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Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by Spooky23 on Saturday March 02, 2019 @01:16PM (#19290332)
No way. There’s a huge market for medical monitoring that is dominated by big dumb players.

Your insurance pays like $3k to wear a heart monitor for a day or two.

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Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by adrianN on Saturday March 02, 2019 @02:04PM (#19290576)
The problem with that huge market is not that it's somehow hard to make monitoring devices, but it's hard to get them through the bureaucratic process of being legal to use for medical purposes. Doing that is quite an orthogonal skillset to engineering.
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Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by Spooky23 on Saturday March 02, 2019 @02:05PM (#19290583)
A company with billions in cash can learn quickly.
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