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Coming from a 2012 rMBP (from which this post is being typed out), the ability to double RAM/HDD by myself would be probably the end-all be-all

Any recommended reading? Thanks!

You have to factor into time spent preparing, and transit. I'll give you an example. I like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and there are 1.5 hour classes in the afternoon/evening. However, it's a 20 minute commute either way, and I usually get 5 minutes early an leave 10 minute after it's finished for stretching and cool-down/shower. So my 1.5 hour class turns into a 2.5-3 hour block every time I'd like to go to a class. Similarly an hour run before/after doesn't include transit, shower, etc., making it more of a 2 hour commitment.

A cheaper, and better (longer 5ghz and 2.5 ghz) option is the Archer C7 router as well.

> Consumers need to be more responsible and skeptical about the choices advertisers want them to make. Don't have so many kids, stay healthy first and foremost, don't develop bad spending habits, do develop good savings habits, and use your job as a vessel to forward your career, and not your paycheck.

You're speaking from a position of privilege in time, money and access. Many people start out life with involuntary handicaps, physical ailments and hell, just shitty luck. It's very easy to criticize people who made one or two bad decisions (or had bad things happen) early on and have to deal with it.

While I don't know about rear-facing seats for outcomes, having cycled recreationally and for commute for the last 10 years, wearing a helmet has on multiple occasions saved me (yes I understand anecdata of 1) from mild lacerations to letting me walk away from a 40 mile downhill crash with road rash. Cycling without a helmet is a personal decision, but I don't understand how you can argue that increased head protection does not improve overall morbidity and mortality.

Procy service?

That's rather impressive. Unfortunately, I believe I've made the sacrifice of security for convenience and I may need to reevaluate that sooner than later.

I profoundly disagree, documentary photography is as ever-present and ever-useful as it has been.

Incorrect. Look at applied computing for medicine/healthcare, those things are strictly regulated and analyzed because of their potential to harm. A 0.001% overflow in your twitter app makes you restart your phone, a 0.001% overflow in your pacemaker means you die. Immediately.

When was that, 1999? That's nearly 20 years ago.

Wait, $2000/month with 25-40 guaranteed hours of overtime on the low end? That sounds absolutely terrible, or am I missing something?

I use it on a BID basis (medical).

Speaking as an American medical resident currently in training, please realize that opioids are the only pain medication aside from nerve modulators like gabapentin or pregabalin that have any serious effect after NSAIDs have been exhausted. We routinely use it appropriately for patients with gallbladder, kidney and very run-of-the-mill problems.

Wise words, thanks for this thread.

I like that I'm reading this while coming off night shift (medical resident). I wholeheartedly agree that sleep is essential to life and healthiness.

You are correct, most pancreatic adenocarcinomas are rapidly fatal. He had a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, which is more treatable with resection and chemotherapy.

You're 100% correct. However, we really don't have many other non-opiate options for chronic pain, and a lot of the other therapies (alternate modalities, adjusting perceptions/expected amounts of pain/etc) are things that require more money and time. As many providers are overworked and patients lack insurance, opiates become unfortunately a crutch in many plans.

I would kindly ask you to review how most opiate addicts in this current wave are created. Unfortunately, opiate medication is really the only 'easy' solution we have for many patients who have chronic, debilitating pain. I speak of patients suffering from malignancies, chronic back pain, post-traumatic injuries like motor vehicle collisions or workplace-related injuries. While there are novel attempts at cognitive behavioral therapy, setting patient expectations regarding pain and physical therapy, opiates are the mainstay of our (speaking as a resident physician) arsenal. Unfortunately, many of my colleagues prescribe ever higher doses of opiates without educating the patient on the reality and expectation of chronic pain. The patient continues to fill his/her prescription, until the point where he/she is taking heroic doses of opiates daily. At this point, many things can happen: the patient's legal provider is suddenly shocked at the amount of opiates given and stops, the patient transfers care/moves and is suddenly unable to obtain their original script, and voila - the once legal plain jane 45 year old female with chronic pain is suddenly forced to rely on the grey and black market, and since she can't obtain further legal prescriptions (because who's going to give Jane 20 oxycodone daily when seeing her for the first time), she's suddenly relying on sketchy mcsketchball who offers her illegal oxycodone... and you can imagine the downward spiral from there. So please, review how many of our opiate dependent abusers start, instead of focusing on the ugly finality of their early deaths.