I think your assumption is that the $200 you pay covers ALL the costs needed to generate the data that you received, rather than the idea that maybe your report is partially paid for by the $200 and partially paid for by the aggregate profits from selling the data.

Current law does not allow such discrimination. See Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrimination_Act

Yea, if the Republicans would quick dicking around with undoing Obamacare no one would need to worry about being denied covered for pre-existing conditions. 

i’m a 23 & Me customer, and i chose to opt in, simply because i feel that the potential for good coming out of it outweighs the chance anything bad will specifically happen to me. i’m also an optimist, so there’s that.

As a researcher whose analyses are hugely aided by the inclusion of 23andMe samples, allow me to say thanks, everyone! It’s grueling work trying to compile datasets big enough to make a dent in our understanding of the human genome, and massive efforts like theirs (and a bunch of comparably huge samples from nations…

I spoke with Toyota’s CEO this morning about the threat their workers pose to our national security and he assured me that I have a very large penis. He said it was mammoth, dinosauric, and absolutely dwarfed his penis, which, …

LightCycles Brilliant!!!

I think this is an awesome untapped market.

It almost stops. It’s a low speed collision that should not cause any harm to the passengers.

This is just a tweet, and marketing the fact that they did well on crash tests. That clip was probably chosen because the marketing guys thought it looked the coolest and it was going to draw a bunch of re-tweets. I’ll bet the fishhook video didn’t make for as good a tweet. Not as “gif-able” or as dramatic. What makes…

In fact, many of his worst qualities have been seen in democratic presidents and candidates.

I don’t think any President has been a pathological liar. Regular liar, sure. But about completely unimportant, easily provable things? Constantly and with no acknowledgement of error let alone regret?

And yet I find this headline and the contents of the article completely unsurprising. What a time to be alive...

Guys, I think this fact robot might be broken

“I told by Applecare that I could walk in the store and get the part!”

“Horton, Here’s a Poo!”

Human drivers aren’t safe. When human drivers drive toward a hazard instead of away from it as they should they are not safe.

Obviously you didn’t keep reading. Autopilot is not a perfect system, nor meant to be used without any human intervention. It’s incumbent upon the driver to pay attention to the road and to take over should the computer have trouble. The driver didn’t, Tesla is not to blame for his negligence and incompetence.

I’m the same way: I try to use ApplePay at every opportunity, but also make sure to have my credit and debit cards with me whenever I leave the house. One thing that may help, though, is to specifically patronize businesses that offer and support contactless payments like Apple/Android/Samsung/etc Pay — and to choose…

An alternate perspective in the interest of sanity: