because single payer healthcare doesn't have the same software algorithms running in the back office? /golfclap

this is a poverty / access to care issue described, just applying single payer doesn't fix the problem that the person can't afford to take time to engage with that healthcare
 

I was hoping for the Judge to restore fortnite to the app store, by ordering EPIC to comply with the app store terms until such time as the trial is complete.

The argument is based on whether you call the software distribution channel of 1 brand of phone a monopoly. Apple has a monopoly on making iPhones, they do not have a monopoly on making smartphones. Is that any different than Ford having a monopoly on making Ford Trucks?

Bought a new car 2 weeks ago. Had to sign the same paperwork digitally, on paper(for state agency), and in cloud (for finance). I don't think there's any legal requirement for that, but it's the unintended consequences of stupid rules by the entities involved.

Everyone wanting to solve the problem oversimplifies the issues. PGP/GPG encryption is great for sending something between a known sender and recipient. That's NOT a drop in alternative to a Fax. In this specific example, the epidemiology office needs to accept documents from multiple labs and offices across the state / country.. that's multiple unknown senders.. and the 'office' is not a singular person to receive a document.. so you need secure transmission between multiple senders to multiple recipients.. and not identified employees because those may change by next week. So you have to do things like a generic public key that decrypts the message and then delivers to an appropriate document system with access controls..... and you are competing with an old system that's insert paper, type in 10 digit number, hit Go.

There is work ongoing in information interchange between systems, but getting enough critical mass behind it is challenging. Electronic prescriptions are mainstream, electronic referrals are mainstream.

These publications are often accompanied by press releases to generate the news media frenzy. Readers with a suspicious nature might assume it's done intentionally to boost valuation...

It's obvious that bulk shipping some items is more efficient than individually shipping items. If there's enough demand for an item to ship it by train car, boatload or, truck load to an area, the cost of that shipping will be fractional to the cost of UPS / USPS / FedEx delivery. Bulk staple items like bottled water, toilet paper, paper towels, sodas, milk, laundry detergent, etc are just not good targets for Amazon.

With curbside pickup at Walmart, Target, and grocery stores now, it's arguably easier to stop by the store on the trip home and load up those items. Cuts down on packages left outside your doorstep that can be stolen.

Amazon just needs to rebrand this brick and mortar process. Call it 'AI PreShipping', Amazon can leverage their AWS power to analyze regional shopping characteristics and PRE-Ship your items to your convenient PRE-Ship Storage Location (re-branded from Whole Foods). As your Pre-Shipping items will be stored at our facility, rent will be covered by your Prime Membership.

it sounds great in theory, but the reality is that so many websites we interact with end up being accounts. Trying to remember complex passwords to 5 sites is one thing, 50 sites? 100sites? 500sites? Everyone will have their limit about how many they can reasonably remember.

If you are posting in this thread and you have a password plan already.. you are years ahead of most users. If you like a complex password algorithm where you create unique passwords for everything and remember the pattern, that probably works. . If you like a password manager, whether it stores locally or in the cloud, again that probably works and you are doing better than at least 90% of users.

If you don't have a password plan, your password is probably already compromised.

Very few real journalists in the world today.. we traded them in for blogs and twitter feeds. The classic line, 'a$ did not respond immediately' which means they spent no time researching a story before plopping it out on the world.

I have one, I'd like to use it for keeping track of extended family / friends. But, more and more it's just advertising BS.. i deliberately delete news stories from my feed... the 'social' in media is losing.. it's just becoming another media outlet.

The full Office suite is overkill for most users needs. The occasional person uses advance macros, programability, but by far they have always been used to edit simple / small documents.. Those users have so many other options now, and likely are using some tablet, phone or web based option.

The issue is that GPU scaling has exceeded the functional life of passwords. So we make longer more complex passwords and next year or the next some GPU breakthrough will enable those to be broken in reasonable time. It's just a delaying action against the inevitable death of passwords as a valid authentication option.

Having just had a landline repaired, it's fairly obvious that the institutional knowledge base for maintaining POTS service is decaying. I expect a digital transition in the relatively near future.

People are using email clients all the time, that email client on your phone is using imap to communicate to your mail storage on gmail. I see very few people using their phone's browser to login to the mobile version of any webmail. I see phone specific native clients in wide use. Gmail's webclient is very good, but for certain use cases a dedicated client works better. And since gmail provides standard imap access, thunderbird works with it just fine.

Email client software is far from dead, and it would be nice to keep thunderbird alive.