Launch HN: SannTek (YC S19) – Breathalyzer for Cannabis

Re:Launch HN: SannTek (YC S19) – Breathalyzer for Cannabis by dragonwriter on Friday August 16, 2019 @07:13PM (#20720584)

> My point is that before these scams "eventually collapse", people's real lives are caught in the crossfire.

Yeah, I’m not disagreeing with that, nor does it seem to disagree with my point, that the consequences of the nearly-inevitable collapse makes it dubious that maximizing positive results by encouraging false positives is actually a means to the proposed police goal of maximizing convictions, if by that one means convictions that stick.

I never suggested, and also explicitly rejected, the idea that this even superficially results in a no-harm situation.

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Re:Launch HN: SannTek (YC S19) – Breathalyzer for Cannabis by jakelazaroff on Friday August 16, 2019 @07:36PM (#20720719)

I understand. One point of disagreement that I could have made more clear is that I don't think the collapse is "nearly-inevitable" at all.

I'm also skeptical that it provides sufficient motivation to spend the money to bring the false positive rate down to X acceptable level. This is a for-profit company; they're going to try to get the lowest ratio of R&D spend to revenue that they can.

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