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The rewrite will be ready shortly

Sunday, February 1, 2009

You might have seen the following cartoon before:
It’s from a site called The Project Cartoon. What I didn’t know was the site allows you to use the little cartoons to make your own version. You can caption and re-order the panels. For your amusement, and perhaps your edification, I present “The Rewrite Will Be [...]

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Code re-writes and U.S. health care reform

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

This post is not about health-care, per se. This is about “re-writes” or “total reforms” of systems. An argument Atul Gawande makes in New Yorker magazine about health-care reform:
[Certain reformists say] The country has this one chance, the idealist maintains, to sweep away our inhumane, wasteful patchwork system and replace it with something new and [...]

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