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It's kinda weird, that some of the greatest minds in the world, are gathered in Silicon Valley, solely working on how to make us click on more advertisements on

It's kinda weird, that some of the greatest minds in the world, are gathered in Silicon Valley, solely working on how to make us click on more advertisements on the internet. As far as hiding your online fingerprint, I feel that having a clean-slate browser container[1], while certainly a hassle, can go some way towards protecting yourself, but...these great minds will find another way. [1] https://tpaschalis.github.io/sandboxed-browser-with-docker/ https://tpaschalis.github.io/sandboxed-browser-with-docker/

albertgoeswoof 8y ago
> greatest minds in the world I wouldn't be so generous.
- andrewmcwatters 8y ago
  Yeah, a lot of these individuals are "just people" at the end of the day.
  - ska 8y ago
    It's hyperbole, sure, but there is a kernel of truth (as is often the case) It seems entirely plausible from where I sit that some of the technology companies with the highest average talent (for some hand-wavy) in engineering are spending a ton of that talent , and wealth, and time focusing on problems that don't have very compelling value in a broader societal sense. While at the same time some interesting and clearly important problems are severely under-resourced. I suppose that's part of free-ish market capitalism's feature set - if above is right it should eventually re-balance but nothing says that has to happen in one generation, or even several.
stephengillie 8y ago
I saw the best minds of our generation writing spam filters. - Neal Stephenson We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters. - Peter Thiel
- forapurpose 8y ago
  > We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters. - Peter Thiel Well, don't forget mass surveillance.
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- jv22222 8y ago
  > We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters. - Peter Thiel Damn you Twitter, damn you to hell, for hiring all those flying car specialists.
allemagne 8y ago
The fact that these minds have decided to solely work on superfluous things seems like a hint that they might not be our greatest minds.
SAS24 8y ago
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. "That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher (who built the original Data Analysis team at Facebook) https://www.fastcompany.com/3008436/why-data-god-jeffrey-hammerbacher-left-facebook-found-cloudera https://www.fastcompany.com/3008436/why-data-god-jeffrey-ham...
mvkel 8y ago
It’s always baffled me that the top 1% of the top 1% of MIT grads get scouted by Wall St and user data companies like Google and Facebook. What a waste of a brain

albertgoeswoof 8y ago

> greatest minds in the world I wouldn't be so generous.

andrewmcwatters 8y ago
Yeah, a lot of these individuals are "just people" at the end of the day.
- ska 8y ago
  It's hyperbole, sure, but there is a kernel of truth (as is often the case) It seems entirely plausible from where I sit that some of the technology companies with the highest average talent (for some hand-wavy) in engineering are spending a ton of that talent , and wealth, and time focusing on problems that don't have very compelling value in a broader societal sense. While at the same time some interesting and clearly important problems are severely under-resourced. I suppose that's part of free-ish market capitalism's feature set - if above is right it should eventually re-balance but nothing says that has to happen in one generation, or even several.

stephengillie 8y ago

I saw the best minds of our generation writing spam filters. - Neal Stephenson We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters. - Peter Thiel

forapurpose 8y ago
> We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters. - Peter Thiel Well, don't forget mass surveillance.
- deleted 8y ago
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jv22222 8y ago
> We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters. - Peter Thiel Damn you Twitter, damn you to hell, for hiring all those flying car specialists.

allemagne 8y ago

The fact that these minds have decided to solely work on superfluous things seems like a hint that they might not be our greatest minds.

SAS24 8y ago

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. "That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher (who built the original Data Analysis team at Facebook) https://www.fastcompany.com/3008436/why-data-god-jeffrey-hammerbacher-left-facebook-found-cloudera https://www.fastcompany.com/3008436/why-data-god-jeffrey-ham...

mvkel 8y ago

It’s always baffled me that the top 1% of the top 1% of MIT grads get scouted by Wall St and user data companies like Google and Facebook. What a waste of a brain