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by ceol 13y ago
At least a few thousand people die from the flu each year.[0] I've just been responding to your original post. You said "delirious", which is an actual, serious medical condition associated with high fever and dehydration.[1]
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by ceol 13y ago
An IV drip can mean the difference between life and death by dehydration. Seriously, it's why doctors tell you to go to the ER if you can't keep any liquids down when you have food poisoning or the flu. Couple that with the fluid
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by ceol 13y ago
> sweat it out (disclaimer: I'm not that kind of doctor). Yeah, if you're delirious from a flu (assuming you mean the fever), you need to go to either your primary care physician or the ER. Do not try to "sweat it out.&q
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by ceol 13y ago
The one that doesn't require months of training to get at a productive level. /ducks All editor-fanboyism aside, who cares? I spent $59 on ST2 and it was, by far, the best $59 I've ever spent. But if someone is more comfortab
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by ceol 13y ago
It's easy to tell when a light switch has been turned on or off. Not quite as easy when the switch is on a settings option called "email me a digest every week" or similar.
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by ceol 13y ago
What I'm saying is that rarely anyone is treated like that, and the OP sounds like he was just reading all of his insecurities into everyone he was assisting. But what do I know? It's not like there are loads of other people in th
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by ceol 13y ago
> If you told a doctor "my body hurts" and refused to clarify, you would almost certainly get some sort of snark. Actually, no. Very few people tell doctors, "My body hurts!" It's more like... "My leg hurt
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by ceol 13y ago
I thought the author made a bunch of assumptions about her, too. Things like: She handed me her MacBook silently and the look on her face said it all. *Fix my computer geek, and hurry up about it.* That's quite a leap
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by ceol 13y ago
Schizophrenia is another one that can become exacerbated by marijuana use.
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by ceol 13y ago
Surely you see the difference between someone copying all of your passwords without your knowledge, and someone resetting your password for a single website that you would immediately notice when you check your email? They are two completel
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by ceol 13y ago
Like Malda said in the submission article: That doesn't make the graph go up and right. It would be interesting to try that approach out, though. I would think a $5 fee would cap it for you — naturally raising the cap only when the ind
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by ceol 13y ago
Once they get on this "corporations are evil, government is evil, everything is evil!" tangent, there's no talking to them.
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by ceol 13y ago
> But for some reason this isn't good enough - and I don't know why. The same reason "separate but equal" wasn't good enough for black people in the mid 20th century: It isn't equal at all. It's not a
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by ceol 13y ago
Exactly. Most officers aren't out to screw you over, but there are some who don't care how much they mess up your day/month/year/life. Lying to them, in any way, does not help you.
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by ceol 13y ago
Everyone should donate to the ACLU, but try to give them a PO Box or something; their donation calls have crossed the line into "frustratingly annoying" more than once.
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by ceol 13y ago
If you're fine with more general topics and about a day's delay in "breaking" internet news (re: stuff that doesn't matter), I've found MetaFilter to be good. The pay wall filters out bottom-barrel trolls and t
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by ceol 13y ago
The problem is that many HN users think that because they are qualified to talk about tech, they are also qualified to talk about everything else. In reality, they're often not qualified to talk about anything.
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by ceol 13y ago
Agreed. Not even considering the opposing sides, this debate always comes down to a bunch of people arguing a point they have absolutely no experience with.
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by ceol 13y ago
Certainly not on Hacker News, where people always vote based on how something relates to the discussion and not their own personal biases.
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by ceol 13y ago
I think some of the anger might come from the fact that any normal person, or any normal group of people, don't have the clout to influence those kinds of laws — Google does. However, they chose to bow to those laws (and charge the gov
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by ceol 13y ago
It really is such a shame your comment was almost halfway down the page while the top comments continue to be towing the "US healthcare is awful and greedy!" line. Thanks for combing through that data for us.
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by ceol 13y ago
Except I don't see an email from DO or a notification when I log in to the admin panel. So if I didn't check HN at this exact time and saw this article, I would have no idea. It's not a huge deal to me, but if Linode did the
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by ceol 13y ago
Yes, Fish has said some shitty things. Back when that happened, I was one of the people who argued against him and said he was a huge dick. But that doesn't mean he deserves a flurry of abusive and hateful speech; it means people shoul
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by ceol 13y ago
That's really not true. Almost all of his caustic responses were to people sending him shit. His post on the Steam forums was in response to trolls trashing his game. Just take a look at his forum posts.[0] Most are completely normal,
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by ceol 13y ago
Fish responding to trolls in no way excuses the trolls harassing him. That's textbook victim blaming, and it's disgusting for it to come up here.
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by ceol 13y ago
I think their point was that the person who made the icon is anonymous, so it's harder to blame and therefor benefits you. Not that you had that goal in mind to begin with.
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by ceol 13y ago
It's not an off topic remark, because acabal brought it up himself . He's the one who talked about born-here Americans not knowing the beginnings of totalitarian states, and if you can't see the problem with a born-here Amer
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by ceol 13y ago
There are two (maybe three) articles on the front page right now unrelated to technology or "hacking." HN has long been an aggregator of all things interesting to SV, not just tech — and that's my point. You guys are bouncing
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by ceol 13y ago
> generations of born-here Americans have never lived in a totalitarian state, and thus don't have the frame of reference to understand why the NSA's power could lead to grave harm. Are you sure it's not just that the on
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by ceol 13y ago
It's good that he's being contrarian, because the general opinion here stems from a bunch of tech enthusiasts being riled up at an imaginary boogeyman that's supposedly an affront to their internet rights — because in the end

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