Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/1bn-blood-testing-scam-compan.html
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True, but she also did some bad things.
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Holmes conned Betsy DeVos, Rupert Murdoch, and the Walmart heirs alone out of $350m by literally cosplaying Steve Jobs. How is this reality?
Truly we live in the dumbest timeline.
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$1bn blood-testing scam Theranos dissolved
I wanna know what they did with all that blood?
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That scene from Silicon Valley where TJ Miller is cosplaying Steve Jobs. That is some real shit.
Satya Nadella has been spotted doing it, in fact.
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Peter Thiel probably picked it up at fire-sale prices.
Anyone who’s worked in tech knows the secret of that show: it’s a documentary.
founder Elizabeth Holmes somehow clung on until finally being charged with fraud a few weeks ago.
Orange is the New Black … for turtlenecks!
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That’s seriously the silver lining in this story; she fleeced some truly horrible rich people who are actively making the world worse.
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Regarding that Mattis tweet - I’m pretty sure that grifting experience is a requirement for admission to this administration.
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the worst crime here is that we might now have to wait decades for a real solution to break the american lab test duopoly
maybe some decade there will eventually be a chip developed you can put a drop of blood and then the processing of that blood is done elsewhere on super computer clusters, etc. and then it will cost a few dollars like an amazon cloud server pay-per-use
oh btw, your doctor won’t tell you this but you don’t need a script, permission or insurance to get cheaper lab tests in most states - purposely not making this a link so no-one thinks it’s a referral scam or anything but this is a “meta search engine” to compare lab test costs by zip code, it’s not perfect but better than anything else I’ve found: LabEspy .com - there are still only two labs in most locations but that website compares resellers who give different levels of discounts
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It’s a sad indicment of our current state of affairs. When we have to rely on lying crooks to bring lying crooks to justice because everyone is lying crook, we’re fucked.
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I don’t know what’s going on here, but I feel bad for that poor racoon. He just wanted to wash his lunch is all.
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Why are they wasting our tax dollars harassing this job creator? They should be investigating Hillary’s emails!
(So that it feels like the first time again!)
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It’s cotton candy. And a scurvy trick.
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Cargo cults are a thing.
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“Build it and they’ll come”.
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Behold the befuddling powers of the seven magic words! “We are all going to be rich.” Presto! Logic no longer has a foothold on your senses!
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Good thing we stopped Theranos before they got all of the infinity stones.
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In the long version of the clip, the raccoon learns to not wash the cotton candy after a few tries.
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Or even: pretend to build it, and they will come?
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