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Then the private equity fires your former employees. They borrow money to create their own clinic. They sell in their 60s to a private equity company.

Some thoughts on how this would playout:

* Reduced staff costs.

* Reduced potential peak. If you're at capacity during peak it might be worth the extra staff costs to capture the revenue.

* Reduced staffing flexibility. Things like vacations, parental leave, etc become tighter.

* Reduced customer satisfaction. I've stopped going to places when they lose my favorite staff member, and places a lot less consequential than a vet. This might translate to loss customers in the mid term, but you might not notice until their next vet visit in ~12 months. This might translate to bad yelp reviews.

* Presumably most of those vets let go are going to continue to be vets. It's a high skill job that pays well and people get into it for passion. That means your competition just gained access to a resource. Or maybe those vets become your new competition.

Declaring someone "head of X" is hedging your bet. If X goes well, then you had the foresight and leadership to expand X. If X fails, then you have a scapegoat picked out.

It's also the described metaverse evolution in Ready Player One, which is six years older than Fornite. It felt like an obvious and pre-existing idea when Ready Player One was published, so I wouldn't be surprised to hear about older incarnations.

Excuse me, tow hitches are commonly used for practical purposes. I'm really interested in the case for making tow hitches illegal.

Reddit has always struck me as a company with no creativity

I thought reddit was really clever for the first ~7 years of operations. They replaced forums, fostered communities, gained a reputation as a place to get real people's takes, and attracted people willing to have interesting conversations. The upvote/downvote system that is now so common was made popular from reddit. They brought awareness to important political topics surrounding net neutrality. They were leaders in early Web2.0, where each user saw content that appealed to them, because everyone could choose which subreddits were in their homepage. It was highly social and highly engaging.

After a certain point in 201X the dark patterns began to appear. I was almost fully disengaged by the start of 2013. I can't remember the details, but I remember being increasing disappointed with reddit every time I returned for a brief visit.

Now compare that effort and overlay the mobile handset business. This is not an emerging business. In fact it's gone so far that it's in the process of consolidation with probably two players dominating everything, Nokia Corp and Motorola

I've never seen someone be so right and so wrong at the same time.

This headline is misleading. It doesn't point to a blogpost or anything, just manjaro's website.

There's nothing about Manjaro that makes it significantly more free than the other top Linux distributions (as an aggregate).

There's nothing about Manjaro that makes it significantly more open source than the other top Linux distributions (as an aggregate).

There's nothing about Manjaro that makes it significantly more private than the other top Linux distributions (as an aggregate).

Establishing a full DE on Arch is just a bit easier than on Gentoo, which is just a bit easier than compiling everything with make files.

I've done all three. Arch isn't on the same level as Ubuntu, Fedora, or Manjaro on level of ease for instillation.

Why do you want to stay within the .deb ecosystem?

The difference between .deb and other common packages (rpm, pacman) are minimal. Almost all desktop distros will handle dockerfiles just as well as Ubuntu.

Hopefully for the owners’ sake they manage to finish their IPO before that whole situation explodes.

That just kicks the can. After the IPO there are more owners on the hook if things go critically bad.

The #1 marker you should be checking is blood pressure.

Cholesterol, Fasting Insulin levels, and (if male) free Testosterone are other good ones. Cholesterol and Insulin should be checked by all adults annually, and BP should be checked at least annually. T isn't checked as routinely, but it's worth knowing where you fit and has an impact on your metabolics and the test isn't a big deal.

This is highly speculative on both of our parts. I do think it's presumptuous to assume we'd be a threat to an entity that traveled >4ly. It sounds a lot like picking which classical civilization to study based on how strong their bows are when you are traveling in a stealth bomber.

High blood pressure is often refereed to as the "silent killer". It's not like these individuals present sick/ill in their daily lives. Basically the only symptoms of high blood pressure are sudden traumatic events like Heart Attack and Stroke. If you meet one of these people hours before their heart attack you often wouldn't describe them as 'on the cusp of death'.

No one’s going to say, “Where’d you leave the vision pro’s?” It’ll be goggles or mask or something else. Not well named. Except they won’t be shareable (with lenses in), because they’ll be too personal, like a hat.

I could see Vision sticking as a name in colloquial use. Vision Pro is a signal there is room for a lower price headset in the future. No one ever called their iPad an "iPad Pro" in colloquial use. This name is least as good as Quest.

