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4 votes
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Hedy Lamarr’s FBI files make no mention of her “Secret Communication System”
3 votes -
Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
8 votes -
Advertisers ditch Carlson and Pirro’s Fox News shows; protesters urge other companies to join them
7 votes -
American asking - how does your country's healthcare system perform for you?
So I've almost (March 29) quit an IT role in a U.S. company that functions with the private healthcare market. It's been long evident to me that most industrialized nations have much more sensible...
So I've almost (March 29) quit an IT role in a U.S. company that functions with the private healthcare market. It's been long evident to me that most industrialized nations have much more sensible systems, and my employer's business model would be nonexistent outside the U.S.
There's a current political trend towards "Medicare for All", basically a single-payer system for existing health services. The prevailing resistance comes from insurers, whose business models will cease to exist, and those whose compensation might be cut (physicians and hospitals) up to 50% under the current scheme for U.S. Medicare. That's leaving aside pharmaceutical companies.
I'm trying to decide where my political time should be spent - the "Medicare for All" slogan is great for bumper stickers, but are there other models that work better?
Please talk about your nation's policies - the good, the bad, and the ugly. Tildes is mostly a young crowd that might not have direct experience of major medical need, but any commentary on what has worked and what doesn't is welcome.
31 votes -
Algorithms Allowed: a project that tracks usage of Google and Facebook assets in countries under US sanctions
6 votes -
Paul Manafort sentenced to forty-seven months in US prison for tax and bank fraud
17 votes -
Targeting online privacy, US Congress sets a new tone with big tech
4 votes -
The Mastermind - He was a brilliant programmer and a vicious cartel boss, who became a prized US government asset
3 votes -
Why is customer service so bad? Because it’s profitable.
13 votes -
Odell Beckham Jr. traded to the Cleveland Browns
3 votes -
YouTuber threatens Google, travels cross country to confront them, gets arrested in Mountain View
4 votes -
Facts alone won’t convince people to vaccinate their kids
10 votes -
Hal Blaine, Wrecking Crew drummer and Rock Hall of Fame member, dies at 90
3 votes -
Elizabeth Warren proposes breaking up Amazon, Google, and Facebook
48 votes -
It feels like this is it for Felix Hernandez
1 vote -
It's 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change
17 votes -
Beyond the big splash: What SpaceX success means for America
5 votes -
As possible rivals pass on 2020 race, Biden may see a path clearing
8 votes -
MLS Week 2: All Match Discussions
Orlando City @ Chicago Fire Columbus Crew @ New England Revolution LA Galaxy @ FC Dallas Montreal Impact @ Houston Dynamo Vancouver Whitecaps @ Real Salt Lake Minnesota United FC @ San Jose...
Orlando City @ Chicago Fire
Columbus Crew @ New England Revolution
LA Galaxy @ FC Dallas
Montreal Impact @ Houston Dynamo
Vancouver Whitecaps @ Real Salt Lake
Minnesota United FC @ San Jose Earthquakes
Philadelphia Union @ Sporting Kansas City
Colorado Rapids @ Seattle Sounders
DC United @ New York City FC
FC Cincinnati @ Atlanta United
Portland Timbers @ LAFC4 votes -
Antonio Brown traded to the Oakland Raiders for a 2019 3rd and 5th round draft pick
6 votes -
The provocations of chef Tunde Wey
3 votes -
Andrew Bird - Sisyphus (2019)
2 votes -
Protecting the 'unbanked' by banning cashless businesses in Philadelphia
12 votes -
A risk Starbucks won’t mention: Howard Schultz could help Trump
8 votes -
Russia’s passive-aggressive reaction to SpaceX may mask a deeper truth
18 votes -
How the New York Public Library fills its shelves (and why some books don't make the cut)
5 votes -
Fred Rogers was attracted to both men and women
10 votes -
'Re-Imagining Paradise' — Making plans to rebuild a town destroyed by wildfire
4 votes -
This, too, was history. The battle over police torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.
7 votes -
NASA captures first air-to-air images of supersonic shockwave interaction in flight
13 votes -
Kansas Catholic school rejects kindergartner with same-sex parents
6 votes -
Chevy Volt discontinued: Chevrolet's last Volt rolls off the assembly line
22 votes -
U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
23 votes -
Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown won't run for President
7 votes -
Documents show the US government created a secret database of activists, journalists, and social media influencers tied to the migrant caravan and in some cases, placed alerts on their passports
12 votes -
Twenty-one horses died at a single racetrack in the last ten weeks. How did it happen?
7 votes -
Kentucky approves bill to make 'doxing' illegal after Covington student's online backlash
4 votes -
The movement to skip the electoral college is about to pass a major milestone
34 votes -
Unicorn Riot leaks chat logs, revealing white nationalist plot to keep Steve King in office
6 votes -
Hip-hop artists give the Supreme Court a primer on rap music
7 votes -
"Jeopardy" host Alex Trebek revealed he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer
20 votes -
How a group of 'last-chance' college basketball players transformed a winless program
2 votes -
Theranos: How a broken patent system sustained its decade-long deception
8 votes -
Boutique and established cooperages around the country are trying to reinvent the whiskey barrel
1 vote -
What happens now that China won't take U.S. recycling: Many waste-management companies are simply burning recyclables or sending them to landfills
15 votes -
EPA administrator Wheeler: "Is climate change the existential threat? I don’t see it as the existential threat, no"
7 votes -
The Oppression of the Supermajority
15 votes -
Tornadoes in the Southeast are getting worse -- and they're often the deadliest
4 votes -
The making of the Fox News White House
19 votes