Not so fast. A U.S. District judge in Texas has thrown out the FTC's decision to abolish non-compete contract clauses. This sounds to me like a consequence of the Loper Bright decision. Agencies can't just overturn law. I can see how non-compete clauses can help preserve a small business from having employees being scarfed up by larger competitors who can afford to dangle attractive offers just to damage their competitors. The judge was not opposed to overturning harmful non-competes, just a blanket overturn of all non-competes. Seems reasonable.
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Microplastics are everywhere – even in your brain. To me, this is more of an imminent threat than the phantom rumblings about anthropogenic climate change, which is very nebulous and likely beyond human control anyway.
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Owning a hospital is not a good place to be right now. Eight Hawaii hospitals (62%) are at risk of closure, due to financial problems. These are rural hospitals, but for a place like Hawaii, these hospitals are vital.
And then in Oregon, there's Legacy, an urban hospital chain, which has announced that it lost $41.7 million in just the last quarter. It's looking less and less like an attractive partner to merge with, unless OHSU is looking to buy scrap to pick over for parts. Legacy still has to negotiate prices with United Healthcare, which looks like it will do so from a position of weakness. But a merger will be looked at to see if it will benefit Oregonians, or at least not harm them. Letting Legacy die will not serve Oregonians, but absorbing a big money-loser without substantial money outflow from OHSU seems like a losing strategy to me.
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The U.S. birthrate hit a new low. But you can get free abortions and vasectomies at the DNC, though. That's the world they'd like to promote.
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Television sets are just in-home billboards now. In the ronin's home, we have not watched TV in many years. There is no need. Even cable offerings are garbage now.
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Yeah, whatever. The Multnomah County sheriff is now willing to jail homeless camp rule violators. We'll see what happens. Mike Schmidt is still in office.
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Crazies. California proposes to offer zero-down no payment home loans. It's not really a loan because they don't have to pay it back unless they sell or refinance. This bill was authored by Joaquin Arambula, D-Fresno, who says "social and economic benefits of home ownership should be available to everyone". Legislating wealth, in other words. Diversity sure is California's strength. Why do people want to live in that state?
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In Seattle, even the Hammering Man is no longer working. Figures. He's probably on disability or getting unemployment now, like just about everyone else.
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This is why the roads are full of crazies. In Oregon, the percent of those 12 or older with substance abuse disorder is 21.8%. And the percent of those with alcohol use disorder is 12.2%. That's a lot of people. Of course, not everyone in that demographic is driving, but the numbers are way higher than they ought to be. This probably explains the road rage incidents as well.
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This is why it's hard to get AI into clinical medicine. Firstly, hat's off to Dr. Singh that he was able to take his interest in AI tech to enhance clinical care. You couldn't do this at a place like OHSU, where there is a dedicated department that "handles" all matters of computer and tech nature, and there is so much administrative burden that nothing would happen. But then he encounters this obstacle:
In short, you still need the clinician. We're not quite ready for fully automated medicine.What’s markedly different about this technology is that it removes the clinician from the loop, making the child — or their parent or carer — the end user.
“What this tool is going to do is take emergency triage data, make a prediction and have a parent directly approve — yes or no — if the child can be tested,” Singh says. This alleviates the burden on the clinician and accelerates the whole process. But it also creates many unprecedented issues. If something goes wrong with the patient, who is responsible? And if unnecessary tests are done, who will pay for them? “We need to, in an automated way, obtain informed consent from the family,” Singh says. And the consent has to be reliable and authentic. “It can’t be like when you sign up for social media and there are 20 pages of small print and you just hit accept,” Singh says.
Your weren't dreaming – or economy really sucks. New data shows US job growth has been far weaker than initially reported. Why would anyone want four more years of an administration that is so opposed to ideas that would work, because of ideology, that they are willing to let the economy suffer further?
Soon to come to Oregon. Mushroom edibles are killing people. So many people are willing to take things to f*ck themselves up. Such is our world.
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