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by pstack 15y ago
I could possibly swallow this accusation if only there were an established history of this behavior. +cough+
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by pstack 15y ago
Because young entrepreneurs are more creative and imaginative, and are willing put 100% of their lives into their startups, he said. “It’s not a guess, this is a data driven observation,” says the VC. The article is unclear as to whether
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by pstack 15y ago
This would be an awesome idea, if I knew anyone that stayed up past 10pm (besides myself -- I'm up 4pm to 10am) and didn't have to take the kids swimming every weekend. Being the only single workaholic daydreamer with ambition in your circl
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by pstack 15y ago
Really, I didn't figure "I'm a stickler for privacy concerns, but this example doesn't particularly bother me since it's on par with others of its kind, especially when they may be trying to make it an even more social service than it alrea
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by pstack 15y ago
As dangrossman points out, above, you can be fired for any reason whatsoever, on the spot. I believe the only protections are sex, race, gender, religion, and age. And as for sex, that means you can't be fired for being a male or a female.
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by pstack 15y ago
I donated immediately, signed up as soon as they went active (even though I don't do social networks), and never went back. I wanted them to succeed, but I think one has to be fairly honest with themselves and acknowledge that Facebook is n
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by pstack 15y ago
Google is not a branch of government in any way whatsoever and, like any other business or private organization, can tell you how to speak and how to dress and how to behave without it being censorship. My company requires that employees no
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by pstack 15y ago
Of course! What kind of traction would his insinuations have if he hadn't baited them for termination and he had to end the "expose" with "we had a sit down where I explained my intentions and we sorted it all out and had a beer and a laugh
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by pstack 15y ago
The only reason I kept watching the video, was because I expected him to drop some huge bomb. It definitely had the "surveilance footage obtained during one afternoon of filming clearly shows two yellow badgers being violently sodomized by
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by pstack 15y ago
I was responding to the suggestion that it "deserves exploration" simply because some disgruntled contracted employee was trying to cut his teeth on what he tried desperately to make into a juicy expose. Simply making an accusation or ins
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by pstack 15y ago
To put it bluntly, he was the employee of a company that Google hired to do some work for them and he was bothering employees and then he become someone else's problem up the chain and it then become his direct employer's problem who value
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by pstack 15y ago
That is incorrect. He was not given permission by his supervisor to record conversations with other employees. He only asked for permission to videotape yellow-badges leaving the building. Nothing more. Unless someone wants to show me where
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by pstack 15y ago
I don't think it's highly concerning that a badge has a number for employees to call if someone starts asking questions. The last three companies I've worked for are very big heavy hitting technology industry names and every single one had
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by pstack 15y ago
Except this guy wasn't a journalist and he wasn't a whistle-blower and he wasn't a documentarian. He was an employee of a company providing a service who was exploiting the access (and presumably paid-resources) to pursue his own agenda. Th
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by pstack 15y ago
If I hire you to film some promotional company material for me and find that you're using the access we granted you and the time and resources we're paying you for to play documentary-film-maker/sociologist, I'll probably fire you, too.
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by pstack 15y ago
Was the voiceover being done in a closet in a Google lobby or is there another reason for the depressed monotone? I mean, I understand we're trying to be moody and ominous here, but the voiceover could have been retelling the story of the H
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by pstack 15y ago
I can definitely see Facebook being an additional tool, the same way buying ads on AdSense is. I just think that if one is losing all of their traffic and community because something happened to their social networking element, they're doin
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by pstack 15y ago
I don't think I buy the argument everyone makes about a Facebook presence being obligatory. Are we to believe that the only way people hear of new sites and services is through Facebook? If that's true, then how do people hear about your Fa
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by pstack 15y ago
Kudos to parth16 for selecting the Yahoo! Associated Press page for this particular link. My first chuckle of the evening.
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by pstack 15y ago
No, I agree with the fear-mongering. I guess the author needed to fill article space, this week. I'm a privacy-nut type of person and I hate restrictive and absurd licenses. I'm a fan of telling the man to eat it. Note that I'm not justifyi
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by pstack 15y ago
I'm confused. The article says that it's important that I do this, because my "data exhaust" is going to be the future currency of the web. In exactly what way? They never explain how I'm supposed to use this currency to benefit from anythi
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by pstack 15y ago
This sucks and everything, but this is just the kind of garbage you're going to have to put up with when you put such an emphasis on using a proprietary social networking site as your main presence online for yourself or your organization.
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by pstack 15y ago
I can use pinboard (and similar) on any browser and any platform, including a simple API to do custom stuff, if I want. Much more portable.
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by pstack 15y ago
I don't know what "social" has to do with it. It's a service that let's me save and archive my bookmarks online, with tags, fulltext searchable, with a long description, accessible from any system and browser and a number out-of-browser int
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by pstack 15y ago
As the article points out, Kevin says they're likely "done hiring".
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by pstack 15y ago
I'm not going to comment on the particular facet of contention here. I do, however, think that there is a severe deficiency in critical thinking skills in modern society. Especially in America. It lends toward making many assumptions and ac
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by pstack 15y ago
I don't have the time, energy, or resources to address every single social injustice or well intended cause. I might donate cash and possibly even time toward a cause after I have taken care of my job and mortgage and family and other immed
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by pstack 15y ago
I don't know that I will be impressed when that happens. Something tricking you into believing it is sentient is interesting, but inevitable. I want to live long enough that my toaster is an emotional roller-coaster.
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by pstack 15y ago
Do you really feel that it is a superior idea to give it away for free and rely on donations, though? Both options are essentially the same thing, but one says that you're doing it for free and hoping someone will toss you a buck here or th
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by pstack 15y ago
When I see new projects and ideas that take off, my response is usually a curmudgeonly observation about how stupid and pointless it is or how it's so obvious and trivial that I can't believe anyone would waste their time making it. This is

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