Link. Inflation and disease from the perspective of ag economics

Link. “When patients see medical providers outside their plans’ networks, UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, Aetna and other insurers often send the bills to MultiPlan to recommend a payment amount.”

NYT investigation.

Link. Brother of course. I think they also made good coin as typewriters died.

Link. Filled gaps in my understanding.

Link. Maybe I should try fentanyl? (jk but the withdrawal does suck)

Link. In the very unlikely event that Photos lock-in gets attention there are two fixes: Define an export format for Photo collections and make public PhotoKit APIs the only way Photos interacts with iCloud Photos.

Link. The scale of proposed AI facilities obscures the major reduction in cost.

Link. Unreliable study designs suggest a 30% reduction. We will learn more soon. I’m most interested in animal model studies.

Link. Aliens VII. (Cicada dual emergence in Midwest). Dogs who eat too many can get obstructed.

“cicada train would reach to the moon and back 33 times”

Link. I missed the 3 Holy Documents part of this. Jedeed always has the best Trump take with the most telling details.

“Imagine dropping someone from 2010 directly into 2024. They’d lose their mind immediately; they’d go stark raving mad.” I think you’d want to go back before 9/11, say from 1998. Then they’d go mad.

Link. Sounds like a preexisting problem exacerbated by fame.

Link. US Gov was awful at security so they outsourced to MSFT. Which turns out to be awful too.

Link. This has not gotten much press.

Link. Slowly but consistently

Link. I learned a few things.

Link. The Economist did this well in their 2000 Millenium issue. This predates the LLM jump.

The Fermi Paradox applies.

Link. “also quieted my conscience by continuing to drink heavily, every night”

Some of story is explaining how he landed in Pecker-hell but there is lots of interesting background on how lies are made and the truth hidden. Including finding “experts” who will say anything.

Link. Open to all but motivation is to reduce drowning risk for black youth. More unmet demand than expected, normally $130 or so. I believe finding instructors is hard, facilities close due lifeguard lack.

Link. It’s rare to see a review like this — across transit apps.

Link. Is it lying if nobody believes you?

Link. Don’t scratch your butt while shopping.

Link. Embassy protection rule only applies to a host nation and the self-defense case is strong for attack in Syria.

Link. “It’s reminiscent of Solar Winds, although (1) it would have been much, much worse, and (2) we got really, really lucky.”

What a crazy situation.

Link. He is past his prime but he is still very good at corruption.

Link. It’s been a long time coming and it will likely get to us one day. Happily we have some relevant experience and a vaccine if needed.

Link. Might as well be 15 pennies.

Link. Describes how to reenable address and CC auto-entry.

Link. There is lots of redundancy even now.

“the I-35 collapse does not show up in any statistics as a hit to state or metro output, employment or incomes”

Link. Cleveland Plain Dealer has far more courage than the NYT.

Link. Quebec birth rates plummeted in the 70s. Language laws effectively limited immigrant sources to French Africa and Haiti. Quebec has always been sociologically fascinating.

Link. Every high school science class needs this on the wall.

Link. Colossus is a better name.

Link. And there is no way to test the correct code. (I suspect every “family” or “child” thing Apple does is hard to test — even by Apple.)

Link. Mirrors remote work but students do poorly. Similar increase rich and poor. School violence decreasing but not absences. Many contributing factors including staying home for colds, large increase in anxiety disorders, and absence begets absence.

Link. NYT searching for economic anxiety reasons land on housing shortage with Phoenix as an example.

That actually makes sense. It’s very severe in Canada so not only US. This was predicted after the 2010 real estate crash but may be exaggerated by migration boom.

Link. One factor is red states do less for not-elite so depend more on federal programs.

Link. Sept 2023 but I missed it then. Requires wiping existing so not great.

Link. The quality problems are old but people loss was a last straw. Accelerated retirement likely hurt many companies.

Link. Recovery Key scares me.

Link. Rural America will not be able to do this short of 2045 level robotics.

Link. I agree with Schneier. This won’t be fixed … unless there is a rape/murder related to it.

Link. I suspect Apple’s AI integration will also disappoint. It’s too early.

“ChatGPT is more “generally” useful. There is pretty much nothing I’ve thrown at it in the last month or so that it hasn’t helped me with.”

Link. In the 70s I liked to drop in on cults. These SV utopias feel much like that, but perhaps even more the communes of a few years before. If I were not ancient I’d try to crash their party.

Link. Yikes. Needs urgent fix.

Link. “EEG studies of sleeping ostriches have found REM-like activity in the brainstem … in modern birds, as in mammals, this REM-like activity takes place primarily in the more recently developed forebrain.”

Platypus also brainstem.

Link. I wonder if we will do more paper input in other domains. Paper is easy to modify and very secure. In most domains AI can read and interpret.

(MN ballots are optical scanned)

Link. Kill TikTok.

Link. macOS undocumented. It’s possible to hit the path limit if you are verbose.

Link. These things are apparently easy to make in China. Many going bankrupt, customers angry about FALLING prices. They would clobber US brands.

Link. Everyone in software has a story about a temporary solution.