>I dont see anything wrong with squatting in empty homes.

Do you care if the owner cares about you squatting in his property?

Dmca in 3... 2...

Over which copyright?

No, it does not. That the users end up paying more in no way means or should be implied that they _choose_ to pay more.

If cheaper options are made less accessible or clearer, and customers are intentionally mislead to more expensive products, as a result they will pay more too.

Also, there is a cost associated with searching. Consumers may intentionally forego the effort for perceived low marginal gains (especially in nominal rather than percentage terms, e.g. "I'm not going to waste my time to save a quarter." even if the quarter is a significant percentage difference). This is one of the factors in the success of Amazon. People "value" convenience.

But people will not pay more than a product is worth to them. The fact that they are willing to purchase the product at a higher price point indeed does imply that that price point is still lower than the consumption utility of the product for them.

26k for an mri /w contrast last week because insurance decided it's not necessary despite the doctor asking for it.

Now the doctor has to put an appeal to explain medical necessity, I'm at his mercy.

Is insurance the villain on this one of the hospital charging insurance 26k for an MRI?

Possibly all of the above.

An MRI shouldn't cost $26k, even with contrast, and at a hospital.

If this was non-emergency, it should have been pre-cleared with insurance per their policy.

I’m an MR tech.

You could fly to New Zealand, have a scan on a state of the art machine, get a good report, have 3 weeks holiday and fly home. You’d have heaps of money left over.

$26k for a contrast MRI is outrageous. An MRI machine costs $1m at the high end. If you figure the procedure takes 2h and the machine runs 22h/day - which they tend to do - they're making over a quarter of the cost of the machine daily. It doesn't cost anywhere near that to run it; even if we're talking maintenance, salaries, and utilities.

I can at least confirm that in my home european country japanese animated series did not start appearing until late 80s, early 90s, and by all means they were outliers and not _popular_ at very least til some heavy hitters came around the 90s.

I also don't know how applicable is making broad statements to europe as a whole in this specific regard. I feel cultural barriers have traditionally been pretty tall and what might be applicable to a country might not be applicable in the same timeframe to a neighboring one.

I think there are levels of dedication, and parenthood expectations of what having a child is going to be like play a major role.

I'm going to be a father in a couple months and I'm observing most of my friends who did care about avoiding screens for their children give up partially on the idea because they've categorized it borderline impossible. I'm talking about parents who did deeply and seriously care about it prior having the kid.

Meanwhile I have two othwr friends who kinda got away with no screens. But i feel they do put a lot more effort for it.

So my take observing those samples: expectation management and be self-aware of how much sacrifice does it take.

If anyone has more adivice on this I'd appreciate too.

The strategy my SO and I have found works well with our toddler is to find activities to replace the scrolling habit with activities that provide a better model for him (but can still occupy us). We both read paper books around him, under the theory that he can't tell "reading a book on the phone" from "scrolling social media", or do our versions of crafts, or reach out to contact friends and family.

There's a plus side for us as well, since reading, doing hobbies, and being in closer touch with friends is what we would (in our unwarped-by-phone-addiction moments) rather be spending our time doing.

Kube proxy works configuring ip tables (oversimplified) and its scope is limitted to l4. It doesn't operate at L7.

Just gonna touch some wood on (1);

The fact that you need other metrics does not substract from OPs original point. It's still good and much better overall to handle a set of comprehensive metrics at infra level than to orchestrate every app.

About the coarsness, i think it's not really true. Proxies are freaking powerful and they do a lot of stuff at l7, too much in fact (look at envoy, jesus christ). That's one of the reasons why despite the insane complexity of service meshes, they are paramount for observability.

Bunch of acid and thrown at the local metal shreder might just be close enough to the actual thing.

Gonna stringify you alright.

I second this. The quality of google search has reached a point that's only good to search things that can't be bought.

... and uncontroversial.

Searches for "coronavirus" seem to be hard-coded, or interfered with. I get pages and pages of Covid-19 results, but that's not what I searched for. I even get a wikipedia link to its covid-19 page, but no wikipedia link to its coronavirus page within the first several pages of results.