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[–] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

Cant wait to see this. She's terrifying and Fielder is imho the perfect foil to interview her.

Its weird cuz she just ripped off a bunch of rich people, I dont really have any reason to hate her really but she's sort of emblematic of what is problematic of startup and tech culture and in a sense identify culture where being the first ___ founder/CEO or one of few ____ founders/CEOs/whatever is part of the pitch.

In a better world it would never have entered the equation much less overshadowed the actual lack of viable product/IP. How did no blood scientist/dr/expert not easily point out their premise was fatally flawed in a way that doomed the whole exercise, both internally and publicly?

There were some after the fact and it was exposed who were casually like "ya, the blood available from a pinprick to the finger doesnt suffice for the grand vision Theranos was sold as and predicated upon

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  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    How did no blood scientist/dr/expert not easily point out their premise was fatally flawed?

    They did. Every expert out there pointed out it's impossible.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago

    I remember one former employee posted on reddit without naming the company, saying everything they were claiming was bs. A little later the scandal blew up and it was confirmed the guy worked for Theranos.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    she just ripped off a bunch of rich people

    Her company was sinking its teeth into the medical field though. That could’ve killed people if they weren’t found out soon enough.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    How was it gonna get FDA-approved tho? Im sure its happened before in the past but i wonder what the plan was for that

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    I'm not sure what they were doing needed FDA approval since it was a blood test and not something that actually goes into or touches a patient. Though I'm not expert on medical regulations so thats just a guess.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The most depressing thing about this entire ordeal is that the woman stole lots of money, got busted because that money belonged to rich people, and is now after having been convicted and literally been to prison as far as i know, able to cash in on that further. Lets make a movie about that wonderful successful scammer.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I think there's a law in the states that criminals can't profit from the story of their crime. If I remember correctly, the money that would have gone to the criminal goes to restitution for the victims.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Assuming that is indeed the case, she still benefits considerably: she gets to stay relevant, develop celebrity, change or affect the public opinion on her. A normal criminal cant even get a job cleaning toilets sometimes.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Netflix live action Rescue Rangers casting agent dream actress right there.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Why is this so common, anyway? Why do so many images like this even exist?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    I would imagine in many cases for images uploaded to an image host, the host is automatically changing the actual format of the image (this happens to me on some sites tho it is pretty rare in 2026). Or it was saved by someone who took a screenshot of the image instead of saving the actual image.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Why do PNG images with alpha transparencies exists?

    Because when put on a background gif transparencies look dithered since gif transparencies are either on or off. There are no 50% or any other partial opacities.

    If you are using gifs for like moving pixel art, that's great but if a designer wants a realistic still images with moving clouds in the background, PNG would be a way better option.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You are an organic meme, not an advertisment being pushed by some big marketing firm to virally promote an upcoming movie, right?

    Why would I deceive you?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Me too kid. Me too

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Can someone tell me why I’m seeing this woman around everywhere?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 month ago*

    A trailer dropped for some up coming movie with this chick in it and everyone’s been memeing the hell out of it.

    Here’s a link to the KnowYourMeme page and the trailer is in there if you want to see where it’s coming from. I’m not directly linking it cause I’m not advertising for them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    .webp coming for you

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    Um, ackchually, PNG does not mean that it has an alpha channel. Even JPEG can have alpha channel (though its not standard feature and might break compatibility with some readers), but also AVIF and WebM.

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