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by notadoc 9y ago
In urban USA, cash is pretty rare too. Almost everyone uses credit.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Or just look around on Google Maps in Satellite view.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Sounds like a good start to a sci-fi novel.
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by notadoc 9y ago
That seems reasonable, but it would be potentially costly and so it's unlikely to happen.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Everyone "needs improvement" Yes, even if you're the top performer or you think you're the smartest person on your team.
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by notadoc 9y ago
> offering an exploratory period of life that is college (socially and intellectually) That is exactly what college is, and is supposed to be. Many people make the mistake of thinking that college is a jobs training program, or a career
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by notadoc 9y ago
Or just redirect facebook to hackernews via your hosts file? I can't emphasize enough how beneficial it has been to stop using facebook completely, I would highly recommend you try it.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Far beyond software, losing your ego about most things is helpful.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Is this suggesting that the same TV network which airs a show called "ANCIENT ALIENS" would have some completely inaccurate and poorly researched easily debunked claim on one of their TV shows? What's next? Is some blogger go
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by notadoc 9y ago
The only result of the nonstop political and media onslaught against doctors, painkillers, and the imaginary opioid 'problem' is more patients in pain (like yourself), and more nonsensical political intervention in doctor/pat
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by notadoc 9y ago
Gee whiz, you mean pain management doctors, surgeons, oncologists, and anesthesiologists are prescribing pain killers? Wow what a shocker! This is stupid, and irrelevant. If you're unfortunate enough to need surgery, have a painful inj
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by notadoc 9y ago
> Rising costs of living are pricing people out of the system. Officially, inflation is only 2% a year https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SA0L1E?output_view=p... I find CPI to be genuinely curious basket. Where
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by notadoc 9y ago
Your comments are best summarized as "I have no experience on this matter but I can spend a few seconds on google and then copy and paste" which may work well for writing a shell script but fortunately it's not how medicine o
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by notadoc 9y ago
Are you a doctor, anesthesiologist, or other clinical pain management specialist?
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by notadoc 9y ago
I have an ancient iPad 3 that is slow as molasses after the last software update they put on it, but it's still functionally the same as a new iPad "Pro" a family member has. I struggle to see how an iPad Pro is "pro&quo
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by notadoc 9y ago
Don't assume because you are in a bubble that others are too.
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by notadoc 9y ago
> As someone who used to naively believe in legalizing all drugs for recreational use, this addiction epidemic has opened my eyes to why that's a horrible idea. You may be surprised to learn that opium and cocaine used to be sold wi
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by notadoc 9y ago
Have you ever considered that perhaps there are just a lot of people with various levels of chronic pain, and, shockingly, some of them may want to manage their pain and see a doctor and end up with medication? > "an estimated 25.3
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by notadoc 9y ago
Your own citation disputes your opinion and claim. > This is just untrue. Oh are you saying this from your own research or clinical experience? Do you work directly with persistent pain patients? Are you an anesthesiologist? Or are you j
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by notadoc 9y ago
> You seem to think that opioids are an effective treatment for long term pain Because it can be. In many cases of severe persistent pain, they are the only effective treatment. There are many situations where literally nothing else wo
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People are addicted to pain killers usually because they are dealing with pain, and they are either medicating or self-medicating to manage it. If mere availability of something addictive was the problem, then we'd have a nation of not
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by notadoc 9y ago
> but instead we standardize on oxyconton and opiates That's because oxycontin and opiates work for relieving pain. > But in states that have embraced cannabis we don't see this level of crisis . That's a baseless claim
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by notadoc 9y ago
The "opioid epidemic" is manufactured political and media hysteria. There have always been drug addicts. The end result to all of this hysteria will be nothing but more political interference in doctor-patient relationships, more
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by notadoc 9y ago
> it won't do anything about the real problem: people in pain with inadequate treatment for that pain. Careful, you're sounding awfully reasonable! Harassing doctors and patients is beyond stupid, I suspect it will result in ev
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by notadoc 9y ago
Are we at the "mania" stage of cryptocurrency interest yet?
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by notadoc 9y ago
Academic is often theory Professional is often whatever works This is fairly common with many academic vs professional differences, btw
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by notadoc 9y ago
Give it another million years or so, assuming humans last that long.
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by notadoc 9y ago
> There are marketing expenses and time invested to list and market a property Putting a house on Zillow takes, what, 15 minutes? Perhaps the exception is very high end real estate, but from what I've seen most of the high end realt
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by notadoc 9y ago
> A good agent is worth 10x their commission. You actually think a 'good' realtor deserves a 60% commission? I can tell you're married to a realtor.
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> The entire process is filled with random quagmires OK, but why is that? And how many of those "random quagmires" are coming from realtors? The real estate industry reminds me of the tax preparation industry or car sales in th

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