Although the lede suggests that this is about the consequences of healthcare costs in the United States, the research is from Denmark.
Even so:
Denmark has a universal healthcare system, [not] massive healthcare bills that usually ruin people's lives in the United States. Yet, the researchers suggest that economics still plays a big role... Patients who showed the steepest income declines had the strongest links between cancer and crime.
While the original OS X display model, Quartz, evolved from Display PDF via NextStep, I believe that it shifted back to pixel rasterization to offload more of the display stack onto the GPU.
Quartz Extreme?
John Siracusa, Ars Technica:
It's possible that existing consumer video cards could be coerced into doing efficient vector drawing in hardware. Apple tried to do just that in Tiger [note], but then had to back off at the last minute and disable the feature in the shipping version of the OS. It remains disabled to this day.
A couple of years ago, National Geographic magazine had a feature on the use of origami in engineering and art; the print edition featured a striking cover photograph of a gold colored sunshade for a space telescope under test at JPL.
The web site is aggressively paywalled, to such a degree that I cannot determine the date of publication.
But they had a public access podcast and transcript here
(Whether or not that's a limit on law enforcement behavior depends on their particular aims.)
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