Bay Area techies are seeing therapists, and they want to talk about Musk and Zuckerberg. What a sick culture Silicon Valley must be like now. I remember the dotcom era, when the techies were having a great time, hanging out in bars with girls galore who were enthralled with all those millionaires. What a different thirty years makes, huh? The newest development, AI, isn't going to mint them money – it will take away their jobs.
But that Columbia kid, who developed the interview coding cheating app, is doing fine with his new business, Cluely. Don't spend all that money, kid. This won't last forever.
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Jensen Huang sounds the alarm: 50% of AI researchers are Chinese. Most of the rest are Indian. American kids better get with the program, or America will lose its dominance.
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CVS and Aetna will exit out of Obamacare at the end of this year. We're finally seeing the fallout of the socialism-structured healthcare plan. Yeah, as the saying goes for healthcare: there is affordability, quality, or accessibility – but you can only pick two. Anyone who thinks otherwise is living in fantasy land.
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Google plans to roll out a special chatbot for youth 13 and younger. I wouldn't allow my kid to use it. Google will suck up all the interaction for training and storing for later use, and for providing advertising. The privacy risk would be horrendous. I would hate to type private stuff in and have it haunt me forever. Kids are too innocent and vulnerable for an entity like Google.
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There's a new atomic clock out, that loses a second once every 140 million years. At first I thought it was fantastic, and another milestone passed, but then it says that we already had an atomic clock (the NIST-F2) that lost a second in 300 million years. So why are we excited again?
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Pigs treated with CRISPR tech to make them immune to a certain virus, are now FDA approved as food. As long as it's cooked, I guess it's OK. Make 'em resistant to trichinella and pork tapeworm, too, while you're at it.
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Jeld-Wen is closing its shop in Klamath County by the end of this year. All employees will be let go. Jeld-Wen had already been moving to North Carolina. Another loss for Oregon. Such a far cry from when Jeld Wen was able to pay for a professorship at OHSU. Dr. Brian Druker holds the Jeld-Wen chair in leukemia research. Those were the days, huh?
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Three things: we're only the richest country because our wealth is borrowed from future generations, and second, it's being used to pay for all kinds of frivolous crap, much of it you can't see. And third, no one wants to build nice things in the United States, because our country doesn't respect property anymore. Druggies and crazies destroy things without a second thought, and the government lets them run loose. We can't have anything nice. Just the bare utilitarian stuff. Example: New York City only pays for restoration of architecture from the golden age, but new stuff is all concrete and prefab.
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