Key Findings. Only Arkansas had an overall relative price below 170 percent of Medicare prices, while other states (California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, New York, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wisconsin) had relative prices that were above 300 percent of Medicare prices.
You will struggle mightily inside American technocapitalism to afford a home insulated from crime caused by deluded politicians, private school to avoid woke social experiments, and you’ll still see a homeless guy taking a shit on your sidewalk.
The “most transparent administration in history” has spent years trying to hide embarrassing financial secrets from the public
Apple Vision Series and Smart Glasses Roadmap (2025–2028): Smart Glasses Set to Drive the Next Wave in Consumer Electronics
Small Modular Reactors, or SMRs, in particular. They have long been viewed with cautious optimism in clean energy circles. In China, they are quickly becoming an emerging backbone of the country’s AI infrastructure strategy. The logic is simple: If compute (industry jargon for the infrastructure powering AI) is the engine of AI progress, energy is the fuel. And China wants control over the pump.
Trends come and go—cottagecore, coastal grandma, goblin mode, clean girl, brat summer, whatever’s next. But the people who endure aren’t optimizing for today. They’re building libraries. Languages. Signature worlds that last.
https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/whats-stopping-america-from-goingWhat’s important to understand is that a heat pump does not create heat. It also doesn’t create cold (cold is the absence of heat, just like darkness is the absence of light). A heat pump simply transfers – pumps! – heat from one place to another.
What did they create? Two key innovations:
- SDBench: A testing environment using 304 real medical mysteries from NEJM where AI starts with just “29yo woman with sore throat” and must decide what to ask/test next
If they were average members of the S&P 500, trading at a trailing price-earnings (P/E) ratio of 27 to 1, Fannie and Freddie’s combined market capitalization would be almost $780 billion. But they are not; they are financial companies, with a “special relationship” with the government. That special relationship resulted in their being forced into conservatorship in 2008—in spite of being in full compliance with their applicable capital standards—by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who was not comfortable having to rely on them as shareholder-owned companies to get the country through the mortgage crisis, after the private-label securities market had imploded in the fall of 2007 and commercial banks had greatly pulled back on their residential mortgage lending because of soaring delinquencies. For virtually all of the time since their conservatorships, Fannie and Freddie’s P/Es have rounded to zero, and even with the recent optimism about their potential release, their average P/E still is languishing at under 3 to 1, or less than 11 percent of the S&P 500 P/E.
Last week, I wrote about some challenges of accessing and analyzing Epic’s EHI exports. Let’s leave access challenges for another time; today I’m sharing a draft of an open-source project to help with analysis: The EHI Living Manual. This guide is for anyone who has been handed a folder of TSV files and needs to make them useful — whether you’re an individual with your own health data, a developer building a new application, or a data engineer tasked with integrating a large-scale export.
Ultimately, the 5 series was so successful that it was a major factor in the demise of Canon’s previous professional full-frame series of cameras, the 1Ds series. The 5 series prompted Canon to rethink how to provide value to its professional and prosumer user base.
According to a preprint posted to the bioRxiv server this month, nearly all the dead colonies tested positive for bee viruses spread by parasitic mites. Alarmingly, every single one of the mites the researchers screened was resistant to amitraz, the only viable mite-specific pesticide—or miticide—of its kind left in humans’ arsenal.
This isn’t just about abortion. It’s also about judicial respect for democracy and the legislative process. Even if you want broader abortion rights, you need to be concerned about who decides. 5/5
An Enormous Scandal, Dwarfing Watergate & The Pentagon Papers.
A quick steel man of the $55 billion number: We can be confident this is Apple’s internal figure—just as the author claims—because multiplying this 2016 number by five yields the exact $275 billion five-year deal reported by The Information in 2021, part of Apple’s MOU with the NDRC.
On Monday, ASTP/ONC announced (link) they will no longer enforce most Real World Testing (RWT) requirements for Certified Health IT. To most, this is an obscure policy shift. But it effectively ends a short-lived, and arguably unintentional, era of transparency into how health IT systems actually perform.
Whether or not one can comprehend all of the elements above as genuinely additive to Moby Dick itself (a feat unworthy of lesser minds), one cannot deny their literary-historical significance in opening up the form of the novel beyond simple storytelling. Sure, there is no Infinite Jestwithout Melville, but there is no Grapes of Wrath, either.
A puffin was found in a Hereford garden after being blown more than 100 miles from her seaside nest.
I started off by asking him whether there is a unifying theme to his seemingly diffuse life’s work, which has included old-school magazines and books, bleeding-edge technology, conservationism, photographing Asia, and teaching. “Following my interests,” he said simply.
While many voters have become skeptical toward the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a majority of Democrats embrace restrictive policies, including punitive measures against those who haven’t gotten the COVID-19 vaccine. 2022.
A few dozen people of all ages arrived ahead of the 8 am opening of the Bras Marie swimming zone – one of three open in Paris this summer – donning swim caps and goggles as they prepared to dive in and celebrate the long-awaited return of bathing in the Seine. The seasonal opening of the Seine for swimming is seen as a key legacy of the Paris 2024 Olympics, when open-water swimmers and triathletes competed in its waters which were specially cleaned for the event.