> There really seems to be no loophole or workaround despite there being huge incentive for there to be one.

My spam folder constantly receiving new messages from political campaigns under new lists and org names begs to disagree. One donation in 2008 and I'm simply trapped in the system with no recourse.

Seems like the rules selectively don't apply to certain classes.

Sorry, what? This statement feels like the exception, not the norm for most people who have attended college.

I no longer limit my carbs, but when I eat carbs they come from rice and potatoes instead of wheat because I wore a CGM for two-week periods of time multiple times last year and the year prior and found that wheat was always the number one culprit spiking my blood sugar which would result in massive carb crashes, which overall affected my energy levels which snowball into negative second-order effects on my feelings of productivity and mood.

The biopsy was indeterminate, and instead of immediately sending it out for a second opinion or molecular testing they decided to wait until I could see my specialist before giving me the options. I immediately told them to go for the second opinion and to check about insurance approval for molecular testing.

They had no idea how to bill me for molecular testing because the pathologist for some reason never suggested it in their report (which I later learned from another peer specialist at another hospital that molecular testing would have been written on the report for insurance approval purposes).

My insurance adamantly insisted that it would be covered, and then turned around and told my hospital that I would have to pay nearly six thousand dollars out of pocket.

The second opinion took three weeks, which concurred with the original pathology report and finally put the magic words "recommend molecular testing" on paper which got insurance to approve it. But rather than push it through, my specialist decided to play phone tag with me for a couple more days to make sure I was okay with the fifty dollar copay.

This entire process, from start to finish, took six and a half weeks to learn that the biopsy sample was benign and nothing to worry about. Now imagine if this were a serious thing and that I needed to have surgery as soon as possible. A six and a half week feedback loop to begin scheduling surgery (every surgeon for this issue in my area was booked at least five weeks out) may as well be a death sentence.

I've come to the conclusion that in this country, even if you are extremely proactive and aggressive about advocating for your own health, it's still not enough. You have to supplement this with something proactive like a full body examination in a foreign country (i.e. Japan's Ningen Dock system), otherwise you risk dying from the apathy and bureaucracy of the American medical system.

From the FBI's own data[1], which is used as the main citation of this post, these were the homicide rates per 100k for the past eleven years:

2012: 4.7

2013: 4.5 (-0.2)

2014: 4.4 (-0.1)

2015: 4.9 (+0.5)

2016: 5.4 (+0.5)

2017: 5.3 (-0.1)

2018: 5.0 (-0.3)

2019: 5.1 (+0.1)

2020: 6.5 (+1.4)

2021: 6.8 (+0.3)

2022: 6.3 (-0.5)

Using this data, the same headline could have been run in 2018. This number is +1.2 pre-pandemic.

[1]: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crim...

Their "full flat" (the Business section) boards at any time because the seats are to the left as you enter the plane, but the rest of the cabin begins boarding from the rear rows first in groups of something like ten or twenty rows at a time.

> REVR could cost as little as $5k without rebates and can be installed in under a day.

What are the conditions in which it "could" cost this amount, and has it already been achieved?

If you'd really rather not go the monetization of job seekers route, one suggestion would be to try and sell this to people running upskill programs i.e. coding bootcamps as a product they could give their students/graduates access to.

https://twitter.com/0xCygaar/status/1688592430315036672

The USDC contract also allows for the freezing of addresses.

PayPal's stablecoin contract allows for the freezing of funds in any given address.

This is a strange statement. I grew up in the Bay Area and a CD player was in my hands/in the back pocket of my backpack for the longest time. It wasn't until the second iPod Mini that I even knew what an iPod was.

You're right, I was lashing out at the general vitriol in every comments section involving cryptocurrency. GP, I'm sorry you caught a stray.

> we can say that it's probably never going to be a reality where NFTs are the solution for cross-game item trading.

I don't see the model with today's system either, but I'm going to leave it to people smarter and more ambitious than myself to figure it out.

> Not sure why you needed this passive-aggressive hyperbole

I'm simply done with the portion of the HN readership that decides to switch over to Reddit Mode whenever the topic of crypto comes up. It's simply anti-intellectual cargo culting drivel.

> do you have any issues with people criticising NFTs?

Nope, I have my own criticism of NFTs and cryptocurrency. But I don't believe it's good for the health of HN to continue seeing the same vitriolic ad hominem every time the topic comes up. There's plenty of ways to give good criticism of the space, i.e. Moxie[1]

Again, reiterating that GP caught a stray in this context. The general outline of this response to you could in theory be its own top level comment.

[1]: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html