Ariella Brown
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As Georges S Patton said: "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
As Georges S Patton said: "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
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Personally, I didn't choose my bank for its chatbot character but for its proximity to my home. But, hey, I'm old-school. https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2017/07/19/capital-one-brings-humanity-to-its-forthcoming-chatbot/
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Interactive Periodic Table of Elements Shows How the Elements Actually Get Used in Making Everyday Things.
Quite handy...
Quite handy...
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One of the statements here reminds me of what a NYC park ranger said about how natives here built their canoes without any metal tools. They couldn't cut down trees, so they set controlled fires to get the wood they wanted.
"It’s tempting to see each fire season as worse than the last, and to further see that as evidence of the kind of apocalypse that a changing climate will visit on civilization. If it ain’t rising water at the coasts it’s a “firenado” in the hills. But researchers have identified an even more pernicious problem: us. Specifically, where we build houses.
Whether the sheer number of fires in a season or the amount of land they burn has increased over years (or decades or centuries) is hard to tell. It depends on the dataset. “When you smear out fires over a continental scale, from the edge of the boreal forest to the tropics, you’re hiding a lot of regional variation,” says Mark Finney, a researcher at the US Forest Service’s Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory. In fact, Finney says, North Americans burned a lot more territory before Europeans arrived than after." from https://www.wired.com/story/wildfire-housing-crisis/
"It’s tempting to see each fire season as worse than the last, and to further see that as evidence of the kind of apocalypse that a changing climate will visit on civilization. If it ain’t rising water at the coasts it’s a “firenado” in the hills. But researchers have identified an even more pernicious problem: us. Specifically, where we build houses.
Whether the sheer number of fires in a season or the amount of land they burn has increased over years (or decades or centuries) is hard to tell. It depends on the dataset. “When you smear out fires over a continental scale, from the edge of the boreal forest to the tropics, you’re hiding a lot of regional variation,” says Mark Finney, a researcher at the US Forest Service’s Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory. In fact, Finney says, North Americans burned a lot more territory before Europeans arrived than after." from https://www.wired.com/story/wildfire-housing-crisis/
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You know what path is paved with good intentions. Here's a clear illustration of the concept of unintended consequences. http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-mink-released-20170718-story.html
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The top comment is something I've also said repeatedly, and this applies even for those of us who are insured b/c of the OOP costs mandated by insurance companies, a component that rose substantially after the implementation of the ACA.
"One issue that is never discussed in reform, is reforming a key pricing element for a free system. The consumer MUST know what they are paying for services, BEFORE the services are rendered so they can SHOP and make an educated decision about receiving services. There are NO posted prices in physician office, hospitals or clinics, and mostly it is impossible for the consumer to find out what the cost is of a service before the work is done. No one takes their auto to the repair shop without getting an estimate. Conversely, insurers are asked to take on risk for a subscriber WITHOUT being able to ermine what their risk is since they have to offer guaranteed coverage without considering preexisting conditions.
If we want to bring down healthcare costs along with the reforms mentioned above we need to empower the consumer by giving them access to pricing and allow them to shop. Suppose the doctor was prohibited from charging the patient anything more that the $30 copay unless it was approved by the patient? If the patient had to pay 20% of that cost they would pay attention."
from http://www.hoover.org/research/single-payer-siren
"One issue that is never discussed in reform, is reforming a key pricing element for a free system. The consumer MUST know what they are paying for services, BEFORE the services are rendered so they can SHOP and make an educated decision about receiving services. There are NO posted prices in physician office, hospitals or clinics, and mostly it is impossible for the consumer to find out what the cost is of a service before the work is done. No one takes their auto to the repair shop without getting an estimate. Conversely, insurers are asked to take on risk for a subscriber WITHOUT being able to ermine what their risk is since they have to offer guaranteed coverage without considering preexisting conditions.
If we want to bring down healthcare costs along with the reforms mentioned above we need to empower the consumer by giving them access to pricing and allow them to shop. Suppose the doctor was prohibited from charging the patient anything more that the $30 copay unless it was approved by the patient? If the patient had to pay 20% of that cost they would pay attention."
from http://www.hoover.org/research/single-payer-siren
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It may no longer be included in the classification of planets, but it merits some attention here.
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