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by georgek 3y ago
HealthSherpa, a YC startup launched right here on HN and built on top of the government’s backend, now enrolls more people in ACA coverage than Healthcare.gov.
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by georgek 7y ago
Great work guys! This could be very useful for us. Some feedback for our use case: 1. We’re in healthcare, so data privacy / security and HIPAA compliance are a must. One way to limit this problem might be by architecting it so that ou
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by georgek 7y ago
As a Greek person I love it when people use our ordinary words as fancy words!
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by georgek 8y ago
FWIW I remember this question being posed about our batch (Summer 2012) which had ~80 companies in it.
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by georgek 8y ago
Just a clarification: federal judges (like the one in this article) are appointed by the President and confirmed by Congress. They are not elected and do not have constituents in the same way elected officials do.
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by georgek 8y ago
For context, the title is a reference to the play, "The Lion in Winter"
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by georgek 8y ago
Interestingly enough, that's also a strong argument for the death penalty. We cede the right of private retribution and the state assumes that responsibility, carrying it out in a more structured and ostensibly fair way than mob justic
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by georgek 8y ago
The more titillating version would be to crawl Backpage or similar successor service for phone numbers of escorts and correlate that with known phone numbers of public figures such as politicians to determine when both were in the same plac
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by georgek 8y ago
This is a slippery slope for Google, and raises questions about their handling of ads for other industries where questionably ethical and/or illegal ads are run on Google. As an example from my industry (full disclosure- as cofounder o
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by georgek 8y ago
That's because there ar
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HealthSherpa (YC S12) has processed more than 3% of healthcare.gov enrollments(blog.healthsherpa.com)
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by georgek 13y ago
I'm George, cofounder of HealthSherpa (YC S'12). Plans cost the same, whether purchased on our site or through healthcare.gov.
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by georgek 13y ago
Dan- one of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act is that 64yr olds can't pay more than 3x the premiums of 20-somethings. Prior to the ACA the difference was on the order of 8-11x - so younger, healthier people are paying more and
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by georgek 14y ago
Congrats to the Kamcord team! Looking forward to watching you guys dominate the space.
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by georgek 14y ago
In the past I couldn't be bothered to deal with recording / saving my "performances" but in the 1-2 games I play where Kamcord is supported I now basically record everything cause its fast and easy. No noticeable performance / FPS hit eithe
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by georgek 14y ago
+1. I really like the intuitive interface and the speed with which I can conduct analysis. It would be great to have a library of feeds for each user that is automatically curated / updated. This library could include both public datasets (
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by georgek 14y ago
Transactions that occur in dark pools (over half the liquidity on NYSE listed stocks these days) typically get posted to the exchange after the fact. This used to cause anonymous hedge fund I used to work for all kinds of problems in the le
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by georgek 14y ago
this may be because there are human remains at the second site, which makes it a war grave. its against federal law to disturb those IIRC