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randycupertino

11,855karma·2,447submissions·December 10, 2015
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> "I've said it before and I'll say it again, we're too damn disorganized to be as evil as you think we are." That's actually hilarious. Our defense is... our inepti…
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Yeah the economics of SF just don't work out unless you have a trust fund or your company IPOs, that's why everyone I know who wants to buy a house is moving to Austin and Portland.
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...you mean, as opposed to a fake culture :) http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/10/21/passive-aggress... …
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Check into Voltaren gel for when you have the flair ups, it's an NSAID gel that a lot of my patients have a lot of success with for back pain. I haven't heard much research about reverse hy…
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> It's like a restaurant saying that the board of health complaint that shut them down focused too much on the rat feces in the kitchen, and not enough on the well watered house plants in the…
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I've seen her driving around town, she has some insane sports car that looks like a rocket ship. I couldn't even recognize what it was (Ferrari? Lamborghini?) it was so unusual looking.
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I've been very impressed with the WSJ coverage of Theranos. The same reporters broke the CMS Medicaid Fraud in 2014 and won a Pulitzer Prize. http://www.wsjplus.com/invites/…
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> You don't need to be a trained phlebotomist to do it. Yes, but Theranos still had phlebotomists doing their finger pricks. Also, phlebotomists aren't that expensive. Even in the Bay A…
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The problem is that the finger prick actually hurts a lot more than a traditional venous draw. There aren't any real benefits to a "finger prick" other than marketing spin that it'…
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The thing is... the driver rating isn't really a real "rating" any more. It's terrifically skewed because everyone knows the drivers basically have to be a level 5 or else they&#x…
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That's absolutely hilarious. I love how Uber made them redact their "secret plan" for the online edition!
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That could be the title for almost every blog post ever, though.
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... and then also record the lecture in case you missed anything else!
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I just went back to school for some professional certificate classes and none of the younger students use a pen and paper. I certainly felt like "the old dude" behind the times taking notes…
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That is awesome. I love that there is a fountain pen community!
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Yes and thankfully the US congress just made it even easier for foreign $$ to invest in US real estate! http://www.wsj.com/articles/congress-eases-curbs-on-foreign-... …
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Holy cow- their mortgages: "Afford more than you imagined with as little as 10% down on mortgages up to $3M." Yikes. :-/
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Yeah but how often do they say Bing? Probably mostly only in the porn threads.
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* unless you're in the Bay Area
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There's a paywall?
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"Rules, schmules."
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I am just so amazed Theranos was able to raise so much $$ on basically a wink and a smile without and due diligence by the investors. Everyone was distracted by the blonde blue eyed Stanford dropout …
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haha... that is exactly how I met my sig-o as well. I like your style.
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