The problem is you not making it past the HR filters because you lack a degree.

The problem is not getting past the HR filters because either HR doesn't put in the correct qualifications in the job listing which results in candidates being filtered out, or candidates being interviewed by AI which filters them out because they didn't express the proper body language or facial expression.

This claim doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

You need to actually look at the data here. Much of US healthcare is non-profit, at least on the provider side, and the for-profit provider institutions don't make that much money. People naturally then assume it's the insurance companies that are making out like bandits, except they're all publicly-traded so we can see exactly what their profit margins are and they don't remotely explain the high cost of healthcare. At worst, the for-profit model adds 5%, and there's no real reason to expect it to add even that. In most industries, for-profit is more efficient than non-profit, because it turns out that the competitive drive for profits drives costs down.

Again, look at actual numbers. What you'll find is that this explains basically nothing. Yeah, they have high salaries; take those and spread them across the patient base and you're talking about maybe 0.001% of healthcare costs -- and then only if you assume that these high salaries represent a pure loss, that an administrator getting paid a tiny fraction of that would the job just as well. If you assume that at least part of those high salaries are payment for services rendered, then the CEO salary overhead is even smaller.

Again, the pharmaceuticals are publicly-traded and they break out what they spend on advertising. Is is a lot in absolute terms? Yes. Is it a lot relative to the total amount of money we're talking about? No.

I'll stop here, but the same applies to everything else you mention. Yes, there is some waste due to the for-profit model, but it actually isn't that big. Our drug costs are high because we fund most of the research, because we can afford to. If we found a way to stop doing that, a lot of drug research would stop. Whether you think that's a good thing or a bad thing is something you have to decide. Personally, I think we get a lot of value for that money.

It feels like you should be able to point to just one thing and say "That's why healthcare is expensive in the US!" but you can't, really. The root cause is actually a lot of different things, and most of them have their roots in regulation (and, specifically, the way in which we regulate), rather than in a for-profit model.

If you want to make US healthcare both very cheap and very good, but only for those who can afford it, you should do the hard-eyed libertarian thing and go full-on for-profit, including removing the legal requirements that doctors treat people who can't pay, and eliminating Medicaid and Medicare and all of the complexity and cost they add. Also, make competition nationwide -- make provider and insurer licensing federal so states can't impose different requirements, and set up nationwide medical and nursing licensure processes that eliminate the ability of the AMA to artificially restrict supply. Quality would go up and competition would drive cost down for probably 70% of Americans. The other 30%, however, would be screwed, hard. Well, maybe 20%, or 15%, because prices would come down, making healthcare more affordable for everyone but free for no one.

But because we as a society will not leave the poor completely without care (not even free ER visits), the libertarian pure-market approach won't work. So, instead, we should go the other way and offer a national single payer option. This would not make healthcare cheaper by itself, but it would enable regulatory pressure to begin chipping away at all of the many sources of high prices. It wouldn't ultimately make healthcare as efficient, cheap or good as a pure market-based approach, and likely wouldn't make it as cheap as what other countries pay, but it's the best we're likely to actually achieve.

Look, this isn't complicated.

1. If you're going to claim you know what people should do to be healthy, you should have both formal education and experience in the space.

2. If you're going to be an administrator over a health organization, formal education and experience in healthcare are a very good idea, but what you really need is to know how to be a good administrator.

RFK Jr. wants and claims to be able to do #1, but lacks the knowledge, skills or experience to do so.

If RFK Jr. wanted and claimed to be able to do #2, that would be fine. He's maybe a little out of his depth in such a large and important organization, but if he could bury his ego and work hard at it, he could probably do it reasonably well. But the overriding requirement to do it well is to listen to his subordinates, who are experts in the field, while he's a lawyer with no medical or scientific training. But obviously he won't do that, because he thinks he does know better than the experts, i.e. he is trying do do #1, which he isn't qualified to do.

Actually it astounds me that the average age of passenger cars on the road is now 14 years. It's difficult to believe.

My car will be 15 years old in a few months and I plan to keep driving it as long as I can. Stick shifts are much harder to find nowadays.

You can bend fiber without tools, you can't bend cheap stiff fiber without tools. Usually you use cheap stiff fiber that is more durable and less desirably to thieves when laying it outdoors, but you can use softer and more usable/desirable fiber in the walls inside a house. But yeah, I wouldn't use them any further than a router either.

True, though note that Google does have all the data needed to brute force that password, so make sure it has plenty of entropy. I recommend "correct horse battery staple".

Yeah, but then you have to drive an ICE, which sucks. Slow, noisy and smelly.

Unless they are spectre attacks against the gpu, not the cpu. In which case they are only needed if you allow GPU compute jobs over the internet.

Oddly enough, my 30-year-old stereo amplifier has one. I'll finally have a use for it!

That's why everyone needs to smoke marijuana: so that they'll get into the habit of carrying around some cash for dispensaries.

And double your risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke. And this includes edibles.

True, but if the EVs have decent range (say, 300 miles), a reasonable commute (say, 40 miles) and there's a fast charger in the area, it's easy enough to make sure you never get into a situation where an overnight power outage will keep you from getting to work. Just hit the fast charger whenever you're out and about and your remaining range has dropped below 100 miles, just long enough to get it back above 100 miles, which will only take 2-3 minutes This won't happen often for most people, less often than they have to visit a gas station now.

If there's a multi-day outage this becomes more problematic, but we're well outside of what's common now.

When Musk found out Grok was giving truthful, fact-checked answers, his response wasn't one of joy but rather, "You are being updated this week."

The issues we keep seeing are the result of the programming. If the AI is being deceptive, guess where it got that from? Reprogram and try again.

A lot of artworks require good welds. The artistic welders at my school practiced building dr seuss looking bikes. They were pretty amazing, multiple chain drives, really tall or really long. Very impractical, but they rode them around campus anyways.

20 years ago I was getting applications from Harvard, Yale Physics PHD recipients for tenure track positions that started at $30 K a year in the middle of nowhere for a teaching, no research no phd program school. It was bad then, and worse now. Its not basket weaving, its all academic positions really. Universities have also discovered that PHDs are not necessary to teach some subjects leading to masters degrees teaching at many smaller schools instead.