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swtrs··on How to Build a Healthcare Unicorn?
It is happening. They do have your info. Sites like Web MD aren't making things up out of thin air...
swtrs··on How to Build a Healthcare Unicorn?
There is utterly nothing you can do to prevent the american heathcare apparatus from obtaining and sharing your heath data. It will be exchanged between your state agency, care provider and insurers constantly. Your insurer will likely de-identify data in the event of a leak. The other two may not (save regulatory requirements) I have first hand experience here.
swtrs··on How to Build a Healthcare Unicorn?
Bingo. I'll say the unicorn is the group that can bend hipaa such that customer data can be more easily exchanged between providers. There is already a group making a product that most health insurance companies utilize for this and they dont know it.

Before I left the industry I saw many dropping third party analytics and building their own solutions in need of more m&a dollars from declining membership nationally.

swtrs··on The Google Squeeze
>Search for something generic like "computer" and you can see an example of how hard it is to get information instead of ads.

Panel for computer sales at top. A maps menu showing computer shops near me. A Bestbuy link. Another panel for computer sales. Walmart, amazon, newegg. A wiki. And another sales panel.

swtrs··on I think Google just hoarded my “deleted” Fitbit data
Apparently lots of people did over on r/fitbit : https://www.reddit.com/r/fitbit/comments/duu705/was_fitbit_j...
swtrs··on Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
Personal : small library of notebooks, I generally dont share these

Professionally : physical notebooks and Onenote books. Every time I join a new team I start a new notebook and when I leave I pass it to someone else if they want it. My Onenote files are publicly accessible to anyone.

swtrs··on Research continues to show health benefits of coffee, tea, and chocolate
Ive been drinking coffee for so long (since age 12 so, 14 years now) that I wonder if its effected my brain development any, if at all.
swtrs··on Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
My team runs a mission critical application nearly all of us were duped into supporting. Ops engineering turned into "process champion" and now I yell at people about ticket structure (bane of my existence) instead of diagnosing db performance issues (things I gleefully lose sleep over.) Now I question my passion for IT daily, fall asleep at lunch and wait for the day I do bad enough to be fired.
swtrs··on PuTTY 0.73
MobaXterm's colored terminals have saved my bacon more than once. Great app.
swtrs··on A developer goes to a DevOps conference
Funny, our company recently turned our wonderfully positioned Platform Engineers into Dev Ops Engineering concerned almost entirely with Chef.
swtrs··on Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D
Pretty cool!
swtrs··on Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
Its a bit like wikipedia, it doesnt look like much initially but going in with purpose shows you just how much more in depth they are. Examine also updates their research regularly, that alone puts them above "any old health site"
swtrs··on Ask HN: What do you do on an Android phone that cannot be done on an iPhone?
I use a DAP for all of my music and purchase most of it via bandcamp. I can barely buy music on iOS but I can (and still do) all of my library management, music purchasing and file management on a One Plus 3T using a usb c to micro sd dongle.

File management is so tricky and app centric on iOS so I dont think this will ever work.

swtrs··on Ask KN: What email service should I choose to use?
I quite like Fastmail. I switched from Gmail five years ago and have had no complaints.
swtrs··on Where Has the Magic Gone?
I've been experiencing this for the last six months and unfortunately its soured my current gig (that I started six months ago now) such that I dread my work life. Almost the entirety of tech is no longer magical once I actually read the tfs cards.
swtrs··on Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
Due to YT constantly changing video decryption functionality, ~4-5 times a year it breaks for multiple days. I fully expect it to be suddenly broken in a year or two.
swtrs··on Sleep trackers can make insomnia worse
have any resources on privation in particular?
swtrs··on Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall
Interesting bundling their services via the browser. Its a single point of entry vs Google (seemingly) access disjoint. Password management, notes, file transfer (and storage?) browse and secure connections through one browser is something I think Id want.
swtrs··on Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms
Is there an online community for doujin? Sounds similar to the vapor/future/chillwave community on Bandcamp.
swtrs··on Show HN: Nocode Hub, Discover What People Are Building Without Code
https://foodstillgood.webflow.io/ is exactly the kind of preview I wish every app had.

This is a nice site I can get lost in. Thanks OP!

swtrs··on Journalism's dependence on part-time freelancers
Can I poke on how you transitioned? It was brought to me by a great colleague that I write and train technical and non-technical people well and want to see if its something I can do full time (contrasting my relatively boring ops eng day job.)
swtrs··on RIP, science fiction and fantasy Grand Master Gene Wolfe, 1931-2019
Wow, just this morning I picked up the first half of The Book of the New Sun as my intro to his work.
swtrs··on Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
A bit of poking around leads me to prod.send.prod.cloudops.mozgcp.net so Im assumping Google CloudCloud.
swtrs··on Ask HN: Has anyone curated a list of hidden interview questions?
I've gotten to the end of the fraud engineering application but am woefully unqualified for the work. It took me two weeks.
swtrs··on Ask HN: Has anyone curated a list of hidden interview questions?
Bandcamp typically has a fun application process.

https://bandcamp.com/jobs