Tom Huddle

internist and gadfly

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@ASFleischman You are so my favorite Democrat. Thank you for exposing anti-semitism in its various redoubts.

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@stphil @DrDiGiorgio You too!

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you're not getting it; everything is different in ways to other things and similar in ways to other things. hamburgers and health care have a lot of differences. but also some similarities. and one of those is both being economic goods efficiently (less cost) distributed by markets rather than by fiat. and access for the poor can be protected in market arrangements.

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@DrDiGiorgio The problem is not thinking health care is "special"; it is special, of course. so are many other things that are economic goods e.g. food. The problem is thinking that specialness = ought not to be exchanged in a market.

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@ASFleischman also became an unforgettable character in Anthony Powell's "Dance to the Music of Time" novels.

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@stphil i doubt very much we value health care very differently. (1/ was a typo didnt think the whole post would display)

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@Chris_arnade I read a lot of his earlier stuff, admiringly, and bought this when it came out and have sadly neglected it but maybe now will go back. It’s a reminder of when Columbia was a great university.

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@HSRdirector I think the thread is cognition conceived in an information processing way as a (deceptive) metaphor for mature human responding to our world. AI in, infants out.

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@1000Philistines @CyborgPeds thats interesting! i did a clinical rotation there as a med student one summer. fun and enlightening. saw a dramatic case or two.

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@moveincircles Saw it at, maybe 10, and it has remained in memory as magical music and movie. Wonder why you have taken against it without having seen it?

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@DanielJHannan @SimonMagus Not better! Different! As a pure page turning thriller you can’t beat The Thirty-Nine Steps!

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@jared_lederman1 @DrJMarine Back in the day all the "Cornell 7" stuff was happening and the state university i attended wasn't discouraging it. but also not encouraging it. Student behavior (outside of the classroom) just wasn't on the radar. a mistake then. contributing, perhaps, to now.

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@roddreher who's a decent academic publisher now? is Cambridge? we anglophiles aspired to one of the two; is that over?

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@JamesWHankins1 it seems odd that "mimic" cannot by some be distinguished from "be the same kind of thing as".

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@nujahr19o6b @anish_koka will do! try not to be an idiot in your prime! (oops, too late)

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@nujahr19o6b @anish_koka right. good luck!