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   Psychological Operations Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (2003) [pdf](fas.org)

   63 points by kqr2 10y ago|6 comments
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   Theranos's Lab Problems Go Way Deeper Than Its Secret Tech(wired.com)

   3 points by kqr2 11y ago|0 comments
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   U.S. Health Regulators Release Lightly Redacted Theranos Letter(wsj.com)

   2 points by kqr2 11y ago|1 comments
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   Theranos continuously failed to comply with CMS on several counts(techcrunch.com)

   2 points by kqr2 11y ago|0 comments
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   by kqr2 11y ago

   Matt Taibbi wrote about this in his book The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap [1]. Enron was probably the last big corporate take-down by the government. From an interview http://www.democracynow.org&#x2F
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   by kqr2 11y ago

   Ƭ̵̬̊ http://parkerhiggins.net/2013/01/writing-the-prince-symbol-i...
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   by kqr2 11y ago

   There is concern that US aircraft carriers are vulnerable to a barrage of long-range anti-ship ballistic missiles such as the DF-21D: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-21 If the carriers are vulnerable then they need to
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   by kqr2 11y ago

   Direct link to letter from CMS to Theranos with proposed sanctions and justification for sanctions: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/cms20160412...
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   by kqr2 11y ago

   Also see the documentary SlingShot (available on Netflix) : http://www.slingshotdoc.com/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3242934/
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    Theranos adds qualified medical experts and scientists to advisory board(techcrunch.com)

    38 points by kqr2 11y ago|37 comments
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    For more info and background on the Bergdahl story, check out season 2 of the Serial podcast: https://serialpodcast.org/
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    Letter from Theranos to JCI (The Journal of Clinical Investigation) which published the study. http://www.scribd.com/doc/306187782/Theranos-Letter-to-JCI
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    Another interesting project post-mortem from Robert Cringely was his ambitious attempt to design, build and fly an airplane in 30 days as part of a PBS documentary Plane Crazy . http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    Actually Sunnyvale isn't considered part of the SF peninsula even though it borders Mountain View. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Peninsula
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    Dr. Dobb's Small-C Resource CD-ROM(orangetide.com)

    2 points by kqr2 11y ago|0 comments
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    Per guidelines : https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. The youtube URL you cited would probabl
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    You can use the web link under the post.
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    > Ed is an incredible human being! He was also at the center of a wage fixing scandal. http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/ed-catmull-on-wage-...
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    Another famous example of losing the manufacturing process and tools is FOGBANK -- a classified component used in nuclear weapons: From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK : It was soon realized that the FOGBANK
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    In Palo Alto, it's easy to speculate with empty plots of land. Example: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2240-Columbia-St-Palo-Alto... The owner of this plot was able to hold onto a huge empty lot (with weeds) fo
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    Actually if you are a firefighter in San Francisco, you can qualify for a special downpayment assistance loan of up to $200,000 that requires no payments for 30 years http://sfmohcd.org/first-responders-down-payment-assistan
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    See Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The IRS (HBO) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn_Zln_4pA8
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    Another contender for the title of worst video game: Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing was critically panned. The game's criticism is largely directed at its "blatantly unfinished"[2] state: lack of collision detect
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    Alice’s adventures in algebra (2009)(newscientist.com)

    16 points by kqr2 11y ago|1 comments
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    GGS has received a lot of criticisms from anthropologists. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/1rzm07/wha... Like Malcolm Gladwell, Jared Diamond is very skilled at weaving a narrative that
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    Actually in SF, you can have your cake and eat it too. If you live in a rent controlled apartment but can afford to purchase a single family home, you should stay in your rent controlled apartment, buy the house and rent it out at market r
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    Reference to LA Times article and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11022097
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    If you know of a low cost alternative which has good image quality, please let me know -- in particular for low light conditions.
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    Unfortunately there are many examples of this in SF. Over time, this leads to very poor land use. Other examples: 1) Balboa reservoir : people prefer to keep it as an empty parking lot http://sf.curbed.com/archives/20
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    by kqr2 11y ago

    In Japan, kids are quite independent. It's a bigger issue in the US because of the lack of social trust. http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/09/why-are-little-kids-i...