Thriptic

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by Thriptic 9y ago
> all the same laws are applicable and fraud is fraud No, it's not the same when you can use pseudonyms and provide fake data with the intent of deceiving someone. > what is more interesting is that a variety of traditional contr
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You shouldn't be able to run one unless you're a registered company. It has to be relatively easy to come after you for fraud as an investor. Considering that this is a mechanism that is predominantly used to fund projects or comp
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by Thriptic 9y ago
I will repeat myself from another ICO thread last week: you cannot have investment vehicles where commiting fraud results in no punishment. It simply doesn't work. Until someone figures out a way to even somewhat integrate ICOs into th
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It's quite possible they are simply setting up a captive third party administrator company. All of the companies will fund health insurance which will then have benefits designed for employees and care overseen by this third entity whi
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I agree that if Google throws enough money and talent at the problem then they can certainly make improvements, but I seriously doubt that they are going to create some sort of revolutionary clinical decision support system which is going t
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Yes, the approval of at least one IRB is also required.
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If you deidentify the data, you're allowed to use it for R&D purposes.
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I have very little hope for this succeeding, although I hope it does. I say this because this problem is vastly more complicated than people believe for the following reasons: * A substantial amount of data about patients is encapsulated in
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If someone came out with a service where I could get healthy meals delivered to me, with decent nutritional macros (a bunch of protein, not just vegis), and costs which were substantially less than eating out, I would be standing outside th
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Well, it is the public who elected the leaders, the public who chooses the advice of biased talking heads while disregarding those with legitimate domain expertise, and the public that is unwilling to engage in real debate between factions
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It's not, but this provides a hybrid approach which blends the best of both worlds. It allows companies to raise capital globally without being fully subject to SEC laws (depending on implementation and the SEC's willingness to pl
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If your escrow is not subject to some basic laws or threat of violence which prevents them from running off with money, then you're no better off than if you just gave the money to the devs running the ICO directly. The entire point is
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After this bubble inevitably collapses, the dumb money will largely exit and people will be forced to deal with smart money. Moreover, regulatory agencies won't tolerate this level of fraud long term. Either ICOs need some sort of regu
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You can have third party risk management solutions in this environment. Why such solutions haven't emerged is a mystery to me. One solution I've been kicking around is something like an escrow + shareholder voting. It would play o
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by Thriptic 9y ago
Yes, all the core Google services are available on Apple devices (search, inbox, photos, drive, maps, chat, chrome...)
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by Thriptic 9y ago
> Yes but in a certain sense for many digital health companies this is already true, because they’re 510(k) exempt and FDA’s oversight occurs retroactively via QMS auditing Yeah fair enough; it's true that there has been a large reg
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> Alternative submission pathways: what do you mean by this precisely De novos, abbreviated 510(k)s, lesser used pathways. > Pre-cert: I think the premise is correct, in that the current quality system regulations aren’t well suited t
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Are you building only a QMS or also an automated system to handle registration and listing, CAPA, labeling, submissions, etc? Class 1 all the way to class 3? Alternative submission pathways? If you are dealing with digital health products,
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The real root problems with the system are that a tiny minority of very sick patients account for an overwhelming majority of treatment costs; that it's difficult to prevent this from happening; and that the current care structures mak
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HMOs. Direct employment of physicians by payers used to be a popular thing until people realized that the incentive structures were conflicting. More money for providers means less for the parent payer etc.
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Depends on what the market conditions are. If there is a lot of competition from hospitals then the payer may just refuse to include the hospital in network if they aren't willing to play ball, meaning they lose all the prospective bus
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Some private facilities don't, but in general it's cheaper and easier to provide preventive care than it is to try to collect from these patients after they admit to the ER with a complication (where you are mandated by law to tre
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I'd love Amazon to come to Boston, although admittedly it would not help our existing transportation and housing problems. Maybe Bezos could strong arm the state into actually fixing the T XD
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> Yeah, and there are reasons for that. Focus groups kill creativity with group-think, and TV reeks of it. Standards and practices and other varieties of self censorship mean TV shall fight forever with one hand tied behind its back. I w
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Edge case. How many times have you done business at a place that is cash only where you bought more than a few items? The majority of the time rounding up is a great solution because it means the cashier doesn't waste time counting cha
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The annoying thing about cash isn't the cash, it's change. Coins are awful. They're heavy, they take too long to count, and they have no buying power. I will frequently abandon change because I would rather lose money than de
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Cognitive overhead. You have to deal with maintenance, logistics, staffing, planning, design etc yourself. Yes you get exactly what you want but it would likely be a bunch of work whereas this sounds fairly turnkey with everything planned o
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I feel like this is opening Pandora's box. What's to stop people from hacking a business rival or other entity and claim a hack originated from them. Once they have access to the box they could plant whatever incriminating evidenc
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Are there areas off the coast of Massachusetts where this style of offshore wind farm can be implemented that aren't proximal to the most popular and picturesque vacation destinations in the area? I'm sure most people can get behi
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If customers were categorically willing to pay for and expected nicer features then the nicer features wouldn't be optional, they would be standard and the prices would rise. The fact that we are going in the opposite direction with m

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