srunni

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In Silicon Valley, a Voice of Caution Guides a High-Flying Uber(nytimes.com)
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The billion-dollar pharma startup that Silicon Valley has totally missed(techcrunch.com)
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Are scientific advances getting harder to achieve?(theincidentaleconomist.com)
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Biotech Venture Capital Mythbusting Redux(lifescivc.com)
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Uber Slayer: How China’s Didi Beat the Ride-Hailing Superpower(bloomberg.com)
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Can We Conquer All Diseases by the End of the Century?(endpts.com)
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by srunni 10y ago
> marrying CROs to investigators and vice versa would be super helpful. Can you explain this idea in more detail? Many CROs are already establishing preferred-provider relationships with investigators.
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by srunni 10y ago
> I can just go ahead do it. Doing experiments on animals (and especially humans or other vertebrates) is the exact opposite of something you can just go ahead and do. The best way to see that is to give it a go yourself. > At the ver
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by srunni 10y ago
> All of the things he mentions are easily approachable engineering challenges. If they are so "easily approachable," feel free to solve them any time. I think you'll find that solving problems in living systems (let alone
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by srunni 10y ago
See chapter 3 ("Nanotechnology will not lead to super-abundance") of Against Transhumanism for a good argument for why this isn't so simple: http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads
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by srunni 10y ago
> online journals with comments sections so the community can discuss any potential flaws Check out PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/
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by srunni 10y ago
> Most of the methods in a biological wet lab are very far from standardized and need a great deal of troubleshooting. Most post-docs in a new lab spend a couple months just trying to get basic stuff working that they've done dozens
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by srunni 10y ago
Here are high resolution images of the bookshelves: http://imgur.com/a/eoDng
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Silicon Valley’s Secrets Are Hiding in Marc Andreessen’s Library(wired.com)
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Science in the age of selfies(pnas.org)
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by srunni 10y ago
The original paper, from January 2015: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v517/n7535/full/nature1... And a more easily comprehensible summary of it: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pip
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by srunni 10y ago
Right, it's good for a weekend read. I wouldn't say it's completely devoid of educational value. It's interesting to see how Johnson manages his board relationships, as well as the details of the bidding process and how
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by srunni 10y ago
If you want to know more about PE firms and LBOs, check out the book Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco : https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0061655554
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Watson correctly diagnoses woman after doctors were stumped(siliconangle.com)
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by srunni 10y ago
E-Commerce is a Bear , by Andy Dunn (co-founder/CEO of e-commerce apparel company Bonobos): https://medium.com/@dunn/e-commerce-is-a-bear-d233f02d52a5
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by srunni 10y ago
The buses could have falcon wing doors, just like the Model X: http://i.imgur.com/40o2Uvd.jpg
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by srunni 10y ago
More on the cutbacks at Merck: http://endpts.com/merck-triggers-a-new-round-of-layoffs-in-r... > Merck’s move follows a major trend in biopharma R&D, as the biggest companies concentrate more and more of their work i
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by srunni 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njj6HZvixK8&t=16m31s
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by srunni 10y ago
This Planet Money episode covers the history of why the chip took so long to arrive in US credit cards: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/13/474135422/episo...
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by srunni 10y ago
Snapchat replacing TV advertising was addressed on Stratechery last year: https://stratechery.com/2015/old-fashioned-snapchat/
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Struggling for Profit Selling Health Insurance in State Marketplaces(nytimes.com)
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Stealth Research and Theranos: Reflections and Update 1 Year Later(jama.jamanetwork.com)
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by srunni 10y ago
That's one possible solution, with a major challenge being that Amazon regularly cuts AWS prices (51 times as of January). Competing with Amazon is rarely a winning strategy, although Salesforce has similarly razor thin margins despite
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by srunni 10y ago
> Any business which intends to last longer than a hackathon would get a greater long-term advantage by developing such queries in-house. That reminds me of this challenge Heroku is currently facing ( http://go.theinformation.c
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by srunni 10y ago
> I would have to disagree with the goal of any business is to be a monopoly. > There are lots of examples of successful business out there who did not monopoly the market. Such as? If you cannot eliminate competition within your give

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