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by sykh 9y ago
Emergency rooms are required to stabilize a patient, not treat them or cure them. This is not universal care and it not giving everyone access to the medical system. One does not got the ER for things like cancer screenings. From the link
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Every health care system rations care since no current system has enough resources to care for everyone without some form of waiting. The U.S. health care system rations care in the most immoral way of the advanced nations. A person shoul
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Yes. The swaying of public opinion is thousands of years old. But now it's far easier, much cheaper, and can be done at a much greater scale. This is especially so when only a few companies are really able to do this. In the U.S th
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I'd agree with the degradation of education system you brought up but even well educated people are prone to being nudged. In the past there was a diversity of competing news reporting. In the U.S. there has been massive consolidatio
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What is scary is the unregulated way in which massive amounts of data can be used to sway public opinion so easily. What is even scarier than this is the way in which those in power can use massive amounts of data to sway public opinion wi
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I hope that at some point American society as a whole will collectively reflect on the fact that it appears that swaying public opinion is not hard. What are the implications of this in terms of having a republican form of government? If
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I don’t have a Facebook account and use Lyft.
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In general the public does not treat all forms of illegal activity facilitation the same and this is a good thing. Some forms of illegal activity facilitation are much worse than others in the eyes of the public. It’s reasonabke and natur
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I did not know this. Thank you for pointing this out. When my current iPad Pro dies I’ll look into a Chromebook option. I had considered the Surface Pro but I hate the Windows operating system.
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I would but mostly because of the pen support. Apparently Chromebooks can support pens so I don’t have a preference. The cost factor makes me think Chromebooks are a better fit for the education market.
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I know only the Pro model of the iPad supports the pencil. I'm assuming - hoping! - these new iPads do as well. I did not know about Chromebooks having pen support. Given this I don’t see how Apple can make a compelling case for the
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by sykh 9y ago
With budget constraints I don’t see how the iPad can compete with cheaper alternatives. The only real advantage I see for the iPad over Chromebook in the education market is that one can digitally markup documents on the iPad and take hand