msutherl

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by msutherl 11y ago
> Again, so? If there is a "huge dent" across the board, it ends up as no dent at all. The issue is that there's no way to have a huge dent across the board because we now live in a global economy. Advertising-based busine
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by msutherl 11y ago
In what way is this threatened under current conditions? It seems your biggest risk would be i.e. compromise of your email account by hackers, not surveillance by intelligence agencies.
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by msutherl 11y ago
But my point is that still nobody is watching! The idea that there is a "somebody" there is a projection. Google isn't going to make fun of you because you pick your nose.
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by msutherl 11y ago
I think "seriously concerned" is different from "personally bothered". Concern has to do with the situation as a whole and what you might do about it, not i.e. feelings of personal violation, no?
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by msutherl 11y ago
I have no idea whether this statement is true! Can you provide some justification?
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by msutherl 11y ago
I think this downplays the panoply of great things that advertising-based business models have made possible, not to mention that actual function of advertising in society. Why risk it? Because the risk is worth taking, unless you'd li
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by msutherl 11y ago
I'm asking: 'why do people feel personally intruded on ?' which we could then use to answer the question as you interpreted it: ' why does it change the behavior of the population?'
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by msutherl 11y ago
This is kind of tautological. "We feel this way because we do." Why do you feel that it is invasive? And certainly you're using "invasive" here metaphorically because there isn't actually any coherent entity
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by msutherl 11y ago
I still don't quite comprehend why people feel personally bothered by such things. Yes, it is better for society to have safeguards in place to prevent certain kinds of surveillance as a check on governmental and corporate power – an
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by msutherl 11y ago
Interpreting "enslave" broadly, as I think was intended in the original quote, the most likely reason is "for their own good." It's not difficult to imagine a powerful leader, with superior access to machines for th
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by msutherl 11y ago
Pardon the diatribe, but the older I get, the more I feel this book has done incredible damage to political thinking in the States (where it is often a high school reading requirement.) What's problematic is that it focuses on one in
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by msutherl 11y ago
Interesting result from a survey I conducted on behalf of an artist at the Venice Biennale (possibly the most important contemporary art event in the world): nearly all visitors during the preview (prior to the public opening) who answered
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by msutherl 11y ago
> reëngineer Just want to say I appreciated this :)
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by msutherl 11y ago
Do you foresee Urbit making use of IPFS?
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by msutherl 11y ago
Interestingly, this same objection comes up when people try to read so-called (normally French) postructuralist theory from the 60s and 70s. Derrida himself, or Rorty writing on Derrida, supposedly advanced a similar argument, that using ne
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The OSF Playbook: Open Source Decision-Analysis Model for Science-Based Startups(osfund.co)
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by msutherl 11y ago
Yup, Lauren McCarthy is an artist.
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by msutherl 11y ago
I just Googled "biggest startups". First result: http://www.businessinsider.com/best-startups-that-launched-s... . Mostly good examples with a couple of exceptions.
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by msutherl 11y ago
Most large corporations including Google, Apple, Intel, etc. have an entire department of designers and social scientists (mainly anthropologists) who do ethnographic studies, user studies, etc. in order to understand their customers, new m
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by msutherl 11y ago
I did this for a year in high school (bi-phasic, 1.5h + 4.5h). Had to stop because I was disrupting my parents at night, but I had very good results overall. Felt like I had more energy during the day and enjoyed surreal relaxing times awak
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by msutherl 11y ago
Each of these points pertain to the startup gaining leverage over the employee. Ergo, the reason startups like their employees to believe is so that they can retain and control them more easily. On the flip side, if a startup that "bel
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by msutherl 11y ago
Highly recommend Canada ... Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal all have decent (albeit small) tech scenes and are great places to live.
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by msutherl 11y ago
As pertains to the 'delete files [...] reformat his computer", would he have been absolved if he had instead "lost" his computer?
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by msutherl 11y ago
This is extraordinarily cynical. There are many different colleges in different places, different majors, and different lifestyles you can construct that ultimately get you through the machine and out the other end after 4 years. If you can
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Doing Good Tech versus Doing Good with Tech(techcrunch.com)
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by msutherl 11y ago
Isn't it possible that employee and employer can have a non-antagonistic relationship? What if the "discussion" was intended entirely in the interest of the employee? In any event, it seems to me that it was good advice given
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by msutherl 11y ago
You seem to be equating 'acting within the law' with both moral conduct and efficacy (from the perspective of the charter). This is denying that efficacy from the perspective of the company, contra the law, moral code, or the char
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by msutherl 11y ago
My question was a rhetorical one to get the OP to think about what the relationship between "making money" and "generating value" might be. The way he put it, it's as if they are completely disconnected. Another way
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by msutherl 11y ago
What does "making money" mean?
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by msutherl 11y ago
What brings us all here is the very engine of neoliberalism.

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