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by mattchew 17y ago
> I'm hard pressed to name a single business in which consumers have been well served by call centers. Most of the time that I get on the phone to a big corporation I end up talking to someone in a call center. There are certainly excep
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by mattchew 17y ago
It may be the future of healthcare in a lot of the world, but not in the U.S.. Our health care interests are too entrenched. This would be too disruptive. Probably this is already illegal in the U.S., or cost prohibitive if you tried to s
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by mattchew 17y ago
It is clear that she is not just sitting around on the couch watching soap operas with the time she frees up via outsourcing. She's hustling and making money (and presumably having fun). She can always learn to cook later if it strikes he
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by mattchew 17y ago
Wait, a grown adult chooses to take a shit on the sidewalk and you want to blame someone else for this behavior? My cat has enough self respect to hold his feces if we accidentally close the door to the laundry room for a while.
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by mattchew 17y ago
> I don't think his first example is good because it isn't just about a "loss" it's about feeling wronged. You're correct that the example and the title aren't a perfect match, but wasting four hours because you feel aggrieved isn't rea
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by mattchew 17y ago
> the idea that the government has no intention of reducing the deficit. Close. How about this: reducing the deficit would be extremely painful and therefore postponed as long as possible, and then undertaken in a half-hearted manner.
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by mattchew 17y ago
Yup. Our solution to the health care crisis is punishing people who don't buy health insurance. Hurray America.
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by mattchew 17y ago
In which case McCabe may find himself in trouble with Shriekback.
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by mattchew 17y ago
I started reading reddit regularly again when I discovered IAmA.
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by mattchew 17y ago
When I'm working just-for-myself, I am not nearly as focused as when I'm working on someone else's project. I waste a lot of time basically goofing off (like now). I've tried to figure this out, and what Zeldman is talking about is a big p
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by mattchew 17y ago
"Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class . . . an economic drought temporarily left the hyenas . . ." I can't take this
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by mattchew 17y ago
Our rule demands one do everything they can to help the poorest -- not just spending one’s wealth and selling one’s possessions, but breaking the law if that will help. Sounds simply dreadful. Not an attractive way to live and not an attr
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by mattchew 17y ago
You want ME to be grateful for the privilege of getting the experience of making YOU money for nothing in return? Screw YOU. No one is talking about making you take an unpaid internship that you don't want. We're talking about whether Jo
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by mattchew 17y ago
Hurray for Argentina and Mexico. I hope the trend continues. I give Obama accidental credit for this. I suspect these decriminalization efforts would not have been tried under a McCain administration. (And if they were tried, those count
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by mattchew 17y ago
The only one I where I can confidently say the deniers are wrong is evolution theory . . . I can even run experiments . . . Maybe you have an excessive need for certainty. Most people who enjoy thinking about these sorts of issues at al
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by mattchew 17y ago
A quote from one of my favorite books. The speaker is a poet from about 500 BC: "Some of my best friends have been doctors, and excellent people they were, most knowledgeable about the minds of men, whom they see when the poets do not. Bu
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by mattchew 17y ago
Some people you just can't reason with. I see other people advising sitting down and talking. It's probably worth trying. One episode of nutsy behavior isn't enough to write someone off. But there's a sizable fraction of people out there
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by mattchew 17y ago
There was never any doubt about what "Universal Coverage" would mean, not to me. The popular view is that health care reform was about taking care of the American People. My view, health care reform was always about taking care of the heal
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by mattchew 17y ago
Not to be rude, but it doesn't look like you have been paying much attention to what Universal Health Care in the U.S. will actually mean. I legally have to have, auto, workers comp [...] And now you will legally have to have health insur
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by mattchew 17y ago
The world needs more people saying foolhardy things like "I could do that in a weekend", not less. As long as you're the one working for them and not me.
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by mattchew 17y ago
> Vista is a good operating system. Much better than XP. Depends. I occasionally run Vista for testing, and I do it in a VM with 1.2 GB memory. It is not pleasant. You may say that's my own damn fault, and you may be right, but it sti
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by mattchew 17y ago
Even though SF screwed up in the beginning, I'm glad they handled it well. By "it", do you mean the splash of bad press that they weren't expecting to get? They totally turned that around, very slick of them. I didn't read anything about
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by mattchew 17y ago
Sure. Sometimes I have something I'd like to say, but I can't say it well enough to be satisfied with submitting. Other times I decide my comment, or the whole conversation, just really isn't that interesting.
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by mattchew 17y ago
Scientifically proven; with no proofs. Yup. Exhorting people to conserve electricity with smiley face postcards caused a meaningful change in power use? Maybe, but I doubt it. (And if it did, may God help the people in that neighborhoo
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by mattchew 17y ago
"In this case, the French spend enough money on public health and social benefits that there's reason to believe that the relationship is more than coincidental." Why? Because it is common sense! If you spend money on public health you a
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by mattchew 17y ago
Look into the ideas and books of John Sarno. He believes that many chronic pain "syndromes" that resist treatment are actually psychological in origin. I discovered Sarno when I came down with untreatable "RSI". Eventually I got better us
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by mattchew 17y ago
You'll probably have moments where you're not sure you're doing the right thing by homeschooling, or that you're not doing a good enough job. Specifics vary. Whoever is the main hsing parent will certainly have days where nothing goes righ
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by mattchew 17y ago
We homeschool our son (6) and daughter (8). We knew we were going to homeschool well before our daughter was near school age. Reading and research is good. Carry on. :) You should read John Holt at some point. I think homeschooling is e
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by mattchew 17y ago
Sounds like you are aware of the options. You can get a GED or try to get into college early. You can homeschool or maybe find a school like the Sudbury Valley model. You can keep attending school and try to push the boundaries of what y
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by mattchew 17y ago
Do you just leave your five year old on her own, since her life is her own? Well, unschooling doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. Homeschoolers argue with each other over just these sort of questions. My opinion, unschooling does no

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