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Jameson Lopp | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +15 
 Do I wait 3 months for an appointment with a lipid specialist or do I route around the healthcare bureaucracy and pay $100 to get the tests I want performed... tomorrow. 🤡
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Jon | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Just do it
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Justin Case | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You already know the answer.
😉
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provoost | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Clearly you should do the high time preference thing :-)
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Elephant in the root | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Is investing into health really a *high* time preference?
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bitcoingranny | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Duh.
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OT | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 IDK $100 is a lot of sats
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Bill Cypher | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You know the specialist will be more expensive.
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SRV | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Depends if you value more 3 months time or 100$ 🤔
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nout | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Do both and you will get 3 month diff measurement...
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BrookeinSB | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 No matter how bad the system is, it's still your health, take care of yourself ASAP!
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Diacone Frost | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Do you have $100? Do you need another test for $200? what's opportunity cost?

so many questions ...
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0ab915c9 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Do the test if you know how to interpret it.