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Re:Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charge... by heliodor on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @03:29PM (#16587576)
My interpretation is that most startups don't deal with life-or-death lines of work, whereas Theranos does. There's no room for "creative" business practices there. The government will take note at some point and come chasing.
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Re:Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charge... by ascendantlogic on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @03:46PM (#16587677)
Yes, if you want to lie about some drone-based burrito delivery service you're probably not gonna draw the same ire as life-saving medical equipment. Although if you swindle investors for over $700 million in either case I imagine the SEC will be knocking at your door eventually.
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Re:Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charge... by danaliv on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:07PM (#16587841)
> if you want to lie about some drone-based burrito delivery service

I wouldn't suggest lying about anything in the aviation sector either.

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Re:Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charge... by abakker on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:59PM (#16588237)
Yep, especially don’t lie about doing flights you are not doing, or not doing flights you are.
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Re:Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charge... by brandmeyer on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @08:37PM (#16589614)
> drone-based burrito delivery service

Not joking, I have heard this pitch.

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Re:Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charge... by psergeant on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @10:33PM (#16590063)
This feels like old news, given:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-13/drone-delivery-syst...

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Re:Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charge... by ascendantlogic on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @08:47PM (#16589666)
A few years ago that would have been peak Silicon Valley but now it would have to be a drone-based burrito delivery service settled on the blockchain to be peak SV in 2018.
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Re:Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charge... by gammarator on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @10:25PM (#16590036)
Maciej beat Elon to the idea of using tunnels instead: http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_t...
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Re:Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charge... by dmix on Thursday March 22, 2018 @11:09AM (#16649270)
That's brilliant, I'm just trying to imagine how NYC will send Pizzas back via a tube to SF in return for the Burritos.
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Re:Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charge... by reaperducer on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @06:09PM (#16588772)
> drone-based burrito delivery service

Well, I'm sold!

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