Author: Joel Gross

Many serious diseases that can be eradicated are not being solved because of terrorists like Boko Haram and the Taliban killing aid workers. This is another good reason for a global government that can enforce the rule of law and crush criminals.

Indispensable men? The graveyards are full of them

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/upshot/surprise-billing-laws-ad-spending-doctor-patient-unity.html
Doctors have the most powerful trade union in the country, the AMA. They strictly limit their own competition by limiting university seats. Each doctor makes 5-10x more because of this and they are the true cause of the growing high health care costs in our country. Insurance companies are happy to be the bad guy, because they are simply a 10 percent layer on top of whatever the size doctors billings are.… read more “Mystery Solved: Private-Equity-Backed Firms Are Behind Ad Blitz on ‘Surprise Billing’ – The New York Times”

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess

Fascinating. Makes sense. I did my best programming while running 6 miles a day at an 8 minute pace, which is my best.

Almost everyone in tech now agrees that running your own servers is a bad idea. If the internet in your office goes down, or if a server crashes, or software upgrade is done wrong your website crashes. It is far easier and cheaper to simply host it on AWS or 1and1 or any of the hundreds of other providers who will guarantee uptime and take care of all of these issues for you.… read more “Owning Your Own Home is Even More Stupid Than Owning Servers”