Customer/Doctor/Insurance is the classic blame triangle.

I'd guess the majority of those success stories are invisible to the end user.

e.g. simply keeping the company afloat via PE cash.

If I recall correctly, this is what happened to Hilton Hotels. They were collapsing during the housing crisis.

A slightly different scenario but Hertz is a PE success story. It was owned by Ford and bought by a private equity firm. Now it's a standalone company making mint.

Were those roll-ups though? I see a poster below says the private equity fund was only involved for the last acquisition, but no one can deny Muse Group/Ultimate Guitar went on a shopping spree. They looked like they were trying to gain control over a whole segment and start squeezing (well, except for that open source projects aren't that easy to squeeze). No wonder people freaked out over the telemetry, it was reasonable to fear the worst. But everything went better than expected.

Valid point! I believe they weren't.

beg your pardon?

I appreciate the opportunity to clarify; I see I wasn't clear earlier.

    sfm42: "MC should buy a hospital and fix it!"
    cmiles8: "MC isn't some armchair pundit, he has improved similar areas!"

cmiles8 sounds like he's criticizing sfm42 as though he thinks MC is just whining.

However, the rebuttal reinforces the idea that MC really should buy a hospital and go fix it.

MC has money, willpower, and a proven track record of improving this area.

So go do it, Mark.

Walk the walk.

I see now, but I don't think buying a hospital is the solution here, a hospital by itself is just a single unit in a broken system, but that single piece is thousand times more complex than reducing drugs prices.

Reminds me of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma which cause such a huge news buzz back in 2009ish for publishing packaged pricing. Brilliant move. (And they still do it!)

I remember the Econtalk episode with the co-founder, "Keith Smith on Free Market Health Care" [0]

0. https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...

hopefully the MD that passes all the tests is still worth his salt even if he only chose the profession for the paycheck.

but as one of the nearby professors is famous for saying: "C students gotta go somewhere."

( and since this is HN - he didn't mean the programming language :D )

It's definitely a normal-sounding, memorable word for us native English speakers.

Meanwhile I won't be able to remember that German word longer than it takes me to close this tab. Vershumthingsomething.

Interesting way to say "never".

OK how is this on the homepage? The title means nothing without clicking the link and... I generally refuse to click on clickbait just to see whether there's a hook in it.

It's a pun on The Onion's repeating headline about gun deaths in the US ("only country where...") [1] . I thought it was pretty clear before I clicked it it was going to be talking about security vulnerabilities in C, but I live close to that world so I might be a biased audience.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...

Wow, thanks! Somehow I've missed the 39 times the Onion has carried that headline. I guess I'm part of today's 10,000.

RIP Tim Heidecker.

My guess is its almost exclusively due to the reference its making to the similarly titled Onion article. The actual article linked is basically a cut and paste replacing gun violence with memory vulnerabilities.

Clicking on the link does not help either save the rightful first impression.

because it's a fad-ish response right now.

A decade ago every "omg just use [answer]!" was to suggest blockchain solve your problem.

Every possible problem seemed to have a solution that involved blockchain.

... now that "[answer]" is always "AI".

So I get his sense of cringe... while also acknowledging I had the same thought. We've never been better at pattern matching, pattern identification, OCR, translating across languages... seems like a great use of an LLM.