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Screw privacy, I'd rather the whole world know what's wrong with me... maybe they can fix it! Make it searchable and put my email address at the bottom.
by jgilliam 18y ago
Screw privacy, I'd rather the whole world know what's wrong with me... maybe they can fix it! Make it searchable and put my email address at the bottom.
- rokhayakebe 18y ago+1. I think if most people had the same attitude about their own problems, specially in the matters of health and finance, we would only benefit from it.
- tptacek 18y agoThat would be true if most employers (or procurement departments) were enlightened. Most, in fact, aren't.
- ambition 18y agoWhat about embarrassing problems with already-known fixes? Or easily-diagnosed but hard-to-cure embarrassing problems? I can't imagine a patient would benefit from the world finding out they had syphilis.
- wyday 18y ago> maybe they can fix it! Millions of newbie programmers have this exact thought. This is why you see countless forum posts with chunks of code and a note like "Something's wrong, can you guys fix it?" No programmer with experience is going to waste their time. Similarly, no doctor is going to waste time doing pro bono work to fix your medical problems.
- smokey_the_bear 18y agoI find people on forums are usually amazingly helpful and giving of time.
- rokhayakebe 18y agoBut one programmer will fix his problem and share the solution with the rest of the world.
- teej 18y agountil you get diagnosed with somethig that makes you uninsurable, then you'll wish you had kept it private.
- jgilliam 18y agoyou mean like two bouts with cancer, radiation fibrosis, a bone marrow transplant, and a double lung transplant? http://checkonjim.com/ http://checkonjim.com/