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Re:No Thanks, Google. I'll Speak for Myself on Thursday May 10, 2018 @01:40PM (#17041167)
> Frankly, I'd like Google Assistant to make some of the more soul-sucking calls I have to endure. Perhaps it can call and argue with the insurance company about doctor bills.

People often forget that companies make various types of agreement between each other. Let's keep it simple: I have a complaint with my insurance company and they have some kind of partnership with Google.

What will Google-bot do? I hardly believe it will pursue my interests

Re:Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust on Saturday July 01, 2017 @10:56AM (#14677370)
> "json lines" data format (where each record is json without literal newlines, and newline separates records)

Good point, but jq handles this already. If the payload is an array of object, simply `jq -c '.[]'` to get an object per line