guynamedloren

Perfect. Instant buy for me if they can deliver on their promises. No other car in recent memory has spoken to my minimalist frugal engineering mind like this one. Hope my 2000 4runner lasts until the Slate gets delivered to my door!

Fuck. Reading the original post on Something Awful, then your experience in 2021 in the days leading up, and then this all these years later... it's just harrowing. I'm so sorry.

Wondering the same. I couldn't make it through the article. Fascinating discovery, but poorly written and difficult to navigate the author's thoughts. The interstitial quotes were particularly disorienting.

Incredible. Congrats, enjoy the fruits of your hard work!

I’m confused. You say that you “go to” an annual event, but then you describe it at a massive private festival that you’re self organizing. Which is it?

> Known limitations:

> - Lets an AI completely take over your computer

:)

Read the whole article (quite a fascinating story!) yet this key detail is still unclear to me: why is the state fighting the divers on this? What do they have to gain, or to lose, in the matter? If it is some historically insignificant ship, as the state claims, what's the risk in letting the divers salvage it?

This very much resonates with my recent experience. I've searched for a tiny, battery efficient music player for exercising and backpacking trips, and there's just nothing of reputable quality out there made today. All low quality Amazon junk. I miss my Sandisk clip from ~10 years ago!

> Total fraud in that case was $900 million, for a only 500 patients, or almost $2M per patient.

That seems so outside the bounds of reality that I'm questioning if it's what happened here. I can't imagine how that would pass any kind of sniff test by Medicare.

Quote from the article: "In less than two years, more than $900 million in bogus claims were submitted to Medicare for grafts that were used on fewer than 500 patients, prosecutors said."

The alternative interpretation of this is that the grafts were _applied_ to 500 patients, but potentially many many more were billed for grafts that they didn't need (and didn't receive). Maybe more feasible?

Horrible, disgusting, yet not at all surprising. I don't know what medical billing accountability looks like in this dizzyingly complex system, but as a US citizen and patient of the US healthcare system, it looks barely existent. My family has fought our fair share of bogus healthcare charges. One instance: after my daughter was born at a birthing center (independent of a hospital), my wife experienced postpartum complications and was transferred to a nearby hospital for care. As if that experience wasn't stressful and traumatic enough, many months later we were hit with a surprise charge from the hospital for treatment and care of our newborn baby - the baby that was delivered hours earlier, in a separate location, that never left my arms in the hospital!

All that to say - it's alarmingly easy for a charge to get processed in a batch of other charges, and either insurance pays it without question, or the patient pays it unknowingly. During our experience, we learned that this kind of thing is exceedingly common. The power dynamic between patients and healthcare administration severely misaligned, the information imbalance is huge, and the patient is always in a compromised position.

The article doesn't include details on how they tracked down these criminals (I'm curious to know!), but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if this is just the tip of the iceberg.

This may surprise you, but it's possible to be completely obsessed with your work (while you're working!), while also maintaining a work-life balance.

Pork? Huh? Feed them to pigs?

I may be naive, but I'm not sure where the hate is coming from in this thread. It's no secret that Google search result quality has rapidly and consistently diminished over the past few years, a common topic of discussion here on HN. Many folks, myself included, have developed a habit of appending "reddit" in Google searches by default. And reddit's native search, on the other hand, is just abysmal. If this partnership results in finding quality and timely content in reddit faster, then I'm all for it. Net positive IMO.