Warren Buffett is an old-school, Middle American kind of guy. Many young people regard him as a fossil despite his obvious financial success. One current replacement for Buffett’s obsolete approach seems to be to invest in Bitcoin. Here is what Buffett says about Bitcoin: Over the past decade, it’s been clear that the crypto craze…
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Do People in Red States need Medical Doctors?
A quote from a Texas medical doctor: The doctor did not mince words. “When nobody wants to train in Texas, as the physicians get older and retire, there will be no ob-gyns in the state,” she told me. “And that’s when you’ll really see maternal mortality go up.” At the time, I was reporting on…
Chaos Junction
This post was written on December 6, 2024 Why is our Country in Chaos? Long before the 2024 election, I wondered why the American psyche was experiencing a dumpster fire. Friends and relatives stopped talking to each other. Some Americans seemed so foreign to me that I thought either they or I had entered an…
Those Lucky Sharks
This article is about the relationships between children and their parents. Human parents typically spend years raising their offspring, unlike shark parents, who do not care for their young after birth. Sharks have different procreation and parenting practices. Male sharks impregnate females quite aggressively, and the females have the scars to prove it as the…
PayPal Victims
Peter Thiel and Elon Musk were among PayPal’s founders who injected their DNA into the company’s operating procedures. Many of us may have used PayPal while doing business with eBay or other companies that have PayPal as an option. I used PayPal once to buy a used golf driver on eBay. I used them only…
Perplexity
I told many of my friends and relatives about a new AI research tool called Perplexity. It does not get the press or billionaire coverage of the more famous AIs such as ChatGPT, CoPilot, Boomi, OpenAI, or China’s Deep Seek. However, I have been using it and just got word that a new version is…
Limits to some AIs
I noticed that Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, was becoming popular, so I decided to ask it a “softball” question and compare its responses with those of other AIs. Having studied my distant cousin’s genealogy, I knew the answer to the “softball” question, “Which member of Elon Musk’s family was Elon named after?” You would assume…
Tesla is not Musk’s only Problem
We may recall that during COVID, Musk borrowed money from the Biden administration to keep Tesla from going bankrupt. He was also so committed to his work that he slept in the factory. Today, he sleeps in the Lincoln Bedroom in Trump’s White House instead of the factory floor. How his life has changed in…
Behavioral Spectrum: Friendly to Unfriendly
All humans fall along a behavioral spectrum of friendliness and hostility. This spectrum is learned and usually transmitted from one generation to another. It would be pure speculation to associate this spectrum with different modes of living. One could say that the hunter-gatherers of 3000 BCE would be more aggressive and unfriendly to outsiders, while…
Hamilton’s Revenge
This historical snippet begins with the blood lust of duels over 200 years ago. The most famous duel between Alexander Hamilton Sr and Aaron Burr Jr was presaged by a duel between Hamilton’s son, Philip Schuyler Hamilton, and George Eacker in 1801. The 19-year-old Philip died in the duel. It was not a good omen…