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I have worn contacts 7 days a week for over 20 years, can't stand wearing glasses.
Modern daily disposable contact lenses are so easy, probably takes me total of no more than 25 seconds a day to deal with them and once they are in I have great vision and cannot feel them at all. I literally cannot tell whether I am wearing them other than the fact I can see properly.
Last time I did the math on LASIK the cost was equivalent to about 5 years worth of lenses. The convenience and flexibility of lenses outweighs the risks of LASIK for me.
I wear modern dailies (1-Day Acuvue Moist) and it costs me under $500/yr, and that's not including the discounts I get from my insurance.
I couldn't believe the positive impact dailies have had on my life - I can't even tell I'm wearing contacts, my dry eye is all but gone, and allergy season is now bearable to me. Even if it was $1k/yr, paying $3/day for perfect eyesight with no discomfort or hassle is still an absolute no brainer.
There is a new D2C company out there called Hubble. They don't offer custom base curve or correction for astigmatism, but I was able to get one year's worth for $265.
I would personally recommend a trial for sleep-in contacts. I did so through my optometrist, firstly wearing them as dailies for a week. Then, after an optometrist inspection, leaving them in for one night, followed by another inspection. Finally, I was to sleep in them for a week (or perhaps five days, I forget) followed by another inspection. This final inspection showed that I had developed an eye ulcer during the final phase of the trial, which I had experienced as a very mild irritation. Luckily, there have been no longer lasting side effects.
IANAL (but I work often with them) and, about (2)... It'd depend mostly on how it's presented. You could either argue along your reasoning (only sub-directories are licensed) or say "it's right there in the 'documents' subdirectory that comes with the project, it's in another directory only to have things better organized, so all the project is licensed".
Probably you'd be able to find legal precedents for both arguments. Still, I agree with you that it's good to pay attention and understand the licenses (or get legal councel if you don't) if you're planning on doing anythnig with these projects (and others too).
Luckily there are tools like the Wayback Machine from archive.org where you can retrieve the previous versions. There's also some existing cases where it's been ruled to be a legitimate source of evidence too so you're not arguing that from scratch.
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