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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Inspirational story in NYT today about efforts in San Fran to alert locals about products made there. More important, discussion about smaller, locally targeted, mfg processes which create real jobs. In particular, I like the values expressed in this statement (esp. in light of the stories of US companies going abroad to avoid taxes e.g.…
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There has been quite a dust-up over a candidate for Provost at KSU. See article here and here. Citizens have written that if you take my tuition and tax money – I should have a say what you teach. Imagine being limited to teach what people already know. My take: Society used to believe those…
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This is a project that looks interesting — works in the cloud…
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Weiner was right. Must read this article and dig further at a later time.
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The tweet this am caught my eye: @baseballcrank Dan McLaughlin Follow the money: “Climate science’s only customer is governments” http://is.gd/kcf78 (@flicka47 via @EdDriscoll) #rsrh When you follow the link, the post relies on rhetoric allegedly proving how marxists (and thereby liberals) use science to subvert the public. No evidence offered to support the headline.…
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A post on Peachpundit examines a draft bill by Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver which would limit the authority of the Department of Family and Children Services to require children to take prescribed psychotropic medications. The pundit is shocked that a bill would be drafted to allow children to make such decisions. She then impugns the…
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I read his essay found in My Pedagogic Creed. He notes with great excitement the potential of education upon the society: I believe that the community’s duty to education is therefore its paramount moral duty By law and punishment by social agitation and discussion society can regulate and form itself in a more or less…
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Scoble writes an excellent blog on the coming molecular age of information. I am cross-referencing here… for later thought. Data = electrons info = atoms ideas = molecules knowledge = ???
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rough thoughts here Article raises some analogies to governments failing to make the transition to the digital age This is the central quote It’s unlikely that we would even refer metaphorically to buggy whip makers if it weren’t for Theodore Levitt, a Harvard Business School professor. In 1960, he wrote about their plight in a…
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Need to read: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Information Technology Sector Coordinating Council (IT SCC) today released the IT Sector Baseline Risk Assessment (ITSRA) to identify and prioritize national-level risks to critical sector-wide IT functions while outlining strategies to mitigate those risks and enhance national and economic security. “The IT Sector Baseline…
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