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Theranos Retreats from Blood Tests(wsj.com)
6 points by fmihaila 10y ago|0 comments
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Tesla’s Third-Quarter Sales More Than Double from a Year Ago(wsj.com)
3 points by fmihaila 10y ago|0 comments
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by fmihaila 10y ago
> to clarify, I agree with you that regulation to the consumers benefit would be good, but am assuming that the law written would just be to HP's benefit anyway A more hopeful, less cynical view would be that consumer protection law
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by fmihaila 10y ago
Regulation demanding not to screw your customers doesn't seem like such a big burden to me.
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by fmihaila 10y ago
They actually _spent_ resources to ensure that non-hp cartridges are treated differently. If they had been prevented by law to do it (and maybe they are), they would have saved money!
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by fmihaila 10y ago
> I argue that a life sentence is only marginally better than a death sentence. I further argue that if we oppose the death penalty on the grounds that it causes substantial irreversible damage, then we must also oppose perpetual incarce
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Skin cells might be used instead of eggs to make embryos(theguardian.com)
3 points by fmihaila 10y ago|2 comments
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by fmihaila 10y ago
That was Tim Cook. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/03/tim-cook...
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by fmihaila 10y ago
Model 3 will certainly have a steering wheel. Musk is on record multiple times saying people should be able to continue to drive themselves, should they choose to, for the foreseeable future.
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by fmihaila 10y ago
I don't remember ever hearing a 'high-profile tech leader' extoll the virtues of getting high on opiates. Yes, Steve Jobs talked about his experience with LSD in positive terms, but LSD is as similar to fentanyl as Advil is t
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The 17 equations that changed the world(weforum.org)
3 points by fmihaila 10y ago|0 comments
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by fmihaila 10y ago
Agreed.
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by fmihaila 10y ago
It's 1 data point if you look at crashes, there are 130 million data points if you look at miles driven. It's by far the largest amount of data available on Autopilot driving out of all manufacturers. I agree we have no statistica
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by fmihaila 10y ago
I wasn't making any kind of strong claim. I said "doesn't seem" and "may". My point is, whatever evidence we've got so far, it doesn't seem to indicate a decrease in safety. If anything, it seems to p
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by fmihaila 10y ago
> Furthermore, during those entire 130 million miles, there was theoretically a human also sitting behind the wheel ready to take over if the system failed. Yes. That is the point, though. When Autopilot is used the way it is supposed to
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by fmihaila 10y ago
If the price is below market value, there will be more willing buyers than tickets. A lottery seems the fairest way to address this imbalance. (I mean a true lottery like the grandparent suggests, not one of which TCP connections will time
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by fmihaila 10y ago
How about "Money!". Glibness aside, it's a private enterprise and is profitable, so even without mentioning Musk's ultimate goal of colonizing Mars, its existence needs no further justification. It makes money and its sh
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by fmihaila 10y ago
Volvo is nowhere near the largest car manufacturer in the world. You are probably thinking of Volkswagen.
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by fmihaila 11y ago
>I wonder why WSJ and some conservatives set a target on Elon. Because he has made some very powerful enemies. SpaceX encroached on ULA's turf in the military satellite launch business with a vastly more cost-effective solution. Sol
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Volkswagen to buy back 600,000 cars in framework deal over emissions scandal(theguardian.com)
3 points by fmihaila 11y ago|0 comments
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Theranos Is Subject of Criminal Probe by U.S(wsj.com)
390 points by fmihaila 11y ago|216 comments
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by fmihaila 11y ago
You seem to imply "real" journalism cannot use humour, because somehow the goal of getting laughs crowds out the primary goal of informing the audience. And yet studies show that Stewart's audiences, as an example, are better
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by fmihaila 11y ago
The conventional wisdom is that rooftop solar stresses the grid, and therefore net metering at retail prices amounts to a subsidy extracted from non-solar customers to the benefit of rooftop solar owners. This, however, is a myth (reinforce
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by fmihaila 11y ago
> Those in developed countries are never going to go back to the standard of living found in poor ones, or at least not without fighting it to the death. Of course not, nor should they. > I agree with the rest and I wasn't implyi
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by fmihaila 11y ago
Desperate people living in poverty are not those most responsible for climate change. The developed countries, most prominently the US (in absolute terms), contributed most to the problem and have the economic power to start addressing it.
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by fmihaila 11y ago
The conventional wisdom is that rooftop solar stresses the grid, and therefore net metering at retail prices amounts to a subsidy extracted from the non-solar customers to the benefit of rooftop solar owners. This, however, is a myth (reinf
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by fmihaila 11y ago
"Last Week Tonight" is a commentary news show that also happens to be funny. Its content is entirely factual and has way more in common with "60 Minutes" than with "Saturday Night Live". I'd argue that the
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by fmihaila 12y ago
It is interesting that the choice of the left image tends to come from people judging "from the gut" and who claim no design expertise, while the case for the right image is mostly argued from first design principles, focusing on
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WSJ: Mystery Assault on Power Grid Raises Alarms(on.wsj.com)
4 points by fmihaila 13y ago|0 comments
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Would you trust your code with your life?(wired.com)
4 points by fmihaila 14y ago|0 comments

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