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David Pierce

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The Vergecast
Ben McKenzie vs. crypto

I think a lot of health care providers don't have experience with these devices.

The Vergecast
Ben McKenzie vs. crypto

And, you know, I can tell you, we just published a study recently.

The Vergecast
Ben McKenzie vs. crypto

surveying endocrinologists who have a ton of experience using this technology in people with diabetes.

The Vergecast
Ben McKenzie vs. crypto

And we gave them 20 different glucose monitor reports.

The Vergecast
Ben McKenzie vs. crypto

Sort of the visual is very similar to what you see on the app.

The Vergecast
Ben McKenzie vs. crypto

and asked them, okay, if someone came in with this report, would you suggest they have follow-up screening for this?

The Vergecast
Ben McKenzie vs. crypto

And I think we had 18 different experts that we surveyed, and essentially there was no consensus.

Pivot
Tariff Turmoil, Trump's Netflix Threat, and SOTU Predictions

If I was trying to get rid of big tech apps in my life, my top three or four recommendations would definitely start with Proton.

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Tariff Turmoil, Trump's Netflix Threat, and SOTU Predictions

Proton is this company started by a bunch of CERN scientists in Switzerland that is very privacy focused.

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Tariff Turmoil, Trump's Netflix Threat, and SOTU Predictions

And over the years, they've actually built

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Tariff Turmoil, Trump's Netflix Threat, and SOTU Predictions

a series of apps that are basically as good as everything you get from Google.

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Tariff Turmoil, Trump's Netflix Threat, and SOTU Predictions

They have a drive, they have an email, they have calendar, they have all this stuff.

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Tariff Turmoil, Trump's Netflix Threat, and SOTU Predictions

The next one is probably Signal, which is the messaging app I think everyone should switch to.

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Tariff Turmoil, Trump's Netflix Threat, and SOTU Predictions

There are things that are good about WhatsApp, even though it's owned by Meta, but Signal is a organization run by the right kind of people who believe in the right kind of things.

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Tariff Turmoil, Trump's Netflix Threat, and SOTU Predictions

And then the third one is slightly more a field, but I would say anyone who wants to do smart home stuff in their life right now should use Home Assistant.

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Tariff Turmoil, Trump's Netflix Threat, and SOTU Predictions

You can use Alexa, you can use HomeKit, you can use Google.

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Tariff Turmoil, Trump's Netflix Threat, and SOTU Predictions

But Home Assistant is this very specific, hackable, open system that you control much more completely than you control any of those other systems.

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Tariff Turmoil, Trump's Netflix Threat, and SOTU Predictions

Everything from the stuff on your doorbell that's looking out at the world and seeing people come up to your door to like the baby monitors inside of your house.

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Tariff Turmoil, Trump's Netflix Threat, and SOTU Predictions

Who runs that stuff matters.

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Tariff Turmoil, Trump's Netflix Threat, and SOTU Predictions

Netflix, absolutely.

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