From the backend, it looks like the commenting issues are resolved. This doesn’t mean there won’t be a twitch or two, but I only saw one comment in trash since last night. I know that AL and Adam and perhaps others rescued folks from moderation; that’s different than ending up in the trash! Last night, …
Cost clustering and high cost risk pools
My Iowa post last week got a whole lot more attention than I thought it would have and provoked several great conversations. One of the questions was about how to deal with this extreme corner case and if a high cost risk pool made sense for this use case. This is the perfect example for …
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Monday Morning Open Thread: Standing Together and Fighting for Truth
In Finland, PhDs are awarded sword as a symbol to defend what's right and true. My sword stays at home today, but I #marchforscience pic.twitter.com/jdbZXOpC2p — Sari Rautiainen (@SariRautiainen) April 22, 2017 Chaz Danner, NYMag, “Scientists and Their Allies Stage Unprecedented Worldwide Protest“: Scientists and their supporters amassed in large numbers in hundreds of cities …
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On The Road
Good Morning All, This weekday feature is for Balloon Juicers who are on the road, travelling, etc. and wish to share notes, links, pictures, stories, etc. from their escapades. As the US mainland begins the end of the Earth day as we measure it, many of us rise to read about our friends and their …
Comment Issues, Open Thread
Hearing from Adam that there’s some issues with comments, I changed one thing but it’s bedtime, so I won’t be up to see if commenting improves tonight or not. I did upgrade the WordPress version this afternoon, so I’m sure that’s had some side-effect and made our anti-spam engine twitchy. So…for whatever reason, our connection …
All the federales say
I just read through the big NYT piece on FBI investigations in the 2016 campaign. My big takeaway is that the FBI is afraid of Republicans in a way that they’re simply not afraid of Democrats. I’m not saying that they’re wrong to feel this way, just that it’s a fact. Examples: [W]ith polls showing …
Sunday Evening Open Thread: A Hundred Too Many Days
Safe to say @realDonaldTrump has had the least productive first 100 days in office. Except maybe Harrison, who died of pneumonia on Day 31. — John Dingell (@JohnDingell) April 21, 2017 To be fair, in those 31 days, President Harrison got his entire Cabinet confirmed & visited every fed dept. That's more than Trump can …
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