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Already discussed. BTW, I hate the idea for privacy reasons, but am not sure it’s actually economical. Self-checkouts have reached a certain penetration that doesn’t appear to be increasing.

Amazon’s system doesn’t appear to use RFID. I don’t see how maintaining a massive network of sensors would be any cheaper than a self-checkout register, or for that matter, a manned register.

This isn’t an e-toll road where we’re talking about cars passing in an orderly fashion though a fixed control point. I’m betting it also presupposes a way more orderly shopping experience than we get in NYC, especially during peak times.

You might have ten people right next to each other with mobile phones grabbing the same goods off the shelves, then replacing them and grabbing other goods.

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I’d rather pay ONE rate for my insurance based on my location and company, as has been New York law for the past 25 years. Not even rating based on age or gender was allowed. Socialism is good — it keeps corporate filth from micro-managing people’s lives.

Really? You want some corporate swine tracking your sleeping habits? You really want it to get to the point that people have no privacy, and have to start paying extra for things beyond their control?

Say your kid stays up crying till 2 am, you get caught in traffic coming back from a trip, you’re worried about something and can’t sleep well for a few weeks. Ka-ching! Ka-ching! Goes your money into your insurapigs’ account.

This is why public insurance is needed, and not even the far-right in Europe opposes it. Does a much better job in providing cheap health care, and since it’s public, it’s bound by strict privacy rules. There would be a civil war if they started tracking sleep or eating habits in most countries!

And my ideal isn’t cashfree, clean Scandanavia. It’s corrupt, anarchic places like Italy, Greece, Portugal, or many East European countries.

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You’re assuming I want to marry a local (or otherwise) gold-digger, which is an incorrect assumption. I’ve already met the person whom I’m interested in marrying, and she’s pretty much the polar opposite of that stereotype.

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I’d be the last person to bitch about vendors not accepting a credit card, since I prefer to pay cash for 90% of in-person stuff anyway. I wish MORE vendors would take cash without a hassle in the US.

I don’t really eat much processed food either, and am generally not a big consumer. Most of the “stuff” that I own other than clothing is second or third hand. I don’t expect the world around me to be perfect and work seamlessly.

Basically, I have low expectations, so I’m seldom disappointed.

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Again: why bother with the video exam if they’re not actually doing anything? Change the rules to allow for more refills, call it a day. Or allow pharmacists (aka “chemists”) to prescribe, as is the case in much of the rest of the world.

I’m actually trying to GTFO anything related to technology. I don’t see technology as changing the world for the better. All I see is fewer jobs, more “connectedness” (read: longer hours) for the jobs that do exist, less privacy, easier distribution of false news, etc. I don’t see the benefits as outweighing the negatives.

The technology that we DO need to adopt for the sake of the environment like nuclear power, renewable energy, electric cars, electric trains is primarily an engineering problem with no political will behind it in the US.

Frankly, I hope to move to a country with a more stagnant, slower pace of life to raise a family in the next few years. Looking at places like Costa Rica, Portugal, Czech Republic, etc. I don’t care for modernity and innovation, if I ever did.

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Yeppers. Let’s relocate all of the good jobs to chitholes in bumblefek where people won’t actually want to live. Let’s race to the bottom and fast!

If you’re going to do a video consult, why do a consult at all? A prostate exam can’t be done remotely.

Just write the script for a longer time period and have them contact the office if they experience side effects or increased symptoms.

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^^^

Hopefully that idea will go over like a lead balloon — can you see the negative aspects of having one’s eating habits tied to an online account with one’s real name? Bet the newly deregulated hellth in$urance piggies will just lurrrrrve this.

I’m thankful that I’m in NYC, which seems to be a collective late adopter of new tech, especially in poorer immigrant neighborhoods. Not a West Coast city whose lifeblood is technological disrapetion.

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Co-ops often can’t be purchased as investments and have 50% down payment requirements so are not really comparable.

True on the investment rules (pied-a-terres are especially frowned on), but 50% down payment is pretty rare. 10%-20% are the norm.

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San Diego went up much more than NYC. NYC’s market numbers are distorted by high-end condos at the top and low inventory at the bottom (but sale prices of specific co-ops, which are the majority of attached stock, didn’t actually change all that much).

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I love Soros, may he live a hundred years. He’s done a lot to bring freedom to Eastern Europe, which was under Soviet heel.

As far as cops who might be required to be more restrained: too bad. If you can’t be restrained in a job that involves the risk of killing people, it’s not the job for you.

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Is hatred always the wrong response? Is it wrong to hate a murderous dictator and wish them dead, or even help them along?

Would you have blamed someone for getting rid of Castro if they had succeeded? How about the military officers who offed Trujillo in the DR — do you think that they were wrong in ridding their country of a murderous, raping, xenophobic, self-enriching dictator?

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You’ve seen it? Interesting.

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Jeebus xhrist, you guys never heard of willie pumps?

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https://www.urologicalcare.com/upload/penile-prosthesis/penile-implants-for-ED.jpg

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What if he had a penis graft and it’s now 24″ long?

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The VA is a bad example, because it’s badly run (at least in some part).

The Post Office would be a better example. Who else will deliver a physical object anywhere in the country (and I mean anywhere) for 47 cents? And have delivery succeed 99.9% of the time.

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