Quantum Teleportation Was Achieved Over The Internet For The First Time. Why the Internet, though? Does that mean it was done somewhere else, too? I want to know if Scotty can beam someone up?
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Baby Boomers are still running much of small businesses. And they are getting older and don't have successors. So they could close and a lot of Main Street businesses could disappear.
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What Palantir sees. An interview with their CTO. It's about targeting overseas adversaries and helping ICE out with deportations, which is was the NYT reporter was concerned about mainly. But yeah, this is what people voted for.
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Why do cats love tuna so much? It seems that their taste buds have a receptor for umami, and that tuna fish turns it on especially well.
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Fluoroquinolones are supposed to target the mitochondria of bacteria. This website says that human mitochondria can be affected as well. A lot of physicians prescribe this drug, and there haven't been any new warnings put out since 2018. It shouldn't be used indiscriminately, but it is a very useful drug. People carried it with them with visiting Mexico to stave off Montezuma's Revenge.
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Creepy. Anthropic thinks that their Claude model has some degree of awareness that it is being modified.
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SNAP will run out of money on November 1. Here's what each state is doing about it. For Oregon and Washington, not much. The money that is being given out will be like $4 or $5 of assistance per household or person, which is essentially just a token gesture of assistance, and not real help. Maybe they can go to Costco and get a couple of hot dogs?
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Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation. You mean it's just a repackaging of Russell's Paradox, and that's the proof? I thought it was going to be something profound.
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AI can make you seem smart, and your brain falls for this. Yup, and I don't care.
Senator Grassley wants to regulate AI use. Sorry, Chuck – toothpaste is out of the tube. Too late!
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PeaceHealth is cutting 2.5% of its workforce. Just in time for the holidays.
And now OHSU nurse practitioners, PAs and midwives are going to strike. Easy for them to do, because they know that doctors are going to work harder to pick up the slack, because their work ethic would prohibit letting patient care suffer. But suffer it still may. I can't see that it makes sense to continue to be a clinical physician at OHSU, where you are an employee and the ancillary staff are getting substantial pay raises, while you have to be content with whatever your productivity will justify, which may not be under your control.
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PacWest Center sold for more than expected, better than Big Pink. So Portland city leaders are getting optimistic. Way too premature. The sale price was still only 34% of what it was purchased for.
WWeek writes about "tax compression" in Portland commercial real estate. A property's market price may be sinking below it's assessed value. That would be very bad.
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