18 July 2026

This is exactly why healthcare being the top industry in your state is not healthy. NY is now spending more on Medicaid than schools — and pays more per person than anywhere in US. There are so many reasons for this, fraud being one of them. Seriously, the federal government should not be in charge of providing health insurance, just as it should not provide college loans. Social Security was not intended to be people's retirement plan. Yet all these are true, and it continues to expand like a growing parasite.

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I had not heard this story before. In 1967, a high school teacher in Palo Alto nearly started a Brown Shirts movement. Students were ready to roll. Why isn't this as well-known as the Milgram experiment?

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Niobium arsenide is superior to copper in microcircuits. "it becomes a better electrical conductor as it gets thinner." Copper, on the other hand, "begins to lose its performance as chips shrink to the nanoscale".

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So we finally have the answer? The report seems to be saying that Mochizuki's ABC Conjecture proof is unformalizable. The math is so recondite that only a few people could analyze it. Thank goodness for LEAN, but I will have to take their word for it.

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Everyone in AI seems to be thinking that Kimi-K3 is going to cement Chinese dominance over Americans. They talk about the Kimi-K3 Moment. 😲  But without Americans around to copy, will they indeed dominate? So far, much of what I've seen seems to be derivative and just enhanced and made cheaper. But let's see some real innovation.

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Hegseth wants a “High-T” military; doctors call it a clinical minefield. Yeah, I have to agree with the doctors here. Hegseth wants an army of manly men, but just giving them testosterone might ruin them, turning them into aggressive mesomorphs with tiny testes. Don't be a mad scientist, Hegseth. Let men be men.

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In the age of AI, where moats are shallow, what can you offer to your customers that's unique? Kevin Kelly has some answers. It's still not easy, but it helps to put some effort into your product and show people you care about quality and utility.

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Big Tech CEOs shield their kids from using the tech that made them rich. They don't let their kids eat the dog food they produce. What does that say?

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How Websites Detect Ban Evasion with Browser Fingerprinting. It's a different Internet now. You can no longer say:
I know that I'm not completely unidentifiable on the Internet, but I still like to make it harder for websites to know things about me. I use a VPN with GeoSpoof, LibreWolf browser for most things, Brave or Mullvad browser for sensitive queries, and extensions like WebGL fingerprint defender (which randomizes your fingerprint). uMatrix and uBlock Origin goes without saying. IPv4 only – no IPv6.
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This is how the Japanese stay cool. Air conditioning? No, they have human refrigerators. Man, you don't want to get locked in, that's for sure.

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Ron Wyden is pushing to make cannabis legal everywhere. Why does he want to make Americans stupid? Here's the real reason:
"It also sets up a regulatory and tax system for the substance."
Tax and regulate. That will drive marijuana back underground again as people hide cultivation to avoid taxation.

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