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my dude, i wouldn’t believe it either had i not seen it myself.
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 07:33 |
President Beep posted:a friend of mine once took one of those “which author are you most like” quizzes and posted the results to facebook on a lark. the two authors were stephen kind and david foster wallace. i made a similar joke about lobsters, and it just sucked the virtual air out of the room. mlyp
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 08:24 |
Jonny 290 posted:Normally, i'd laugh at you and say "gently caress you i'm in Denver forever", but you happen to pull this poo poo while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna say no, I wanna come visit. But I can't visit there, because I know i'd move there right away.. Besides, I've already been through too much poo poo this morning over this city to move away from this dumb poo poo. seattle is very nice and the cascades are loving gorgeous, but i've visited a few times and pretty much concluded that yeah i could live there but i'd rather just visit regularly. i know it is a cliche but seriously the rain and the lack of sun would just drive me nuts. seattle: Denver: also holy poo poo is it expensive
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 12:49 |
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i just looked up the hours of sunshine seattle gets annually and it's about 2.200. frankfurt doesn't even get 1.600 and i wouldn't have called the weather here bad or anything. goddamn that's depressing
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 13:38 |
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my apologies jonny, go to Vancouver they got hella trolley buses
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 13:54 |
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eschaton posted:and they have so much TOUQUE a good joke
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Shifty Pony posted:seattle is very nice and the cascades are loving gorgeous, but i've visited a few times and pretty much concluded that yeah i could live there but i'd rather just visit regularly. growing up I always knew that pittsburgh was dreary but I always figured that portland & seattle were the top two by a wide margin. turns out we're only a day or two behind and everyone ELSE is behind by a wide margin pittsburgh is the portland of appalachia
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 14:04 |
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also i saw a real nice & small house pop up yesterday that was basically so perfect that i got an email from my realtor while i was writing one to him saying i wanted to check it out. it was bought up in a day
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 14:05 |
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Jonny 290 posted:just strap shaggar to the front of your car, when you hear the 108 dB screeching, a bicycle is ahead lmfao
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 14:32 |
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seattle is also further north than all of maine so we get less sunshine in the winter than most of the rest of the country. it sucks when it starts getting dark at like 4:30. summer rules here though. it's mostly loving gorgeous and almost never too hot but yeah the cost of living and traffic both suck balls
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 14:39 |
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theranos was amazingquote:It was November 2014, and I was working on a feature story about a buzzed-about blood-testing company in Silicon Valley that promised to “disrupt” the lab industry with new technology. The company, Theranos, claimed its revolutionary finger-prick test would be a cheap and less painful way to screen for hundreds of diseases with just a few drops of blood.
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Jonny 290 posted:just strap shaggar to the front of your car, when you hear the 108 dB screeching, a bicycle is ahead also lmfao
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 14:41 |
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Farmdizzle posted:seattle is also further north than all of maine so we get less sunshine in the winter than most of the rest of the country. it sucks when it starts getting dark at like 4:30. summer rules here though. it's mostly loving gorgeous and almost never too hot getting dark at 4pm is the worst part of the winter in maine. but yeah summer rules
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 14:43 |
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Jonny 290 posted:i got stoned wrong thred this thread is always the right thread friend
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 14:44 |
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FMguru posted:theranos was amazing that's some goofy sitcom poo poo
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 14:49 |
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Shifty Pony posted:lol this is the portrait goodkind insists on using in his cover flap author bio: lomarf
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 14:53 |
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FMguru posted:theranos was amazing for as long as i live i will always fondly remember the day the economist revised their assessment of holmes' net worth to effectively zero. ate all the Oreos posted:that's some goofy sitcom poo poo that is some loving george costanza poo poo
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 14:54 |
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that is the look of a man who can't wait to show you his katana skills
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 14:54 |
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the wsj has story about how the backup driver of the autonomous car has a criminal record...aka he's no angel https://twitter.com/AthertonKD/status/977158464530083840 heated game moment fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Mar 23, 2018 |
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ate all the Oreos posted:that is the look of a man who can't wait to show you his katana skills he's a garbagehuman https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/26/terry-goodkind-book-cover-shroud-of-eternity
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 14:57 |
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even ars technica thinks there's something up with the video uber released poor calibration or hamfisted attempt at pr?
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 14:59 |
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FMguru posted:theranos was amazing Ahahaha holy poo poo
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 14:59 |
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SENSUAL DAD KISS posted:Ahahaha holy poo poo yeah I didn't quote that post but I should have, super lol
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FMguru posted:theranos was amazing Just remember that all it takes to build a multibillion dollar practice is well-placed lies and the right connections e: note that I did not say they even had to be good lies
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FMguru posted:theranos was amazing when a reporter harasses me in safeway I call the ceo of general mills and get an immediate response
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 15:12 |
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https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/976836626121977858
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FMguru posted:theranos was amazing is that supposed to be the same kind of fingerprick like what they do to test for iron count before donating blood? because last couple of times i've had small blood draws done for testing by trained phlebotomists, the needle they used was less painful than the goddamn prick.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:is that supposed to be the same kind of fingerprick like what they do to test for iron count before donating blood? because last couple of times i've had small blood draws done for testing by trained phlebotomists, the needle they used was less painful than the goddamn prick. no part of theranos' pitch made any sense. it was the purest "market the idea first, then invent it" horseshit that they teach in $200,000 MBA programs in courses with titles like "Innovation and Disruption" as far as i can tell it went like this holmes: "what if you could do all the blood tests anyone would ever need with just a single drop from their fingertip?" holmes' professors: "that would be great, but the science doesn't bear it out." holmes: *gives TED talk* pigeon: *spots tortilla chip*
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 16:48 |
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but it works for diabetics so it obviously works for everything!!!
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i never understood what the big (alleged) win was for theranos technology. being able to do a bunch of tests on a single drop of blood instead of three test tubes worth is...nice, i guess? a slight improvement in the quality of life for people who get blood drawn regularly? it doesnt seem like it actually improves medical outcomes at all, the way a new drug or vaccine or surgical procedure or treatment would. it just makes part of a regular diagnostic procedure somewhat less unpleasant. its something along the lines of a new coating that makes pills easier to swallow. not exactly the sort of genius breakthrough that would make someone a billionaire and put their face on every magazine cover
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Shifty Pony posted:lol this is the portrait goodkind insists on using in his cover flap author bio: lol at all the airbrushing on his hair
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FMguru posted:i never understood what the big (alleged) win was for theranos technology. being able to do a bunch of tests on a single drop of blood instead of three test tubes worth is...nice, i guess? a slight improvement in the quality of life for people who get blood drawn regularly? it doesnt seem like it actually improves medical outcomes at all, the way a new drug or vaccine or surgical procedure or treatment would. it just makes part of a regular diagnostic procedure somewhat less unpleasant. It's not just the comfort thing, it's having all the tests run by the same company and same device, ostensibly cutting out a lot of expensive equipment/handling procedures Of course it was all hooey so it's a moot point
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FMguru posted:i never understood what the big (alleged) win was for theranos technology. being able to do a bunch of tests on a single drop of blood instead of three test tubes worth is...nice, i guess? a slight improvement in the quality of life for people who get blood drawn regularly? it doesnt seem like it actually improves medical outcomes at all, the way a new drug or vaccine or surgical procedure or treatment would. it just makes part of a regular diagnostic procedure somewhat less unpleasant. it was supposed to be a massive cost savings instead of sending boxes of tubes to a pathology lab, you would just install a theranos device in every doctor's office / nurse's office / pharmacy and do cheap tests on the spot turns out pathology labs actually like, do important stuff. and it's hard to replace them. oops
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 17:10 |
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my aunt managed the chem lab in a hospital until she retired and thought theranos was an impossibly crazy idea from the beginning lol the lab is actually pretty automated already though, they put the tubes on this machine that then scans their code and puts em' on a conveyor, and the conveyor routes them to different other machines based on what test needs to be done. i was visiting when they were first setting it up so that was fun to see in its test mode
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FMguru posted:i never understood what the big (alleged) win was for theranos technology. being able to do a bunch of tests on a single drop of blood instead of three test tubes worth is...nice, i guess? less training, cheaper/no staff => blood tests everywhere
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 17:27 |
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oh also all the samples arrive at the lab via pneumatic tube so people don't have to run them all the way across the hospital, which was super duper fun to see since they had like, the "hub" tube station there in the lab or w/e
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ate all the Oreos posted:my aunt managed the chem lab in a hospital until she retired and thought theranos was an impossibly crazy idea from the beginning lol was it a labview/national instruments rube goldberg or is there actually enough of a market that its real equipment?
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lancemantis posted:was it a labview/national instruments rube goldberg or is there actually enough of a market that its real equipment? i mean i don't remember who made it or w/e but it did seem like it was made as modular parts that hooked together rather than something built as a one-off, and it looked like it had actually been thought about rather than just being a bunch of old products glued together, so i guess the latter?
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fight! fight! fight! https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/977225964764643328
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