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Re: Nobody cares

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Post by rcxdude »

zo1 wrote: post #642
tqi wrote: post #418

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You think PCPs get to decide what their schedule looks like? Or do you think they have a specific patient load they are expected to meet, which dictates how many in-person vs remote slots they have in each day?

Yes. They just choose to fill it way passed capacity because they want more money and don't want to accept the money they will end up getting for doing a proper non-rushed job. That's why they have 15min slots and rush you out the door if you look like you'll be taking too much of their time. Maybe blame the insurance for dictating they must charge per-session instead of per-hour, sure, but the doctors at the end of…

Presumably, if the GP comment hasn't switched yet, then there's a bit of a shortage of options. So it's entirely possible that there's a shortage of doctors in general in the area, and a doctor that does care about serving patients in that circumstance will find themselves in exactly the same pattern of behaviour, because there's more need from patients than they can satisfy, so they try to help the most people they can even if that means each person gets less help.

More egregously in that regard, in the UK it's common for doctors to part work for the NHS and part work privately. Anything on the NHS is massively underresourced and so long waiting times for short, overworked appointments are common, but you can get an appointment much faster and with better attention from the same doctor if you pay. But then even these private services are starting to have too much demand, because the problem is more structural as the population grows and ages, while investment in the education and training, not to mention reasons to stay in the country afterwards, has stagnated.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by reddalo »

Qwertious wrote: post #496
teslabox wrote: post #462

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Blue-white LEDs have become the replacement for High Pressure Sodium [HPS] traffic lights because that's what the LED light companies have to sell. In the early years of the transition to LED streetlights they had to sell blue-white LED streetlights because warmer LEDs were not competitive with HPS on the basis of lumens-per-watt. Most of the people who understood the advantages of blue-free amber HPS light over whit…

Blue light is safer for cars - it gives slightly faster reaction times, and lower the chance of drivers falling asleep. The problem is that for pedestrians, the reaction-time is irrelevant, they're butt-ugly, and plenty of people go on night walks because they can't sleep but want to. Half of this article is basically about cities being overly car-centric.

In some ways, car-centric cities are like that because people don't care. "I'll just take my car, whatever". They don't care about traffic, pollution, accidents, etc.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by tmnvdb »

maayank wrote: post #646
easygenes wrote: post #441

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It’s possible to install warm colored LEDs with very little blue light output though. You get all those benefits without giving up the more-suitable-for-night sodium light spectral benefits.

Any way to test my light's spectrum? e.g. a cheap home spectrometer

Take a photo

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by rcxdude »

LunicLynx wrote: post #219
frotty wrote: post #200

100% of the people around me at work care. I wish they didn't, because they're bad at their job and "them caring" puts them as a peer for experts and people who both care AND are competent/experienced via design by committee and inclusion. Their incompetency is explained away as "unique point of view." So perhaps the entire piece is an exercise in overgeneralization, where you assume that everyone has a baseline amou…

I would argue that incompetence is a form of not caring. It means that one just does, maybe even more then necessary because one doesn’t actually understand what their responsibilities are. And to be not detected it’s better to seem very busy and very caring.

Not always. I've seen multiple people who are very enthusiastic and care deeply about something they are absolutely terrible at, but are unable to recognise it (possibly because it's a hard thing to admit to yourself that this thing you like and care about is probably best left to someone else).

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by lesona »

matthewdgreen wrote: post #455
easygenes wrote: post #441

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It’s possible to install warm colored LEDs with very little blue light output though. You get all those benefits without giving up the more-suitable-for-night sodium light spectral benefits.

Here in Baltimore the city seems to have purchased a huge batch of defective LEDs that are actually purple. It’s disturbing when you encounter one.

They’re purple (blue is the other option) because veins are harder to see under purple light. They’re used to deter drug use, from my understanding.

Edit: final clause

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by Vilian »

jeffhuys wrote: post #526
arretevad wrote: post #454

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Elon only cares about enriching himself.

I think he mostly cares about getting humanity off this planet, he's been saying that for a long, long time. Starting a space company to enrich yourself sounds like a very weird thing to do if you only care about money.

He don't want poor people with him, only his rich friends

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by pards »

azeirah wrote: post #210

> The McDonald's touch-screen self-order kiosk takes 27 clicks to get a meal. They try to up-sell you 3 times. Just let me pay for my fucking burger, Jesus Christ. The product manager, the programmer, the executives. None of these people care. I was working in this space! And I got fired for refusing to work on more upsell features for clients like Coca Cola and such. I don't want to work on adding fucking ADS into c…

At the dominant pharmacy/convenience store in my area (Shoppers Drug Mart), it can take up to 12 clicks to self-checkout, depending on what garbage they're upselling on the day. I counted them.

I refuse to use them, and (annoyingly, I know) let the cashier know why each time as they're checking me out. I feel bad for the poor cashier but unfortunately for them, they're my only interface to the company.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by micromacrofoot »

trying to fix half this stuff would burn you out, the other half would leave you jobless

I tried to fix the neighborhood playground and it took 2 years to get funding for a renovation that might happen 2 years from now... I gave up pushing for it because I don't have the time anymore... who knows if it will happen

most americans don't have a strong enough support system that gives them the space to care

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