A new Venezuelan ID, created with China's ZTE, tracks citizen behavior

Re:A new Venezuelan ID, created with China's ZTE, tracks cit... by mikeash on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:09PM (#18454569)

It could, but I don't see that as the likely outcome. Dissimilarities with other countries are greatly exaggerated, and government is better at getting things done than many people give it credit for.

It is possible that the result would still be broken, but it is certain that the result of doing nothing will still be broken.

We can either just keep things broken, learn from what others have done use those lessons to take our best shot at fixing things, or we can completely ignore the hard-won lessons of others and go for an untested and novel approach. Which is most likely to work?

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Re:A new Venezuelan ID, created with China's ZTE, tracks cit... by yters on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:05PM (#18455072)

Maybe first figure out exactly what is broken and why?

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Re:A new Venezuelan ID, created with China's ZTE, tracks cit... by mikeash on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:47PM (#18462619)

Seems to me that this has been pretty thoroughly explored already.

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Re:A new Venezuelan ID, created with China's ZTE, tracks cit... by yters on Friday November 16, 2018 @03:56PM (#18471897)

In that case it would be interesting to see the premise that gets us from "US' healthcare system is horribly broken" to "Canadian healthcare system is a suitable model."

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Re:A new Venezuelan ID, created with China's ZTE, tracks cit... by mikeash on Saturday November 17, 2018 @05:40PM (#18477743)

Things like cost per capita and outcomes lead you there pretty naturally. We pay a shitload more and don’t get noticeably better results.

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