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by ippisl 14y ago
They are also working on cheap, paper based dna/rna tests( "molecular medicine"), which are really precise diagnostics for many kinds of diseases. Wide spread molecular medicine might hold the keys to much better disease classification and
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The article claims that "Over 400,000 new jobs have been created by Apple’s App store.", but that's just shoddy accounting. What about mcdonalds in europe installing thousands of touch screen replacing cashiers and the tons of other apps th
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The whole electronics supply chain is optimized towards volume manufacturing. There's a second supply chain for small volumes, but it's expensive: boards instead of chips or more expensive chips and boards(due to volume breaks), complex dev
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I agree, There's definetly a lot of new tools for simplifying prototyping and manufacturing. And that's a long trend seen in many fields. But this pushed hard on testing processes. Industries like software, that can avoid testing(through bu
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Some social critics say psychology/psychiatry's rise is in part because it let other people and institutions do victim blaming, and not invest in treating societal problems. It also fits well with neo-liberal thought:"little concern for ext
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And this gives the incentive for sellers who don't use amazon's warehouses incentive to use them. Really , when you think about that ,classically sellers/wholesellers have the following roles: 1. Finding people/stores willing to buy stuff
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freeSoC and freeSoC Mini(kickstarter.com)
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Amazon's differentiation is price and a content ecosystems together with a great marketing channel, not the UI. Nothing that fits the model of the device makers.
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One feature that could help this: verifying that the account holder is the one using the computer, before showing results. Without this, assuming this plugin is always-on on all the computers one uses, breaking user's privacy just becomes t
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Shedskin might be one solution. From the shedskin forum[1]: " I've built and run shedskin apps for the iPhone - it works great actually. It required commenting a few things out, and swapping in the boehm gc for iOS port. Of course, no nat
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From their homepage: Access to Python libs Mypy will support accessing Python modules from mypy programs, running in the stock CPython virtual machine for the best compatibility. You can also access your existing Python code.
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This website is aimed at web startups. Their general way of operation is quite different from let's say medical device startups. So people working in both types of firms are quite different. So my guess is this is just the wrong forum. But
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At the academic level , there seems to be a "space race". Maybe it could be improved by making the NIH invest in more radical high risk stuff. But the commercialization process sure sucks. Testing and verifying a drug is expensive, long and
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The OP has got something right and something wrong. Yes replacing all of healthcare with machines is not possible today. But we know that in order to capture the full benefits of a technology, usually a new business needs to be started, bec
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Isn't this normal ? It was the same with the industrial revolution.Those new innovation enabled shitty factories on a mass scale. One could even say it was the same in the beginning of the automotive revolution: In the 30's cars we're nice
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If we accept the point that were just in the middle of the transition , and look a little bit forward, we'll see: 1960 -> 2025 Air travel -> life quality telepresence and group meetings globally Expensive education -> free, high
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Does this speed still matters for people who aren't gamers ? Isn't the experience already "good enough" ?
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I wonder if it's part of a strategy of creating a huge userbase and alot of content and data all of which will help you lead the field in the future(and be the most profitable). And nothing helps more to create this sorts of things than "fr
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>> they kill all incentive to work hard and to innovate At that time, the USSR was pretty advanced technologically. And it's citizens we're and still are pretty advanced academically. One explanation why the soviet system failed was
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>> Why are we paying so much for tablets in the US? Because of few factors: 1. It's relatively hard to find a Chinese tablet that can you be sure it has good quality. That's what branding is for, but chinese tablets don't have good
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I think that other vendors are using two chips by putting them inside one package. I don't think anybody else made the cpu and rf sections on the chip yet. also nice is that the rf is made using digital technology which benefits from moore'
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It parses java source code. http://code.google.com/p/j2objc/wiki/Motivation?tm=6
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>>What are the obstacles to the transition? How can they be mitigated or avoided? What can we, as engineers and entrepreneurs, do to make it happen faster and smoother? Few things i can think of are: 1.Focus on solving the problem o
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I'm not sure: "we want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy our devices" is true. Amazon does makes a decent margin above the marginal cost of the $299 kindle fire HD and on the kindle fire HD LTE: http://www.eetim
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One path is people working , that need to learn something(say machine learning) for their jobs, and doing so online with the knowledge of their workplace. If the result is good , it'll warm some workplaces to online courses. Another path is
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drone, does 30 workers needed for 30,000 units a month for this makes sense ? it seems pretty high for an automated process.
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Are there technologies that give advantages to large groups of doctors over small clinics or make it preferable to doctors to create large groups ? Large groups have access to a large pool of customers so they can offer different business m
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But we do know that good IT implementation do help: "There is significant evidence that CDSS can positively impact healthcare providers' performance with drug ordering and preventive care reminder systems as most clear examples." (from a li
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>> people are generally more comfortable and willing to submit personal information to a fellow human who they know and trust There was some research(can't find it now) , that show that filling an automated form is a good way to mak
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hurrah for insulinoma diagnosis:) I think that even rare disease diagnosis can be done better by algorithms by using Isabel healthcare's diagnostic system[1] or Watson(in the future). The place where a human will contribute the most is the

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