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HN: Name a problem, any problem, you'd like to see someone solve
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#32I would like to see our health care costs go down by an open source "health care menu" system being created - where people can enter, for example, "gastroscopy" into a field - tell where they got it, how long it took, how much it cost, and a theory as to WHY...and then an opportunity for other people to input their information on the healthcare costs...create an open market so lower cost providers will steal business from more expensive ones...and so we can actually LOOK at why a 30-minute procedure can POSSIBLY cost $3,000.
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#33p = np? haha, just kidding. Actually, my issue is this: how do we get the average Joe to understand (formal) logic and probability (so that we can get people to understand the aspects of risk better)?
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#34How to acquire masses of medical data from patients' records for use in medical research without causing concerns over privacy issues.
I don't know, but it's a brilliant idea.
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#35ok check it out i have bank accounts and the money is mine my grandpa had passed away and he had left all is fundings to me ad my family had tkin the papers adn destoyed now i ae all th information too get into the account like routing number etc i jjst cant transfer the funds because i guess he needs to approve whatever i am totalyl looking for some one who is a little more advanced on the hacking into bank accounts i guess you can say welli willt otaly apreciate if someone got back with me thank you lmuch
bonnie
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#36Creating a substantial and culturally diverse world that runs without money.
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#37A way to automatically change double byte romaji characters to single byte
Try this in Python?
import codecs
fin = codecs.open('input.txt', 'rb', 'shift-jis')
fout = codecs.open('output.txt', 'wb', 'utf-8')
try:
fout.write(fin.read())
except ValueError:
print "Not encoded using Shift-JIS!"
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#38Here's a problem that I just realized bothers me way too much. I despise the SEO industry. It is polluting the web with useless content that shadows actually useful one. Places like odesk/freelancer.com are bombarded with requests for "article writers" to churn out "articles" with a level of writing lower than the average highschooler. Massive amounts of fake facebook accounts with fake friends, fake twitter followers, fake +1's, and fake links are manufactured every day.
How do you make it unprofitable for SEO's to game the system?
/rant
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#39Why is it so hard to choose health insurance? And then, once you're in the system, why is it so hard to keep up with all the paperwork, etc. I grew up in Canada and after living in the States for 10 years, it's been so frustrating to navigate the health care system, and I'm a healthy person. I can't imagine how people who are sick have time and energy to put towards getting better when they are consumed with just "ge…
On this note, as someone who just moved from Canada with a special-needs child, and let me tell you, the US is light-years ahead of Canada. You mentioned you are healthy, so I can only assume your experience is fairly limited. Myself, and mostly my wife, have experienced both of these systems (coming back to the US just last year), and she absolutely loves the American system. Having seen the results myself, I can't…
Hi there :) I wanted to clarify, I'm not talking about the quality of care. I'm talking about just the act of choosing which health care you should get and then keeping up with all the paperwork once you're sick. I've been outside of Canada for the past 12 years, but when I've gone to the doctor in the states for something as simple as stitches or a bad cold, I've always been amazed at how complicated it is in terms of bills and co-pays etc. I know that everyone things the system is so great, but I agre with you, it's not. It's ugly. People wait months for critical cat scans. Surgery is often cancelled or bumped. And patients regularly abuse the system rather than be proactive about their health. So in summary (sorry this got so long!!) neither system is perfect, but when I came to the states, I felt like I was just totally blind as I was choosing which insurance to get. I'd love to see someone fix the issue of helping people choose the right health care that's best for them, make best use of the FSA system, and manage bills / paperwork in a more efficient way.
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#40Why is it still so hard to drop a file on a LAN from one laptop to another (except for Apple's AirDrop goodness)??? I mean the easiest way to get a file from my Mac to your Win7 laptop is still a USD stick. Sucks.