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Way To Go, Mr. President!

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Our Prez is doing something I like! (...and you know that doesn't happen often.) Let's all line up and rip people off! White House to Issue Executive Order  to Disclose Pricing  Across the Health Care Industry Published: May 24, 2019   By Alex Keown [Excerpt]  President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order next week that will  mandate price disclosure across the health care industry , the  Wall Street Journal  reported this morning. The move would be highly disruptive to the industry, which is not used to having a spotlight shined on its pricing policies, the  Journal  noted. Citing unnamed sources who are familiar with the matter, the  Journal  said the Trump administration will wield the power of the federal government to force the price disclosures as part of an effort to drive down health care costs. In particular, the  Journal  said that the order could be aimed at “regional monopolies of hospitals and health-insurance plans over conce

Squoze Where It Hurts the Most

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Artificial Intelligence, The Future of Everything The bigger you are, the more you can use A.I. This pretty much says the big will get bigger, the strong will get stronger, the weak will fall further behind. So this chart is bad news for the U.S. Down in that light blue "Other countries" category are places like  Germany, Bahrain, South Korea, and spectacularly, Israel.  While the U.S. overwhelms the world in conventional military power, the new battlefields are forming up in cyberspace. The cyber nukes are the A.I.s   I (humbly of course) propose that spending priorities be shifted from the existing military industrial complex to the new A.I. development complex. War is hell, but less hellish when fought in The Cloud. And WAY less hellish when you win. Think that's scary? Check this out: The Chinese A.I. Leapfrog (...and 16 other Worries About China)

Picasso-esque Yet

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 Eye in the Desert Researching Western Australia for the book I'm currently hammering on (it's about  Super i ntelligence), this wonder leapt right out at me.  I SEE that person to your right. It's the Wolfe Creek Meteor Crater, on the easter edge of Western Australia. The Picasso part is the tiling collage effect of merging satellite shots. I thought you might like to see it.  I know you are just dying to know something about this new book!  Working title: What Would Supe Do?  Perhaps I should weave in something about the Wolfe Creek Crater.