You really think the typical patient fits the profile you describe?
Only healthy people, physically and mentally, should be granted healthcare, amirite?
The person you replied to only commented about burnout, not about who deserves healthcare.
Readit NewsStory time.
In 2001 when the bubble was bursting we had a business deal with one of the trendy dot-com's. Because their office was across the street from us we had a lot of in person meetings, and they always had us come to their far more swanky office. Along with free drinks and food we always left with the pile of merch they shoved into our hands. It got to the point where my self and several co-workers had boxes of their crap at our desk.
They were in a consultant role. They often told management nonuse and made our lives hard on good day and miserable on a bad one. To say we could not stand them would be an understatement.
Then it happened, the news came down that there would be a massive layoff (ahh fucked company was great). I grabbed my perch box, and a coworker and his merch box and dressed as many homeless people as we could, head to toe in their gear and had them sit out side their main office door. Folks were streaming out of their office, boxes in hand with a bunch of homeless people dressed in their march.
That line in the sand between funny and asshole, I laid down and made a sand angel in it that day.
Because homeless people wearing their company’s merch, in your minds, would further degrade the company’s image? Or something else? I’m an anonymous internet stranger, but I invite you to think about what you’re actually saying, and whether it reflects true views you wish to hold.
We search for universal, objective, pithy summaries of messy, complicated situations. Both of the following seem to be true:
1. It would be effectively impossible for someone from a disadvantaged background to start Amazon, Microsoft, or Facebook.
2. Bezos, Gates, Zuck are extraordinary business people who achieved what 99.9% of their peers would be unable to achieve from the same starting point.
I'm not sure why we keep debating whether these guys are good or bad, impressive or not, as some sort of universal truth.
Yes, the data is queried live.
> unexpected N API calls when joining across my domain
I'm not sure why they would be unexpected (because it should displace some other API calls). I'll hazard a guess that you're worried about fetching the same data multiple times? If that's the case, then yes, you should materialize the data into your database.
The Wrapper itself handles pagination, but you'd also want to make sure you're using filters & limits in your SQL statements.
Thanks for the reply. I'll flesh out my thought process in case it's helpful. My immediate reaction was excitement about the abstraction. An example use case is joining my users to their corresponding Stripe Customers in SQL. The kinds of queries I can reasonably write depend on implementation details of the connector. For example, if Stripe has a bulk customer lookup (list of customer IDs -> Customers), and the connector uses it, I can estimate I'd be able to query on the order of 500 Users at a time in a performant way. But if the API only supports looking up one customer at a time, that 500 User query kicks off 500 API requests, which isn't going to work.
You're right -- it's not unexpected -- maybe more like a leaky abstraction.
Sorry I couldn't figure this out from the docs, but Stripe data is queried "live" from Stripe, right? The abstraction is great, but won't this lead to unexpected N API calls when joining across my domain + Stripe?
abuehrle commented on Stripe’s real pricing: a primer github.com/getlago/lago/w... · Posted by u/AnhTho_FR
It's funny to observe the tide shift against Stripe on HN in recent years. I think they are a phenomenal, once in a generation company. Their APIs are beautiful (still, even though fewer people agree these days) and the use cases that can be built upon those APIs are endless and amazing. I always felt the pricing was a steal for what the product delivered.
Their support, on the other hand :(. ! Maybe it will get better with advances in LLMs, because I'd be shocked if I was ever talking to a human.
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abuehrle commented on Job switchers are earning a lot more than those who stay wsj.com/articles/inflatio... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
"Mercurial" owners (let's just say psychopathic, it's not really a secret anymore is it?) will respect you for ruthlessly calling their BS, and then will want to make it a life's mission to teach you to heal. So they will not fire you, just make your life hell in a very subtle but undeniable way.
They'll fire you on the spot when finally you heal though.
Do you mean "heel"?
Can folks who live in Chicago confirm/deny/comment on the extent to which this article gets it right?
(I have no reason to believe that it's an exaggeration, but I sincerely hope that it is.)
If you suspect anything is exaggerated, you can look to dozens of videos posted online of how these people act and speak. They roll in caravans of unmarked SUVs. Last week they rolled up to an elementary school (https://www.reddit.com/user/rubinass3/comments/1ol319f/ice_d...).
[Here](https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1986936912134000877) is a particularly hard to watch video of ICE tackling a nonverbal man.
Things feel bad to me in a way (I suppose I'm fortunate to be able to say) they haven't until now. I normally can see the "other side" of issues but I can't fathom how this is what anybody wants. I'm angry and I'm sad.
If there's a silver lining, the community is fired up. The mayor of Evanston talked with an awesome woman who was detained while peacefully protesting (https://danielbiss.substack.com/p/daniel-biss-talks-with-det...). It's a weird and sad time.