Also, thank you for participating in the clinical trial. I pivoted my tech career several years ago to focus on that industry (the tech isn't great, I'm trying to help that). Along the way I've learned how important it is to participate in this research, it makes a massive difference so thank you.
I'm from Iowa City! It's awesome to see this pop up on HN. IC has a number of great older bars like this. Sadly my favorite (The Sanctuary) closed recently and may be lost forever.
This specific quote from the article made me think of lawmaking - the more detailed the law the harder it is to pass (someone can always fine something to nitpick). Therefore, laws are best at establishing goals, principles, guide rails, etc. Nothing is perfect but the way in which laws are implemented SHOULD remain a separate part of the law passage.
Separate rant: I live on the west coast and am annoyed when I vote because of the number of ballot measures. None of them are sufficiently detailed and fall victim to vague language that's open to interpretation. I'd rather "hire" law makers to do the hard work of details law creation.
That is right, and further - I think about IRBs like I do non-profit boards. One of the key tasks of a board is to determine what risk the organization is willing to bear. I think the IRBs at these institutions are 1) following federal laws but 2) making a judgement on the risk the institution is willing to sign up for. For example, for many clinical trials are distributed to multiple "sites" where the trial is actually administered. Many of these sites are universities. What the University of Iowa is willing to bear is different than the University of Michigan and the IRBs reflect that.
There are different IRBs to review animal research[1]. I believe it created for an ethical framework around the use of animals in science. Same thing: what are "we" accepting of when it comes to research of this nature?
The problem with this statement is that Amazon is largely matching firebase functionality. They just announced streaming JSON out of dynamodb, and the new lambda functionality means you can trigger events on changes and push out updates. It wasn't explicitly stated but I viewed this as a firebase competitor.
Leslie Groves, Oppenheimer