flarets

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by flarets 8y ago
It depends if the implant does more good than if it wasn't implanted. All regulated devices require post market monitoring by the company and reporting to the FDA. If the data shows harm is being done to patients the FDA can issue a re
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by flarets 8y ago
"Unlike drugs, implants don’t need to go through clinical trials in most cases." The artical says "surgical innovations" which probably means instruments and procedures. Also "some implants" are exempt from sho
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by flarets 8y ago
Straw man argument.
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by flarets 11y ago
And if you classified Kickstarter as a kind of patronage would it still pale in comparison? If nothing else, no-one backs a project to get rich.
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by flarets 11y ago
Paraphrasing from that article: "So, realising I had created a bomb, I surrounded the bomb in shrapnel and took it to a crowded part of the city".
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by flarets 11y ago
Interesting talk. Some parts of the reasoning that might need work: "if there was no possibility to get rich, there would be no startups". Does not explain patronage, i.e. people investing in people for reasons other than getting
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by flarets 12y ago
Exactly, the "specialized circuits" is the part that should be open-sourced.
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by flarets 12y ago
Really? I thought ICs were more along the lines of microcontrollers which have things like USB controllers, PWM controllers, GPIO etc. For these, it's mostly programming. The library I described was supposed to be about all the externa
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by flarets 12y ago
With respect, I don't know if he's suggesting the right approach. Why not build up a "library" of smaller circuits (e.g. voltage divider, butterworth filter, debounce circuit etc), that allow people to make bigger circui
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by flarets 14y ago
no. he's made a fluorescent tube.