Christian healthcare sharers do precisely this. By restricting services and the population addressed (your pastor or priest must sign off on your application), everything's extremely affordable. In particular, as we don't drink, do drugs, use contraceptives etc. we don't pay for coverage of them or their side effects. Obesity's also less of an issue.
There's also the trick of telling the hospital you'll pay "in cash" and getting a 10x lower bill from the hospital, then getting that reimbursed/covered by your private or alternative insurance.
Christians don't drink or use contraceptives? I think you have to have a pretty extreme "no true Scotsman" attitude to make such a claim. Even the drugs claim is pretty specious.
> Beyond restricting maternity coverage, many groups’ policies state that they won’t reimburse for prescriptions, routine doctor’s visits, contraceptives or mental health or substance use services. Coverage for medical conditions that predate someone’s membership is often excluded, as well. And health care sharing ministries aren’t required by law to limit out-of-pocket costs or maintain large cash reserves to cover members’ bills the way insurance companies are.
So are you still allowed real wine at communion then? A bottle of beer after working on your car all day? I know some christians who preach "100% dry", others are more relaxed. Some are fine with contraceptives (including many Pentecostals, which is how I was raised), quite a few overweight people, etc. And they're just as christian as you are.
It sounds like you're going for the "unlikely to need it" plans, which go broke when you actually get sick..
"The elements of the Eucharist, sacramental bread—either leavened or unleavened—and sacramental wine (among Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox) or non-alcoholic grape juice (among Methodists, Baptists and Plymouth Brethren), are consecrated on an altar or a communion table and consumed thereafter."
Top of the line laptops from e.g. 2019 are very cheap and still competitive with current hardware for realistic use. You can find one with an i9 and 64gb of ram for $5-600, you'll just need to plug it in after a few hours!
Don't go ANYWHERE near a macbook pro 2019. Piece of garbage. I had to set mine to 100% fans and it went from 100% to 0% battery in 70 mins when I was streaming a meeting PLUGGED IN WITH A 90W CHARGER! The next time I buy Intel is NEVER.
The 2019 MBP series had serious thermal issues, and a high failure rate. They became insanely hot. Mine died 3 weeks after falling out of AppleCare - just switched off and never on during usage. A friend with the same model had the same thing happending just a few months after. You hardly see any of those still in use (which might also be because people upgrade to M-Series chips which are way better).
For laptops specifically, opening them up and blowing all the dust out can be a huge difference. After that, if the fan is making noise, it's not worth attempting recovery. If attempting this, consider whether your source is cheap enough in the case your test exposes this.
Blowing the dust out does run into the problem of some laptops being designed to only open with use of a chainsaw. I've ruined a couple laptops that way.
I enjoyed working on campus for a bit - because I also lived there, sleeping, eating, showering etc. and saved a lot of money! Of course, you have to hide that and they eventually caught me...
Basically, we're looking for 3 people to document and test access, building and maintenance for many client projects or build out systems automating that. The role name is bad, it's essentially looking for sysadmins or devops people. This division operates like a trust and on a trigger (like client death), we will continue to operate their web systems. We have legal and financial structures to do this "forever", although things are at an early stage.
Send resumes to info @ our website with the subject line of "career"
Note, half of compensation takes form of bonuses. As most employees are remote around the world with different regulatory environments, we can't offer traditional benefits. Base compensation is ~80.000 USD.
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Narraduct is a commodities focused consultancy and hedge fund, building tools for mining and energy companies, primarily in Central Asia and S. America. Knowledge of accounting, chemistry, geology or industrial engineering is a huge bonus. We appreciate knowledge of multiple languages and curiosity about exotic paradigms. More than anything, we look for people who will fit in and help us create value. We can make roles for good fits!
We primarily use Common Lisp, with some Go, Racket and Prolog running on Linux and BSD. Some client facing stuff may feature Tcl or Clojure. We are also looking for a graphic designer or ui/ux expert who like preweb style interfaces with prouser experiences.
Even though we don't have other roles currently listed, if this sounds fun to you, do send us an email!
I find it rare to be able to think of things worth typing faster than 10-15 "wpm" equivalent of code. And typically much less, perhaps a few loc per day.
> Microtasks for Meatbags — the future: AI gives prompts, humans execute
That's close to how many companies, plans etc. work today. We manage big groups of people and systems, as syncretic holes. Sometimes a human, sometimes a computer is better at one task.
Narraduct is a commodities focused consultancy and hedge fund, building tools for mining and energy companies, primarily in Central Asia and S. America. Knowledge of accounting, chemistry, geology or industrial engineering is a huge bonus. We appreciate knowledge of multiple languages and curiosity about exotic paradigms. More than anything, we look for people who will fit in and help us create value. We can make roles for good fits!
We primarily use Common Lisp, with some Go, Racket and Prolog running on Linux and BSD. Some client facing stuff may feature Tcl or Clojure. We are also looking for a graphic designer or ui/ux expert who like preweb style interfaces with prouser experiences.
Note, half of compensation takes form of bonuses. As most employees are remote around the world with different regulatory environments, we can't offer traditional benefits.
Send resumes to info @ our website with the subject line of "career"
There's also the trick of telling the hospital you'll pay "in cash" and getting a 10x lower bill from the hospital, then getting that reimbursed/covered by your private or alternative insurance.