This is the states’ argument:

There’s dedicated local circuitry with a buffer of only a few seconds that listens for a keyword. It is very difficult to monitor what someone is saying without having the blue ring lights turn on after being triggered by saying Alexa. If the blue ring lights aren’t on, your voice is NOT being sent anywhere outside of…

Wut?

There’s never anything convenient about deciding that you’re going to go through the public ridicule, doubt, and disdain that comes with reporting sexual assault.

That’s what kills me about people writing “articles” like this. What business is it of theirs how much someone chooses to give away, or who they give it to? No one made Bezos give that money away, so no matter if it was $1 or $2,000,000,000, it’s up to him to decide if and how he wants to use his money.

So he would have been better off keeping the $2 billion and doing nothing with it?  I mean there are plenty of appropriate grievances to be aired towards Bezos.  Be better Hamno.  This is fucking weaksauce.  

His net worth is essentially his stock in Amazon. He doesn’t actually have access to nearly that amount of money. If he were to liquidate his entire position in Amazon it would have drastic effects. 

We are witnessing the end of free speech and expression.

They haven’t stifled it - independent sites have chosen not to air him. He’s perfectly welcome to setup a competing platform.

I don’t respect the opinion. That’s my opinion.

No, this is absolute apologist bullshit. Nobody is taking away their ability to say whatever bullshit thing they’re saying.

There’s a huge difference of the meaning to the word “any media” back then and now.

Fuck. Environmental shit typically becomes a big pool of money for lawyers before anything actually gets done. Why do you think legislation called Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) became known as Superfund? The quote from congressmen was something like, “Jesus Christ, CERCLA…

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. 

A 2018 Camry hybrid is rated at 52 mpg. That thing is a boat and is certainly no penalty box. If the 2018 can hit 52 mpg, the 2025 can reach 55 mpg easily. With smaller hybrids mileage will be better. Bigger ones (Avalon?) won’t be as good, but the 55 mpg is about an average so it should be fine. If you can hit the…

Perhaps you forget that the automakers all agreed with Mr Obama quite publicly that these were good and attainable targets. And that the rest of the modern world is enacting similarly aggressive targets - because it’s important to do, you troll. Sure, they might have not quite made it, but we might as well strive for…

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…