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by seehafer 12y ago
Yes, but more importantly, medical device makers have broad immunity when their devices go through the PMA process (the most stringent type of FDA approval). Basically, the argument is "hey, the FDA said it was safe".
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by seehafer 12y ago
How does changing plans from unlimited to metered data make them more 'capitalistic'? An example of making things more capitalistic would be to make illegal the municipal contracts granting monopolies on last mile service.
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by seehafer 12y ago
If I was one of the accused, and I was innocent, I'd most definitely sue her. Being accused of sexual harassment in a very public way, in a very high profile case, is nothing to brush off. I'd want to have my day in court, to get
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by seehafer 13y ago
This is useful, thanks. Though I wonder if the connection is causal.
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by seehafer 13y ago
I grant there are problems that are relatively more tractable or intractable, but I challenge the notion that limiting how much money can be spent on political campaigns is the solution to a problem of an uniformed electorate. Why does limi
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by seehafer 13y ago
That's not the only way of making a more educated electorate. Another method would be to limit the electorate.
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by seehafer 13y ago
> Each election is won, 75 - 90% of the time, by the candidate who spends the most. Source? Tell that to Meg Whitman. The biggest problem I have with the argument about limiting the amount of money that can be spent in elections is that
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by seehafer 13y ago
Salon is well known for intentional smear pieces (against Rand and others) EDIT: Not that I want to draw attention to hackery, but here is another example: http://www.salon.com/2013/01/19/ayn_rand_is_for_child
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by seehafer 13y ago
I'd agree that Season 2 strains credulity, but the arc of Season 1 isn't that unrealistic given Frank's position in the party at the beginning of the season and the general uselessness of the VP position.
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by seehafer 13y ago
There is nothing free about the market for cable & internet access in the US.
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by seehafer 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple got into something actually medical (and not just consumer health) given the team they're assembling, a couple of whom are ex-colleagues of mine who have 15+ years in medical device design.
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by seehafer 13y ago
Type 1 Diabetics have been asking for an insulin pump "as simple as the iPhone" for years . I would know, I've worked on insulin pump designs. Branding certainly is not important, but UI is incredibly important in a number o
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by seehafer 13y ago
> Once new evidence was found, the new explanation was quickly adopted into the scientific consensus (so it remained the best model for reality). The problem with a direct comparison in this case, that we ought to accept the consensus an
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by seehafer 13y ago
Lots of things are difficult to accomplish in meat space when you have a one party state governed by career politicians.
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by seehafer 13y ago
> The consensus just means that the different scientists can independently reproduce the similar results. You can do the calculations yourself too. But that's not how the 'consensus' is being used in argument. The way that
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by seehafer 13y ago
I'm not unsympathetic to the exasperation of scientists concerning that their work is being dismissed by people who don't have the expertise to evaluate it, but all this talk about a "consensus" is where they shoot thems
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by seehafer 13y ago
People incorporate Delaware because of Delaware's well-codified, well-understood corporate law, that simplifies things like investments, M&A and the like. Incorporating in Delaware doesn't exempt you from NYC income tax if you
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by seehafer 13y ago
> Frightening, in a way, but it seems to work for Switzerland. Yes, because when the entire male populace is effectively your military it's a lot harder for the military to do shady things. Also, as the original commenter points out
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by seehafer 13y ago
Good (and clarifying) rebuttal, and now I see what you were saying in your original comment re: tech companies undermining the creation of a such a norm for the Supreme Court to use. I do think that unlike Roe there is some room in the Four
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by seehafer 13y ago
"To get to "its not okay for the government to read my email" you have to get rid of the notion that "its okay for Google to read my email." No, you don't. You opt-in to Google reading your mail by using their
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by seehafer 13y ago
"90% of what is being said takes 5% brainpower to process while the remaining 10% takes 300% of available brainpower." I'd argue that's the result of poor communication, not any deficiency in human speech generally. Gran
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by seehafer 13y ago
I'm most curious to see how 23andMe is going to respond to this, because the more technical-regulatory language in this letter says essentially that in FDA's opinion the device is Class III (the highest risk of all medical device&
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by seehafer 13y ago
For the same reason that the FDA tends to care if an MRI or a CT scanner displays accurate results. People make life/death decisions based on diagnostics.
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by seehafer 13y ago
Exactly. I am no fan of the FDA, but what 23andMe did here was extraordinary: they essentially ignored the agency. If Anne Wojcicki was CEO of a similarly-sized medical device company she would have gotten her walking papers today.
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by seehafer 13y ago
Actually Chinese medical regulation is in some ways worse than America! (I work in medical devices.) it's certainly more arbitrary. But the larger answer to that question is that China is still moving into the first world, a process th
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by seehafer 13y ago
I don't consider IP protection regulation. Medicine is subject to FDA regulation at the manufacturer level, JCHO at the hospital level, various state boards at the provider level, and both state and federal agencies at the payor (insur
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by seehafer 13y ago
We've regulated the hell out of stuff and left bits relatively unregulated. Hence, more money going into bits. And more instant billionaires. Also no cure for cancer, or flying cars or (insert 1950's projection of the 21st century
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by seehafer 13y ago
Could you elaborate more on #1? I'd like to read your list of ideas.
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by seehafer 13y ago
Dear God I hope so, but it's going to take politically-connected heavy hitters to care about it and I don't see that happening. For instance, it's baffling to me that Ron Conway doesn't care about this issue, given his e
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by seehafer 13y ago
Feinstein (and Pelosi, also pro-NSA and representing San Francisco of all places) could easily be removed from office via a primary challenge. Doesn't necessarily need to be a Republican opponent.

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