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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.