Cass

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by Cass 13y ago
Seed packets are $0.10 at The Dollar Store this time of year. Yeah, that's a really easy mistake to make. Happened to me too, last year. "Zuchini seeds ten plants for ten cents? I'm going to save SO MUCH MONEY!" I thought. Then I realized
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by Cass 13y ago
How many doctors actually stand to gain by mistreating patients, though? I don't know about the USA, but in my country, most medical care is provided by salaried doctors who are paid the same regardless of the hospital's profit margin. Now,
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by Cass 13y ago
You have 4.5 hours to treat someone for a stroke if they teleport to the hospital the second they notice the first symptom. In real life, you often have an hour or four where the patients wait for their weird symptoms to go away again bec
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by Cass 14y ago
We do have a lot fewer SUVs and other gas guzzlers, though.
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by Cass 14y ago
There's a few people in the comment section talking about how doing their PhD as a mature student worked far better for them and left them with their soul only lightly crushed, so you might be able to ask for some advice over there.
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Dear brilliant students: Please consider not doing a PhD.(liv.dreamwidth.org)
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by Cass 14y ago
If it turns out that it's actually possible to comfortable read information on these, which I find extremely hard to imagine, they would also be immensely helpful in the Emergency Room and the hospital, especially with facial recognition so
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by Cass 14y ago
I don't find it the least bit hard to read on the web, and traditional scrolling has never interfered with my reading pleasure, but I'm pretty excited about the fact that if I can get the scroll speed right on this thing, I can probably use
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by Cass 14y ago
There's a little "start scrolling" button in the lower right of the window. It took me five extremely confused minutes to find it.
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by Cass 14y ago
you can't be profitable with 40 uniques a day No, that's the awesome thing about software sales: You absolutely can be! Step 1: Price software at $20 Step 2: Assume hosting costs of $10 per month Step 3: Convert at a ratio of 200 views to
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by Cass 14y ago
Just for curiosity's sake, do you mind clearing up a few things for me? Why weren't you already intubated when you woke up the first time, if they'd already opened you up? Were you not supposed to be under general anesthesia by that point?
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by Cass 14y ago
Wow, is that common where you are? It's been five years since I was a teenager in Germany, but while tons of my American friends had fake ideas, I never even heard of faking your birth date that way. Now, using someone else's ID card was ve
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by Cass 14y ago
I, and about fifty percent of people I know, would be happy to pay a small monthly sum (say, up to nine euro) to be able to listen to and download any music we want, at any time, without risk of persecution. Ideally, this money would go to
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by Cass 14y ago
In an area where £10 might be enough money to pay for a doctor's visit for a deathly ill child, or feed a family for a month, you'd probably get a lot of people risking their life and getting killed to get their hands on just one landmine,
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by Cass 14y ago
How are people supposed to shear those sheep, or take care of them during lambing/when they're sick, or to feed or water them, if they can't actually enter the pen? It seems to me that sheep penned in a land mine field would either be usele
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by Cass 14y ago
Have you looked at the appointment reminder pricing? A single mid-tier customer brings in $1000 to $2400 per year. Scale that to a few hundred accounts, and you won't have to wait for retirement age to be a millionaire.
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by Cass 14y ago
I wonder what they're going to do when the promotion time runs out. If they're going to delete or block access to a random 3 GB of data in someone's dropbox, they're going to be dealing with a lot of upset customers. (Should these people be
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by Cass 14y ago
So he's only playing his guitar because it's conveniently located in the same room, and you're only getting exercise because you have to walk to your printer sometimes. Setting up your living space so your surroundings encourage you to do t
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by Cass 14y ago
You can get a pretty decent apartment for $900 per month in most parts of the country.
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by Cass 14y ago
Putting money into a house you'll presumably be able to live in rent-free once it's paid off may not be a drastically worse choice than putting your money into savings. Unless it was an impractically huge house, or otherwise somehow not a k
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by Cass 14y ago
Have you researched hostels? They're still not cheap by the standards of developing countries, but when I stayed in SF a few years ago, a bed at a hostel could be had for a fifth of what a hotel would have cost me, and certainly beats sleep
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by Cass 14y ago
Firefox has the option to let you set the font and a minimum font size, and will force all sites to stick to it. (Tools -> Options -> Content -> Advanced) I view the entire internet in Times New Roman 20 pt. I have to turn it of
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by Cass 14y ago
Yeah, my first response to seeing the price was "WTF? Raise your prices!" as well. I was expecting a number somewhere in the four figures. I mean, I was only checking on the price out of curiosity because I'm a broke student who doesn't eve
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by Cass 14y ago
"put your groceries in the front basket" That may work fine for one person who lives alone, but the average front basket will barely fit the toilet paper and milk to last a four-person household a week, never mind the two dozen other things
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by Cass 14y ago
It's certainly easier to make an extra couple thousand by asking for a raise than by scrimping on lattes, but I'd argue that a frugal mindset is every bit as important. Unfortunately, spending every cent of $200,000 a year is exactly as eas
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by Cass 14y ago
Speaking as a girl without even the least bit of interest in diamonds, "If you give up the thing you want, you can get a thing you don't want that's TWICE AS BIG" is just in no way a selling point, especially as long as her association with
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by Cass 14y ago
Insurance companies will generally be quite happy to sue anyone they might be able to unload a bill on. If you get someone deliberately or negligently hurt in Europe, their insurance won't just roll over and pay their medical bills, either.
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by Cass 14y ago
The US already proportionally has the most prisoners out of any country in the world, and I'm wary of any solution that includes making that problem worse. That kind of thing has giant socioeconomic costs and, looking at the crime rates, do
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by Cass 14y ago
When it comes to the advertising giants, it's not a bad strategy to write a blog post but send it as an email first. Realistically, no matter how long or short your email is, you're unlikely to get a helpful response from either google or f
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by Cass 14y ago
It's not just the cost that's the problem, it's the huge risk of a bone marrow transplantation. I've worked in a transplantation ward, and the mortality rates are huge. In our case, about a third of patients was cured following the procedur

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