Yes, I can see how differentiating a clone from the things it clones will be a tough row to hoe.

There is nothing innovative about this at all - it's almost a parody of useless SV startups.

I clicked on the link wondering how an app is supposed to help with sobriety. "Does it count days clean? Does it hook you up with somebody to talk to if you're having a compulsion to use?" Nope! It's yet another damn photosharing social network. Awesome. Now I can finally share my photos with people online. Thanks Sobrr.

I like how an app named Sobrr promotes itself with people drunkenly messing around half-naked, people at a concert, people at a bar. All the things I personally associate with my own sobriety!

This guy seems intensely clueless.

"If somebody is willing to pay for it, is it really unethical?"

There we go - if there's a paying market for something, it's totally ethical. Off I go to found assasins.io - murder for hire disrupted.

This seems taken out of context. I don't think he was making a blanket statement, he was asking if people are willing to pay for this particular service, is it unethical? Ie, is it reasonable to say that if people are willing to pay for restaurant reservations, specifically, does that say anything about the ethics of it. Not to say that it is a good point, but I don't think it's some moral statement that paying for something makes it de facto ethical in general.

He said a lot more than that, from the article.

You are still free to say whatever you want, and people are free to call you an asshole and distance themselves from you.

Having worked there, I'd say that is an excellent plan.

Poopin'.

Fair enough.

Is this an attempt at humour or did you really miss the entire point of the article?

Kinda hard to when you've exhausted your quota of 10 article a month.

But from the opening paragraph (all I can see for more than a couple of seconds) it's clearly an anti-gun, anti-concealed carry attack, for which excusing its verbal brutality as "humor" doesn't work in the least. From someone who's likely grossly ignorant of the relevant details, including at least a couple of nearby states, Utah and Colorado, that allow concealed carry in public universities without any incidents of note.

Heck, when Colorado flipped hard-core anti-gun in the legislature and executive last year, a law to eliminate that was the only gun-grabbing measure to fail.

The entire point was: "Heh, I'm going to make light of this issue while not conveying any helpful insight for thinking about it, and if it's close enough to satire and takes the right position, I'll make it into the NY times."

Seriously, op-eds like this remind me of what my selection of commentary looked like before the internet.

How is it clever to joke about "gosh, the worst we get 'round these parts is cheating on scantrons, shuck-a-muck."

I'd say the question helps you separate out candidates who have run into this sort of BS question before and have a pat answer already prepared.

"Gee whiz, I'd say my biggest flaw is that I'm TOO passionate about technology!"

Wow, saying that he "lacks tact" is a bit of an understatement.