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it's a shame that a lot of international agencies used to look to the FAA first as a benchmark for policies. But they really dropped the ball here and giving the perception of prioritizing Boeing's profit margins over consumer safety.

Ok so he's complaining about his damaged book order rather than slamming Amazon's business model/etc...

Could he not have used Amazon's CS to get a replacement?

GoPro was never a serious contender for the drone game as much as any other player like Sony/Olympus/Nikon/Canon etc.

DJI was already making a name for themselves in the camera industry with their gimbals. they moved their stabilization tech into drones (often to support gopro or third party camera attachments) and only realized later that they could easily cannibalize the camera makers

well she was an expert manipulator (as seen by her company board structure) so it's not as clear cut but yea I don't think he was 100% naïve in this

yup exactly my experience

You have a bad manager who happened to be non-technical. I've had plenty of bad technical managers too.

A manager's job is not to be more technical that you, it's to manage multiple parts of a project and it's people. Of course they know what they are talking about- but often they have the people skills to get past the interviews.

Well Uber is logistics/CS company which a tech approach. I would think that makes it a tech company. Their stack is complicated and there are plenty of logistic giants who could've beaten them if only they were as tech focused.

AFAIK this was more because NAC was being touted as a COVID cure because of it's anti-inflammatory properties and being used in pneumonia

Amazon investing in the LOTR world (with an established fan base) I would think it's less risky than Netflix's strategy of burning hundreds of millions on famous producers without any criteria than just to produce something good- more often than not being misses rather than hits.

there's not many specialised glucose monitor for animals. it's not feasible for manufacturers to release products just for one species or test for every breed of dogs.

we use continuous blood glucose monitors (made for humans) which can take wireless readings through a skin implant. they do well in animals (once you shave the fur). there are papers that confirm human glucometer readings correlate with an animal's blood glucose- so many clinics use human glucometers.

there's actually a lot of evidence that cruciate surgery improves return to function, but you're right- a lot of vets unfortunately recommend surgery for the wrong reasons (unwittingly or not).

Surgery only really makes a difference in moderate to severe tears or those with meniscal injury. There's 4+ different ways to fix a cruciate. Half of them are useless (and evidence shows no difference c.f. conservative treatment) and if a surgeon recommend them I would see it as a red flag.

Interestingly a lot of pet owners could not go to surgery because of the recent COVID lockdowns, and it was found that a lot of those animals healed well with just some rest anyway.

As a a vet I think this author's limited experience is a bit out of date.

In the veterinary industry, medical management is always influenced by costs. Just yesterday I had to deal with a blocked cat. Gold standard treatment costs thousands of dollars and the owner only had $200. You not only have to take into account the hospital costs, but how the owner can manage their pet at home for ongoing care too. Costs are one of the main stressors in the industry (there's plenty of Ted Talks on the high suicide rate), and commonly owners shift their responsibility by blaming vets as "money grabbers" or who are only "in it for the money".

Thankfully insurance is quite common now (depending on the area) and with less financial restraint on costs we are able to do more advanced treatments. We have specialists referral daily and even recently had a brain surgery on a dog. This would have been very rare in the past and the limited opportunity to perform complex treatments like this hinders how much data we can collect and learn from this.

You do have old-school vets or those in rural clinics who would be happy to do every treatment under the sun. But being a 'jack-of-all-trades' is unrealistic when each sub-field is rapidly expanding in knowledge, and most younger vets (especially in big cities) are more than happy to refer to specialists (and avoid risk of complaints), unless of course the owner cannot afford to do so.

yea there's plenty of details that could've been disclosed before presenting a one sided story

yea it's like asking doctors to pay for drug efficacy testing and research. he would have more luck with drug reps and big pharma as clients though with obvious conflicts of interests.

your comment makes sense from a layman's perspective of logic and economics. but in the industry you'll find most doctors actually do not want to see patients for revisits and would rather a pill or injection solve the problem in one go. unfortunately due to biology this is rarely the case, and managers/pharma reps/business dev are keen to capitalize on it- not the overworked doctors.

the James Herriot series is a good, light-hearted (if not outdated) intro to the veterinary industry.

he specifically mentioned one thing and you drew your conclusion about the others.

i could say the sky is blue. that's one conclusion. you're saying in addition to that statement you can conclude that everything else is not blue. which is ridiculous because the ocean is blue too. the whole "the opposite is true" logic is a fallacy.

yes i could make a mask out of plastic film and it would have 100% efficiency

apparently some crimes against humanity are worse than the others

YC is great but it's a bit of a hyperbole saying they're driving for "good for the world" and giving chances to the minority/contrarians that wouldn't otherwise get funding.

It would be good to see stats on proportion of ivy league founders or those with previously successful/exited founders in YC. A lot of the applicants are impressive (obviously) and already have a decent chance of getting SV investors- and even more so outside the valley.

yes but sometimes I feel like a bit of context about why or how someone makes a product helps.

I would just raise my rates. It's probably so they can show their boss they tried negotiating and got a special rate lower than the advertised one.

Everyone wants to feel like they got a good deal.

no shortages here in NZ.

saw the same with my father but wouldn't have said it was a good thing. he actively avoided doctors and refused their treatments and recommendations, yet continually kept going to alternative medicine clinics and following up on their treatments. Might have helped them mentally and psychologically, but definitely didn't treat the cause.

sometimes people are just lazy

reasonable if it's a systemic failure, but the company did notify the US Navy when it found out (though deflected the actual cause). sounds more like a rogue employee.

disproportionately severe penalties will have the opposite effect in future cases- as people will do more to hide faults than reporting them.

hah personally I've never met one that fit the stereotype, but yes I hear that assumption a lot here in NZ

i feel like they've given up and are going on spending sprees to catch up to UE

I get how useful it is for growth but a defensive answer like this does more PR harm than good. also misses the question.

i have tried your search engine and it is great. i can tell a lot of work has gone into it, but i had to think twice about giving it a second go after being put off by your first impression.

yea i'm not going to install an extension. but actually you CAN try it with the little text box at the top.

took me a second look to find it. the spammy design doesn't actually make it obvious. kinda like yahoo's clutter vs google's minimalist homepage all over again.