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Ok I'll bite. What's your response to my obvious retort?

I'm not suggesting everyone use the exact same system for being on time, but I am suggesting that just about everyone can find a system for being on time.

I'm preaching what I practice for what it's worth.

> Then you arrive early, and then what

Yes, being a bit early sometimes is a natural consequence of leaving enough time so that you're not late. Being late is much worse than being early because it is disrespectful of other peoples time.

If you're a bit early, then you get a few stress free minutes to hang out with your kid: sit in the car and sing songs together, run around the school yard, take a walk, talk about whats been on their mind lately etc.

Exactly right. That's why you leave yourself enough time to deal with the inevitable issues so you're not late.

I'm not saying you need to foresee every hiccup. I am saying you need to allow yourself enough time getting ready to deal with them when they occur.

Not having children doesn't mean you're not allowed to criticize parents for poor behaviour. Regardless, I am a parent to two young children and have done the morning drop offs to school/day care every morning for the last 6 years. Yes sometimes in life being late is inevitable. If it's a recurring pattern though, you're screwing up.

You can change your behaviour and make sure you leave yourself enough time to get your kids out the door on time.

"Morning dropoff is stressful, to say the least, we are always late, my kids never cooperate,..."

I know this is just a throwaway comment in the article but my god does it bug me when parents use their children as an excuse for being late. Yes, kids are sometimes tough to get out the door but it's your fault that this somehow catches you by surprise every morning.

I'm sorry but I don't understand the argument you're making, or why you think contributing to universal health care would mean you care about your neighbours child more than they do. Bad things can and do happen to people no matter how "responsibly" (according to who?) they live. Maybe you are suggesting only the wealthy should have children?

> the government should not be paying for people's health care. It enables bad behaviors and it forces people who make good choices to subsidize people who make bad choices

What bad choice did a 5 year old with leukemia make? Do you want to live in a country where parents have to simply accept the death of their child because they can't afford a treatment? What about when your friend, lover, spouse can't afford treatment for a curable condition that they weren't responsible for causing?

You may be happy with that situation, but I'm not. I'm happy to contribute and benefit from a government funded healthcare system and I accept the trade off that that this means that sometimes we're collectively going to pay for people who have made bad choices in their lives.

Exercise helps a bit with weight, but the overwhelming factor in weight loss/gain is the amount of calories ingested.

Have tried this a couple of times with zero relief unfortunately. I have conductive hearing loss due to otosclerosis (plaque buildup on stapes) so that might be why it doesn't work for me.

No. In the early years, having children is probably two orders of magnitude more difficult than a typical pet both physically and mentally and therefore would be crazy to draw a conclusion from a study on pets.

You missed the point of his post. It's a thought experiment to demonstrate the intolerance of bikes in the US.

Ignoring the obvious one that you can pay for things you don't currently have enough money for (bad idea in general), I pay for almost everything on a visa card for travel points.

This doesn't pass the smell test without more evidence. a) how do you know 'tons of obese people' b) how many of them have you actually seen do one real push ups let alone 100.

Ok, I agree with that, the "MRR" comment was useless feedback on useless feedback!

Speaking as someone who is trying to bootstrap a product, constructive criticism is worth its weight in gold. OP's statement was critical, and included no valuable feedback which is why it's being downvoted.

"How many NBA coaches can dunk or defend? Yet, the players still listen to their advice and perform better.

Just because someone can't do it themselves doesn't mean they can't offer meaningful insight. "

This is true, but an NBA coach would never criticize Lebron by saying "Wow look how slow you were to learn how to dunk!" Where do you see the meaningful insight in that response?

I don't know if this is the case here, but I think even if you don't really "need" the money, using Kickstarter can be a great way to get more exposure for a project as well as pre-selling/validating a product which reduces the risk of investing development time.

Most side projects earn negative dollars over 11 years so that growth over 11 years is probably in the top 0.1% of side project earnings. Very few people can say they grew a side project business into a $200k+ a year business.

You can pry my email from my cold dead hands.

Why anybody would want an email replacement controlled by a single company is beyond comprehension.

Yikes. That is troubling. Thanks for the heads up.

> loading 17.3Mb of gifs is the main problem.

The main problem is that for some inexplicable reason the text of the page isn't shown until those gifs are loaded.

pCloud works well for me (support for all major platforms). Google drive has no Linux support which is a deal killer for me.

I've been happy with pCloud which has Win/Linux/Mac/Android/iOS clients.

Page won't load at all for me in Firefox 67.

edit: Took 93 seconds to load a couple of the gifs which seems to have blocked rendering of the entire page. <sigh>

Therac-25 is definitely not the only incident involving radiation in medical applications:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/radiation-treatment-...

http://indico.ictp.it/event/a12208/session/65/contribution/4...

Modern linear accelerators (linacs) all have an ion chamber in the beam line (2 actually I think) to measure the instantaneous output of the machine.

Oh yes please! I am a diehard Kinesis Freestyle user and would kill for a split keyboard laptop.