Why do io9 writers keep talking about DC’s “grimdark” as the alternative to fun and light fare? Chris Nolan’s “dark” Batman movies were great. It’s only Zach Snyder’s movies that sucked. I don’t think it’s an issue with grimdark, so much as an issue with Zach Snyder. I enjoyed Aquaman and am very much looking forward…

I’ve generally enjoyed this series, but this one is ridiculous. Apple should be the easiest tech giant to cut out your life, since it has the smallest ownership of the internet backbone. There’s no reason to dive into Linux, when a Windows laptop is the most obvious non-Apple alternative. Why would you choose to go…

Fair point about jobs being not as readily available in certain areas, but whether you make as much in NYC vs. Kansas... I mean sure that’s accurate, but that doesn’t actually mean anything. I know it feels nicer to be able to say you make “$150K”, but what does that really get you if rent costs $4,000 and houses cost…

I pronounce DOJ like dodge, and Doge like Doggy... am I the only one?

Systematic racism is different from racism. One requires power in the equation, the other doesn’t.

I’ve always wondered, does anybody take the actual numbers seriously? I mean, they’re almost always unverifiable. Or is it just the presence of numbers that serves as a filtering mechanism?

I don’t think the miners from West Virginia and Ohio are going to be moving to New York, DC and Boston to build buildings

If you turn off the interest based ads, doesn’t that only stop FB from customizing ads to the data they collected? They’d still be collecting data in the background, no?

If something is all or nothing it should just be thumbs up/down. I’ve long wished Uber/Lyft would just ask two questions: 1. was the ride good? 2. would you want this driver again? with the option to do a thumbs up/down for both.

I dont understand how a super big budget movie can have such subpar VFX. I thought we’d already gotten to a point where credible VFX can be done fairly economically.

The only reason tech CEOs want to require coding is to decrease future labor costs by increasing the overall supply pool of workers. It’s complete self-serving bs.

This may be a dumb question, but is this Mummy not a reboot of all the Brendan Fraser Mummies?

Adam Silver, is that you?

Back when he played, Pat Burrell

Anyone know what their definition of a “tech” job is? I couldn’t find it on the site. If you’re a sales guy at Google is that a “tech” job? If you’re a coder at JnJ is that a tech job?

Taxis in Korea are actually pretty awesome. Completely unlike the typical US experience

Yeah, accessibility is just one point. It needs to take into account time to destinations too. It's not really accessible if it takes you 2 hours and multiple transfers to get from point a to point b

Ulbricht went to Penn State not the University of Pennsylvania. I can't believe people still confuse the two. And it's usually the other way around. -__-

Whoops. Duplicate comment.

Regarding recordings - aren't there legal ramifications for doing so? Particularly in states that require two-party consent?