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Is there any particular reason the author paying rent via donations is different from any of us paying rent from our work? You decided to use Googles distribution platform and infrastructure while not sharing the revenue - fully knowing it is illegal in the Play Store to accept payments outside of the platform. Basically you attempted to steal the efforts Google invested in creating and promoting Android, it’s development tools and infrastructure - and they banned you for it.

Ecosystems also aren’t supposed to have uncontrolled prey populations, that are also being fed by humans. And since the number of other bird hunting predators is almost negligible anywhere humans live with their cats, this effectively balances put the lack of all other predators. If the cats wouldn’t kill those 2 billion birds we would drown in their shit and the resulting diseases.

I understand your concerns but I do think you are also missing very important pieces. Just like some software engineers are almost useless and others are extremely bright, so are doctors. If the Hospital attempts to recruit better doctors - it will be a lot more expensive. Just like some developers make $100k and others $600 - so do doctors. Most Hospitals are non-profit and do you know if any private hospital company in the top of fortune 100 companies? No, because they don’t make that much profit, it all goes to salaries and equipment. You’re ER case is very valid up to a point - you usually can’t make any decisions at the time. But if you are in a situation where you’re unconscious in the ER - you don’t need to! You are 100% hitting your max out of pocket and that’s it for the year. Same if you have a severe condition. The only time you care about the cost is if you have a mild condition with optional treatment, in which case you can shop for prices, just like most do with a dentist.

You can find an detailed answer to that in thread, in short - making sure that the negotiated price is that asking price is never less than real negotiated price

No it’s not a separate line item.

The administration part includes getting the instruction to do so, retrieving medicine from storage, going to the patient, administering the drug, going back to nursing station and filling in the paper work for the action (there are actually several forms to be filled out). So in reality it takes more like 40 min per IV.

Maybe, just maybe it also includes the cost of actually administering it by a professional and? Scotty aint gonna beam it into ya… So once it’s negotiated down to $800 - it’s mostly labor of people involved in the process of taking it from pharmacy all the way inside you

I have friends that came over from Europe for hospital stay - they got the bill, sent their objection and the hospital reduced to the usual 35%. If you live in the US you always can buy insurance that will cap your max out of pocket to about $8k pre tax a year. Also if you’re employer doesn’t provide insurance - you’re probably in an “entry level job” that is not meant for long term employment, but rather quick money for young adults, who are still on their parents insurance (up to 27yo)

Probably because it’s not a real bill? These numbers bear no relation to money and nobody cares about them. The actual bill will be sent to insurance company, it will be 25-35% of this number, which is realistic given the cost of ultra modern equipment and high salaries for doctors. You will pay up to your maximum out of pocket, which is the real number you look at when shopping for a plan. Insurance for people who know they need lots of care is a bit more per month but has very low max out of pocket per year: $3-4k, super cheap plans for young people who never go to the hospital offer about $7k per year per person max. So this bill was never intended for the patient and there is no reason for this guy posting it except to grab some clicks and pity.

> It's a mistaken idea that the media should never ever publish a wrong fact, and if it does it's proof that it's broken. The media (or most of it) has to make tradeoffs between (for lack of a better term) future-historical accuracy, timeliness, and some other things. That means sometimes (maybe even often) it will publish something that turns out to be wrong, because if it didn't it would never publish anything that was timely.

Wow, this quite possibly is the stupidest thing I ever read on NH. No, there is no trade off between accuracy and timelessness! If you can’t guarantee accuracy then you can report that “a questionable pice of information that can’t be easily verified says X’. So that people who are into gossip can get their fix, while people who are only interested in undisputed facts do not. And yes - undisputed facts are where 99% of all people agree that this is a fact, rather than 49% or 53%. I also understand that it would eliminate 90% of news and stories, which admittedly is the point.

Is there a specific reason I should care about the local commission meeting? I honestly care even less about local news than nation wide, which I don’t care about at all.

Come to think of it - I agree. Anyone whose rights where violated can sue. The challenge of proving authorship and copyright still remains. Honestly not sure what if any available options (git commits, file headers) are really recognized. Basically I can claim that it is I that committed the code under a pseudonym that matches someones real name. Also you can find someone’s namesake etc.

I bet it’s next to impossible to prove copyright in this case. You would need to track down every last contributor and create a legally valid authorship evidence that is recognized under German legal doctrine. I would bet that having a email or even full name in a git repository is certainly not enough. This is exactly why for serious open-source projects that big companies depend on, they always creat a legal body, usually consortium and formally establish legal ownership of rights