i mean some people use them to control their smart home devices. i myself use them for lights, setting alarms and converting measurements while cooking, changing the ac temperature setting, etc. its also useful while driving as taking hand off the steering wheel to type something is a huge no-no in many places. and…

I’m with you on that. Google keeps asking for my opinion on GV and it pisses me off every time because they’ve done nothing to improve its biggest shortcoming, which is that it doesn’t interface well with Android (MIND-BOGGLING). Android Auto will read my Allo messages, it’ll read my Facebook messages, but for some…

Same; when I switched from Fi I was pissed to discover Hangouts wouldn’t work as the default SMS on my carrier. I ended up simply creating a new (free) Google number and I just told all of my friends to text me there instead, and texted them back from that account when they sent it to my main number. Everyone’s been…

Any chance they’re delaying it to fix the meltdown and specter flaws?

One of the MoviePass rules is that you can’t use it on the same movie twice. I think what has been happening is people are checking in for one movie and then buying the ticket for a different movie. This reduces the quality of their precious data (the real income source). If they have data showing 100 people checked…

Once the card is activated it can be used for anything up to $14 at the theater. I think people were buying concessions. This is to try and stem fraud. I’m an avid user and received the same email, my wife doesn’t use as much and they didn’t send it to her.

People have been known to do a split tender and pay the difference to upgrade their ticket to Imax, 3D. This will catch many of them. It’s debit card, there is no way for them to tell what you bought if you charge the exact amount as the SD movie, you could use it to buy from concession.

Possibly guarding against the people that sign up for a certain movie, but buy tickets to another? Their operation is such a mystery...

He also acts like women want work/life balance just because, rather than their male partners often don’t clean the house, pick up the kids from school, stay home when they’re sick, etc etc etc. Emotional labor is very real: http://www.metafilter.com/151267/Wheres-My-Cut-On-Unpaid-Emotional-Labor

Wow, he’s wrong on a lot of things.