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I am working towards solving the problem of diagnostic labs that will soon have to, or are already coping with excess testing capacity built up for covid testing, and trying to lev…

Very generally speaking, any successful idea accumulates adulteration over time as it is overused and over-exploited. The number of high quality instances do not decrease but have …

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Since the petition page (http://wefunder.com/petition) assumes you are for the argument, I wanted (them) to take a step back and first democratize the decision of petitioning itsel…

And the investors will cry "fraud" and "scam" not for the wrong reasons alone. Fraud and scam artists will actually infiltrate the hacker community once they find out about the exp…

For a time I was embarrassed to even admit that I read it. I still am. The book is full of incredible people and events that don't and should not make any sense to a rational perso…

You may be right - although I find myself inadequate to predict 6 months hence not to talk of 50 years. It just seemed the easiest 'odd man out' scenario so I commented.

salman khan? along with those names?

I won't judge siri, as I do not know the details of technology or the machine learning algorithms used by it, but I would say this much: your one line pitch might just impress some…

I am using firefox 5.. they don't appear to move in my browser.

looks great! only if you could make the gears move:)

If you really want to be linguistically accurate, just replace "killing" with "taking market share away from". Other than that in my humble opinion, the central point is trivial.

I totally agree. And I wish that this thing hurts them in some way. Having moved 3 times in last 3 years, I absolutely understand your situation of not being able to break up with …

I am going slightly off topic here, but I wanna say I like the prospect of being able to save phone conversation for your record. But I was wondering about the legal implications o…

I can't even imagine what combination of misconceptions about net neutrality and personal genomics led you to make such a comparison. Strong words - try just asking and I'll answer…

sure - its the predicting thats causing the alarm, check this out.. http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-847T

By the way, it helps to atleast read what scientists found out about these reports before we build the whole discussion just on ideology http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-847T

If they were just sequencing your genome, that wouldn't be a problem, but they are giving you medical advice, they are telling you about diseases that you might get (without solid …

So I assume you are also against FDA regulation to force pharma companies to list adverse reactions alongside there drug commercials? If you are, then the discussion is mute, if yo…

Does it matter? Maybe they will contribute something useful, maybe they won't. If we shut them down now, they definitely won't. Exactly - that's why I say don't shut them down, reg…

Here is a nature paper (for those who can access) discussing the state of Direct-to-Consumer companies in personal genomics "An agenda for personalized medicine" http://www.nature.…