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Bigger hospitals can afford to have a modest administrative cost because there are fixed (as opposed to variable costs that scale with patients served and departments funded) that scale and amortize in huge organizations. Small hospitals (let's say somewhere in Iceland) either have to do without fancy tech/better staff that usually command more $$$, or have to spend more, increasing their overhead. In reality and to be fair, it's better to compare their patient outcomes and financials in-depth rather than looking at the overhead percentages only.

I worked for one of those "non-profit" hospitals / higher-ed institutions. The one I was at was "non-profit" in name, but just as profit-hungry as upscale hospitals. There's a 2-D continuum of patient care quality and profit-motivated care (cost to patient and cost to insurance).

Jesus H. I ran into a gal with stage iv cancer and a nasal infusion pump who was on her way to a bankruptcy hearing. That's just insane and inhumane how insurance companies and hospitals in the US suck all the money they can out of dying people like proverbial vampires, until patients are fighting to keep a house, a car and the clothes on their back.

It's a code smell whenever a function doesn't fit on a page or has more than 2 levels of indentation. Smaller functions are easier to test, easier to read and easier to debug. Leviathan kitchen-sink functions are a sign of slap-dash engineering.

Disclaimer: I worked for a bit in Trimble's radio group. AMA about GPS circa 10 years ago. haha.

That is really, really cool. I'm sure all sorts of jamming detectors will follow suit due to the ease-of-use.

It's important for sensible organizations to have a succession plan and alternates for all leadership positions.

Far be it from me to recommend CoC's, as they don't seem to add anything more than ostensible aspirations, but has anyone seen the social rules (guidelines) from NYC's Recurse.com?

https://www.recurse.com/manual#sub-sec-social-rules (via Pony lang CoC)

Certainly there are people who seem like there's no one home or that they're innately antisocial, but I'd say that a sizable fraction of sociopathic behavior stems from the rich/affluent who are more isolated from other people and from the consequences of their behavior. The rigged Monopoly game study seems to indicate that having more changes people, that resources emboldens some people with self-important hubris over others.

It's interesting that delusions of grandeur or persecution seem to be common among people who haven't accomplished very much or who are in bad circumstances. I used to talk to this relatively-sane, non-drug-using older homeless guy who repeatedly claimed the FBI has a file on him. IMHO, losers make wild, unsubstantiated claims while successful achievers point out minor, trivial flaws and shortcomings about themselves (if you're small, act big; if you're big, act small.)

Yes.

And also: Chekhov, Nabokov. Of course: Tolstoy for those super-sized tomes that give you a free workout.

When at least one AV vendor has a signature, https://virustotal.com is your friend.

There are a range of harms that are reasonably excusable and then those that are inexcusable. It's when people are excessively or inconsistently unreasonable that you're better off not associating with them and their BS. It's unreasonable to reason with an unreasonable person.

Apologies mean nothing without a believable promise to not behave similarly in the future. Furthermore, "sorry" doesn't excuse all behaviors. Doing something shitty like closing someone's account without warning and without an appeal process is inexcusable.

Definitely.

Antifa/anarchists/violent revolutionaries/terrorists carry water for their nemesis: property owners and the afraid middle-class lean on government and the "tough-on crime" right to maintain order by any means to the end. Nonviolent obstruction is the only practical, legitimate path to change that's proven to work.

Unpopular and controversial works are worth understanding, not book-burning/censorship because we don't like the author or their views.

Consider the several major factors in a given theft:

- economic hardship and/or thrill-seeking behavior - the former is influenced by economic conditions, economic equality and substance abuse

- perceived value of item

- perceived risk of getting caught

- perceived penalty if caught

Smh. Poe's law disclaimer wink added.

It would suck to be in the control group. ;)

Also, as my grandfather was a paratrooper: parachuting isn't a risk free activity even when the main canopy deploys properly, i.e., broken limbs on landing. And it's remotely possible to survive a fall without a parachute from terminal velocity height, i.e., Vesna Vulović. Edit: <- Edge-cases contrary to the obvious.

Maybe there's a market for large organizations with public membership to buy sex abuse insurance?

Minimum feature-set of a sensible psephocracy:

- no campaigning or special interest ads a week before voting

- only public funding and named individual small donations for public servant campaigns: no PACs, no super-PACs, no huge check fundraisers and no dark-money SIGs.

- nationally-unified, same-day voting, no prior registration required

- nationally-unified, three prior weeks of voting-by-mail

- media blackout on counts until all final results are in

- overturn Citizens' United (by amendment via state legislatures)

- eliminate the primary

- end the Electoral College

- free & open source tech unified, national e-voting system, open for all to audit

- public blockchain for permanent results

- printed receipt with barcode of hash saved in the blockchain

- ranked choice voting (as it provides an instant run-off should the favorite be disqualified, die or resign; also provides N picks for boards, vice positions and directors)

It's a pervasive cardinal sin for "working really hard yet still poor" people to hate on homeless people: to say they're faking, using drugs, crazy, lazy, etc. It's mean and evil, but unfortunately very common.

"Homeless" for 9 years in the Valley. AMA.

There's a spectrum of cynicism: realistic based on facts and cognitive distortions not based in reality. Any curious, conscientious, honest, non-magical-thinking human being would more or less be on the border of anomous omnicide most of the time.

Oh boy, let's reinvent all of the reliability, tooling and knowledge of TCP in an upper-layer protocol on top of UDP! That won't be complicated, error-prone, unreliable, break compatibility or reinventing-the-wheel at all! /sarcasm