Mike Capern @mikecsees@qoto.org

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Enrollment in a Medicare Advantage plan is associated with lower estimated hospital costs. However, compared with TM, MA beneficiaries had lower access to high-volume hospitals and increased 30-day mortality for stomach, pancreas, or liver surgery.

#medicare #MedicareAdvantage

https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.21.01359?af=R&journalCode=jco&s=09

Taking airline reservations before computers, 1945. Photograph from the SFO Museum Collection.

Game 5. Jeopardy tournament of Champions. Amy lost the game because she only bet 1800 on Final Jeopardy instead of 6700. But it was the smart choice/gambit. Sure, her choice doubled Sam's odds of winning Game 5. But, crucially, her choice made it impossible for Andrew to win the tournament at Game 5.
#Jeopardy #TournamentOfChampions

This is what Elon is going to learn soon #joke

A good view on the computing power over the last 20 years.

When the standard was written in the year 2000 the recommended minimum number of iterations was 1,000, but the parameter is intended to be increased over time as CPU speeds increase. A Kerberos standard in 2005 recommended 4,096 iterations;[1] Apple reportedly used 2,000 for iOS 3, and 10,000 for iOS 4;[4] while LastPass in 2011 used 5,000 iterations for JavaScript clients and 100,000 iterations for server-side hashing.[5] In 2021, OWASP recommended to use 310,000 iterations for PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 and 120,000 for PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2

#crypto #pbkdf2 #hashing #cpu #power

Review this every day.

5 year old boy: *brings me a romance book* what's this?
me: a story about two people falling in love!
b: .... is there a dragon in it?
me: no..
b: then why do you even have it on the shelf?

So awed by my friend E. Jean Carroll who filed a case this morning under the New York Adult Survivors Act against her rapist Donald Trump.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxdfsrz

Hospital busting at the seams, hallway patients in the ED. 5 hour waits. Half the ED rooms are boarders waiting for a bed.

Meanwhile at #Humana HQ

Your patient with 5 compression fractures can't go to rehab despite having a bed... And your tube fed guy with DT's and sepsis doesn't meet inpatient criteria.

Read the room insurance folks... Your mothers would be ashamed of you. I'm embarrassed for you.

On this Thanksgiving Day, I encourage you to become familiar with the Native peoples whose land you reside on and to express your gratitude for their stewardship of this land. You can find that information at this website. https://native-land.ca/

1. You can catch Covid multiple times.
2. Reinfections are common, not rare.
3. Breakthrough infections are common.
4. Covid can kill you months after you recover.
5. It can cause brain damage.
6. It can cause blood clots and heart attacks.
7. It doesn’t spare children.
8. Vaccines help, but only some.
9. Masks work.
https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/you-may-be-early-but-youre-not-wrong?r=jp7y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Not a surprise, but still disappointing. Canada makes copyright term extension official. Term extended to life + 70 years as of December 30th.
New works entering the public domain lost for a generation.
https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php?attach=42842&lang=en

Holy moly. This is gonna be a time sink of massive dimensions. Much of the Boston Public Library's vinyl collection digitized on archive.org

Lots of stuff you know and lots more you don't.

https://archive.org/details/vinyl_bostonpubliclibrary

#music #publiclibrary #vinyl #archiveorg

"What I’m finding most satisfying about Mastodon, and I’m seeing a lot of other journalists feel this, is that it actually forces you to ask and confront some of these questions and to make active choices. Even if Mastodon were to remain Twitter’s very tiny stepbrother, I would still like to be part of a Mastodon journalist community because I think we got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk and their staff decide...'

—@adamdavidson

I made Thanksgiving dinner and now the kids are crying and I'm not allowed to help anymore

The collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and its affiliated businesses has left a million creditors holding the bag for a chaotically managed, corrupt enterprise that created vast personal fortunes for the conspirators who ran it, even as it stole the life's savings of retail investors who bought into its lies.

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Looks like the NIH has set up a new website so that people in the US can finally report home test results: https://makemytestcount.org/

Hopefully these results will be made public soon, and are factored into policymaking, as current data may be undercounting by as much as 20x.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth