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Regeringen storsatsar på it i sjukvården. Ny lagstiftning och nya pengar som ska göra vården säkrare för patienterna – och mer effektiv. Det lovar nye sjukvårdsministern Gabriel Wikström (S) i en SvD-intervju.

blastboy writes By pretty much any logic, Wikipedia shouldn't work: A vast website, built on the labor of volunteers, with very few tangible rewards and a fairly weird hierarchy. From the article: "The stewards would prefer to go unnoticed. Only one has ever had any real fame—Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales served as a steward from 2006 to 2009. They operate above the fray, giving and taking user privileges and intervening in matters that lower-ranking editors can’t handle. You can summon them for emergencies in the Wikimedia Stewards IRC chat room by typing '!steward.' Their secrecy has a certain irony, given the very public product they manage, but perhaps it’s emblematic of Wikimedia as a whole. When your foundational value is that 'every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge,' hierarchies become a necessary evil."

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Efter ett mellanårsval präglat av missnöje och smutskastning riktas blickarna mot USA:s presidentval 2016. Vägen dit lär präglas av hårda strider mellan president Obama och kongressen, där Republikanerna nu får full kontroll.

Två män skadades svårt i en singelolycka på länsväg 511 utanför Nyköping vid 18-tiden på onsdagen. Bilen voltade och båda männen åkte ur bilen, den ene klämdes fast under den.

Beijing says it plans to send around 1,000 medical workers and experts to West Africa to help combat Ebola outbreak.

Ilskna bönder delade ut gratis frukt och grönsaker bland högar av potatis på ett torg i centrala Paris på onsdagen. De protesterar mot billiga importerade råvaror, och enligt organisatörerna dök omkring 700 demonstranter upp med 60 ton lokalproducerad potatis och 20 ton lök, äpplen och päron.

Liljeholmstorget Galleria i Stockholm har utrymts efter larm om en påse med innehåll som väckt misstankar.

USA-börserna gick upp efter valresultatet som innebär att Republikanerna tar makten i senaten. Därmed får partiet full kontroll över kongressen, något som gladde investerarna.

MojoKid writes Net neutrality is an attractive concept, particularly if you've followed the ways the cable and telco companies have gouged customers in recent years, but only to a limited extent. There are two problems with net neutrality as its commonly proposed. First, there's the fact that not all traffic prioritization is bad all of the time. Video streams and gaming are two examples of activities that require low-latency packet delivery to function smoothly. Email and web traffic can tolerate significantly higher latencies, for example. Similarly, almost everyone agrees that ISPs have some responsibility to control network performance in a manner that guarantees the best service for the most number of people, or that prioritizes certain traffic over others in the event of an emergency. These are all issues that a careful set of regulations could preserve while still mandating neutral traffic treatment in the majority of cases, but it's a level of nuance that most discussions of the topic don't touch. The larger and more serious problem with net neutrality as its often defined, however, is that it typically deals only with the "last mile," or the types and nature of the filtering an ISP can apply to your personal connection.