vayun's comments

On: How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public

[vayun]

Cigna posted a single 570GB gzipped JSON that barely qualifies as machine-readable

On: Uber London loses licence to operate

[vayun]

What is the problem with cyclists cross the road on a pedestrian crosswalk (with a reasonable speed of course)? In some European countries cyclists are actually forbidden to take direct left turn on the road and have to use pedestrian crosswalk for that.

On: Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook

[vayun]

The article is pure FUD spreading.

"potentially being able to eavesdrop on our conversations", so now any app which has access to microphone "may be listening"?

So it uses data which you are willingly share with it to "serve better ads". Where is a problem with that? Does the author prefer worse ads?

[intopieces → vayun]

>Where is a problem with that? Does the author prefer worse ads?

I certainly do. I do not want ads at all, so I prefer them to be as least relevant to my interests as possible so the chances of them distracting me from what I was doing -- on the rare chance that my ad blocker fails -- are minimized.

I also don't like seeing ads about things I just looked at at Amazon on other websites. It gives me the impression that this new website I'm looking at knows what I'm shopping for.