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“Virtually no one cuts a $13,375 check for health care. Most pay 27 percent of it, or even less. The surest way to cut health-care spending would be to make people shoulder more of the burden directly, as opposed to hiding it in taxes and lost wages. But that’s about as popular as a puppy pot roast.” — Analysis: You Have No Idea What Health Costs - washingtonpost.com
My friend is trying to find a home for a tiny kitten. Who will love you, forever.
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Mr Singularity, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the autonomous murder-bot -
“The researchers — leading computer scientists, artificial intelligence researchers and roboticists who met at the Asilomar Conference Grounds on Monterey Bay in California — generally discounted the possibility of highly centralized superintelligences and the idea that intelligence might spring spontaneously from the Internet. But they agreed that robots that can kill autonomously are either already here or will be soon.”
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“Still, nonsense about women, weight, and “health” is particularly pervasive and destructive. Indeed, if we were really concerned about medical risk factors that actually do have a significant negative correlation with a candidate’s life expectancy, the most relevant is one that has afflicted 108 of America’s 110 Supreme Court justices: being a man.” — Paul Campos, Fat Judges Need Not Apply
Weekend Project: Bird Colllage
There was a Hindu wedding across the street from my office today. Yay culture!