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ACA (ObamaCare) is available. Your monthly cost for top tier coverage can be as low as ~$5 a month for a family of 4.

The qualifying income cap is based on you anticipated "Modified Adjusted Gross Income". They don't count assets. This means that if you may have losses that bring your income for the year down to the income limits, then you can honestly say that and get subsidies. If you currently don't have any income, but you can imagine yourself earning the minimum income in the calendar year, then you can claim that. (If you are lower than the minimum for ACA, you will get MediCal for free)

For example, in California, for a family of 4, if you can honestly estimate that after potential losses and potential earnings, your modified adjusted gross income would be between $39,750 - $53,000, you can get top tier coverage for ~ $5 a month, no co-pay, very low prescription costs.

If your situation changes (you start working again) you just notify the state and either pay a higher rate or cancel and use your new company's plan.

Search for "2022 ACA Income limits [your state]"

Here is the 2022 chart for California: https://www.coveredca.com/pdfs/FPL-chart.pdf


Thanks for the very informative answer!


Especially in British Columbia. The government is way forward in implementing "TrustOverIP.org" type DID/VC/ETC systems for interacting with the government


You're both sorta correct; cannibis in Canada is covered by Health Canada who's still taking reports via CSV upload. It's like a 4k column thing. And no IDs


BC's "orgBook"... running on Hyperledger Indy blockchain

https://www.orgbook.gov.bc.ca/en/home

This link has a search for Cannabis in BC's org book

https://www.orgbook.gov.bc.ca/en/search/name?query=cannabis&...


It's going to be a mix of federal, provincial, maybe even municipal government systems (e.g. business licenses for cannabis retail). I imagine they'll have a hybrid of new-, old-, and low-tech like many other areas. Somehow people will muddle through.


Generally speaking, In the model of VCs et al espoused by TrustOverIP... the user's "Did" is never publically exposed.

The only DID that goes into some sort of Trust Registry is the DID of a PUBLIC ISSUER. (eg. GLIEF, Good Health Pass Coalition", etc._

For the user's did, it is primarily exchanged off chain, in a unique pairwise manner. So the user has a different DID for each relationship, and that DID is not publically disclosed anywhere.

Check out the Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint for one such Governance Framework which will publish by end of month. https://wiki.trustoverip.org/download/attachments/76241/GHPC...


I am inspired by Aaron's memory in an on-going manner as I try to walk in his footprints as a fellow ThoughtWorker...

https://www.thoughtworks.com/news/thoughtworks-mourns-aaron-...


On of my favorite memories is talking about this RFC with Jon Postel. RIP.


I commend you for the attempt...

But the issue you are trying to mitigate (heavy tokens due to complex scope strategy) is a symptom of a bigger problem that has caused OAuth-using folks to scratch their heads for a long while. (of course, also realtes to non-Oauth JWTs)

Tldr: The new "Cloud native" way of solving for this is to not push your "Permissions" thru the token.

Basically, you limit the scopes included in a token to just a few basic ones (essentially assigning the user to a "Role" - think RBAC)....

... and then you use a modern Authorization approach (e.g. CNCF Open Policy Agent) to implement the detailed/fine grain authorization.

Its hella cool, declarative, distributed, and infinitely scalable...

... and it obviates the whole "heavy JWT" issue before it starts....

Source: This is what I do day in day out in my day job....


What libraries or services do you recommend using to implement that very approach?


My current favorite Shiny new thing: www.Grain.co


Can confirm the "new way of working" when it comes to video clips ...

I have made it a part of my worklife to share with co-workers EDITED video highlights of zoom calls and training sessions. This includes conference talks I find on youtube (e.g. Kubecon talks) that I want to have colleagues view.

I can usually cut down an hour talk/call. to around 5-20 minutes of good high impact content.

Historically, I just record in the cloud on Zoom (using all the nice extra features around auto-transcript, recording speaker and shared screen separately, etc... ) and edit it in Adobe Premier.

I've got the manual workflow down where this is something I don't do every day.. but several times a week is fine. Editing ain't pretty, but it is effective.

Since the lockdown, I have been working on the other end of the "pipeline"... the INPUT to Zoom. After a couple of false starts (OBS, CamTwist, Wirecast...). I ended up implementing Ecamm Studio Pro....

Looking forward to exploring your tool....


Can you talk about the value you've gotten out of doing this? It sounds very interesting, but also fairly effort-intensive. Does it also help you remember meeting takeaways, because you're actively reviewing your recent day or two?


I do this for my video courses. 10 hours of raw material becomes around 4 hours of course video.

It’s super labor intensive but once you get in the flow it’s surprisingly easy/quick. Especially if you’re okay cutting 10h down to 6h instead of 4h.

And yes it makes you know the material incredibly well. Way better even than the prep for and creating of the raw stuff.


I do it mostly so I don't have to repeat myself. :)

I use the clips so that others can gain from the kernals of wisdom those clips provide... without having to commit to some portion of an hour to find the kernal themselves.

Saves everyone time and enforces compliance to decisions made )

Also, of course, by manually editing down a deeply technical discussion from an hour to 20 minutes helps me REALLY listen and understand what the speaker is saying....and so it also helps me to continue improve my knowledge...


I can't help but think you've found a more complicated and less efficient way to achieve the same thing as writing up an off-the cuff talk afterwards.

Personally I loathe the spoken word as a medium for efficient transmission of information. Reading and skim-reading is an order of magnitude faster.

And writing up something I've spoken is the perfect way to focus and clarify.


LOL.... I know what you are saying,

It's interesting how different people process information.

All I can say is that it works for me.... and I find it to be highly impactful on my co-workers etc.

There is something about capturing nuance that "multimedia" really helps with....

So my mission is to reduce the effort it takes for me to do this to less then it takes to just write up and share notes...


Do you have any examples of talks that you've edited?


I'll look to see if there is anything I can share publicly...


As a fellow workflow efficiency nerd.. I salute you. Would love to learn about your manual workflows sometime.


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