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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BBC reports one manager in Britain very upset over the cost to his organization: Andrew Way, chief executive of London’s Royal Free Hospital, said technical problems had cost the trust £10m and meant fewer patients could be seen. The Department of Health said lessons had been learnt from the trial. The England scheme, part of…
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Lots of tangents from the story on new FTC study on industry policing and advertising their privacy policies: FTC has two votes for regulation or legislation (doubts cast upon self regulation as a tool – public failure) Study thinks companies make the information regarding their privacy policies too difficulty for the average person to find/comprehend…
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Microsoft is offer $250,000 for the heads of those responsible for constructing conficker.
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Evidently, according to a Defense Science Board study, the Pentagon needs to address institutional change to deal with the new threat environment. Interesting categorization of surpises as “surprise” surprises and “known” surprisies. According to this report: Among the “known surprises” are threats in the cyber realm, space and nuclear regimes. The study’s authors conclude that…
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Parry Aftab notes that when COPPA first became effective, a lot of children’s websites simply went away — assumingly because the owners could not manage or understand the COPPA requirements. And, for those that remain: While the sites want to do the right thing, they are often adopting “do it yourself” methods that violate the…
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How much easier would it be to manage risk in an organization if you were able to divine the mood of the staff? Robert Scoble has this interesting comment from his talk with **Facebook is, he told me, studying “sentiment” behavior. It hasn’t yet used that research in its public service yet, but is looking…
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A simple statement with a magnitude of implications. From an essay in today’s NYT by Dennis Overby: It is no coincidence that these are the same qualities that make for democracy and that they arose as a collective behavior about the same time that parliamentary democracies were appearing. If there is anything democracy requires and…
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Parry Aftab, blogging on the McAfee Security Insights Blog, gives a quick history on the Internet Safety Task Force that was, well, taken to task because of its corporate funding partners (See Jan 25 post). She says further research is in the future: The ISTTF is the first task force of its kind in the…
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Securityfix presents interesting analysis concerning conficker — seems the creators don’t mind soiling their native lands. According to an analysis by Microsoft engineers, the original version of the Downadup (a.k.a. “Conficker”) worm will quit the installation process if the malware detects the host system is configured with a Ukrainian keyboard layout. However, the latest variant…
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California’s $3 billion effort has just begun (2007) — and this article from the San Jose Mercury News points out that profits are long term, not short term, because: Ethical/moral arguments surrounding stem cell research So little is known, basic research is the first recipient of funds Risky process of developing product keeps investors at…
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