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A note in a companion blog had explained how frequent updates from the computer and smart phone industry are making life difficult for consumers and there really is a need for the industry to rein in this habit and schedule their updates and improvements at no more than once a year best named after the year such as version 2018, 2019 etc. and not strange decimal numbers like 302.56.84 etc. that no one can remember except the Late Shakuntala Devi who could remember any number, howsoever long and complicated. Only a few critical bug fixes, virus definitions etc. may be sent on an urgent basis under precisely those names and not as an update. It is true that there are ways to turn off updates short of disconnecting from the Internet but such ways are not easy and require some learning. One gets raped a few times, metaphorically speaking before learning that. In my case recently I had to uninstall and reinstall Windows 10 in order to get rid of a pesky update assistant that ...

Good health is central to human happiness.   A Human may be a happy human without much wealth but he cannot be a happy without good health.   There is the old saying - where there is health there is hope. Because of this, Health care must remain a central subject of healthcare policy of governments. Recently, this author has contributed many of his thoughts on the topic to leadership of US and India on twitter where this policy is under active debate and transformation. However, twitter, because of its brevity and informality cannot explain points fully. This note shall attempt to do that. A blog note also has a wider and more durable presence for the world at large and all do need to devote their attention to this topic some of the time, so central it is to life. Ranking Countries by Healthcare Outcomes Several different ways and methods exist to rank countries of the world on healthcare but the simplest is infant under five mortality rates in a country. It is ...