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| coppice:
--- Quote from: thm_w on January 07, 2022, 10:31:52 pm ---GM didn't pour any money into Nikola, not sure where you got that information from, they are not stupid. --- End quote --- I'm not sure about the first part of that statement, but the second part is definitely wrong. They didn't let their entire European operations, and much of their market n China, slip away from them through brilliance. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: bdunham7 on January 04, 2022, 05:38:37 pm ---The expression is "Fake it until you make it". She didn't make it. It works for certain obstacles, like the financial and practical hurdles Tesla faced, but it doesn't work out when your underlying technology simply can't work, like U-Beam. With Theranos, I'm not sure if the claimed technology can ever be made, but I suspect it can. --- End quote --- I very much doubt it can, because one of the major hurdles to the Theranos technology is that all blood isn’t the same. There’s a reason why different diagnostic tests require blood drawn from different body parts. (I had one full blood panel that required blood from 2 or 3 different locations.) Theranos’ entire idea is based on the false premise that capillary blood (what you get from a finger stick) can be used for all the tests, which it can’t. Even ignoring the dilution issue, if capillary blood doesn’t contain a representative amount of whatever compound you’re after, then it can’t be used for that test, period. |
| SiliconWizard:
Yes, that's right. The composition of a single drop of capillary blood isn't going to be useful for analyzing much. It's been proven to be adequate for glucose level testing (and even that isn't going to be very accurate). But beyond that... |
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