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by seesomesense 10y ago
"tragic loss of an effective diagnostic procedure" Theranos' last attempt at an effective diagnostic test for the effects of warfarin caused at least one stroke in a patient due to inaccurate results. Both false positive and
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by seesomesense 10y ago
" FDA approval of the miniLab would allow Theranos to sell the device for outside use even if she is banned from owning or running a lab for at least two years." Scary... Would be very worried to see any Theranos device being used
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Being a doctor gives you an understanding of some general medical principles. However, an individual doctor, no matter how talented, only has specific expertise in her/his domain. Even worse it is very hard to be objective about your
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by seesomesense 10y ago
"People spend a lot of money on physical security as well." You would have spent more money on personal entertainment than on your personal security. Your TV, tablet and books would have cost you a lot more than your locks. Add in
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Thank you. Most informative !
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by seesomesense 10y ago
The interview is heavy on fluff. His pious statements about management are contradicted by his actual, well documented actions. Reading it makes me feel mildly nauseated.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
The ABS sets up a single site with identity details of every single person in the country. They are then shocked, amazed and flabbergasted when the site is attacked.
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Australian Census crashes(stream20.census.abs.gov.au)
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Too many red flags around management actions. I would avoid their next start up.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
SUMMARY Dealt with a scammer. Told the board that he wanted to invest a fortune. Failed to do due diligence. The scammer failed to pay his bills or invest. Became insolvent. DO DUE DILIGENCE EARLY
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Without more information, it is difficult to know if this is just another Theranos.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
"Nate will continue to contribute articles... [but] the intricacies of Béziers, brush strokes, and kerning are going to take a lot of time and attention" Nate is not going to be working on the fluffy parts of typography.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
LWN is one of the finest resources on Linux. I cannot read the kernel source code as easily as the great articles on LWN that lovingly explicate the details. Sometimes even the articles are challenging for me but I learn something new every
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by seesomesense 10y ago
The class action suits will cost them another $100 million
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by seesomesense 10y ago
I believe that the technical term for the HN attitude towards China is : sour grapes.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Branding them "Windows" phones was the kiss of death. Almost every adult has had terrible experiences with Windows. The young view Windows as something their grandparents used. Calling it anything else would have been better.Even
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by seesomesense 10y ago
The article badly misunderstands the court's ruling
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Will Hacker News ban you if you post the kind of material that Mr Cooper hosted on his "beloved literary blog"?
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Imagine the headlines if Google did not remove the blog : "Google hosting child porn site."
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by seesomesense 10y ago
In the Western world we call them psychoanalysts.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
I have a professional acquaintance ( my profession, not his) in the anti-moneylaundering division of a large national, non-US bank. He mentioned that their default assumption is that if an account or a transaction involves bitcoin, it is c
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Tldr; Child porn writer has works deleted by service provider.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
The same way that you would describe something to a thin colleague.
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How Tesla lost 4 billion dollars(blogs.wsj.com)
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Rent control can easily be evaded by renting property through AirBNB. Perhaps that is why rent controlled cities like Santa Monica are aggressively shutting down this loophole.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Just call them Isis inspired terrorists and the USA will give you free drones and shiny new guns to kill them with.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
What I find just as disturbing is the highly conflicted M&A scam he is running using SolarCity. The SolarCity scam exposes him as a dishonest scamster.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Appendix A of Understanding the Linux Kernel (3rd edition) has a good overview of this. I am trying to read this book from cover to cover while I am in hospital. It is vastly more entertaining than the cable TV.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
fMRI is great for generating headlines and pretty pictures for the popular media. However most neurologists view the vast majority of fMRI research as junk science.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Finnish is one of the few European languages with no connection to Latin

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