Comcast's Xfinity Shield Turns Millions Of Routers Into Motion Sensors. It's strange that in a world where people take down Flock cameras, that Xfinity would think that people would purchase a device that tracks them in their own home. We already have the ability to install cameras that can detect intruders. I doubt that Xfinity's system will identify the criddler that breaks into my home. What we really need is a deterrent to stop them once they do break in. Like robot arms that come out of the walls and hold the intruder in place.
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Medicare's ongoing plan to lower physician reimbursement is going to worsen the doctor shortage situation. Medicare and Medicaid are socialist solutions to healthcare. There is already so much spending in healthcare. So much of the U.S. budget is dedicated to spending on these two items. The Trump administration is making Medicaid spending leaner, but efforts to decrease Medicare reimbursement will backfire. It just amazes me that some otherwise smart people advocate for universal healthcare run by the government.
Here's another reason why fewer smart people will want to become doctors. Does the naïve desire to want to heal people outweigh how much the psychological damage and trauma of litigation can exact on a physician's life? Pediatricians are not as likely to be sued, but the trauma of death is very real. In medicine, doctors might get sued if they work for deep pocket employers, like OHSU or Providence, even if they were not directly responsible. And the news media may not paint the picture in a way that balances the issue from the doctor's perspective. And the the doctor is not at liberty to defend his/her position in the public square. Even acknowledging that a patient was under his/her care violates HIPAA rules, and can result in monetary penalties. That's why many just say "no comment".
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Mathematics may be the first academic profession to see its work taken over by AI. It seems to me that a lot of math problems were unsolved because human mathematicians just didn't have the working memory space that LLMs do. But what likely irks some mathematicians is that tough problems are being solved by people who aren't mathematicians, but are just smart people with some math background. That's gotta sting.
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The Caps Lock key is one key that I wish could be repurposed. I already use Karabiner-Elements so this should be straightforward to implement.
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The title of this article says Cherokee Nation In The US Bans Data Center Development. But then you read:
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On the same day, the Cherokee Nation also released a report on data centers, which found that 64 percent of the 1,593 Cherokee Nation citizens surveyed did support hyperscale data center construction within the Reservation, a 7,000 sqm (75,347 sq ft) area in northeastern Oklahoma where the nation has legislative, executive, and judicial powers. Only 14 percent supported their development, and 22 percent remained unsure.Datacenters would be a great way to make good use of all that reservation land. Better than casinos.
The report states that two data center projects – Project Clydesdale, a $1 billion campus in Tulsa County, and Project Mustang, potentially located in the Claremore Industrial Park – are currently under development within the Cherokee Nation Reservation.
Here’s the Salary It Takes to Live Comfortably in Each U.S. State in 2026. Washington is the 6th most expensive state to live in. Oregon is the 7th most expensive state. And California is #3. Of course.
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At the same time, the forecast anticipates the county’s senior population (65 and older) will increase by 21,538 over the next decade. The Oregon Journalism Project has previously reported on some of the consequences of an aging population, including dwindling social services for younger people and difficulties for local economies as older people spend less.