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by spartango 13y ago
This used to be the case, but no longer is; Apple stopped using the TPM in Intel macs shortly after they launched[1] and have not brought it back since. DSMOS.kext has another function, however; it is involved in Apple's binary protect
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by spartango 13y ago
Note that Quest Diagnostics has a drugstore partnership with CVS[1], directly competing with Theranos+Wallgreens. Labcorp has similar offerings, although some are whitelabeled. [1] http://ir.questdiagnostics.com/phoenix.zhtm
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by spartango 13y ago
Ah yea, I forgot about this application. It's definitely a good one, although for some reason Theranos isn't explicit about targeting it.
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by spartango 13y ago
It's all about speed and costs. The finger-prick is a distraction; phlebotomy is not a huge deal. Instead, the important things are the turn-around-time and billed cost. If Theranos can offer 4 hour turnaround and a clinic/hospita
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by spartango 13y ago
My experience in the space is that this is a mischaracterization of the FDA, but also misses an important point: Theranos does not fall under the FDA's mandate in its current form. It is a CLIA-certified laboratory operation, regulated
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by spartango 13y ago
This capability depends on your medical care provider in the US. I know that Sutter Health and Kaiser are both providing patients with systems where they can see their lab results on the web, along with all of their medical history. Reachin
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by spartango 13y ago
This board seems heavily geared to do deals for defense-related applications. That's fine; getting deals with the Armed Forces and VA is feasible and quite rewarding. What they overtly lack is connections to the healthcare world. I&#x2
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by spartango 13y ago
Given that they are going up against massive, automated operations like those of Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics ($9B market cap each), they'll probably need this tech to keep up. While the thumb-prick and low sample volumes are cool, in
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by spartango 13y ago
While I have no idea if any of the other claims are true, it's important to note that they do claim to be regulatory-cleared (not FDA, not relevant in this case): they claim to be running a CLIA-certified lab. CLIA (Clinical Laboratory
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by spartango 13y ago
This looks simple and yet elegantly built. Nice work! I'm definitely a fan of the use of ListenableFutures as a way to integrate this into applications. Blocking, non-blocking, callbacks? Pick your poison. I haven't seen Apache&#x
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by spartango 13y ago
If you do happen to update and lose your 2FA keys, the AWS people are turning around these lost login requests in <15 minutes. You fill the form out, they call you and verify, and life carries on.
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by spartango 13y ago
If you reach out to AWS people, you may get some of this information before it goes public. AWS likes to do private (NDA'd) beta tests of new products with AWS-heavy customers. They work off of the feedback while bigger customers get t
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by spartango 13y ago
Any reasons not to work with Nate? It seems like the social stuff could be built in tandem with his strong editor.
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by spartango 13y ago
Draft's editing/version control is rather awesome and easy to use. It would be neat if Loren and Nate could work together to get some of the github-like "social" features into Draft--following updates and broadcasting pr
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by spartango 13y ago
This is some nasty, tabloid-esque "reporting". It shows little respect for Brin or his wife, regardless of what the situation is. I wish we could not promote or spread this kind of rubbish, as it's not healthy at all.
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by spartango 13y ago
EBS has its problems, but I think a blanket rejection of EBS is probably unwarranted. It's true that in 2011, EBS was very shaky. Amazon has since invested quite a bit of energy into EBS; at that time it was a new service that couldn&#
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by spartango 13y ago
It doesn't quite have to be, from a user perspective. This is the kind of hacking project where just making it work well (boot + drivers + services) is a fun challenge. Further, it's a sandbox where you can play with some of the n
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by spartango 13y ago
Just because popular hosting companies are not using Solaris zones, that does not mean there are not large Zones-based deployments elsewhere in the industry. Particularly, some major corporations (including banks and telcos) are using Zones
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by spartango 13y ago
An entirely fair point, although if the dependencies are relatively limited it's less painful/more feasible to support iOS 5. My iPad is reaching its retirement age anyway.
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by spartango 13y ago
I couldn't upgrade my iPad because it's the first generation one...Again, would love a non-iOS 6 version; what features of this app depend on iOS 6?
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by spartango 13y ago
This is an interesting case, however its important to point out that the legal debate around this is ongoing. This ruling only applies to the 2nd Circuit at this point. It's looking like a Supreme Court case will be necessary to ultima
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by spartango 13y ago
Fortunately, there is a good historical and photographic record, and it's actually presented to students of US history in school.
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by spartango 13y ago
Promises, Deferreds, and Futures are all names for the same general idea, that which uses a monad to stand in for the result of operation that may or may not have been completed. There are implementations of this concept for many languages,
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by spartango 13y ago
Last time I did a battery replacement with Apple (for a mid-2009 Macbook Pro 5,5) it cost ~$120 off-warranty. Doing the research, seems like different machines have different battery replacement costs from Apple: http://www.apple
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by spartango 13y ago
I think specifying the requirements for a modern bomber is made difficult by the variety of ground attack missions a "bomber" might fulfill. The requirements of "high munition capacity, a large combat radius, and long loiter
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by spartango 13y ago
Further, the next generation of Littoral Combat Ships (LCS, Freedom- and Independence-class) have large enough "flight decks" that drones and other small aircraft can be launched from them.
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by spartango 13y ago
Most modern cruisers or destroyers aren't over 10,000 tons fully loaded, and are thus comparable to the light cruisers of WWII. The Dreadnoughts were a fair bit bigger (2x at ~20,000 loaded), but indeed were not nearly as heavily armor
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by spartango 13y ago
It's strange...I love the A-10, both its rugged design and its crazy anti-tank capability. Keep in mind that retirement plans for the beast are slated for 2028, and all plans to retire it sooner have been shot down. That's 52 year
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by spartango 13y ago
The public claim is that the quality control and reliability on the WS-10 production lines is poor, but there's evidence that there's more to it than just that. The WS-10 is produced mostly natively, but its design is largely reve
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by spartango 13y ago
The focused airframe idea is not without a bunch of tradeoffs. The mission and target capabilities of the F-117 were extremely limited, which meant that the USAF had to have other aircraft around to pick up the rest of the missions. Further

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