6 October 2023
This editorial is bonkers. It criticizes Kaiser for controlling medical costs … and tries to use the Kaiser experience as just another reason why ‘single-payer’ does not work.
Single-payer healthcare only works until the reality of rationing bites.
Have they tried to get a referral from United Healthcare lately? Traditional healthcare insurance rations to preserve profits. Business rations resources to make their numbers. Which principle is WSJ applying?
If you thought local news was dead, this opinion piece argues otherwise. Whether this evidence indicates a trend is debatable. However, local news is important for the future of our republic.
I had just finished reading a Bloomberg Headline Story noting that their economists were predicting 160,000 new Jobs in September – a slow down in jobs production. Just as I finished, the numbers were released – 336,000 new jobs.
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Scientific American article discusses the energy requirements for AI via an interview of Alex de Cries, a data scientist and Ph.D. candidate studying the energy costs of emerging technologies. He suggests that sustainability of AI should be included as a risk factor for AI developments. Data centers, whether or not AI is hosted by them,…
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Intel is not making delivery commitments for new supercomputer at Argonne. Energy Department has 10 companies engaged in a research center focused on quantum computing. Jesus pointed out that power corrupts – remember the temptations? OpEd written by former Liberty student notes how power is taught to be valued at Liberty, as she acknowledges: None of…
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That seems to be what some people within our national security apparatus thinks Within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence you will find the Office of the National Counter intelligence Executive (ONCIX). ONCIX is headed by Dr. Brenner, the National Counter intelligence Executive and staffed by senior counter intelligence (CI) and other specialists…
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President Obama is announcing his much anticipated change in stem cell policy. The president’s action, which will carry out a campaign pledge, involves a long-controversial intersection of science and personal moral beliefs. NYT Monday’s announcement will not mean an immediate change in policy as the NIH will take several months to create the new regulations. …
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Should we shift from taxes on gallons of fuel to miles driven (or is one a proxy for the other?) Officials Seek Way to Fill a Gas Tax Gap By STEVE FRIESS Published: March 8, 2009 Officials across the country are testing systems that could move Americans from paying a per-gallon tax at the pump…
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So — would you want the state police writing you a ticket for failure to secure your computer? Lawrence Pingree poses an interesting tool to consider. The government could then scan the IP address space issued in the USA and then it could then issue “fix-it” tickets (similar to what is done today for cars)…
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SecurityFix has a sobering post on systems that are “owned” by gangs in Russia. Here is the M.O. for such gangs: In DDoS assaults, cyber gangsters demand tens of thousands of dollars in protection money from businesses. If the businesses refuse to pay, the criminals order hundreds or thousands of compromised computers that they control…
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Interesting advances — but nothing set in concrete yet. “The point is, we don’t know yet what the end potential of either of these approaches will be,” said Mark A. Kay of Stanford University. “No one has cured any disease in people with any of these approaches yet. We don’t know enough yet to know…
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Great read about the bumps that the Obama team have encountered to replicate the communiation apparatus used during the campaign in the White House.
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NYT story notes how the investment to create incentives to single practice physicians is classic textbook reactionto market failure: … only about 17 percent of the nation’s physicians are using computerized patient records, according to a government-sponsored survey published last year in The New England Journal of Medicine.“This is really not a technology problem,” observed…
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SecurityFix describes the Adobe vs cybersec community discourse concerning a flaw that was discovered last year. The organizations noted in this report represent a volunteer group (shadowserver), a proprietary intrusion prevention company (Sourcefire). No government organizations mentioned regarding an event that touches many users across all organizational sectors. There is a blog (VRT) that reports…
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Former Washington Gov. Gary Locke is slated to be appointed Secretary of Commerce: Experience in technology policy will also be important for the next commerce secretary, Cantwell said, since he will have to appoint the next director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, oversee the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and provide leadership…
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