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by jforman 5y ago
I was going to say you can't get very far without a protein vehicle, but then I remembered that's quite incorrect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrotransposon The injection is important, however, as it gets
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by jforman 6y ago
Agreed. Entrepreneurs always see opportunity in disruption, because you can always rebuild something better. Just don't @ me too hard for pointing out that the disruption is real and will affect the ecosystem (including startups!) as
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by jforman 6y ago
It's certainly possible new channels emerge to restore equilibrium, but I don't see Neeva (or whoever) replacing Google as a customer acquisition channel any time soon. I think people are misconstruing me here. I'm not sayin
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by jforman 6y ago
Let's say you're a startup trying to advertise on Google, and somebody has paid a bot network to fraudulently click on your ads. Now Google can't detect that those clicks are fraudulent, so you're billed for them. Your
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by jforman 6y ago
Because it makes advertising more expensive, which in turn makes the products and services you use more expensive.
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by jforman 6y ago
There is no mens rea or actual harm involved in legit white hat hacking, including white hat hacking that is incentivized through bug bounties, so this activity is not criminal. We don't know all of the specifics here, but for the feds
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by jforman 6y ago
I was at Microsoft, in MSN Search (which was later re-branded Bing). This was 2003.
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by jforman 6y ago
When I worked at Bing almost 20 years ago, the #1 search term was "Google". So maybe this is reasonable :) (#2 was "Gogle")
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by jforman 6y ago
You can't design interventions for problems that you cannot see. Detection alone doesn't save lives, but it is a necessary step to the discovery of interventions that do.
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by jforman 7y ago
tl;dr any unique feature of this virus may be explanatory for its demonstrably increased virulence, and may be targetable by existing therapeutics as well. This particular feature is a candidate finding of this type — the specific molecula
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by jforman 7y ago
It's a bit of a stretch to say that a lawsuit is a threat to the rule of law.....
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by jforman 7y ago
Here's a quick guide to employer regulation in NYC. With one part-time employee you would be exempt from many statutes: https://www.lexisnexis.com/legalnewsroom/labor-employment/b/... Also, part of the
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by jforman 7y ago
Fair enough. Although I think a researcher would say our bags of meat often surprise us.
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by jforman 7y ago
It seems clear that e-cigs are better than smoking. How can this be clear without long-term usage data?
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by jforman 7y ago
Case law is on the side of corporations having no generalized duty to maximize profit on a day-to-day basis, for what it's worth. Corporations can exist for any number of reasons and the fiduciary duty is much more limited than people
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by jforman 7y ago
Can you elaborate on "capital is readily available from Series B to public markets"? I am not in this space myself, but I know a few founders who are and the perception is that they face meaningful headwinds from the late stage co
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by jforman 7y ago
> It basically means they have given up on developing a good branded interface between the driver and the car. The one piece of feedback I gave Toyota in their post-purchase survey is: please replace the hot mess that is Entune with CarP
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by jforman 7y ago
There is no such thing as "withdrawing funding" in this context. The Series A is long closed and Bessemer is deeply entwined with the company's governance. The most severe move they could take would be to enforce whatever co
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by jforman 7y ago
If I remember correctly frogs were an early model organism for studying fertilization because their eggs are large. Seems reasonable that would extend to early hormone secretion post-fertilization.
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by jforman 7y ago
Copyright law is more complicated than that, but regardless OCILLA drastically reduced copyright liability for the pipes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_...
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by jforman 8y ago
Huh, that ruling was pretty broad. Only pertains to the 2nd circuit as it wasn't reviewed by SCOTUS, but still. Do you know if it was a key cite in cases in other circuits?
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by jforman 8y ago
It is FDA cleared rather than approved, which is a lower bar. And it appears to be cleared as a tanning device, not as a Vitamin D-related device: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf15/K151721.pdf Note t
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by jforman 8y ago
This is pretty critical information that, imo, you should communicate more prominently. I was a little shocked at the value of some of these grants for the level, but this makes more sense.
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by jforman 8y ago
Worst case: it's a stressful waste of time that doesn't help your career. Stressful because the company is already in distress. Maybe the employees aren't aware, and maybe even the founders themselves are too naive to be awa
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by jforman 8y ago
Importantly, though, intent isn't required to make a discrimination claim under the Civil Rights Act. If a policy is apparently neutral, but it has a disproportionally negative impact on a protected class, it is illegal: https:/
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by jforman 8y ago
The only way out is leadership with a longer-term plan that has credibility from both investors and employees. The stock market doesn't require short-term thinking. But it does create a default focus on short-term performance when lea
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by jforman 8y ago
Boston-founded by an HBS-grad engineer who made early units himself, and bootstrapped until raising from Sequoia's growth fund. An amazing story that got almost no coverage in the tech press.
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by jforman 8y ago
If instead of worrying about their "sexual past," how about worrying about their "past abuse of women"? Because that is absolutely relevant to job performance as a VC.
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by jforman 8y ago
For new stuff, FDA performs a holistic cost/benefit analysis. In this case, they might weigh: * How many new cases are caught by expanding access to specialist tools * What fail safes exist in current course of care — how does a false
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by jforman 8y ago
IBM appears to be in a world of pain. First, while individual discrimination cases can be difficult to win, it's much easier to win a case exactly like this because of the "disparate impact" standard. Under this standard, an

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