Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab

Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by whymauri on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:43AM (#22637890)

Yeah, the Dropbox example doesn't make sense. Dropbox is hard to build because it needs to work at scale and for general enterprise purposes. Similarly, regional/state-sponsored testing is hard because it needs to work at scale and for a large population of people.

Running these kits out of your garage is like running a tweaked, existing file system for a home network. Not completely trivial, but it's not Dropbox, guys.

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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by omar_a1 on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:18PM (#22640658)

> Dropbox is hard to build because it needs to work at scale

And you don't think this test needs to scale, with the millions of people needing to be tested?

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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by whymauri on Friday March 20, 2020 @06:58PM (#22642591)

As far as I can read, this is literally the next sentence in my comment.

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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by omar_a1 on Friday March 20, 2020 @07:05PM (#22642643)

Whoops, so used to the "it's so easy" comments on here that I missed that part.

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