Morning Reads

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.

  • Is AI Sustainable?

    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

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  • Morning Reads

    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

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  • These terms are strongly related, inter-related to be more precise, and have a significant effect upon the level of trust and confidence that any information system engenders with its users.  Separately dealing with each attributed of a network, as though

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  • Interesting…. Take A Darwinian Approach To A Dangerous World: Ecologist Preaches ‘Natural’ Security For Homeland Defense ScienceDaily (2009-02-23) — Global society is undergoing rapid political and socioeconomic changes, to which our security measures must adapt. Fortunately, we’re surrounded by millions

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  • Cost of Information

    Chronicle reports on recent court decision stating, effectively, that a public employee can’t exercise first amendment speech rights if the credibility of the speaker is based upon the employee’s position (yeah, take that whistleblowers!). First the context: As an associate

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  • A relatively new policy tool, mandatory disclosure of infromation with a regulatory intent, is being proposed as a means to deal with the net neutrality issue.  In an article announcing Obama’s choice of Leibowitz as FTC chair,  Cnet reports: On

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  • CyberSecurity Updates

    Univ Florida – breach – 97,000 id’s Norton unveils product to help parents manage children’s access to the web.  Has the market done what Government could not? Citing a Rochester Institute of Technology study that found a huge gap between

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  • A friend of mine recently offered a post lamenting the hooligans that currently terrorize Wikipedia. Based on my past and recent experiences, my impression is that Wikipedia has become dominated by an entrenched group of individuals who are territorial rather

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  • Seems some folks in Congress believe that all access point providers should maintain a log of users to be accessible by law enforcement. Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers

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  • Stem Cell Debates

    New Post article updates discussion regarding impending federal policy changes. One possible change: Among the issues the guidelines will address is whether funding should be limited to cells from leftover embryos that are destined for destruction at infertility clinics. The

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  • What you don’t know, can hurt your kids: Because parents generally don’t understand that Internet features exist on these devices, they are not supervising their use (other than for choice of game content for sex or violence). They are often

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