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So are automobiles and 120V AC current, but we use both because they are convenient.

by vkou 3y ago

deadbabe 3y ago
I don’t have much sympathy for the inconvenience of therapists charging $300/hr+ per session.
- vkou 3y ago
  You have a therapist? That must be nice, there's a shortage of them, none of them are taking new patients, and they can charge whatever they want, and use whatever tools they want.
  - deadbabe 3y ago
    Yes, I had a therapist. I paid $200 per session each week.
- itishappy 3y ago
  What's your rate?
mindslight 3y ago
Sure, then pedantry - Digitized therapy notes are a bad idea, while "digitized" generally continues to mean some bucket-of-stomach-fluid EMR vendor's obtuse SaaS (Software Augmented with Arbitrary Surveillance) webapp running on SaaS Google Ads Chrome on top of SaaS Microsoft OG-negligence Windows. It's like if "automobiles" all had cell modems in them, ran some minimum viable functionality Swiss cheese security embedded software, could be remotely controlled from the Internet, and the only things keeping mass destruction at bay is the lack of documentation and the fact that individual humans generally don't want to hurt one another. uh, maybe I need a different example.
- vkou 3y ago
  > It's like if "automobiles" all had cell modems in them, ran some minimum viable functionality Swiss cheese security embedded software, could be remotely controlled from the Internet, and the only things keeping mass destruction at bay is the lack of documentation and the fact that individual humans generally don't want to hurt one another. uh, maybe I need a different example. And nobody outside of Hacker News cares about any of that. All they care about is getting from point A to point B, never mind that ~1,300,000 people are killed by by crashes every year and that we're poisoning our planet with them[1]. It's possible that I chose them as an example deliberately and cynically, as opposed to pedantically. --- [1] Both of which are far more pressing concerns than some Martian super-hacker pwning my car, but it's all worth the convenience of not having to get into a bus, or on a train.

So are automobiles and 120V AC current, but we use both because they are convenient.

by vkou 3y ago

So are automobiles and 120V AC current, but we use both because they are convenient.

deadbabe 3y ago

I don’t have much sympathy for the inconvenience of therapists charging $300/hr+ per session.

vkou 3y ago
You have a therapist? That must be nice, there's a shortage of them, none of them are taking new patients, and they can charge whatever they want, and use whatever tools they want.
- deadbabe 3y ago
  Yes, I had a therapist. I paid $200 per session each week.
itishappy 3y ago
What's your rate?

mindslight 3y ago

Sure, then pedantry - Digitized therapy notes are a bad idea, while "digitized" generally continues to mean some bucket-of-stomach-fluid EMR vendor's obtuse SaaS (Software Augmented with Arbitrary Surveillance) webapp running on SaaS Google Ads Chrome on top of SaaS Microsoft OG-negligence Windows. It's like if "automobiles" all had cell modems in them, ran some minimum viable functionality Swiss cheese security embedded software, could be remotely controlled from the Internet, and the only things keeping mass destruction at bay is the lack of documentation and the fact that individual humans generally don't want to hurt one another. uh, maybe I need a different example.

vkou 3y ago
> It's like if "automobiles" all had cell modems in them, ran some minimum viable functionality Swiss cheese security embedded software, could be remotely controlled from the Internet, and the only things keeping mass destruction at bay is the lack of documentation and the fact that individual humans generally don't want to hurt one another. uh, maybe I need a different example. And nobody outside of Hacker News cares about any of that. All they care about is getting from point A to point B, never mind that ~1,300,000 people are killed by by crashes every year and that we're poisoning our planet with them[1]. It's possible that I chose them as an example deliberately and cynically, as opposed to pedantically. --- [1] Both of which are far more pressing concerns than some Martian super-hacker pwning my car, but it's all worth the convenience of not having to get into a bus, or on a train.