Rob Cyran

Another big reason - in any other developed country you don't spend days of your life on the phone with your insurer, trying to iron out how much you owe after receiving care.

Also, you never, ever receive -this statement looks like a bill, but is not a bill.

***BREAKING: NVDIA DECIDES TO SELL CHIPS FOR 10% STAKE IN THE OTHER 499 S&P COMPANIES... SPX up 26% on the news

It's a novel way to destroy the effectiveness of an agency which underlies the US ability to finance its spending and debt. The 10yr UST yields 4.16%.....

So we are up to our eighth head of the IRS this year, only this time it's a made-up position.
home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...

The US is on a run rate of having 38 acting IRS heads by the end of Trump's term.

Indian Railways to achieve net zero targets in 2025 itself - 5 years ahead of 2030 goal - Times of India India Business News: Indian Railways is set to achieve net-zero targets by year-end, surpassing its 2030 goal through extensive electrification. Aiming for 95% electric tr

Not nearly enough is made of the incredibly impressive feat Indian Railways has made to electrify almost 100% of its 135,000km of track, while also growing renewable sourcing. Huge:

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/ind...

The article suggests something slightly different. Not being able to attach words to something vs not even visually “knowing” something is there. Which seems like two forms of knowing.

There’s also blindsight, where patients who appear to be unconscious of something (eg stroke makes half visual field blank) but can grab or guess what things are. Way beyond my pay grade but maybe we overestimate the importance of consciousness and how cohesive it is because it matters to us and N=1

I know they have definitions but I think they are more vibes based definitions in fiction
Aquiline nose - aristocratic and sorta sexy, but a nose?
Olive skinned - Edward Said wants to speak to you after class
Carbolic soap - the poors of yesteryear.

Words I suspect authors use, but neither they nor their readers can really define:
aquiline nose; olive skin; carbolic soap

That is truly one helluva quote. Pitch perfect.

My favorite policy ever was EU butter subsidies. Price was high so farmers overproduced, and put in stockpiles. The piles grew so big that policymakers then subsidized consumption - and farmers fed the butter to cows. The resulting milk had higher fat content so increased butter output

I am literally in awe of this one - US tariffs causing other nations to retaliate, hitting soybean exports. Meanwhile US providing bailout package to Argentina which has record soybean exports to China. So the US is considering using tariff money to bail out US farmers.

Saudi Arabia Takes a Risk in Boosting Oil Production—and Gives Trump a Win Crude prices have fallen this year as Riyadh has raised output, but risks abound for the oil-producing kingdom.

The incoherence of US policy is something. World’s biggest oil supplier but the marginal high cost producer in a world where demand is pretty inelastic over short run and demand destruction over long term. So you encourage higher Saudi low cost production today? www.wsj.com/business/ene...

This is art.

All of these supposed future sources of oil demand are drying up rather quickly (six month pay back means growth will go bonkers)

I remember in around 1999 John Chambers saying Cisco could grow its top line 30% to 50% indefinitely (and it grew in the mid single digits over the following decade).

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

More alarming anecdotes: futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

Can’t get enough articles on Pakistan’s mind-blowing solar boom. Squint and you can imagine these factors helping to increase future US demand as well.

The visible hand of the US markets

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

The guy who massively cut scientific funding for drug research, despite the fact his daughter, who has cystic fibrosis, is still alive because of some specialized drugs developed NIH research.

So Fermi, the company building Project Matador: The President Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus now valued at $15bn+. It "plans" to build up to 11GW of power, which is five Hoover Dams worth of natty, solar, nuclear and SMNR. I'll take the under.

Apostolics speak in tongues, so checks out.

Global oil and gas company layoffs in 2024 and 2025 Global energy majors and related companies plan to slash more jobs in 2025, after cutting thousands last year, as the industry navigates weaker crude oil prices and a rapid consolidation.

Lots more oil firm layoffs. With US production in decline this trend will keep going. Obvious thing would be to encourage old wells to be capped (huge methane producers) instead of subsidizing stripping but that’s not going to happen anytime soon. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

At least 40% goes to multiple alimony payments.

Not rabies so probably either he’s like a linebacker who played in the NFL too long, squirrel BSE, or parasite (Google raccoon roundworm if you want to be mildly alarmed - causes animals to die so raccoons scavenge them to get to correct host)

A squirrel with brain damage and a deer with a broken leg live in/around my yard. It’s like a special Attenborough episode. Even the dog is freaked out by the squirrel’s manic but off behavior

Yeah some people have died in earlier versions of the technology. The bigger problem here is there usually isn’t one magic gene for a problem (it’s usually many), flipping one may lead to other problems, this is unethical etc etc

What’s funny is about half the people in my family (including me) don’t need, or get much sleep. And when my kids were little I would have paid a fortune for them to sleep a normal amount (if researchers had the slightest clue how to)

I was trying to come up with an analogy of how wrong this statement would be for a biotech exec and I couldn’t. It’s like a laser beacon flashing “I don’t know anything about this subject except how to defraud people”

LOL- if any bio founder says this short their company to zero. They don’t have a good grasp of genetics, where gene editing is, commercializing new tech, regulations, what happened in past attempts at editing kids genes, and timelines in biotech, among other things.