100% but mess or not - it works - otherwise you’d have no option but to touch it
Sometimes it doesn't work and no one can tell.
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galimaufry commented on What we know about CEO shooting suspect bbc.com/news/articles/cp9... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
I can explain my perspective which echos kinda what you say.
I am in my 40s, I make pretty good money. My life is good.
My mom died last year. The medical system and her medicare "advantage" plan killed her. She had a stroke. However, within a day, she was up and walking around with assistance.
However, the hospital was understaffed so two things happened. She fell going to the bathroom AND after that happened, they did not get her moving enough and she got a huge bed sore.
The huge bed sore would not have happened if her medicare advantage plan hadn't denied denied denied having her moved to get physical, occupation, and speech theray. If she had just good ole medicare, they would have approved it the day of request (it was requested the day after the stroke, I was warned that her plan was going to deny because they always do where medicare always approves). Instead, she rotted in an understaffed wing of the hospital for a week while I fought to get shit approved.
After getting approval to be moved, she was making slow slow progress due to the bed sore. It is hard when your body needs to recover and you have a huge wound on your back.
Once again her medicare "advantage" plan denied giving her more time in therapy. Guess what? Medicare would have just approved. Her advantage plan said the "community" could care for her and she could just get better over time. Do you know what that means? They wanted me to quit working and care for my mom 24/7. That is what they meant by community care. I am an only child with no other family except my wife and kids.
The hospital social worker was great and refused to discharge my mom because she knew I couldn't physically move my mom around or give her the care she required. That started a month battle where her insurance was refusing to pay anymore hospital bills, refused to get her more therapy, and essentially killed my mom. If the social worker had allowed my mom to be discharged, I would have been fucked.
She slowly got worse and died. The american medical system with its private "advantage" plans took what would have been a recoverable bad health incident and allowed it to kill my mom for greed.
BTW, after a month of fighting, emails to the insurance board of directors and CEO, I got more therapy approved for my mom but it was too late by then. She died a few days later.
You can probably guess how I feel about the CEO's murder........
I wonder if there is a niche to ameliorate this sort of thing by offering payday loans on insurance payouts.
The incentives are pro-social: insurance companies have an incentive to delay payouts, because their profits come from interest (they pay out more money than they take in) so the longer they can hold onto money the better. But that's reversed for this hypothetical loan issuer - they want to make the payout as fast as possible in order to earn as much interest as possible as quickly as possible.
And if there's a systematic tendency for medicaid advantage plans to deny claims that eventually get approved, and if you could predict which ones will get approved 'just' by really understanding what medicaid would approve, then this might be self-sustaining or even profitable?
In terms of economics specifically, in what way have things "gotten better"? Purchasing power has collapsed, the poor sentiment here seems the correct sentiment to me.
> Purchasing power has collapsed
But is this actually true, or just something that declining economic sentiment in the newspapers has led us to believe? People are consuming more food, more education, more square feet of house, more travel. My sense is that is surprisingly hard to find a quantitative signal that purchasing power has collapsed.
Maybe it is just that positional goods (access to the best neighborhood in the best city) get harder to obtain as the population grows?
galimaufry commented on GTK File Chooser Dialog gets a thumbnail view after 18 years thisweek.gnome.org/posts/... · Posted by u/handity
I always feel like I must be crazy because Gnome / GTK threads are always filled with comments about how terrible it is. Personally, I find it to be the most aesthetically pleasing and usable desktop environment I’ve used (having spent many years on Mac and Windows). I’m not sure what the disconnect is.
Anyway, good thing we all have a wealth of choices. If you don’t like Gnome, there’s a huge universe of choices available to you! Long live OSS.
Most threads will include a claim that Gnome is imitating macos poorly, but as far as I can tell it is imitating i3 rather well.
galimaufry commented on NYC jail complex to be restored into citywide green energy hub movemnt.net/nyc-jail-comp... · Posted by u/geox
> DOC has employed more guards than the average daily population, with the department employing 1.7 guards per incarcerated person in FY 2021.
That stood out to me.
Corrections staff at Riker's island get unlimited, unauthenticated sick leave, which may partly explain the large number here, along with their employment as clerks, bakers, door control, etc.
