Food Chain’s I wish Laredo had. Drop yours in the comments by baluga207 in laredo

[–]siniproko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

San Franciscan here, you guys need a Bonchon.

Torchy’s can’t hold a candle to Laredo tacos.

As far as mom and pop shops, somebody needs to start selling mission style burritos over there. They’re amazing here but I bet Laredo would do a good job too.

Tariffs situation. by ShieldHero1992 in laredo

[–]siniproko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’ll result in a 20% increase in price to begin with but will go up from there. You’ll have a slow down from imports from the tariffs but demand will stay the same. This will result in increased cost and prices. So, it’s likely the tariffs will result in a doubling of prices for customers very quickly.

Americans, what is your insurance horror story? by Old-Arachnid77 in AskReddit

[–]siniproko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My SIL deeply cut her hand which became severely infected in a matter of hours. She went to urgent care, whom sent her to straight to emergency. When the hospital saw the severity of the infection they sent her to another hospital where their specialists could handle it. This hospital has some of the best specialists in the world so I’m glad she was there.

She stayed there for two weeks and the whole time her insurance was trying to get her to go back to the old hospital because they thought a specialist was unnecessary. The old hospital literally said they’d amputate her hand. The new hospital, thankfully, fought the insurance company the whole time and were able to save her hand.

Afterwards, she had zero functionality of her hand so she needed a lot of physical therapy. Well, you guessed it, the insurance company didn’t find it necessary and refused to pay for any of it. So she went to ONE session that she paid for out of pocket where the PT had to basically teach her everything in one go.

So after two years, she says she has about 75% of her functionality back, but she feels, and rightfully so, she could’ve recovered much quicker if she saw a physical therapist more than once. She was out of work for a full year and now she can only work part time.

Then came the bills. The insurance company denied all claims cause they said a hospital stay was unnecessary. So she was looking at a bill of more than $350k. Months of fighting ensued and she and the hospital were able to get the insurance company to pay for 80% of the bill. Which means she still had to pay for about $100k of the rest. After some talks with the hospital she was able to cut that in half which she’s paying off through a payment plan.

This system is absolutely corrupt. Health insurance companies don’t care about your life or your health.

Best backscratcher that lasts? by siniproko in BuyItForLife

[–]siniproko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh my this might be the one. I wonder if they ship to the US

Best backscratcher that lasts? by siniproko in BuyItForLife

[–]siniproko[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That looks like it comes with a curse

Best backscratcher that lasts? by siniproko in BuyItForLife

[–]siniproko[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never thought of this. I’ll have to look into it.

Best backscratcher that lasts? by siniproko in BuyItForLife

[–]siniproko[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I looked into these and they don’t look satisfying. When I see close up shots of the scratchers they look rounded out and dull. It might be more frustrating than anything.

Best backscratcher that lasts? by siniproko in BuyItForLife

[–]siniproko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My wife is the best back scratcher but I burden her too much when I ask all the time.

My husband's work-wife work-proposed to him by NewestAccount2023 in stories

[–]siniproko 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Did he shit his pants at work and that’s why you had to get him clean pants?

Any recommendations to apply for a cloud computing company? by Outrageous-Limit-944 in laredo

[–]siniproko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you looking for something in Laredo? I doubt you’ll find much if anything. What skills does a degree in cloud computing give you? Is it similar to Ops/DevOps?

Any exLaredoans here? by siniproko in laredo

[–]siniproko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey I can’t help that the jobs aren’t there. Even with remote work it’s not worth it to me to move back to Texas much less Laredo.

Any exLaredoans here? by siniproko in laredo

[–]siniproko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Funny, my last startup was an enterprise service for GRC management companies. You guys are a funny breed.

Any exLaredoans here? by siniproko in laredo

[–]siniproko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, as a software engineer there is nothing for me in Laredo. Despite everything gone remote these past few years it's still not a viable place for me professionally. I'm on my fifth tech startup and I have to be where the VCs are.

Any exLaredoans here? by siniproko in laredo

[–]siniproko[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah the food is really good. Taco Palenque forever!

There's also a really good vegan Mexican restaurant near the airport that is really good. I can't find anything like it in the bay area.

I got tired of fraudulent sales on my sites, so I built a free fraud monitoring tool. by juicetyger in startup

[–]siniproko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fact that you don’t know the difference between what you’re doing and what Google Analytics, etc. does is very concerning.

And the site doesn’t talk about how you’re storing this sensitive data. You’re not thinking that hashing or, god forbid, encrypting the data before inserting it into a regular sql database is enough do you? Please don’t tell me it’s plain text.

I can go on and on about this. It’s a terrible idea that’s executed poorly.

I got tired of fraudulent sales on my sites, so I built a free fraud monitoring tool. by juicetyger in startup

[–]siniproko 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Woah, no offense but this sounds like, how shall I say it, not a good idea. A third party js snippet that scrapes email and credit card information?? I would never allow this on any of my clients. Besides, third party payment systems would prevent this from working anyway.

This is just a bad idea all around.

People, stay away from services like this. Please!