Oh sure, I’d be happy as a peach counting pigeons for an afternoon. Trouble is it’s only for an afternoon where the grocer had me on a two week schedule.
Then again, might not be hired to count pigeons again when I put twelve million pigeons on my tps report haha.
I don’t know anything about the writer, but this sure reads like the machine is doing more good than bad. Even touting that human jobs are being created, as if counting pigeons for an afternoon is sufficient to make up for having been replaced at the grocers by a machine.
Also, wouldn’t the machine needing to know how many pigeons you saw only need to know that because some other person asked it? In effect, isn’t this just ‘middle-machining’ a gig job between two people?
I half want to give it a go and just provide wrong results from my couch, collecting some of those sweet VC bucks.
Hey, be nice to the big company. This policy of shooting an email doesn’t undermine the profitability their addictive money machine. Won’t you think of the shareholders Mister Curtis?
It seems a little funny to claim I am here upholding an agenda. What I am is unsure. Unsure where you’ve read my moving goalposts when I have just stated I stand by my initial comment - which in fact does not lay the blame on the hospital, but the for profit healthcare industry in the United States.
Tell you the truth, this thread has drifted into a commentary on my word choices and my general disinterest in disclosing my career history to someone on the internet, so bringing this to a polite close isn’t something I’m willing to try for any further.
Consider my insufferable self to be backed down, apologetic, and thoroughly defeated.
Only a matter of time before these advanced printers begin printing themselves, then we’ll have to develop a 4D printer to fight them off!
That’s quite interesting. It reminds me of a group of people that are building a castle using period correct construction and material gathering techniques. I saw a Tom Scott video about it, I think they started in the 90’s or something.
Very cool to hear about. I’m glad people do these things, even if it’s sort of the first I’m learning of it. I’ll keep an eye out for such events in my area in the future. Thanks!
And that’s not counting the armor.
Are you a time travelling hedge knight?
What is it you’re getting up to that you could have a suitcase full of historically accurate clothing in any place outside a museum? Only thing that comes to my mind is renaissance festivals or similar, but I wouldn’t have thought accuracy was taken that seriously.
I don’t make it a habit to preface a general comment by preemptively stating why I may be qualified to weigh in on a topic. This is the internet after all, not really a formal setting. My qualifications are just as irrelevant as yours here. While we may have insight that others lack, we aren’t doing anything but commenting on an article.
Without going point for point as you have done, it should suffice to say that even now after I have reread this thread and what I wrote previously, the underpinning of my initial comment stands - these people were failed, and it shouldn’t have happened.
You sound like stealth camping extraordinaire Steve Wallis.
It’s quite funny to think ‘expensive thing’ could be just anything, like an orchestral harp or some of them jewels from the Louvre, and you’re just hanging out under a hedge with a copy of your insurance policy as a pillow haha.
You aren’t the only one whose work has involved medical insurance.
From my experience, it was quite uncommon for the practitioner themselves to be preparing and sending an invoice to the insurance company. Typically they would pass this off to the billing department, though in smaller places like a dental office I’ve seen the ‘billing department’ just be the front desk. It’s a touch misleading to equate the billing hospital with the doctor as if penning invoices is a shared responsibility between the two with each taking roughly equal part.
In any case, it’s irrelevant. I’m not here arguing minutia about on which continent the responsibility specifically failed, nor whatever individual made an error. The system failed these people, even if the end result was only a momentary heart rate increase from seeing a medical bill until a phone call resolved the issue.
If my underlying point remains unclear, I doubt I can clarify further.
I imagine an image of the Teletubbies vacuum with a label on its nozzle reading ‘apps’, a label on its hose reading ‘advertisers’, and a third label on the tank that reads ‘data brokers’.
I realise that, my connecting thought was that the hospital looking at their insurance policy should have been able to understand the pregnancy was covered. Even with it being unclear due to the contract’s wording, it should have triggered the billing department contacting the insurer for clarification.
That’s not how America works though, they operate on a ‘invoice first, ask questions later’ approach. If one in a thousand bills get paid without question, the superfluousness is considered justified. Oh well, I would add this to my list of reasons to avoid the country if it weren’t so long already.
As artists that go on tour, the US leg likely provides a significant chunk of their income. If they were just on vacation, that’s a different story.
Worth figuring out for them, as it boiled down to an administrative issue with unclear wording in the insurance contract.
Sylvester said the couple “made 100% sure Issy was insured to be pregnant, and any complications involving pregnancy whilst we were abroad were covered”.
Sylvester explained: “Essentially what they said is that we would have been covered had the baby not survived. But the fact was that the baby survived.”
“We weren’t going to be covered for that, because we didn’t put his name on the insurance policy.”
As someone that wouldn’t choose to travel into or through the United States, I can’t say I would be surprised if I got back home after this ordeal and the medical bills started showing up. US healthcare will charge for anything under the sun. I half expect visitors will be sent invoices for travelling in the vicinity of a hospital in the near future.
Good idea. I just looked at a drive I bought six months ago and it’s up 40% or so. Wish I’d have got two now.
In the statement “keep your religion outta my government”, the line between ‘keep your religious beliefs from influencing governmental decision making’ and ‘people belonging to a religion should be restricted from participating in the running of government’ is quite fine, which is why I asked.
I appreciate your answering.
Are you suggesting only agnostics should govern?
Talarico said in the interview he wants the separation of church and state to return as the current blend diminishes both.
In case anyone else has an attention span, here is the full video.
I wonder if it was a mechanical horse being controlled by a rabbit under the hat. Hmm.
This seems to be plausible only without significant wind in the middle of the ocean. If huge wind barriers can be set up without being blown over, then maybe this can be as ‘very realistic’ as this is claimed to be.
It’ll be cool to see in practice though.