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None of this is outdated. You're trying hard to to rewrite history with downvotes. The 1997 cap on medicare-funded residency slots has remained in place since that time, unchanged …

Your comment wasn't wrong. In 1997, The AMA along with five other medical groups lobbied congress to limit the number of medicare-funded residency slots [1, 2]. This limit was enac…

"In 1997, a consortium that included the AAMC, the AMA, and other major organizations declared that [...] 'the United States is on the verge of a serious oversupply of physicians'.…

There are fees involved in getting a photo ID.

The voter ID law in Wisconsin disqualified 9% of its registered voters. The right to vote is protected by 5 constitutional amendments and isn't conditional upon obtaining a state-i…

In 2013, the supreme court struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act. As a result, "fourteen states had new voting restrictions in place for the first time in 2016. [...] Thi…

Think about what specific aspects of the business generate profits and where your costs lie. To rapidly expand, you'll want a multiplier that greatly increases profits or drastical…

Yes, the government and the sweatshop owners are working hand-in-hand to exploit workers and both are culpable. Sometimes they like to present themselves as good cop / bad cop [0].…

>> DHS Giving Firms Free Penetration Tests Whether they want them or not...

That's awesome!

Very interesting. Atmospherics might also be useful as an RNG or possibly a trustworthy public randomness beacon. "There are an average of 45 lightning flashes per second around th…

If you think the situation is unlikely to improve, line up a better job and then quit. You don't have to tolerate a dysfunctional team. It won't affect your resume or job prospects…

Good introduction to the importance of fat tailed distributions in financial markets: http://aida.wss.yale.edu/~nordhaus/homepage/documents/statis...

A film (PiraMMMida) came out in 2011 depicting the rise and fall of MMM in early-90s Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-JgGV8cH1I http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606652/

Sadly the housing situation in most metropolitan areas is an assault on all the senses. Housing right next to highways, no sound insulation between units, damp buildings infested w…

"SIRF reporting reveals that Valeant has been closely involved with Philidor at every stage of its life-cycle, controlling it in all but name, since day one." http://sirf-online.or…

SIRF's report on October 19 [1] discusses operating structure and entities, many of which are named after chess references. From several articles: "Philidor" ["Francois-Andre Phili…

If you no longer want to run the business, there isn't much to lose by offering it for sale or letting someone else manage the affairs indefinitely while you pursue other opportuni…

State crime labs are simply a rubber stamp on whatever story the prosecutor has decided on presenting ahead of time. It's not well known, but crime labs are paid per conviction [1]…

Forrest was horribly biased against the defense. The prosecution's case was extremely problematic - resting on a chain of flimsy evidentiary and legal assumptions that would never …

D.A.R.E. was funded by Big Pharma trade groups, branches of law enforcement, and even things like asset forfeiture [1]. It was never about public health, but simply propaganda to j…

80% of the world's nuclear fleet are in fact light water reactors - like Fukushima - which require continuous cooling and a constant source of power. Even the latest passive safety…

Photovoltaic panels are not used in solar thermal plants. The money is not diverted from other needs - it's spent on renewable infrastructure instead of non-renewable infrastructur…

The worst case scenario for a nuclear plant accident is millions of casualties and the long-term contamination of major population centers. 152 of the world's 211 nuclear power pla…

People procrastinate because work is painful. Naturally people want to avoid pain. To stop procrastinating: - Stop doing things that are painful. Do other things instead. - Improve…