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mitchbob··on In Silicon Valley, Some Say an A.I. Bubble Would Be Just Fine
https://archive.ph/CwVgj
mitchbob··on What would it mean to see a new color?
https://archive.ph/fi8Hy
mitchbob··on Rural America's Maternal-Health Crisis Is About to Get Worse
An obvious solution - one strongly lobbied against by the American Medical Association, the major professional organization for doctors in the USA, since its founding - is to increase the number of doctors. The 10 countries ranked by the OECD with the most doctors per capita have from 4.6 to 6.6 doctors per 1000 residents. The United States has 2.7 per 1000. [1]

How to do it?

- Educate more doctors.

- Allow more doctors trained abroad to obtain licenses.

- Allow paraprofessionals to do more, freeing M.D.s for the work requiring the most training.

And how to make it possible?

- Drastically reduce the ability of lobbyists for big-money interests and major campaign donors to influence legislation and the actions of the executive branch.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2025/11/health-at-a-gla...

mitchbob··on Turns Out We Blew Up All Those Boats in the Caribbean for Nothing
https://archive.ph/xsVpr
mitchbob··on Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10
> It's inspired by 거지맵 (Beggar's Map) a Korean crowdsourced map students use to find cheap eats.

This sounds great; really hoping it takes off. I'm curious: would Beggar's Map work pretty much as-is in other countries, or if not, why not?

I'd suggest making whatever price cutoff you decide on the price for a meal, not a dish. One dish, like a great bowl of tofu stew, can be a meal in itself, but let submitters decide.

Students in college towns are an obvious audience, and I can imagine plenty of low-cost ways to reach out to them and get them to seed the site. Be sure to include Berkeley in your outreach!

mitchbob··on Three Journeys: Anton Chekhov on the Road (2001)
https://archive.ph/iOLaH
mitchbob··on Starveling Rabblement
Review of James Joyce: A Political Life by Frank Callanan.

https://archive.ph/N7kwD

mitchbob··on Can I Remix Madonna? Is This All Legal? An A.I. Music FAQ
https://archive.ph/fmuq6
mitchbob··on The Men Who Believed Some Men Are More Equal Than Others
Review of Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America by Kim Phillips-Fein

https://archive.ph/iNfDk

mitchbob··on My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry
https://archive.ph/nLvxS
mitchbob··on Einstein's Miracle Year
https://archive.ph/kBo1g
mitchbob··on The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets
https://archive.ph/t2OjO
mitchbob··on Argument Collapse: LLMs Flatten Long-Form Public Debate
> As LLMs are increasingly used to draft public-facing arguments, they may flatten public debate by repeatedly introducing the same polished, plausible arguments. We study argument collapse, the tendency of essays generated by different LLMs to converge to a smaller set of main arguments, sub-arguments, and paragraph-level structures.
mitchbob··on A staggering class divide now separates how Americans experience AI
https://archive.ph/S1mdP
mitchbob··on Fighting Fires with Figures, Experts Are Trying to Stop Europe from Burning
https://archive.ph/lAEVr
mitchbob··on Vasily Grossman: The Unlikely Journalist Who Looked into the Heart of War
https://archive.ph/jM4qD
mitchbob··on What We Should Learn from Nordic Happiness
https://archive.ph/SuW78
mitchbob··on What J. D. Vance Once Knew
https://archive.ph/d3TZ5
mitchbob··on Trouble Transitioning (2025)
Review of the book More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy

https://archive.ph/0HPfz

mitchbob··on Are MAGA and MAHA Heading for Divorce
https://archive.ph/jJF5P
mitchbob··on Journey to the Moon by Jules Verne
https://archive.ph/1lw2B
mitchbob··on Volunteering on the Dungeness Lifeboat
https://archive.ph/xP0gB
mitchbob··on What's the Point of Sex, Anyway?
> The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they bother.

https://archive.ph/Cq2EM

mitchbob··on The Hidden Harms of CPR (2023)
https://archive.ph/J3bO0
mitchbob··on The Billionaires' Vagina Club
> With her motto, "Sexual health is health," Dr. Sally Greenwald aims to optimize orgasms for the women of Silicon Valley.

https://archive.ph/fS0dR

mitchbob··on Chronic Pain: The Science of Unlearning Pain
https://archive.ph/WvNqe
mitchbob··on Twenty Years Later, Everything Is the Truman Show (2018)
https://archive.ph/yRrn3
mitchbob··on A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading
https://archive.ph/K2RSo
mitchbob··on Amazon seller reveals shadow bribery market within Amazon
https://archive.ph/t7xt1
mitchbob··on France Is Too Hot for Shutters and Ceiling Fans
https://archive.ph/e9jx4
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