Well, it's saving Social Secuity billions as well. Not to mention the shift in some of the public worker pensions. California, alone, is between a 214 billion and a trillion dollars UNDERFUNDED already (depending on the studies and their estimates) and that's in addition to the $3.4 billion that will be funded just this year.
The article also ignores the steeper increase in mortality in the early 1990s than the 2015 one. Maybe 2015 is just another anomaly.
Interesting that the 2007-8 economic downturn didn't affect the mortality rate. With so many people losing jobs or (reducing hours) with their medical coverages and the foreclosure rate spiking it wasn't raising the death rate.
It's great that they lowered their overdose percentage, but it's curious that they don't enumerate their actual addiction numbers. Again, it's great that they are getting people treatment instead of jail, but what is their overall addiction rate, and what's their success rate in getting people clean?
Can the SMT part of a die be defective? I'm just wondering if it's by choice to have SMT-less chips or if it's to recycle chips that have SMT defective.
These guys took the money and ran. Absolute radio silence since the ico. Not to mention nobody is going to run an exit node since being paid to do so would mean you would be on the hook for illegal traffic, unlike TOR. It's a nice idea but completely impractical, even with a dev team that didn't disappear after raising money.
As long as you're only involving the key decision makers, I don't see it being a problem. Might actually help the IT guys in the long-run as they know what to expect from the marketing and sales departments.
Here's a good comment that I found on Reddit, contrasting Ethereum and Hyperledger:
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Hyperledger isn't a specific technology. It's a Linux Foundation banner project for multiple blockchain and DLT technologies, each of which have different characteristics:
The common theme to them all is that they are permissioned, and none involve cryptocurrencies.
Monax's Burrow project (formerly ErisDB) was recently accepted, which is a permissioned EVM (Ethereum virtual machine) node implementation. So now the other Hyperledger projects have the option of integrating an Ethereum virtual machine into their codebases too.
Fabric is the dominant project within HL. It was developed as OpenChain by IBM and contributed to Hyperledger at inception, and has been working towards a 1.0 release which is imminent. It is the basis of the IBM Blockchain commercial offering, and is getting a lot of traction in Enterprise settings.
The primary aim of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) is to build an extension/variant of the public Ethereum specification to cover the additional use-cases which Enterprises need to get into production - along the themes of scalability (usually just pluggable consensus), privacy and confidentiality and permissioning. JPM Quorum is an example of an Ethereum fork seeking to meet those needs:
Many of us see all of the public/consortium/private use-cases as being something which will likely converge over the next few years. Sufficiently modular codebases should be able to handle them all, with dynamic composition of components. We are working towards the creation of an extended Ethereum meeting all those needs.
The article also ignores the steeper increase in mortality in the early 1990s than the 2015 one. Maybe 2015 is just another anomaly.
Interesting that the 2007-8 economic downturn didn't affect the mortality rate. With so many people losing jobs or (reducing hours) with their medical coverages and the foreclosure rate spiking it wasn't raising the death rate.