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by xevb3k 8y ago
I just finished reading the new book on Theranos. I’ve seen very similar things at other science based/biotech startups. In particular, over-promising and misrepresenting the state of development. Quite often these companies are funded
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Yes, it’s getting better and better I think. You couldn’t set up a bank account remotely for a long time. But you can now setup a Holvi account online and it’s really easy, doesn’t even require a Skype call. There are still some niggles, if
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by xevb3k 8y ago
That men in tech all have wives and that their wives are not interested in technical things that interest them.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I can’t see anything that suggests this was satire. The explanations given by the original commenter don’t suggest it was meant as satire. And I don’t see anyone else suggesting it as satire. If it really was satire, then that’s interesting
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Where do you get 80% from? From the stats I can find slightly more than 50% of the population is unmarried. How is the joke not at the expense of women? The commenter even said it drew on the cliche of a wife not being interested in a husba
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I didn’t think I was “picking” on anybody or making an overtly offensive comment. I’d honestly be interested in knowing why this joke is “ok” and why it wouldn’t be better not to make generic assumptions about someone’s sexuality, marital s
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by xevb3k 8y ago
My intended meaning is that it leads to a unhealthy community... not that anybody has specific mental health issues.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
The cliche draws upon a stereotype. It’s not a great stereotype to perpetuate in my opinion. Better to just not make the joke than to perpetuate a stereotype.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
If you see a man on the Internet and think “this man must be married and his wife must not be interested in this because wives (women) are not interested in these things”... that’s pretty unhealthy. And making a joke about it, and it becomi
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by xevb3k 8y ago
If this is correct, it doesn’t seem very healthy. While quite possibly statistically likely, it doesn’t seem very healthy to make these assumptions for the purposes of a joke. Might have been better to just say “a friend” rather than “wife”
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I’m confused by this comment. Do you know this is specifically know that John Duncan has a wife and that this is how she’d react? Or does this mean something else?
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by xevb3k 8y ago
And this is why “don’t be evil” is a hopelessly naive statement. Some would define US military actions as just and civilian casualties (for example) as unfortunate. Others might define them as outright evil. Almost nobody thinks they are “e
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Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students [pdf](pnas.org)
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I really can’t see how that’s so. Your suggesting that if Apple products were more expensive they’d sell more? The only instance I can see where this might be true is with the Gold Apple watch (and that’s obviously not a purely software iss
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Running a single server for a small business is hard anyway they’re occasionally going to need support. As the first offense only seems to result in a warning, they have a chance to figure things out. Then is asking their webdev to schedule
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Your statement makes it sound like the GDPR applies to individuals doing everyday activities (or draws an equivalence). Just for clarity, I looked it up and it doesn’t appear to: “This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal
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by xevb3k 8y ago
“Not a cultural fit” is an excuse used to cover a multitude of sins. It’s obviously not true is all cases, but it can be used as. A proxy for racism and/or filtering out people with differing political or religious beliefs. It would be
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I used to think more like this. Then when I thought about it I decided that essentially all “ownership” rights are like this. Intellectual property and physical property laws are artificial. There is no basic right, they are all rights crea
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by xevb3k 8y ago
What is the societal value of adding more (and real-time) data to insurance? In general, insurance helps spread risk. This means that if something drastically bad happens we distribute the impact over a larger population reducing the indivi
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by xevb3k 8y ago
This article is pretty bad in my opinion, it’s mostly pushing a book and there’s no suggestion that the statements made are based on legitimate research. If you really want to address the divorce and lack of male role model issues, a good p
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by xevb3k 8y ago
How much is a banner Ad on the moon worth? An advert visual to literally everyone on the planet has got to be worth the cost of building a settlement hasn’t it?
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by xevb3k 8y ago
You’re absolutely right of course. But I think the comparison was just a bit of fun. The Saleae is aimed at hobbiests. If they’d wanted to do a fair comparison they could have used a modern keysight logic analyzer or MSO...
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Oh, it wasn’t meant to be sympathetic at all. I guess I didn’t clearly express myself. I was trying to point out that belief in pseudo-science comes about through a loss of trust in societies institutions. Why people lose trust is another d
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I would be honestly curious to understand what people object to in this comment.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
It’s all about trust. It’s all about in the western world too. How many people understand how their medicine works, or even the processes by which their medicine is vetted. Or even the statistics around their medicine? In general, I’d guess
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Weirdly, I’ve seen human skulls for sale on eBay. I’d guess there are various issues in adding them to medicines however... But it sounds possibly more likely someone trying to get back at the company to me. I mean, what’s the marketing val
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Ha, I think your conversations skills are just better than mine.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I feel like my conversation skill are seriously lacking because this is how it would go: Someone: “What’s that?” Me: “A coffee maker.” Someone: “Oh interesting, you like coffee?” Me: “Yes, it doesn’t work very well though so I don’t use it”
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Comments in this thread seem to range from “measured” to very negative... I don’t really see any that I’d clearly identify as state sponsored. Your comment got flagged/downvoted, but I think that’s likely because it wasn’t backed up wi
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by xevb3k 8y ago
There’s no karma level that allows users to downvote articles according to the unofficial hackernews faq. It’s possible that the admins downweight the articles because politics in general is frowned upon? I don’t think you really have much

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