Search for "March of Dimes Syndrome" on Wikipedia and the topic does not exist. But now it can. The first paragraph if published on wikipedia would be loaded with [citation needed] as in 'this claim needs references to reliable sources'.
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It's always good to get grounded every so often and reconnected with what matters most.
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Sophies Choice
English Patient
Master and Commander
“…thousands were queuing in Nairobi to have their eyeballs scanned as part of the “Worldcoin” project, founded by OpenAI chief Sam Altman. In exchange for handing over their biometric data, some 350,000 Kenyans each received 25 free crypto tokens, worth approximately $50. Those tokens were transferred directly via Kenya’s main mobile payments app, M-Pesa.”
Actually that doesn’t sound so forward thinking when you consider that the UN has been doing since 2016:
“In 2016, the UN World Food Programme trialled a system that issued relief payments through the use of biometrics. Refugees were able to buy items from the supermarket using their biometric data as a credential: all they needed to do was scan their iris to pay for an item. The idea was to improve convenience and prevent fraud. Since that trial, the World Food Programme’s Building Blocks initiative has become the world’s largest humanitarian use of blockchain technology.”
My own anecdotal experience is how the insurance companies call the elderly (prey on the elderly - abusive practice) to schedule vists from nurses who do nothing more than ask 100's of invasive questions and provide 0 care. They are simply collecting data that is not protected by HIPPA. The data is immensely profitable to the insurance companies to drive the accuracy of their predictive models. The insurance companies then in turn charge CMS for this visit.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/09/business/upenn-board-of-trust...
Doesn't seem coordinated to me...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stefanik-applauds-resignati...
https://abcnews.go.com/US/uproar-university-presidents-remar...
“It’s hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big numbers. I said “billion” many times on the Cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. But I never said “billions and billions.” For one thing, it’s too imprecise. How many billions are “billions and billions”? A few billion? Twenty billion? A hundred billion? “Billions and billions” is pretty vague. When we reconfigured and updated the series, I checked—and sure enough, I never said it.” ― Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life & Death at the Brink of the Millennium
"Though a good TB vaccine would be used by tens of millions of people, it has, in the parlance of industry, “no market,” because those who buy it are mostly nonprofits and countries that can’t afford to spend much. It’s not that a TB vaccine couldn’t be profitable. It’s that it would never be as profitable as a product like the shingles vaccine that can be sold in the U.S. or Western Europe."
At the scale they are talking about the maginal cost of developing each unit will decrease significantly. They can still make money and save lives. In practice here, the global powers are allowing a commercial enterprise to set global policy for who and how pathgenic diseases get addressed. Ceding this power to GSK doesn't sound like a prudent decision. Especially when they gained access to this drug technology through government enabled and funded research.
The website looks like a clever way to generate a lot of clicks to Amazon using his affiliate link.
IE having so much browser market also killed anything MS because they always tried to create their own standards which nobody wanted to follow. The client side was so difficult to script with having to test which browser and accomodate quirks mode. Another unforced error. Corporate adopters are still trying sunset critical apps which only run in IE or Edge with IE mode turned on.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/31761/enormous-costs-of-new-tr...
"A lot more farmers, in fact. Enough to drive up the price of something like an 800-hour 1979 John Deere 4640 to over $60,000 at a Minnesota auction last August, which is more than double the price a well-worn example would fetch, but still a bargain compared to a new $150,000 rig. (Tractors' lives are measured in hours of operation, not miles, with the average hard-working farm tractor logging around 500 hours per year.) Imagine buying a '79 Pontiac Trans Am with 20,000 miles on it, and you get the picture. The difference is, no farmer is paying that much for a low-hour tractor from the Carter Administration without planning on using it day in and day out until it breaks—then fixing it on their own, on the cheap."