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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From the WP series on Zero Day: In recent years, there has been one stunning revelation after the next about how such unknown vulnerabilities were used to break into systems that were assumed to be secure. One came in 2009, targeting Google, Northrop Grumman, Dow Chemical and hundreds of other firms. Hackers from China took advantage of…
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Interesting read — in this article (Can we save American capitalism?) – author notes Allen Metzler says “capitalism’s secret is how well it disperses political and economic power” Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto – corporations performing for the expectations of the stock market ignore information from…
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See the deep hole (job losses) prior to the beginning of this administration — and look where it is today. This recovery can’t be compared to any other… any questions? From WP: Wait, the U.S. economy actually lost 1.2 million jobs in July?
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Pilot course uses mobile technology “This is the Army Learning Model fully in action,” said Tom Clark, the LWN Transmission Section training manager. “ We can provide for Soldiers at their point of need. Every piece of the curriculum for this pilot course has been redone in the Army Learning Model format.
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Now you know what I had for breakfast today. My friend Kevin Howarth told me about his new job, how his liberal arts degree has relevance in the world of web content (Content Science) and shared his experience of learning to style content using the Yahoo Style Guide. In addition to the great conversation —…
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Got to place hold this piece from Bookman of the AJC — he excerpted a Montana Judge’s critique of several notions regarding corporations — this paragraph attacks the idea that “Corporations are people too!” Corporations are not persons. Human beings are persons, and it is an affront to the inviolable dignity of our species that…
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Post article here – discussing the delivery of Kleiner Perkins “State of the Internet Report” The slides are provocative – especially the “Re-imagination of…” series beginning at slide 28 and ending at 86 Slides 75 and 77 are learning and education Did not see numbers for capital engaged in re-imagining education – but, given other…
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I recently find online access to journals fascinating. For example, the debates of the Constitutional Convention, and, a journal of Henry David Thoreau, a favorite of mine. Of course, I am merely procrastinating — averting the completion of my chapter describing the research model I will use to understand differences in cyber security policy among…
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Found 4 articles that are related by one word — character, and perhaps a second word – morals. David Brooks penned an essay obit regarding Dr. James Q. Wilson — a social scientist extraordinaire: When Wilson wrote about character and virtue, he didn’t mean anything high flown or theocratic. It was just the basics, befitting…
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Data contributes to knowledge. Knowledge,when shared, contributes to transparency. Politics dilutes transparency. One can say politics abhors transparency. How can one accumulate and wield power if your opponents know what you do? IBM has a very interesting initiative, Smart Cities, that has applications across all levels of governing and across all sectors (private, public) of…
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