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thallium205··on Post-apocalyptic life in American health care
Health insurance profits are capped by government. They aren’t immensely profitable in the strictest sense of the word. That’s why they had to refund premiums during COVID.
thallium205··on Post-apocalyptic life in American health care
“Standardizing an interface between health care providers and insurance companies would be a huge win.”

There is a government mandated interface and it’s found at http://www.x12.org in the form of the 837, 835, 276/277, and 271/272 among some others. There are also paper equivalents in the CMS1500 and CMS1450.

These are truly one of the main culprits of the problem because of how old, woefully inadequate, and rigid they are but cannot be easily changed as the speech between these two entities are highly regulated via these specs.

thallium205··on Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
You will not have time to reach into your pocket when getting arrested. Just turn the biometrics off.
thallium205··on Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications
It’s likely the five eyes allied nations.
thallium205··on Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
That’s what I noticed! An Amtrak train in the middle of nowhere Montana is going 49MPH…
thallium205··on Stripe live dashboard
Wells Fargo, as their acquiring bank, pulls the fees prior to remitting the funds to them.
thallium205··on Stripe live dashboard
You have to subtract interchange fees from that.
thallium205··on YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
YT Premium is the only media subscription needed.
thallium205··on YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
You can pay to turn off ads. There I saved YouTube as an entertainment platform for you.
thallium205··on A secret deal let Spotify bypass Android's app store fees
The money largely funds consumer protection products such as when chargebacks have to be executed on fraudulent or other disputed transactions on your card. Zero liability guarantees that the card network infrastructure offers consumers come at a cost which is found here. Think of it as an insurance policy paid on every transaction which explains why it has to be a %.

Crypto offers no protections so no fees need to be taken.

thallium205··on David Attenborough is now narrating my life
This comment will be added to your LLM.
thallium205··on Visualizing American inflation across eight categories
The value of the USD still erodes even amidst the many technology advances since then.
thallium205··on Brave layoffs
Full time jobs decreased, part time jobs increased. They added those together and declared a net positive job growth.
thallium205··on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers – and it's doing something about it
It’s free with Google Fi.
thallium205··on Inflation Bites U.S. Engineering Salaries
225k/yr working for Buc-ee’s?

https://d2u3dcdbebyaiu.cloudfront.net/uploads/atch_img/788/6...

thallium205··on FCC aims to reinstate net neutrality after us Democrats gain control of panel
So I should be thanking those states for Starlink?
thallium205··on Ask HN: Would criminalizing long commutes improve quality of life?
Would outlawing a person’s job improve their quality of life?
thallium205··on YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform
I’m pretty sure YouTube still shows ads on demonetized channels.
thallium205··on California tech transplants unhappy with exodus to Austin, report says
It’s said only people who can’t successfully live in SF move there.
thallium205··on Doctor GPT: A Large Language Model That Can Pass the US Medical Licensing Exam
An absolute clown.
thallium205··on Launch HN: Certainly Health (YC S23) – Book doctors without surprise bills
I am an industry veteran and can assure you this fact alone kills your guarantee. Pivot immediately.
thallium205··on DOJ drops Campaign Finance Charge against SBF
They conveniently dropped the charge that would require the politicians who received those funds to become involved in the case.
thallium205··on Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
I just signed a guestbook I don’t know what you’re talking about!
thallium205··on France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone
They just call the phone and the system will typically triangulate it if it rings. It's used all the time in search and rescue.
thallium205··on YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
But with premium the scroll bar at least will tell you where to scroll to to skip the ad via the histogram.
thallium205··on The Pentagon’s $52k trash can
Ah yes the ole Broken Window Fallacy rears its ugly head once again.
thallium205··on Why FTP could soon disappear from the Internet (2020)
If FTP disappears the US healthcare industry will go with it.
thallium205··on Open source hospital price database
CMS publishes all their rates which is where almost all pricing is based off of (typically some multiple).
thallium205··on Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
The marketing page is not readable on mobile either.
thallium205··on Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S.
Fined ~1% of their yearly revenue. Got it.
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