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reaperducer
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No social media account, sorry. The real world is too interesting to waste time in a hyper-optimized version of Q-Link.
- Cell tower data is readily available for a modest price. It's not hard to triangulate someone with "good enough" accuracy for marketing purposes.
Also, the world is filled with millions of Bluetooth-logging devices. They're everywhere from department stores (to monitor foot traffic) to the side of the road (to monitor traffic speed).
- 8 points
- why did the author of the article choose one of those annoying two-sentence millennial titles?
In big journalism organizations like this one, the writers don't come up with the headlines. There are other people for that.
- 98 points
- 10 points
- Businesses literally try to track and optimise virality these days as part of their marketing.
Not just businesses. It's governments, too.
There's a public park near me that is tracked for likes and social media engagement. If it misses the city's goals for social media engagement a certain number of months in a row, it can be turned back into a parking lot.
I objected to this measure of "success" during the public meetings about it, but nobody cares about the old man in the back of the room.
- Were they global or local? I made that distinction intentionally.
Either or both, depending on the SYSOP's resources. I ran a BBS that did store-and-forward between the U.S. and Europe.
The ones with global connections could take a day to a week to forward messages, but that turned out to be a feature. We went outside in the real world instead of staying online arguing with strangers.
- 47 points
- You're being downvoted but Greenblatt has stated it plainly.
Maybe he's being downvoted for taking the discussion off-topic.
- If they're taken offline, they stop working.
I think this is a bit of hyperbole. I haven't had my Roomba hooked up to the internet in at least four years. It works fine.
The only thing is that I have to start it by pushing the button on top, instead of using a phone app.
- All the Flock cameras around me are stationed around the entrances to Lowe's parking lots.
Most of the ones in my neighborhood are pointed at parks, playgrounds, and the big transit center. Which makes no sense to me since there's a ton of government buildings around that you'd think would be under Flock surveillance for "safety."
- Oddly, one of the FAQs does call it the Department of War.
Not odd at all. That's what it's called now. Complete with new URL:
- Also, try not to be brown.
- Employers would have to be pretty spiteful to look at it the way you purposed.
It's not always that black and white. In spite of appearances, many many companies make hiring decisions based on things other than what's in a resume.
For example, a company may have $mm contracts with another company whose owners/operators/shareholders/etc. favor one particular view, political party, or social construct. That company will most certainly look down upon the other company hiring people of a particular background.
Or the pressure could be internal. A couple of times in my life I've worked for companies where certain departments were unionized. Even if you weren't in one of those departments, if the company hired you and you had a particular background, the union would object.
The real world is very complex.
- Looks like the link is dead.
Turn off your VPN?
- Maybe programmers will have to start making their programs efficient again.
Maybe OpenAI's RAM monopoly is what kills Electron.
- As someone not involved in this space at all, is this similar to the old MacOS Xgrid?
A newspaper recently published an article stating that if you wanted to watch every NFL game, you'd need eleven streaming subscriptions.