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by pen2l 11y ago
Walgreens recently halted all Theranos expansions (currently only 41 Walgreens have Theranos centers... there were plans to expand to many more): http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/walgreens-halts-theranos-te...
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by pen2l 11y ago
I don't have a very high-paying job. I'm able to take the vacation because of (a) specifically saving for it and (b) planning a lot; took care of airfare almost an year earlier (in fact the location I chose was because of airfare
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by pen2l 11y ago
Take a two month long vacation[1], and then do it somewhere toward the end. [1]: Yes yes, not everyone has the luxury to be able to do that. But frankly, I've found that with a healthy amount of planning it is possible. E.g. I'm p
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by pen2l 11y ago
> Facebook’s rocky experience since it brought Internet.org to India in February shows that good intentions and technological savvy are not enough to achieve a noble goal like universal Internet access. Why the assumption that Facebook
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by pen2l 11y ago
Title misleading, they haven't 3d printed a heart, just some arteries. :( We are very, very far away from being able to actually 3d print hearts that could be used.
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by pen2l 11y ago
So what's going on then? Exactly how are inner cities misusing funds, and what are wealthy suburbs doing right that they're able to get such bang for their buck? Also, are you certain that wealthy suburbs are spending that little?
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by pen2l 11y ago
Wait, what. Am I correct getting this impression that what's being said is that auto mechanic work is somehow not "brain work"? Because for solving a lot of car problems it takes brains. If you're good at troubleshooting
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by pen2l 11y ago
WSJ article: http://www.wsj.com/articles/walgreens-scrutinizes-theranos-t...
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Walgreens Halts Theranos Testing Center Expansion(techcrunch.com)
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by pen2l 11y ago
> But it is a smear campaign, which is very unlike Airbnb. Why is it "unlike" Airbnb? Airbnb's very roots color it as being dodgy, with growth hacking techniques like spamming Craigslist and all: https://en.wiki
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by pen2l 11y ago
Matt Cutts' wife used to pass out "porn cookies" if anyone found porn with safe settings on. Google's culture is very permitting, so I don't think it's much of a problem.
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by pen2l 11y ago
> We don't have a PR firm. I do think YC paid for an ad once in 2006 in the Stanford college newspaper, but we don't really do marketing. The thing we rely on most of all is founders we fund telling other people about our prog
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by pen2l 11y ago
Sam: Any reason why you couldn't set your phone down in a stable position, or just tell someone to hold it steadily for you? edit: I don't mean it in a mean way, just curious.
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by pen2l 11y ago
Holy shit, that is awesome.
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by pen2l 11y ago
They got FDA clearance for JUST ONE test, the herpes one. It's not clear if it'll work for the many hundred others, as Theranos has suggested it can.
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by pen2l 11y ago
It is putting a lot of effort on PR. I went to https://www.theranos.com/ for curiosity's sake, and was surprised to see that... well, the big center image has absolutely nothing to do with Theranos' technology, it
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by pen2l 11y ago
> In general people tend to work on greed and fear. Could we build a system that is based on peoples goodwill or it would be doomed? Some people work on greed and fear, while some others do work on wanting to improve the world. In my
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by pen2l 11y ago
That's my reading too. She's basically Color's Bill Nguyen. I wish I was as good as these guys at hustling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nguyen
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by pen2l 11y ago
I like to make pretend-airplanes with paper. But I also write on it too. And, while I only make simple things with paper, some other people are able to make fantastically complicated strcutures with it.
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by pen2l 11y ago
I think in general Markhor's model of operation is commendable. This transformation of business -- this lifting of the veil, getting to know the backstory of how our products are made, it's great, this transparency, this kind of p
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by pen2l 11y ago
It's parasitic because of its particular approach. For example, it could embed youtube videos... so that the real creators get their pay, but no, Facebook would rather that the videos be Facebook videos, thereby the original creator ge
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by pen2l 11y ago
How does the blowtorch work for things like melting cheese, toasting bread, etc.? Or is that just not feasible? edit: wait a minute, it seems that Searzall is basically just an addon to a normal blowtorch. So if you just take off the &quo
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by pen2l 11y ago
Can you please link to some "highlights"? Some must-reads from seriouseats? I like Kenji too, but I only started following him just recently.
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by pen2l 11y ago
You could use a blow torch for searing-- hell lot less hassle, and so much quicker.
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by pen2l 11y ago
I don't think 'gorena's point should be rebuffed just like that, Steve Jobs was not the friend of us engineers, after all it was him who said things like: “If you hire a single one of these people, that means war”. Many of us
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by pen2l 11y ago
Is amazon prime not working on Apple TV anti-competitive?
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by pen2l 11y ago
There is an unsettling irony in you say that... because... no , he has not incurred political damage for having allowed the execution, he was running as a presidential candidate for goodness' sake. And he probably would have stuck a
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by pen2l 11y ago
It's already available: https://github.com/wting/hackernews Though they probably will not share the code for rankbanning mechanisms and such, since the code will help out people who might want to go around it.
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by pen2l 11y ago
I just googled you too. Sorry, I have nothing else to say, except: damn, you look so cool.
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by pen2l 11y ago
> there is no one working a programming job that can't afford to "put food on the table" -- independent of their employer. Okay, see, you are just wrong there. I personally know about 5 people who are crazy good programmer

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