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by aksss 4y ago
I think it was mostly a function of two things: regulatory capture by profit-incentivized doctors, and the labs not having (or wanting to have) consumer-oriented sales processes. The internet has made the latter easier in a number of ways -
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by aksss 4y ago
Just a PSA (and no pun intended): in most places in the US these days, blood screening can be done without a doctor’s order and often more cheaply than what insurance will pay. Particularly if you pay direct, skip the doctor referral and or
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by aksss 4y ago
“Commonest mistakes” - ftfy I concur with GP. IME, “most common” or “most fun” is generally looked upon as better form than “commonest”, or “funnest”. The latter catches the eye and not in a good way, having as it does the ring of childishn
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by aksss 4y ago
Every expert would tell me not to ride a OneWheel at a high rate of speed. Doesn’t mean I won’t. Doesn’t mean I’d support city ordinances banning them. Risk evaluation is weird that way, and your answer will depend on your role in the conve
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by aksss 4y ago
Not to jinx myself but I’ve been in more mountain bike wrecks than I can count - stitches to the face and elsewhere, scars a plenty, and have never once hit the brainy portion of my head (small target, I know ;). I think it’s mostly owing t
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by aksss 4y ago
We could learn a thing or two from the British in the sense of making short run series, designed to not go beyond two or three seasons. Like the wrap-up is known from the start. It seems like Netflix wants every show to go on for infinity,
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by aksss 4y ago
Survival here is being taken too literally. We were able to conduct our affairs (business and personal) without 24/7 access to communications because the world didn't assume its availability. Now the world assumes its availability
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by aksss 4y ago
“Shed doubts”??? Since when is that a turn of phrase? You “cast” doubt (like a shadow), and “shed” light.
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by aksss 4y ago
Well, being an outhouse carpenter sucks too!
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by aksss 4y ago
Automated cross-posting is pretty well-trod territory.
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by aksss 4y ago
My approach to blogging comes down to the following principles: 1) Make the content I would like to see more of on the Internet, for its own sake. 2) I think my interests are really cool, a few others on the planet may also think so and fin
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by aksss 4y ago
I found benefit from not authoring content IN the blog. Use Word, a physical notepad, whatever is convenient and persistent to draft content and jot down concepts. Then transition content to blog interface. That way you can work offline and
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by aksss 4y ago
The problem with using Blogger or Ghost is that when the day comes upon which you realize a need for more flexibility in formatting, you’ll have a monster platform transition project on your hands. Just start with Wordpress, use DigitalOcea
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by aksss 4y ago
Ghost is an idea for the future that is presently less than a shadow of the capabilities of Wordpress. And it’s been that way for years.
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by aksss 4y ago
You could have left the first paragraph off and not detracted from the value of your contribution in any way. In truth, I think it would have been a stronger lead-in to do so.
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by aksss 4y ago
Customer reviews will be the family and government agencies as often as not. “Congrats on getting arrested for the fifth time - you can go through rehab again or you can get a voucher for Bob’s Pod private MAID service. This also includes d
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by aksss 4y ago
Or just reduce the number of customers. It’s working the demand side of the situation, hence them trumpeting the annual cost savings. Underneath all of this society is messaging that it has too many people, particularly a growing body of pe
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by aksss 4y ago
> slash healthcare costs When there’s a clear line-of-sight financial incentive in killing the citizenry, the policies will only further loosen qualifications and even incentives over time. This is how you go from a poster child of an ad
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by aksss 4y ago
What’s confusing about that? * you sell new or unused products, AND * you have more than 200 transactions in any prior 12 month period within last two years, AND * you have gross sales GTE $5000.
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by aksss 4y ago
TBF, Sox is also protecting the little guy and it has the effect (for better AND worse) of increasing the cost of doing business (properly/legally). When regulating small businesses it’s important to be mindful of the overhead inflicte
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by aksss 4y ago
Same, I blog as a record of stuff I’m researching because writing about it helps me organize thoughts and remember. I won’t remember for long though, so it works as a record for me as well. I think the stuff I research is really fascinating
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by aksss 4y ago
Still works for me.
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by aksss 4y ago
This is a tool that I think openai originally made and seems to give you a probability that a sample block of text was or was not generated by openai. I pasted some of my own writing in there and said definitely not AI-generated. At this po
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by aksss 4y ago
Enforcement and prosecutorial discretion are ideally the exception rather than the rule, I think. Principally because discretionary enforcement is too often abused as selective enforcement. Structurally (systemically?), I don't think i
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by aksss 4y ago
> majority of trips Majority of trips don’t exceed the capabilities of a Smart car. My CPU goes mostly unused. We don’t size for even the mean, but the realistically conceivable max (capability or capacity). > Grid capacity We struggl
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by aksss 4y ago
Discretionary enforcement is often selective enforcement. Biases are very hard to overcome. With as many laws as we have on the books, clarity of law and unbiased enforcement is a worthy goal. Maybe you never get to 100%, but we should not
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by aksss 4y ago
> ignorance and hate To many, it’s admirable to do what you say and say what you do. If there’s a law, enforce it. If you don’t want to enforce it, change the law. If you can’t change the law by convincing enough people, tough luck - it’
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by aksss 4y ago
Right? Who needs self-defense weapons or even a funded police dept. when you can hire private security and gate your community? Even better if you can cover the private security bill with taxpayer dollars! Case in point: Cori Bush spends $4
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by aksss 4y ago
That’s it. I live in middle of our city in an increasingly rare SFH-zoned neighborhood, one of three adjacent in our community council. Two have covenants, mine does not. Had a choice to buy in either, I chose the no-covenant one. We have a
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by aksss 4y ago
> all motor vehicles will be electric I guess I’m one of the crazies who would bet against this happening in my lifetime at least. The problems with grid capacity for scaling up electric vehicles, their unsuitability for long uninterrupt

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