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Sympathetic nerves, the same ones responsible for the “fight-or-flight” response, can actually inhibit tumor growth. By releasing norepinephrine, these nerves flip a molecular switch on immune cells, preventing the tumor from recruiting the cellular allies it needs to thrive.

Oregon hadn't cleaned out its voter rolls in about 30 years in defiance of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). State officials settled a lawsuit with Judicial Watch, agreeing to clear out ineligible voters from rolls, starting with 160,000 voters who are dead, moved, or otherwise not voting in multiple elections. So it is that we find out Oregon has agreed to take off 800,000 ineligible names from its voter rolls, which represent 25% of all Oregon registered voters. 

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The ZFC axioms are often regarded as perhaps the most universal truths that humanity has managed to articulate — for while it may be possible for physicists to imagine universes in which physical laws are turned inside out, mathematical laws will remain constant.

It is a paradox without resolution: The foundations of mathematics are as universal, as solid as anything humanity knows, a core part of nearly every mathematical truth. And yet they remain simply what we choose to believe.

From the insurance side] the tradeoffs here are individual versus macro scale optimization of health outcomes + patient comfort, while optimizing and operating under constrained resources ($, limited numbers of medical machinery, limited numbers of providers, limited numbers of providers with the appropriate specialty).

The idea is that we only dedicate resources at scale to the things with high signal to noise ratio, and the highest signal is patient discomfort.

In your case, that discomfort requirement is clearly met. But that doesn’t mean jumping straight to a test is best for society as a whole -- the symptoms may resolve on their own / with medication before you’d even get the results back, the test may/may not find anything, etc.

“Do the thing cheapest/least resource intensive thing that’s likely to work first, then move on to the alternative.”

Starting September 2026, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID.

Every app and every device, worldwide, with no opt-out.

That’s the culmination of the paradox – that greater accessibility to the resource leads to de facto scarcity.

A farmer has 17 sheep. 9 ran away. He then bought enough to double what he had. His neighbor, who had 4 dogs and 14 sheep, gave him one-third of her animals. The farmer sold 5 sheep on Monday and again the next day, which was Wednesday. Each sheep weighs about 150 lbs. How many sheep does the farmer have?

OHSU leaders said the turnaround is being driven by a surge in more lucrative complex cases — patients with serious conditions who need highly specialized care and, in turn, bring in higher reimbursement. 

On Thursday, OHSU President Dr. Shereef Elnahal said cancer services are up 32% from last year and the hospital has seen more bone marrow transplants and other major surgeries.

At 8.4%, Washington has the lowest percentage of total financial reserves to tax revenues of any state in the country. 

Put another way, Washington’s state reserves are so low that they could only cover 12.8 days of state government operations, ranking 49th out of 50 states. By comparison, the average across every state is 47.8 days.

For much of the history of computing, it was reasonably safe to assume that a machine was doing what you told it to do (and what its creators promised it would do), because its operations were local.

If you scratch the surface just a bit, however, none of this is true when applied to modern technologies, and these assumptions are not safe.