70G is less space than I have on my phone.

A 70G tape seems silly in an age of cheap 64G thumb drives.

> For $150 you can get a SSD with plenty of space for the vast majority of desktop roles,

Bullshit.

A $150 SSD will only be good enough for a machine you are using like a terminal. Anything beyond that and you will need more space.

I want more storage in my PHONE than that.

Exactly. RAID prevents a drive failure from being an immediate data loss.

Plus, RAID allows me to keep all of my bulk storage online while I am replacing a drive. That portion of my data hoard is not completely unavailable to me while I am copying data to the replacement drive.

Of course you want at least 2 copies of your data.

This is where the relative cheapness of HDD wins the day. You don't just need 1x of what you think you need but at least 2x.

Yes. Take that large number associated with SSD tech and DOUBLE it.

It's not disingenuous at all. It merely demonstrates the primary problem here, namely the price gap. Larger SSD drives are low capacity and expensive. They are priced outside the range of most consumers while also being inferior in terms of bulk storage. A larger SSD is less able to justify it's price premium than a larger HDD.

Even if SSD prices get less ridiculous, chances are that HDD prices/capacity will keep pace and continue to keep HDDs relevant.

So you would pay $1200 for a hard drive "without hesitation"?

REALLY?

I find it hard to buy a mere 1G SSD and it's not quite as expensive as the thing you seem eager to treat as chump change.

Most of the kinds of people that immigrate to the US illegally have a total 3rd world worldview and aren't scofflaws in the conventional sense. The idea that they have to comply with the rules of some central government while going out their daily lives is an alien concept to them. They see things completely differently. They don't even understand things like borders, or national citizenship, or something as basic as a marriage license.

A lot of people will take advantage of them because of this too (not just employers).

100K is only a high degree above the poverty line if you avoid popular high density urban areas.

Furthermore, ANY professional position SHOULD be "far above the poverty line" as such jobs require a high degree of costly preparation. They require more than a pulse. Their price should reflect that.

The price of labor should reflect the financial overhead of being eligible for the job in question.

This sort of "You should expect whatever crumbs your betters offer you" kind of attitude is sick and depraved and economically unsustainable.

I think a question like this should be more about the applicants ability to "do something" as opposed to just being overwhelmed by the situation. The answer need not be perfect, it just needs to work.

It's really just a low bar to see how helpless a person is.

Can you take care of business?

Alternatively, we could just stop actively encouraging the exporting of jobs.

What we have going on right now is the opposite of "protectionism". We could solve a lot of the problem by simply not doing anything. Doing nothing is not a form of "Protectionism".

You have lesser trained individuals using more interesting medical equipment.

What could possibly go wrong?

...except most of the pea plant is completely inedible to a human.

An egg is a food capsule for a baby animal. That means that everything that is required for the development of a small animal is in there. That sounds like something that is obviously going to be some kind of super food.

The same goes for milk.

Plant equivalents will likely be less impressive because they are designed with the end result of creating a plant rather than a mammal or a bird.

The usual hatchet job studies against eggs typically find against lack of moderation. If you simply follow the nutritional guidelines that predate the guerilla vegan politics at the USDA, you should not have any troubles.

The also have a big picture of an EGG on the package.

It's called "Just Mayo". It's not called "Vegan Mayo". They are going out of their way to appear like an artisinal brand of actual mayonnaise rather than some purveyor of shoddy "substitutes".

You can eat 2 eggs for breakfast every day of your life and your blood test numbers can still be not just acceptable but enough to get you a discount on your life insurance.

A little self-awareness goes a long way.

We are ultimately talking about a CONDIMENT here. It should not really matter how "harmful" it is. You shouldn't be eating it in any quantities where this kind of issue would come up.

Although the "harmfulness" of eggs is disputed and seems to vary like Paris fashion seasons.

Of course Vegans are going to shout down anything animal related despite the fact that we are not bovines.