tippytop

Upon browsing a few of these threads tonight, I've realized there is no worse reading than a bunch of tech enthusiasts armchairing about geopolitics. I'm out!

But JSON doesn't support comments which are pretty nice in a config file. You can do the ugly comment as property stuff, or strip them out, but you're getting away from the One True Format.

So which Uber driver is taking the calls to the poorer neighborhoods?

Higher education has become an export of the US. What's citizenship got to do with it?

So they picked the favorite in the final and missed the third place game. The singularity is almost here.

Uber drivers aren't invisible. It wouldn't take much effort to use the app to flag one down, note the license plate, and give them a nice little talking to. I doubt many part-timers would stick with it if they thought there was a chance for trouble.

If you're ever in Mountain View and walk by the Google campus around 4-4:30p, you can witness the vast network of Google buses picking up their colonist cargo ready for dispersal throughout the Bay Area. It's not just one or two buses, the road is literally backed up with them, each with a little LCD display to let you know what town or neighborhood they're going to. It really is a sight to behold. I can understand why locals view them as an invading army.

So I'm waiting behind a soon-to-be (or not-so-soon) leaving car and some other jerk with an app pulls up and claims it's his spot because he "paid" for it? And I'm supposed to recognize this transaction and carry on? Yeah, right. Fuck both these guys, he'll have to pay me 20 bucks not to break his taillight.

Gross. It's also GPLv3, that seems a bit restrictive for a class system.

And now thanks to Mr. Greenwald's reporting, citizens & elected officials, policy wonks & pundits, scholars & laymen alike, can all discuss actual facts instead of relying on grkvit's assumptions about how government spy programs operate.

You are correct, I've misunderstood this program and perhaps the parent post I was responding to. Oh well, can't win 'em all. This is in addition to the PRISM programs we've already seen.

HIPAA is no joke. Even if this company is technically in the clear, being associated with a controversy like this is enough to keep doctors from using the service. Makes me wonder if they had any domain knowledge at all or just a "Yelp for doctors" pitch and some mumbo-jumbo about big data revolutionizing healthcare.