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“Standardizing an interface between health care providers and insurance companies would be a huge win. No matter how badly designed, it would be better than the current mess, and s…

> 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 relationship…

> 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…

> 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 sol…

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/w…

> online journals with comments sections so the community can discuss any potential flaws Check out PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/

> 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…

Here are high resolution images of the bookshelves: http://imgur.com/a/eoDng

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/p…

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…

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

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

The buses could have falcon wing doors, just like the Model X: http://i.imgur.com/40o2Uvd.jpg

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 conce…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njj6HZvixK8&t=16m31s

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...