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2021-12
2021-12-30
- Starting Jan. 1, 2022, the “No Surprises Act” consumer protection law goes into effect. This legislation will ban most forms of surprise billing, or balance billing, in which a person unknowingly gets medical care by a provider outside their private insurer’s network, even when visiting an in-network facility.
- Ask “Are you part of my plan’s network?” rather than, “Do you take my insurance?”
2021-09
2021-10-03
- The University of Florida gets a ~$20m cut of Gatorade profits every year
- Gatorade was invented by Robert Cade who was a professor at the University of Florida
2021-08
2021-08-11
- A harmonic divisor number is a positive integer whose divisors have a harmonic mean that is an integer. The first few harmonic divisor numbers are 1, 6, 28, 140, 270, 496, 672, 1638, 2970, 6200, 8128, 8190.
2021-08-10
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=226kWMOVGGc - compares OLED and QLED TVs side by side
- OLED TVs are thinner and is a better technology.
2021-07
2021-07-29
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation Disruptive innovation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation#Examples - some examples of disruptive innovation.
2021-07-17
- This video explains how rice cookers work by taking advantage of concepts such as latent heat, magnets etc.,
2021-07-13
- A new material made of scandium, aluminum, tungsten and oxygen did not change in volume at temperatures ranging from 4 to 1,400 Kelvin (-269 to 1126 °C, -452 to 2059 °F).
- Name of the new material - orthorhombic $Sc_{1.5}Al_{0.5}W_{3}O_{12}$
- Of all the four elements, scandium is rarer and more costly.
- The other ingredients are widely available, and bond together using a “relatively simple synthesis”.
2021-07-11
2021-06
2021-06-14
- What are spring and neap tides? (noaa.gov)
2021-05
2021-05-26
- Bimekizumab versus Adalimumab in Plaque Psoriasis: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2102388
- Bimekizumab is more effective than Adalimumab for Psoriasis.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/technology/daniel-kaminsky-dead.html - Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42.
2021-05-12
- You can now use Google Pay to send money from US to India.
- Only person-to-person payments are allowed.
- Businesses in U.S. can’t send to either individuals or businesses in India.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion - Kelly Criterion
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2021-05-06
- How people get rich now (paulgraham.com)
2021-05-05
2021-01
2021-01-27
- Keynes The Speculator (maynardkeynes.org)
2021-01-20
- How Texas Can Become the Next Silicon Valley (bloomberg.com)
2021-01-18
- Interview Transcript - Donald Knuth [pdf] (philipkiely.com)
2021-01-17
- Boston Dynamics: Do You Love Me? [video] (youtube.com)
2021-01-12
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI - This video, made in 1937, explains how a car differential works in simple terms. It was made by Jam Handy.
2021-01-01
- http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html - Startup = Growth
- Why can we smell copper? (stackexchange.com)
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