I see three assumptions in your paragraph that need to be true in order for the technology to work. I'm ordering them by how likely I think they are to come true in the next decade.

* Headsets will have good enough resolution and be generally comfortable enough to replace monitors for office space.

* There is a solution to the pass through input problem that is acceptable for the average office worker. I don't think there is a solution of the passthrough problem that beats a keyboard/mouse, or even a laptop in a cafe. I think it's more likely the average office worker will accept a worse form of text input given the right conditions.

* It's possible to project a 3d image of myself while wearing a headset that doesn't include the headset and passes the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley is wide, and even AAA video games haven't cleared it yet.

I don't think a single worse example has occurred since, even though there have been other high profile instances of falsifying data and other unethical conduct.

I think after the replication crisis the scientific community is more aware of the limitations and faults of the current system. This has impacted different fields in different ways, to varying degrees of improvements. Now, I think a lab like Hwang's would be meet with more skepticism from both readers and the top tier journals.

The biggest cause for skepticism now would be Hwang's claimed success rate with the techniques. If other labs couldn't reach similar levels of success then the most generous assumption would be that the techniques weren't described well enough in the articles. Compare this to CRISPR gene editing, which is a slightly more modern advancement in genetics that is valued because of how easily other labs can incorporate it.

Astronomy is fantastic for preventing this type of fraud.

The data is incredibly open. Anyone can download datasets from telescopes, or build their own. Papers built on invalid data can be refuted by simply pointing telescopes at the location the paper is lying about. There are very few possible discoveries or theories in an astronomy journal that would immediately impact the wider culture.

Compare astronomy to sociology, in which questionnaire results can be fabricated and are essentially unconformable without using other unconformable questionnaires. Compare astronomy to economics, which the articles can be used bolster political positions.

The height of trust rot is Science publishing Woo Suk Hwang's 2005 stem cell research. This was one of the top scientific journals publishing research that appeared to be a nobel-prize track line of research that would have been a breakthrough in medical treatment. Instead it tainted a line of research.

The research results were fraudulent, claiming a much higher success rate at generating a stem cell line than what was achieved. They lied about the number of stem cell lines generated, the number of oocytes used to generate the stem cell lines, and the number of donors the oocytes came from.

As if bad data wasn't enough, they lied both to their donors, lied about their donors, and miscredited authors.

It’s important we get it right.

I really want to echo this. We are talking about millions of lives a year right now, and basically every human has been infected. We need a solid answer for why some people have long term health impacts and others do not. There are many brilliant people working on this problem. Let's accept that this might actually be a complicated long term problem.

The direct losses between the war and fentanyl won't account for much.

100k of those are drug overdoses in the US (the place with by far the highest rate of fentanyl use). There is a similar number of killed in the first year of the Ukraine war. The economist is pointing out the estimates are off by 3M lives, so those two directly account for less than 10%.

The worst thing about politics is that you just need to hire one person who is “good at it,” and it spreads like a virus. If this person hires more people, they will most likely choose individuals who think alike. Before you know it, the whole department is infected.

I wish there were more concrete problems about what specific problems were caused by playing internal politics. Sometimes I think tech people use politics as a four letter word, and it often is. Sometimes it isn't.

How does one “safely use” life destroying opioids?

1. Sanitation. This is huge for IV specifically.

2. Known purity, known dosage, no toxic additives.

3. Different opioids have different safety profiles. Even diacetylmorphine has a much higher safety record than popular modern synthetic opioids.

4. Your settings matter. Don't operate a vehicle. Be near people with narcan.

Why is the US the inheritor of the British Empire's karma?

Sure, I own a not completely dissimilar device to run retroarch on. While the company that makes my device seems to be a profitable business, I specifically was commenting on actions from large players.

The big players all seem to be interested in 'portables' that feel very large and cumbersome to carry.

I'd be much more interested in a PSVita or even GBA Micro sized device.

University might be a strong word to describe this website, but the lack of an edu tld should have lowered your expectations going in.

At any lower volume a print shop might be a suitable alternative.

To put a quantity on it, a black toner cartridge might be rated for a few thousand sheets. They come in color options as well. The toner seems to be good for several years. The per-page price is significantly cheaper than ink. The printing speed is significantly higher than ink. The image quality is higher than ink.

I've had very good luck with purchasing printers that are marketed towards small business instead of families. Take a peak at what printer your optometrist is using and ask one of the staff how they like the printer. Tactics like this is how I find my printers.