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by lolsal 8y ago
I think the difference just having a hospital triage you and tell you 'ibuprofen will handle the pain, it's nothing serious' is _already_ worth a boat load of money and peace of mind. I agree with you - it would be really int
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by lolsal 8y ago
I wonder what healthcare bills would look like if they were itemized so that things like Ibuprofen were literally billed at cost ($0.25 per?) and there were line items for services/labor that captured the real cost of being a medical p
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by lolsal 8y ago
Totally understood; that's one of the ways that it's not a perfect analogy. Conversely if someone told me to setup Wordpress and that I could only charge $50, I'd change industries in a heartbeat.
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by lolsal 8y ago
I know $60 Ibuprofen can seem like a lot, but is anyone arguing that you're literally paying for only the pill(s) with that $60? Aren't you paying for the instant availability, the insurance that it's not expired (do they eve
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by lolsal 8y ago
This was a delight, thank you.
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by lolsal 8y ago
If you can’t network without office space, what have I been doing the last 10 years?
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by lolsal 8y ago
> to avoid using Google is difficult, if not impossible. Sincere question - why? Aren't there alternatives to all google services? I have not opted out of using Google services, so I'm genuinely curious. Everything I can think
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by lolsal 8y ago
I have tried Blue Apron and switched over to Green Box and I really like both of them. I am a really decent cook, but I mostly cook for 2 people so the value of these services to me is the convenience of just-what-you-need serving-size bits
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by lolsal 8y ago
Not 'a hosted instance' or 'a cloud server', but many. An arbitrary amount. Personal anecdote: Local full builds for me take 28-30 minutes. When I farm it out to our infrastructure in AWS it takes 9 minutes.
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by lolsal 8y ago
A counter-argument to this is that all files you need are stored in 'the cloud' and performing searches/indexing/refactoring would happen _faster_ than on your workstation because it can take advantage of a lot more &#x2
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by lolsal 8y ago
Your comment was interesting until the very last two sentences. Please don't make low-quality generalizations like that, punctuated with dismissal.
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by lolsal 8y ago
We don't actually need our president's permission before we take action to address climate change, believe it or not. The president is not actually a dictator. We have power in other ways. - https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by lolsal 8y ago
It's also possible that salary is not a main motivation for the parent comment author. Jobs come with non-monetary perks, and sometimes people just do a job to pay the bills. Not everyone is hustling for maximum salary.
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by lolsal 8y ago
Why is 'security/privacy' not a valid answer? A separate anecdote: My company requires the same thing for on-prem installs - you can't downgrade. Data/schema migrations for our single application become a pain in
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by lolsal 8y ago
> Are you advocating for general strikes here? I'm saying a passive approach may give you a moral high but it doesn't actually do anything. Saying "Only someone else can fix this problem." is part of the problem, not
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by lolsal 8y ago
> Blaming us single individuals is easy, but we a are not directly responsible for this Companies are comprised of people. Governments are comprised of people. We absolutely are responsible and we have the power to do something about it.
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by lolsal 8y ago
> If we believe in evidence-based science, then all evidence points to Republicans being anti-science. I am conservative and tend to lean-republican. I am not anti-science. Please stop generalizing.
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by lolsal 8y ago
That's a very fair point - often those words are interchanged but they are actually different. My analogy was accidentally describing a role model. The mayor analogy is better, but the US President is not actually a leader of any other
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by lolsal 8y ago
I can have a 'family first' policy about how I run my life, but that doesn't mean I might not be a good leader for other families to follow.
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by lolsal 8y ago
> I like the idea of emergency braking as one last backstop. It can react faster than I can, and if prevents something I’m happy. It’s not like I’ve given up the brake pedal to it. This is an example of something I might be open to, but
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by lolsal 8y ago
> How do you feel about cruise control? Or automatic transmissions? Cruise control is great. I still control where the car goes though. I still have to be 100% attentive to what the vehicle is doing. At no point am I relying on the vehic
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by lolsal 8y ago
That sounds more like something up my alley... but I would prefer to be a late-adopter personally :)
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by lolsal 8y ago
I feel like an old man shaking my first at the slow march of inevitable progress - but - this is exactly why 'drive assist' or any other flavor of automated driving that is not 100% automation is not useful to me. If I have to pay
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by lolsal 8y ago
No, but that’s why I vote.
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by lolsal 8y ago
My neighbor and I felled two large pine be trees last year. We chopped it up and have been selling it by the cord. A co-worker of his heats his home by wood stove and cannot afford to buy wood. He comes over and the three of us load up 2 co
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by lolsal 8y ago
This is a well articulated point. You're right. My only counter might be something less articulate like "1000 years ago our understanding of physics/space/etc was incomplete." Possibly our understanding now is still
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by lolsal 8y ago
> Those "mature" societies are still limited to the speed of light, Isn't that just an assumption though? As short as 1000 years ago traveling to the moon seemed impossible.
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by lolsal 8y ago
Are we in disagreement that this is better than nothing, though?
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by lolsal 8y ago
It sounds like you have a lasting impression about what a party is like based on movies or TV shows. My experiences at parties are very different from what you've described.
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by lolsal 8y ago
> No idea what do to about the reviews, but the first step to the counterfeit goods problem is simple: once you've received X complaints about a counterfeit product, stop selling the product. If you don't have an idea of how to

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