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ambulancisto t1_je6w6q7 wrote

Reply to comment by JetScootr in TIL Early drones were developed during the First World War. These radio controlled planes were primarily for target practice but by 1942 a drone with a built in TV camera was capable of delivering a torpedo to a ship 20 miles from the controller. by jamescookenotthatone

What's amazing is that there were drones that could be piloted with TV. TV was in its infancy. I know the Germans had some TV guided missiles, but talk about bleeding edge tech for the early 1940s...

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ambulancisto t1_j9m6uau wrote

Reply to comment by AwTekker in Dutch intelligence services have warned that Russia is "covertly mapping" key energy infrastructure in the North Sea, in preparation for possible sabotage attacks. by green_flash

Soviet military maps are amazingly good. For a long time they were the absolute best my maps available of a lot of remote places around the world. They came on the market after the fall of the USSR, but I think you can find a lot of them online now, as they're rather out of date.

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ambulancisto t1_j3q6qu5 wrote

Reply to comment by worldtravelstephanie in I am Stephanie, and I spent time amongst arctic/Siberian nomads. AMA! by worldtravelstephanie

My wife is a Kazakh city girl, but if someone comes to our house to visit, she's basically pathologic about feeding them. And yes, guest of honor sits at the head of the table as far from the door as possible (warmest place in yurt).

My theory is that in nomad society, if someone visited you, they'd probably ridden a LONG way and would arrive pretty hangry, so you just have to start feeding them. Usually manty, bursak, or beshparmak.

Congrats on learning Kazakh. It's a bitch of a language. Wife speaks Russian, but only understands Kazakh so-so.

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ambulancisto t1_ixasbl4 wrote

Reply to comment by yttikat in My Vietnamese parents at the Red square, Russia, probably 1986. They lived there while my mom went to med school. by yttikat

She would have had a very very hard time practicing as a doctor in the US. Russian medical education isn't really comparable. A LOT of Russian doctors come to the US and find out it's just incredibly difficult to be licensed here. They often go into an easier, medicine-related field. It can be done, but it's super hard.

She would have been able to practice in other countries though. Mexico, Brazil maybe, etc.

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ambulancisto t1_iuk8kd9 wrote

Reply to comment by revutap in A billing expert investigated her husband's ER bill. She was able to knock thousands off the charge. by 11ej25

Not much I suspect. Do that with a Medicare patient and you fall under the False Claims Act: a civil war era law that punishes people who overcharge (i.e. defraud) the government. It encourages whistleblowers to turn in their companies/bosses, because the whistleblower gets a cut of the recovery. I saw a doctor get fined $800k, plus had to pay back all the profits, for ordering nonFDA approved chemo medicines from Canada to give to his patients. I'm sure someone in his office turned him in.

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