Should convenient usability for a broad non-techie demographic trump increased tech-savvy security in a world of imperfect and varying threat models?

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The new chassis design has a convenient recess desk on top with a non-slip surface for charging smartphones and cameras.

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While in non-urgent cases the system is slick and convenient, it does cut out the face-to-face interaction between patient and nurse.

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Because a breath test is non-invasive and the results are instantaneous, it could prove even more convenient for example in anaesthesia or doping tests.

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Conversely, the death we speak of and deal with every day, the death that is full of meaning, the non-absurd death, this is a place-marker, a fake, a convenient substitute.

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