c-slice

The presentation definitely felt short. I wanted to understand more of the specifications, get to know the car a little bit. Especially if 115K people just pre-ordered something they know so little about.

Why the exact same shape as the iPhone 5S? I feel like a significant reason people buy new iPhones is the idea that people will notice you have the newest model. With SE, it will just appear like you have an out of date iPhone 5. Why not round the edges like the iPhone 6?

Here are a few more reasons:

1) High touch sales process, slow sales cycles - ultrasounds take a long time to sell to hospitals/clinics so the sales process is very high touch and requires a significant number of demos and in person time. Those sales reps are usually paid on commission. Cheap products don't make sense to sell this way.

2) Lack of competition and high development cost - Ultrasound machines are a Class II medical device and so are regulated by the FDA. FDA requires compliance with most relevant ISO standards, and there would probably be a dozen relevant standards for an ultrasound machine.

3) Liability - complex medical devices that are used for critical diagnoses create big liability problems for the hospitals/clinicians. They have no incentive to choose the low-cost model sold by a startup. No one ever got sued for choosing GE/Philips/etc.

4) Lack of price transparency - its often hard to find prices for big ticket medical devices, so the natural pressure to reduce costs through competition isn't as effective, especially with a high touch/high cost sales process.

There is 0 chance that a US hospital or clinician will risk using an off-label ultrasound machine from china on a single patient. It's almost guaranteed to not be FDA/CE approved. That's how you get a malpractice suit.

There's no point to holding to the purist ideals of the document because the authors didn't uphold it fully? That's illogical.

I wouldn't put it that bluntly. This study focused on large molecule biomarkers for the most part. There are HUGE number of possible smaller blood based biomarkers that could very likely be normal in finger-prick blood.

And add on personal info release - the API will provide a username if queried with a VIN.

This was the thesis of the Declaration of Independence upon which the theory for the Constitution was based. That natural rights are 1) exist and 2) are "God given" and are not granted by governments.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...."

Wow, this is a major vulnerability on Nissan's part. It would be trivial to determine the IP address for the server and implement this exploit.

^ Best comment of the day ^

For cancer screening? That doesn't make much sense.

I doubt it will have a long term impact on other markets. Other markets aren't anywhere near as overvalued. Markets have been expecting this since mid 2015. There isn't going to be a liquidity crisis, if anything it will make Chinese goods cheaper as the RMB is devalued. This couldn't be more different than 2008.

Median P/E for Chinese stocks is ~58. This is ~3x higher than every other major exchange. This is just part of a much larger correction.

http://assets.bwbx.io/images/iIS_j8I_fYlI/v2/-1x-1.jpg Source: Bloomberg

Fascinating post. I wonder if anyone has tried to decode the Audible audiobook format - ".aa"?

An image of the landing pad. https://imgur.com/4tjcdRM

What's interesting too is that the descent path of the rocket has an engine failure trajectory that will ensure the rocket will fall into the ocean if a failure occurs during the powered descent.

Also seems to provide evidence against simulated reality.

I think N404KR is leased to a gov shell corporation. https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N404KR

And N497PC (has no callsign) http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NN...

Bloomberg 404 Page http://www.bloomberg.com/404

I'd predict that we're going to see a depressed Baltic Dry for the foreseeable future, and it will likely never reach the 2007/8 era highs again. As we continue to see slowing global demand for coal/oil and growing demand for renewable energy, bulk shipping volumes will continue to stay low.

This is for preferred stock though, not for common stock. Employee options would be priced to common stock.

Really? But you don't need server side DNA to do a simple file system search.

Just another example of the blatant cronyism and corruption that goes on in bloated defense contracts with limited oversight.

We need a new model for how the DOD and gov as a whole handle software contracts. Our existing procurement models just fall flat on their face with software - Healthcare.gov as another example.

Whoever designed their color scheme was nuts. The hue of their purple is incredibly nauseating, at least to me.

Black projects are a way of life at the CIA, so it's really not that much of a stretch to suggest that the money went to to other projects. It's pretty much accepted that CIA budget reports sent to the GAO are basically farces.

EHRs are starting to open up more. EPIC (largest EHR vendor in the US by market share) just opened an API for some types of medical data. AllScripts and Athena also have open-ish APIs. 5 years ago none, and I mean literally zero, of the EHRs had APIs.

I love this. The writing style reminded me of "A Clockwork Orange."

Lots of citations needed.

I think you mean giga-watt hour.

A small number of bees when placed with a queen will quickly produce a full size hive. Bee hives have a size limit, so dividing them into two smaller hives produces rapid population growth. A queen bee can lay 1000 eggs a day.