Author: fozbaca

One of the many things wrong with insurance based medical care system.
> You’re probably having a heart attack. This could kill you. You need to come with us.
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> “No. It’s too expensive. I can’t.”
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> He’s got kids, and grandkids, and too much debt already. That’s what he tells you. And you try to tell him that life is worth a hell of a lot more than money. Grandkids, right? You want to play with your grandkids.
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> “I don’t want them to pay my bills.”
[Suicide is cheaper](http://geo-geek.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/suicide-is-cheaper.html)

> “The results of our study indicate that young children’s performance on sustained delay-of-gratification tasks can be strongly influenced by rational decision-making processes,” the researchers conclude. 
Something to think on next time you why a person on social assistance buys something extravagant.
[The marshmallow test, revisited](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/10/13/the-marshmallow-test-revisited/)

> The advent of Do Not Track threatens the barter system wherein consumers allow sites and third-party ad networks to collect information about their online activities in exchange for open access to maps, e-mail, games, music, social networks and whatnot.
[Do Not Track? Advertisers Say ‘Don’t Tread on Us’](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/technology/do-not-track-movement-is-drawing-advertisers-fire.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all&gwh=547A8509E6EE3202DC31C8D3835F1ACA)

The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub — so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens.

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