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2024-12-16

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  • that's the work site. The residential town is about 10km SW of that marker.

  • For elementary school age kids, maybe even middle school, try getting them started with the app "Euclidea".

    They won't think of it as math. It's gamified geometric constructions. Starts simple, "how do you bisect an angle" with a compass and a straight edge. It goes to a very high level that will challenge anyone.

  • Yeah, people underestimate how hard it is to get a movie into a theatre AND get people to pay for a ticket.

    Hollywood can barely get any well made movies past $100 million these days unless it's based on some well known franchise (minecraft, Captain America, Snow White) or it has some well known actor.

  • PBRs have contracts with medical insurance. They get paid based on how much money they "save" the insurance company.

    "Save" is defined as list price minus contracted price that the insurance pays for the drug.

    PBRs manipulate the list price to be higher so that they "save" the insurance company more money.

    They also manipulate the co-pays so that patients will choose drugs that "save" the most, as opposed to the lowest price drug.

  • Technically they want to limit indirect costs to 15%. This currently ranges from 50%-100%. Indirect costs have two components, facilities and administration.

    Facilites are the cost of buildings, electricity, janitorial service, etc. Think of this as things that might be included in the rent if you were renting a place to do the research.

    Administration costs are mostly salaries for people, administrative and clerical staff. Not the people directly doing the research (that's a direct cost), but the people in charge of safety/compliance/legal, etc.

    Administrative costs have been capped at 25% for a few decades. Facilities costs are not capped.

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