Incidentally this is what I meant above, about the union being out of touch: unlimited sick leave makes staffing unpredictable, which makes work unpredictable and frankly dangerous, which makes guards take more sick leave in a vicious cycle. The union has weaker-than-expected motivations to fix this, because everyone with seniority does not actually work in the housing blocks.
galimaufry commented on NYC jail complex to be restored into citywide green energy hub movemnt.net/nyc-jail-comp... · Posted by u/geox
It's hard to understand why you would want to close one jail and open 4 smaller jails further away. That is going to be a lot more difficult to manage. Not to mention crime has been increasing and the total jail capacity will be a bit over 50% of Rykers.
It seems like they are waisting time and resources with dreams while neglecting basic needs.
Riker's island is very poorly designed. A big part of the problem is that it is quite inaccessible from the rest of the city. This has a ton of knock-on effects:
1. There's a severe shortage of guards. Anything that could make working in the jails more attractive will help, and a 2-hour commute is not attractive.
2. Getting medical service, prisoners with court dates, lawyers, etc. on and off the island is really really slow.
3. The jail has insourced a lot of services (for example they run a large bakery). These get staffed by corrections officers. This both makes staffing harder, and the existence of these plum positions has weird effects on the politics of the corrections union (people with power in the union are not actually working as guards and are out of touch with the reality of the jail)
Moving to a model like the Tombs, with the jail directly above the courthouse, makes way more sense.
In addition, the buildings on the island need a serious revamp (e.g. there is no automatic access control, so every major door needs a guard physically standing there to let people through and climate control is broken). As long as you need to seriously renovate anyway, might as well just build a new jail where it should have been put in the first place.
Source: I read a lot of blogposts.
galimaufry commented on Germany to Rethink Nuclear Shutdown as Energy Crisis Deepens climatechangedispatch.com... · Posted by u/notlukesky
Is it just me or does ESG feel like a giant virtue signal from companies and investors?
Taking this specific issue of nuclear. Nuclear Energy is objectively cleaner than other forms of energy generation and is objectively safe if you operate it properly. With that said, it seems like Nuclear Energy would be embraced by the ESG crowd, but that simply wasn't the case.
Now that the rubber met the road, the sentiment has changed. So was nuclear actually bad? Or was it just "bad". Almost seems that everyone was so obsessed with going green and getting rid of "big bad nuclear" that they forgot that they depend on it. Much like a kid quitting his job to pursue the arts and then realizing, he can't make rent without the job they just quit...
> Is it just me or does ESG feel like a giant virtue signal from companies and investors?
Well yeah, it is explicitly intended as a signal that investors can use to select virtuous companies.
galimaufry commented on Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times popehat.substack.com/p/ou... · Posted by u/tptacek
There has to be some kind of term for making your case against the absolute least sympathetic adversary ("We're allowed to boycott giant corporations right?") while using the same word that describes the absolute most sympathetic cases ("Are all companies allowed to get together and jointly refuse to sell food to farm animal rights activists?")
I've heard it called a "non-central example". That has a negative connotation though, I wish there was a more neutral term. The statement "all natural numbers are greater than 1" is false, and it's not helpful to object that 0 and 1 are noncentral examples.
(It's not a motte-and-bailey, that's about a particular sort of shifting goalposts)
galimaufry commented on Ask HN: Why is today's Internet experience so user hostile? · Posted by u/julianpye
Heck yes they do!
Of course not “intentionally” but if you manage to have an even slightly complex tax situation and not get tricked and report something wrong, props to you!
Sure, but then they just send you a letter correcting your mistake, you OK it if it looks right, and either they send you a check or you send them a check. You don't have to pay a fine and you don't get audited.
(I am not a tax lawyer nor an accountant, but I have done this 4 out of the last 6 years.)
> I'm waiting for the day that the US declares a foreign corporation as an "enemy combatant"
It’s particularly interesting to watch as the company is based in a country that is a very close ally.
Ignorant question: is Israel literally an ally of the US? I know they are not in NATO or 5 Eyes, and I don't think they have some other close agreement, like US and Japan.