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Facebook slapped down by Indian regulator over astroturf campaign(ftalphaville.ft.com)
2 points by cant_kant 11y ago|2 comments
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by cant_kant 11y ago
Serum nucleic acid sampling to screen for malignancies has a few problems. One issue is that it runs into the realities of Bayes theorem. You may want to consider what happened to Pathway Genomics. Their screening test claiming to detect 10
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by cant_kant 11y ago
"Considering the standard deviation for IQ is 15 points" The standard deviation for the distribution of IQ is 15 points. The standard deviation of the errors of measurement associated with measuring IQ is 3 points.( ie: the st
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by cant_kant 11y ago
"It's like someone sold carrots claiming they improve vision" I assume that you know that there is no evidence for carrots improving vision.
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by cant_kant 11y ago
From a meta-analysis : " The 20 studies included here were all completed between 2008 and 2013....Sample sizes of treatment groups varied between 7 and 36 participants, and control groups between 8 and 43" "net effect of n-ba
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by cant_kant 11y ago
"After a period of exclusivity, in November 2012 Anchorage acquired the business for $20 million. " "At the time of listing the business had a market capitalisation of $520 million. Anchorage retained a 20% stake in the lis
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by cant_kant 11y ago
The salary is an annual salary not a monthly salary. 340 K INR is 5K USD ie: they are paid $5000 a year. That would put them squarely in the upper middle bracket in India.
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by cant_kant 11y ago
Basically viper in sheep's clothing.
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So you want to be a computational biologist?(nature.com)
2 points by cant_kant 11y ago|0 comments
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by cant_kant 11y ago
The article is interesting. But if TLDR, then here is the list: Fab Evernote Good Technology LivingSocial Pure Storage Gilt Groupe Dropbox Box Theranos Square
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The 10 worst unicorns of 2015(venturebeat.com)
3 points by cant_kant 11y ago|1 comments
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by cant_kant 11y ago
"Some Good employees actually lost money when BlackBerry bought the company. Good was a unicorn, that is, a private company with a valuation of more than $1 billion. The high valuation increased the paper value of employee shares — and
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by cant_kant 11y ago
"In an investor document about the sale that was distributed to shareholders, employees discovered their Good stock was valued at 44 cents a share, down from $4.32 a year earlier. In contrast, preferred stock owned by Good’s venture ca
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by cant_kant 11y ago
Depends on the clinical situation. The options include partial thyroidectomy/ radioiodine therapy / carbimazole, propylthiouracil and a few other niche options for use use in special situations like pregnancy associated thyrotoxi
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by cant_kant 11y ago
It would be good if there was more clarity on whether the test was repeated on the same specimen or on another specimen collected from the same patient at a different time. If it is the latter, case marked variations could have a number of
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by cant_kant 11y ago
"A year ago, a former friend and advisor who sought to partner with our business sued us. The charges alleged in the suit are serious, including fraud and unjust enrichment. For the past year, Alma has been hit hard with legal fees req
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by cant_kant 11y ago
At the top end, human expertise will still be necessary. For example here is some recent work over the last few days at a leading London law firm. " ... is advising GE on the intellectual property, know-how and information technology
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by cant_kant 11y ago
CIO ? My mistake.. ..that role has been outsourced to Bangalore.
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by cant_kant 11y ago
ie: Family friends of one of the Kleiner Perkins founders.
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Hagel: The White House Tried to ‘Destroy’ Me(foreignpolicy.com)
1 points by cant_kant 11y ago|0 comments
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by cant_kant 11y ago
No Such Agency...
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by cant_kant 11y ago
Not sure about ballpoint pens, but I bought a fine Montblanc Starwalker fountain pen clone* for $3, including international delivery from China. *BAOER 79 Starwalker http://www.aliexpress.com/item-img/Baoer-79-Black-Cr
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by cant_kant 11y ago
"governments are at best mildly supportive of technology and at worst actively hostile." Whether or not governments should be supportive of technology, is another complex debate with intelligent and articulate contenders on both s
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by cant_kant 11y ago
There has been a long standing dispute between him and the Tax Office about whether his Bitcoins should be treated as assets ( higher tax rate ) or as currency. His lawyers have lobbied senior Cabinet Ministers in connection with this. I un
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by cant_kant 11y ago
This article was written by "Dr Charles Shepherd medical adviser to the ME Association" and is not entirely unbiased.
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by cant_kant 11y ago
"...he had brought his own laptop with him, which the company had no control over. He was able to install his own software on it. The laptop’s USB ports, into which memory sticks are inserted, were not blocked. From October 2006 until
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by cant_kant 11y ago
Fingerpricks provide capillary blood mixed with tissue fluid. A venupuncture provides venous blood. The normal ranges and the error bars are different for finger prick blood.Virtually data and research on the normal ranges and ranges in var
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by cant_kant 11y ago
It hurts my eyes. A better choice of fonts and layout might make it readable. And the writing could do with significant improvement.
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by cant_kant 11y ago
Here is an price from an Indian site "Actrapid Insulin, Neutral 40IU x 1mL 10ml Actrapid VIAL 145.00 " http://www.drugsupdate.com/brand/showavailablebrands/830/1 That is $2.19 according to xe.com a
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by cant_kant 11y ago
"Kevin Riggs, an instructor in medicine at Johns Hopkins University who co-authored an article about generic insulin earlier this year, doesn't think that Open Insulin will be enough to bring a generic insulin drug to the market:

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