grecy
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Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for the detailed reply, I appreciate it
Comment · 1 year ago
> If people try to doxx you, report them to the police without hesitation for harassment (and enhancements, if your local jurisdiction specifically outlaws doxxing). I cannot stress this enough.
I don't know who these people are, but it's 99% certain they don't live in the same country as I do.
I can't see how reporting this to my local little police force will do anything.
Comment · 1 year ago
> You could file a complaint to the California attorney general
Does it matter if I'm not in California? (or even the USA?)
Comment · 1 year ago
> It is mentioned in the site FAQ that they don't delete accounts.
I found another post [1] where someone was asking about account deletion and the linked part of the FAQ says:
We try not to delete entire account histories because that would gut the threads the account had participated in. However, we care about protecting individual users and take care of privacy requests every day, so if we can help, please email [email protected]. We don't want anyone to get in trouble from anything they posted to HN. More here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623799)"
I think protecting my young family from DOXing is a pretty valid reason.
Comment · 1 year ago
> There is still out-of-network healthcare in many countries with universal healthcare
Can you provide links?
I've personally used the healthcare systems in Australia and Canada for two decades each, and also for a short time in the UK. I've never heard of this.
Comment · 1 year ago
Lying and breaking the law are ok as long as everyone keeps making money.
Comment · 1 year ago
> And an entire genre of concierge medicine in America caters to rich Europeans (alongside rich Middle Easterners and Asians).
Yes, the systems in America favor the rich.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’ve been living on less than $40k a year my entire life. I’ve spent years driving around the world, snowboarding, hiking, camping.
I work the least amount possible to make it happen.
When my parents were getting close to retirement Dad an I ran the numbers a hundred different ways. I think the experts said they’d need $100k a year, and no matter what we did we couldn’t get it over $60k. Now in retirement it’s less than $50k.
I don’t know how people spend so much
Comment · 1 year ago
Absolutely you are 100% correct.
Socialized healthcare is not perfect.
But it is much, much better that what the US has now. Every other developed country spends vastly less and gets much better health outcomes. [1]
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Adopt socialized healthcare now, even though it is imperfect, and then work on improving it as time goes on. That is the path to making stuff better.
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health...
Comment · 1 year ago
It seems like Americans have a knack for coming up with the most convoluted ways of accessing healthcare that are still expensive and inconvenient. Your idea still require paying out of pocket, requires taking unpaid time off work, flights, relying on the healthcare system of a foreign country and more.
That is the worst possible "healthcare" situation I can imagine.
Dozens of countries have shown you pay a lot less and get much better outcomes [1] when you just provide healthcare to everyone all the time, the same way high school, roads and street lights are provided.
Why wouldn't you want that? Why on earth would you think flying to some foreign country is a better solution?
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_vs_heal...
