The elephant curve[0] is an interesting quantification of global income changes in the modern era. Notably it represents global incomes so presumably the United States occupies the higher end of this range.
Curiously, 2.4ghz light corresponds to microwaves which is actually long wavelength low energy light. If you have a video stream on while the microwave oven is turned on you'll notice large enough interference to disconnect your stream.
The fact that water absorbs 2.4ghz light is what enables microwave ovens to heat water in the first place. So while it's an inconvenient property during dives, it's very convenient in the kitchen.
I think we should solve autonomous driving before jumping multiple steps to autonomous surgery. There are many low hanging fruit in the world of automation; automated surgery is not one of them.
Autonomous surgery is probably easier to solve than driving, because the patient is lying still. Though you'd still need at least a nurse observing and a surgeon standing by. But you could have only one surgeon as backup for multiple robots in the same hospital.
A surgery is a closed task. Driving is an open ended task interacting many actors and novel challenges. It’s probably slow enough that it can visually confirm assumptions with a human operator if need be.I would bet on the autonomous surgeon over the autonomous driver any day.
These are called accommodating intraocular lenses. This is a fairly active area of research with huge potential but current technology is very limited.
As a side note who needs eye tracking when your own retina does that for you. The goal with these IOLs is for their lens power to shift based on contraction of the ciliary muscle (the same way a healthy youthful lens works).
I am certainly curious about the potential impact of this UV curable lens technology on cataract surgery and possibility of new types of IOLs.
Medicare funds medical residency (not the NIH and not the AMA). The 1997 balanced budget act passed by congress limited the expansion of new medical residency training.
I see this argument made often on HN. I would imagine if we compared software engineering salaries in these same countries you would see that similarly software engineers in the US are also "overpaid".
Software
United States of America $95,879
United Kingdom $68,664 = 72% USA
Germany $61,390 = 64% USA
France $47,617 = 50% USA
Medicine
United States of America $313,000
United Kingdom $138,000 = 44% USA
Germany $163,000 = 52% USA
France $108,000 = 35% USA
(I believe the software salaries I've sourced are somewhat conservative)
To add to this here's a recent systematic review looking at rates of dog bites by and bite severity by breed. Consistently Pit-bulls and German Shepherds have higher likelihood of causing biting injury against people and have increased severity of injury [0].
Anecdotally, so far I have only seen bite injuries in the ER from Pit-bulls and German Shepherds (n < 5).
That being said, whether or not breed specific legislation works to minimize dog bites is a separate scientific question.
In fact Uğur Şahin CEO of BioNTech and co-inventor of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine was recommended by his teacher to attend a hauptschule. If his German neighbor hadn't intervened and stood up for him he may have never attended university let alone get a doctorate.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_Curve