Critics have raised an outcry over Sovaldi, a hepatitis C drug heralded as a breakthrough but costing $84,000 for a typical person’s total treatment.
Killing someone with a car costs $1.6 million. California requires drivers to carry $30,000
NHTSA puts the average economic cost of a traffic fatality at $1.6 million. California requires a driver to carry $30,000 in bodily injury coverage, and everyone who was not in the crash pays the rest.
Want More Policies Based on Evidence?
Medicine teaches us it will take time, effort, and investment.
Aniket Panjwani on Twitter / X
Here's something I don't understand about Refine.1 review costs $50 and 10 reviews cost $300. So, unless they're taking a loss, average cost of inference on a Refine review is no more than $30.On a ChatGPT Pro plan, for $200/mo, you're getting the equivalent of ~$14k/mo in…— Aniket Panjwani (@aniketapanjwani) August 20, 2026
Taxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees
American taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.
Why compute might get 10x more expensive in coming years
If a human-level software engineer that could run on an H100 equivalent, at current market rates for software engineers, that H100 should rent for over $250k a year. That’s 15x today’s spot price.
Chris Beiser on Twitter / X
it'd be interesting to quantify the rate at which unaffiliated reddit users have improved on the state of the art for treatment protocols for diseases. my guess is that for 75% of diseases, they're responsible for a greater QoL increase than pharmaceutical companies over 10 years— Chris Beiser (@ctbeiser) June 7, 2021
Amino Apps raises $19.2 million to create mobile apps for interest-based communities
Amino Apps believes that there's still a need for networks that are both community-centric and geared toward the mobile generation. Investors seem to agree, which is why they've invested $19.2 million into the company, which not only offers underserved communities a place to exist, but gives the most passionate ones a chance to grow through standalone mobile apps.
The World Cup Got Worse On Purpose
A final seat cost £83 at the last Euros. FIFA is charging £3,119 for this tournament. Dynamic pricing, water-break ads, and two decades of the same playbook.
Price of Lab-Grown Burger Falls from $325K to $11.36
Lab-grown meat will be on our plates sooner than we may realize.
The Cost of Deportations Calculator
The Trump administration is taking billions of _your_ taxpayer dollars to pay for mass deportations. The Cost of Deportations Calculator shows what could this money be used for instead.
Fee for Certain H-1B Petitions
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to establish a $103,265 fee, payable at the time of filing, for all H-1B cap-subject petitions, including those eligible for the advanced degree exemption, which would be imposed in addition to all other applicable fees or payments. This fee...
Former Meta AR Neural Band Leader Targets $2.5 Billion Valuation for Brain-Inspired Power-Sipping AI
Thomas Reardon, the former Meta executive who built the Neural Band wristband, is raising capital for a new startup called Flourish at a target valuation of $2.
Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?
We usually perceive that it costs more to get higher quality, but software internal quality actually reduces costs.
More Money For Better Open-Source Software
I'll pay out $2,000 if this Senator cites his claim