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If you bracket away Trump, political dissent in US is co-opted by one of the two parties(tea-parties, for instances), or muted(Occupy Wall Street) or criminalized. In other words, political dissent doesn't lead to the emergence of new parties, as is the case in Europe.

How do glp-1 drugs such as semaglutide, terzepatid and retatrutide impact apoptose?

"Tirzepatide promotes M1-type macrophage apoptosis and reduces inflammatory factor secretion by inhibiting ERK phosphorylation" [1]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S15675...

Insurers have another weapon: Insurer's preferred telehealth provider is the only one who can process PA(prior authorization). If your PCP prescribes an expensive prescription, PBM(say, optum Rx, owned by UHC) will tell ur pharmacy to have the prescriber get a prior authorization. When your PCP tries to get a prior authorization, insurer will say "the insured party should go through a telehealth provider for treatment". Now that telehealth provider creates more hurdles for patients. For instance, UHC uses Transcarent/join9am.

Insurers will add more and more indirections instead of outright denial. First indirection: get a prior authorization(PA). Second indirection: only a particular telehealth provider has the authority to ask for a prior authorization--and this is a new trend. Expect more layers of indirections.

I understand that healthcare costs are exorbitantly high. The people who have the power to control these costs are politicians, super wealthy, and the elites (lawyers, executives) serving the super wealthy. The latter groups get the care they want without any hurdles. Others just pay all insurance premiums, only to find that they are denied care when they need the most.

A lot of these jobs require clearance. Who can get such clearances? People with less history. So, young college graduates, young army folks, etc. There are tons of people who just have security clearances without competence. There is a huge demand for people who hold clearances. I have no problem with "make work" programs; however, these large companies are grifting 100% on top of what these people get paid.

Deloitte, Accenture, etc, have such bad reputations as any Indian offshore company TCS, Wipro, etc. Just add more billable hours, milk and milk.

Most of the demand (in terms of dollars/euros) is confined to the developed world. What happens when both US and EU want to bring back operations back to the home countries? Then these companies are left with serving less of the global demand.

Just as Pindrop's CEO says "Ivan X" is a scammer, the whole incident can be a cooked up situation to drump up Pindrop, or a set up Pindrop created just to sell their product.

I worked in the retail; it is the shittiest job I ever had. I was given an abnormal schedule: two days closing, one day opening, one mid shift (and I should work either Saturday or Sunday). The churn is really high: people leave even if they find a better yet shitty job. Which jobs do you want to create in US? Retail jobs or manufacturing jobs?

Pretty simple: ask these remote hires to come to the office for the first two weeks for onboarding. That will solve a lot of problems.

A combination of all three.

At the company I work for, we are forbidden to ask questions based on resume, as it introduces biases. Reduction of bias means "ask same questions of every candidate".

How many years it took for both Chinese and the American capitalists to come to the state, a state "[T]hat within a three block radius you can find people with deep knowledge and skillset in all areas of production."?

If the USD ceases being the reserve currency, inflation goes up. Fed's neutral rate of interest 2% = the floor of inflation rate. For the third world countries, the natural interest rate = Fed's interest rate (or American inflation rate) + the local inflation rate. That's why third world countries pay more interest rate s in their own currencies; that's why they want to borrow in USD.

If a check point is in a remote area, it is usually a checkpoint manned by forest officials: illegal logging and other stuff.

This continuum hides one thing: overbidding in terms of project cost and underdelivery in terms of quality. At least in US, quality is maintained, while costing 300% more (look at any subway, rail projects). In the third world, projects are overbid, also underdeliver in terms of quality. No quality control at all.

In the third world, corruption is very open from the clerk in a local revenue office to the top ministers/secretaries. There is a price for every service.

In the West, it is hard to see low-level corruption (bribes for services) in offices. However, corruption takes form in the shape of collusion; and this collusion is pretty much legal. Revolving door, consultants, lobbyists, conflicts of interests, setting up NGOs to grab money from the govt, offering sinecure jobs like advisors, directors, etc for friends and family--these are some strategies to do unethical yet legal stuff in the West.

In the case of phantom pains, one can point out "where on my body, what type (hot? cold? chemical?), and how intense is the noxious stimulus?". That's the sensory-discriminative component. It is just that limb is missing. One explanation is that brain stores the map of various limbs, etc.

Is it possible to have just 2 without 1? Do clinically depressed folks fall under this category of "the affective-emotional component without the sensory-discriminatory component"?

Look at the major components that push up the guaranteed minimum income every year: rent/mortgage; health insurance; auto insurance; lack of public transportation; ripping off by utilities like PGE in California. The more one gets paid, that delta (increase in wages) is eaten by rents, insurers, etc.

Fix the housing mess, fix the insurance mess by dismantling cartels, etc.

At least the Western countries, and some selective Asian nations, are allowed to enter US with ESTA. For the majority of the population in the world (whole continent of Africa, the continent of Asia except Japan, S. Korea, Singapore) needs a US visa to enter US; 90% of tourist visa applications are denied, anyway.

How many OpenVMS systems are out there in production?

Figuring out "bad management" is really a hard problem. The same problem exists in the government bureaucracies too.

Yes, it is the better for the country C, if A wins the contract. However, the people who makes the decision for the country C cares about their bribes; that's what third world politicians, bureaucrats do--get fat bribes for their retirements, investments--because that's the best deal for themselves.

You can see the same phenomenon in large companies even in US: managers find silly projects, and get more head count, then keep expanding the beast, without caring about the large interests of the company.

what is the population of these 46% of U.S. counties? 15% of the total US population?

CBP detained Prof. Rasha Alawieh upon her return from Lebanon to the Boston Logan airport, and deported her after 36 hours of detention. Usually, CBP has broader powers at the border. So many people were deported from the US airports, despite having valid Visas; CBP folks can take ur phone and laptop and rummage through it, then deport folks for flimsy reasons.

How can one mix these peptides with bacteriostatic water in one's garage? Any special instruments, instructions?

Give me an example of cron, which doesn't support user crontabs? Let me list three that support user crontabs: (a) cronie is controlled by /etc/cron.{allow, deny}; when the latter files are not present, every user can submit cron jobs to crond. (b) One can set up Anacron within the user's home directory[1]. (c) systemd timer is another kid on the block; any user can create a systemd.timer unit.

[1] https://opensource.com/article/21/2/linux-automation

One can set up cron jobs under non-root.