff that the Supreme Court said was honkey dorey until they didn't. Gotta love when those old backdoors turn out to be useful for more than just the """good guys""". They can snoop in on calls and texts, but they have to be in the right place and time to intercept and MiTM the message. The metadata is persistent though, and is super helpful for informing when they should listen in
  15. The irony of this thread title is that DM's are waaaaayyyyyyyy more secure than the SMS text messaging that has been penetrated using the same backdoors that exist for the NSA to spy on citizens
  16. It's almost like he's using it as a disinformation platform, or something
  17. Well the government doing it doesn't result in increased shareholder profits sooooooo
  18. I mean, making a can is insanely easy nowadays if you don't care about your dog getting shot. With 3D printing, or even just press forming sheet metal, you can make baffles with very very little effort. It's not like mufflers are classified technology
  19. This is the evil of the profit maximizing healthcare industry. """Customers""" do not have any sort of leverage and are often literally a captive market with nowhere else to go. UHG and their contemporaries exist for no purpose but to deny care and skim off premiums. Bunch of fucking social leeches.
  20. My comment was broadly about the leadership and decision making that brought them to their current state - but your obsession is noted. By the way, congrats on posting about me multiple times without using a slur!
  21. He's aggy. He doesn't understand much
  22. Yeah honestly the biggest differentiator between chip firms has been the software - even AMD has recently announced that their focus will be on software rather than hardware. Nvidia's work on not just researching new fields of mathematics but building in hardware implementations to solve those systems is the biggest part of why they OWN the AI space. And then with the software layer it becomes very very difficult to move off of a NV platform once you've utilized some of their built in optimizations. Hey man, it's what their highly paid consultants suggested they do! It's not the board's fault the strategy didn't work
  23. Just like how trump had no chance of winning, yeah?
  24. Dumb money is back on the menu, boys! Quick, dump your worthless crap on all the rubes!
  25. Well the strategy of eating their seed stock is really working out great for them, scout. I'm sure you can find a FRED chart to explain it. Sorry I'm not perfect to every detail, please forgive my trespass into your domain oh great and wealthy and mighty seer of the finance bro
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