And that's why Apple Pay IS more successful - because retailers have to do nothing to support it. If they have an NFC credit card reader, they automatically support Apple Pay, because it's a glorified credit card.
Except give up 3% of every transaction to credit card companies, which quickly dwarfs the cost of a new terminal.
In other words:
"WHY THE FUCK AREN'T YOU JUST TAKING A SAMPLE??"
And I think I know the answer: avoiding all of the intellectual property surrounding running the exact same tests after taking a sample out of a human being. The number of patents on diagnostics based on these types of binding events is astounding. But they are almost all in vitro, not in vivo.
Culture is pushing away girls (As Barbie says, "Math is hard!") to woman. Most women pick careers that are "family friendly" or offers a good life / work balance.
The same research that found the percentage of women in majoring in CS plummeting in the '80s -90s found that they held steady at about 46% of math majors. But I'll agree on the life/work balance issue.
There's this thing in the scieintific community called "informed consent" - basically if you're going to experiment on someone you have to explicitely say what you're doing for every single experiment
Not really, no. You can completely change the experiment (new primary and secondary endpoints, etc.) without getting the subjects consent. The samples and data collected for one experiment can be used for unspecified future experiments, so long as that possibility is disclosed. The legalities are getting tighter, but unless you are related to Henrietta Lacks (HeLa cells) blanket consent for use of samples, complete with intellectual property rights, is still the norm.
Here is what _I_ consider to be an innovator.
Musk is just a salesmen.
Ok, I'll bite. What exactly did Holmes, or even the other folks as Theranos, invent? Microfluidic blood tests, DNA based tests instead of ELISAs, All that stuff was invented in the '80s and '90s.
Have a look at her list of patents. Which actually present new ideas instead of combinations of well established technologies?
http://patents.justia.com/inventor/elizabeth-holmes
Musk took existing technology, improved it and recombined it until it could support real business plans.
Holmes took existing technology, improved it and recombined it until it could support a real business plan.
Good on both of them.
When they start hiding information to fuck with your mental state for any purpose other than convincing you to buy a product/brand, then they become a culpable actor and potentially contributory to injury or death.
Now that's an interesting distinction to make. If a marketing strategy was actually injurious, would it still get a bye? Also - this research was still ultimately aimed at getting people to use a consumer product (Facebook) as profitably as possible. So shouldn't it be eligible for that exemption?
TOS-speak is not accepted by anyone in any of the various corners of science that perform human subjects research.
Nope! When subjects volunteer for a specific study or survey, sure. But most consumer research doesn't require informed consent unless there is direct interaction between the researcher and the subjects. A/B advertising research, OKcupid's experiments
1) most teachers still work at the school over the summer, if they didn't the median salary figures would be much lower
2) bullshit. 6 hrs in school, 4 hrs afterschool/at home for the teachers I know.
3) Yep, job security is still better than the private sector.
4) Full pension - but remember to subtract social security, which most teachers aren't eligible for.
5) Or getting put in jail because the kids said you had group sex with them when you didn't
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
