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Grumpy Old Geeks

306: VanderZanden Event Horizon

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

Vibe Coding, Elon, Bitcoin, Nfts, Tesla, Meta, Cyber, Google, Palantir, Entertainment, Tech, Music, Lifestyle, Code, Technology, Crypto, Social, Facebook, Ai, News, Internet, Elon Musk, Web, Apple, Tech News, Security, Kanye, News Commentary, Movies, Engineering, Spacex, Scams, Business

4.96.1K 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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