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We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud

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Re: We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud

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Post by dpark »

buvanshak wrote: post #250
dpark wrote: post #249

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Ok. From your standpoint literally every contract for work/production is fraud. Until you do the work, you can't be certain you can produce the contracted result, so it's fraud. Your argument boils down to being unable to predict the future with 100% accuracy. Most people don't consider the constraints of reality to constitute fraud.

That is what you said. You said no one knows the full list of hardware requirements to make full self driving work. Tesla is claiming that their cars have this "full hardware for self driving". In other words the company is as genuine as the quack around the corner who sell cancer cure...

And general contractors don’t know the full list of requirements when they take a job to remodel a house. And yet they will claim with full confidence that they have all the necessary expertise and equipment to do the job.

Complete quacks, right?

Re: We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud

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Post by buvanshak »

dpark wrote: post #251
buvanshak wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is what you said. You said no one knows the full list of hardware requirements to make full self driving work. Tesla is claiming that their cars have this "full hardware for self driving". In other words the company is as genuine as the quack around the corner who sell cancer cure...

And general contractors don’t know the full list of requirements when they take a job to remodel a house. And yet they will claim with full confidence that they have all the necessary expertise and equipment to do the job. Complete quacks, right?

I applaud your mental gymnastics by which you put full self driving to be similar to that of remodeling of a house.

I have nothing else to add. Thanks for the laughs.

Re: We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud

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Post by dpark »

buvanshak wrote: post #252
dpark wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And general contractors don’t know the full list of requirements when they take a job to remodel a house. And yet they will claim with full confidence that they have all the necessary expertise and equipment to do the job. Complete quacks, right?

I applaud your mental gymnastics by which you put full self driving to be similar to that of remodeling of a house. I have nothing else to add. Thanks for the laughs.

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Re: We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud

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Post by Frondo »

specialist wrote: post #246
Frondo wrote: post #240

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This is such a ridiculous reply. "You've audited an election?" It's on par with "you've inspected the rain clouds, you've watched the rain fall into the Bull run watershed, you've inspected the reservoirs, the pipes, done salinity and chlorination tests on your tap water?" Voter fraud in Oregon is virtually non-existent, and all you can do is raise the spectre of I don't even know what. It'd be silly if it weren't so…

I'm sorry you're offended by things I didn't say. I now feel silly and ridiculous. Thank you for setting me straight.

You're welcome.

have you ever audited an election... rolling eyes

Re: We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud

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Post by specialist »

Frondo wrote: post #254
specialist wrote: post #246

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I'm sorry you're offended by things I didn't say. I now feel silly and ridiculous. Thank you for setting me straight.

You're welcome. have you ever audited an election... rolling eyes

Yes, I have.

Oh. You weren't asking.

You're mocking the notion that such a thing is knowable, that there's an objective reality.

I know. Facts, data, experience, critical analysis are all so unkewl. My bad.

Re: We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud

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Post by dang »

specialist wrote: post #255
Frondo wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're welcome. have you ever audited an election... rolling eyes

Yes, I have. Oh. You weren't asking. You're mocking the notion that such a thing is knowable, that there's an objective reality. I know. Facts, data, experience, critical analysis are all so unkewl. My bad.

You've been breaking the site guidelines a lot lately and getting into political flamewars. We ban accounts that do that, and have asked you more than once before to stop.

Would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all?

Re: We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud

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