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Grumpy Old Geeks

306: VanderZanden Event Horizon

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Dipping into the genetic pool; Airbnb regulations; Lyft & Uber's bad business models; Bird is not the word; taxing texts; piracy gone wild on YouTube; crypto's very bad year; Facebook screws up, again; employee spying; Taylor Swift facial recognition crowd monitoring; Boomoji boom; printers still suck; blue light is blinding us. Brought to you by Hover. For 10% off your first order go to hover.com/gog! Brought to you by Hopsy Go to tryhopsy.com/gog and use promo code gog. Terms and conditions apply. Show notes at http://gog.show/306 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:35.3

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

0:39.3

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:49.0

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo.

0:51.2

And I'm Brian Schultmeister. What a week Brian.

0:54.1

I've had some interesting health issues this week, which has gotten me into which I'm not going

0:59.2

to talk about on the show because the people have spoken. They don't give a shit about that stuff.

1:03.5

So I'm going to talk about the technology side of my brain falling apart.

1:09.6

I've been talking with my friend Kevin Rose and he's a big health hacker guy.

1:14.5

And he's turned me on to a couple different services, but there's one that I found that's called

1:18.1

Prome Thes. I just call it Prometheus because I think it's kind of like they were going for.

1:24.8

But what it is is you take your 23 and me and Sreshty.com, Family Tree DNA or whatever data that

1:30.4

you have about your genome, you pop it in and then it builds a report for you based on S,

1:37.6

was it SPpedia? I think that was the name of it. And it's kind of cool. What it does is it gives

1:44.0

you just a better way to view the data than you get from these other things because I'm like,

1:48.6

I'm looking through my 23 and me data and on their site. And it's like, okay, I'm looking for a

1:53.0

certain thing and it's really hard to find. And these guys just take the data dump that you can

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