Cherokee Purple.
Black Krim
Black from Tula.
Brandywine
heck, Almost any black tomato is a richer flavor than traditional hybrids.
Heirloom tomatoes are also fantastic for flavors, but they are difficult to grow. Consistent watering, pruning lower leaves to keep disease away, proactive treatment of fungus and bacteria. It's a lot of work, but the results you get when it all comes together, yeah, it makes a fantastic tomato soup, sauce, Caprese salad.
I'm starting seedlings this week. I'm probably going to have more tomato seedlings than I know what to do with. Of course, as problems go, I could have worse ones. The problem I'd like to have is growing too many mini watermelons. For some reason, I just can't get any yield, and the squirrels/mice gnaw on them as soon as they are vaguely ripe.
My partner is not going to be happy when I rip up most of the lawn in the backyard. She'll probably buy me overalls and a straw hat.
That's one of the wonderful things about automotive infrastructure. You can make gradual incremental changes and slowly improve the entire system. It may not be fast enough or cheap enough, but you can still make it happen.
As soon as you have a fungible currency, I expect that, from past experience, everyone who carries those packets will stick out a hand for a piece of the action. From a brief read of the description, I also expect attackers to work out a way to drain your account without you noticing.
Regulation E limits your losses for electronic banking. Is this new payment system covered by Regulation E? What is the maximum loss a consumer would experience?
Breaking the existing system will be extremely difficult. I have decade-long relationships with all of my doctors. The thought of a health plan that forces me to change all my doctor relationships is anger-provoking and exhausting. New doctors don't know me, they don't know my history, and haven't seen the medical shit show you've been through and why your treatment is the way it is. Then they think they can change your treatment to something that has already failed because "I didn't give it a long enough trial" or "That's a rare side effect," it won't happen to you.
I highly recommend you read the book "We've Got You Covered." It's an economist's view of health systems and how we can rearrange government spending to provide coverage for everybody and prevent medical bankruptcies.
One Medical looks interesting, but I wonder how they keep the price that low. Is it subsidized? Are they putting constraints on physicians and what they can do in the same way BetterHelp messes with the therapists? Are they servicing only the young and healthy?
Their senior care plans tell an interesting story. They only work with Medicare Advantage plans, specifically those known for up-coding, excessive pre-authorization requirements, and high rates of care denials. Medicare Advantage is an interesting failure in the marketplace in that it costs the government significantly more than classic Medicare and provides worse-quality care.
For the rest of us, we can skip the ER by going to an urgent care. But around here, urgent care offices are owned by private equity, have deceptive billing and are part of the reason why medical care costs so much.
> I have decade-long relationships with all of my doctors. The thought of a health plan that forces me to change all my doctor relationships is anger-provoking and exhausting.
You are clearly not in the bottom 50% of health care spenders. You would be in the group that would keep private insurance and be happy.
> One Medical looks interesting, but I wonder how they keep the price that low. Is it subsidized?
No.
> Are they putting constraints on physicians and what they can do in the same way BetterHelp messes with the therapists?
The vast majority of their "doctors" are Physician's Assistants. You can see whoever you want for whatever you want (that they provide).
> Are they servicing only the young and healthy?
Mainly. It's a clinic. You can't go there for Open Heart Surgery and cancer treatments. They'll just (cheaply) refer you to a specialist (who will be expensive and require insurance).
What you can do is avoid huge wait times and get good enough treatment for ~90% of what the mostly healthy group of ~50% of the population needs for fair up-front prices - which previously did not exist.
That's a mighty big assumption you're making. I've had private insurance for years, and I've always been unhappy with it because of treatment delays, Treatment denials, pre-approvals, and unrealistic copay limitations.
Many of my health needs are not expensive, but my body's reaction to treatments is. Frequently, cheap drugs are all side effects and no benefit. Also, private insurance has bizarre coverage gaps. For example, ambulance costs. When I had a heart attack, I drove myself for 45 minutes to the nearest hospital with a cath lab rather than take an ambulance and end up with God knows how many thousands of dollars in uncovered ambulance fees. Then there are things like cardiac rehab, which go a long way toward restoring cardiac health. 12 weeks, three times a week at $50 copays, was an expense I wasn't counting on. When I qualified for Medicare, the quality of care improved significantly. Usually, wait times for service are much lower than with private insurance.
I also resent private insurance because my premium dollars go toward enriching stockholders rather than providing care for all policyholders.
Okay - so you could keep your private insurance and not be happy, or move to Medicare and also not be happy.
I think you want a third solution - but that seems highly unlikely to be available in the mid term - and it doesn't look like anything is changing in the short term.
Who knows, my crystal ball doesn't work any better than anyone else's.
I'm completely the opposite. 100% the opposite. I wrote code because it was the only way to make the lights blink. I saw code as an impediment to completing a project. There was a lot of friction between the design and the final result. AI reduces that friction substantially.
The remaining friction is fundamentally the same as that which existed when writing code manually. The gap between what you envision for your design/solution and the tools for implementing that vision. With code, the friction encountered when implementing your vision is substantial; with AI, that friction is significantly reduced, and what's left is in areas different from what past experience would lead you to expect.
Cherokee Purple. Black Krim Black from Tula. Brandywine heck, Almost any black tomato is a richer flavor than traditional hybrids.
Heirloom tomatoes are also fantastic for flavors, but they are difficult to grow. Consistent watering, pruning lower leaves to keep disease away, proactive treatment of fungus and bacteria. It's a lot of work, but the results you get when it all comes together, yeah, it makes a fantastic tomato soup, sauce, Caprese salad.
I'm starting seedlings this week. I'm probably going to have more tomato seedlings than I know what to do with. Of course, as problems go, I could have worse ones. The problem I'd like to have is growing too many mini watermelons. For some reason, I just can't get any yield, and the squirrels/mice gnaw on them as soon as they are vaguely ripe.
My partner is not going to be happy when I rip up most of the lawn in the backyard. She'll probably buy me overalls and a straw hat.
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