Inside the life of Luigi Mangione
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Inside the life of Luigi Mangione
Before he became a suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Luigi Mangione came from a prominent Baltimore family and received an education at elite schools. Friends described him as whip-smart, kind, and unassuming. A former classmate told BI, “I would set my sister or friend up with him.”
For years, however, Mangione suffered from debilitating back pain, which he detailed in dozens of Reddit posts, that “put my life on hold in my 20s.” The experience appears to represent a significant — and excruciating — engagement with the American healthcare system.
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The rise of the son
Gordon Singer, the son of Elliott Management founder Paul Singer and the head of its London office, is now the only one of the firm’s 14 partners based abroad. He has less autonomy over the office and fewer big-hitting portfolio managers reporting to him.
Yet within the firm, the younger Singer has more power than ever. Thanks to a recent reorg, his voice is now one of the most influential inside it.
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A recent study from Kruze Consulting found the average salary for the CEO of a seed-stage startup in the US is $132,000 a year — which is down from $142,000 in last year’s study. The average founder is also likely to be making less than other people on the leadership team.
The consultancy, which analyzed 450 VC-backed startups’ payroll records, also says employee compensation accounts for around 75% of the total operating costs for its startup clients.
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Who really has the fastest supercomputer?
Both Oracle and xAI love to flex the size of their GPU clusters. Back in the day, it used to be a lot simpler to figure this out. But it’s getting harder to tell who is actually right, no matter how much CEOs love to brag.
Plus, size isn’t the only important factor. Power efficiency is a vital indicator in AI computing since energy is an enormous operational expense in AI.
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3dYep what he did was wrong but this industry that makes there money on people suffering expect? The Insurance companies are quick to take your money for coverage but when you need it, it's not there. Insurance companies here in US have had a free run to steal from customers for decades, mainly because they KNOW full well if there deny care the customer will most likely die so Know worries. It's a truly sick business in more ways then you think. What other industry has created such a bad ill will in public communities as this Industry. They are the sole cause of the the hate for those in this Industry. You get back what you give!
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1wIn China we have decent medical service in cities,but the social medical insurance keep pressing down drug prices. I afraid someday we could only trust import medicine. No institution have no problem.
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1wThe bottom line is obvious. I have stage 4 cancer was given 8 months to live. Had a stem cell transplant and still here. Medical had failed me quite a few times No diagnosis for a year and a half so getting tests without a proper medical issue is difficult There’s still no excuse to murder someone I don’t care how frustrated and angry you get it’s just not something that should ever be acceptable
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