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no, see, every single case, without exception, of someone working as an independent contractor has to do with empowerment. nobody sane would put on clothes for a 9-5 offering stable employment/income if they had the skills for flexible/independent tech work.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 04:07 |
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dammit i only managed to snype the poors using words.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 04:08 |
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wtf are you reposting your own posts across pagebreaks? that is kindof bullshit
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 04:18 |
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It can be hard to experience the vitriol directed toward technology startups today yet continue to seek out root causes. But that is precisely what we must do. People aren’t angry at startups and technology, but those are among the most visible signs of the huge inequality that has grown in America over the past thirty years. As we start into the new year and the second half of this decade, it is time to revisit these issues and reconnect with the optimistic spirit that made Silicon Valley what it is today. We don’t have to live with income inequality if we can design the right economic structures to slow its growth down and ultimately reverse it. Just take education as an example. Outside the hype around education startups like MOOCs, there has been very little real progress on addressing the yawning gap in education outcomes in America, despite the importance of education in staying ahead of the continuous automation of jobs. The internet, despite all the regulations being placed on it, is still a wide canvas upon which to draw the future, and that is why techies are our greatest hope for a gentler, fairer society. I am deeply optimistic about what we can accomplish. I strongly argued that algorithms have the ability to do more for worker rights than labor unions in the twenty-first century, simply because a single decision in the design of an algorithm can instantly improve the quality of life for thousands of people. That is precisely what is happening at Starbucks, which is adjusting its scheduling algorithms to go easier on parents through more consistent work shifts. The politics over these policies won’t disappear, but solving them will become simpler than before.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 04:53 |
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OH MY loving GOD
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 05:19 |
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Abolishing unions for loving algorithms are you making GBS threads me goddamnit
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 05:21 |
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pure, unfiltered, techcrunch. those with weak hearts may wish to avert their eyes now http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/17/algorithm-overlords/ quote:Quality of life is perhaps the single largest factor underpinning human happiness, and that quality is largely determined by one’s job. It should be no wonder then that so many activists and politicians have made improving work a key element of their advocacy for generations. The history of America is, in many ways, the history of work.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 05:50 |
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Maybe I want to do a mix of cooking, Egyptian hieroglyphic travel blogging, and some regression analysis of health data. In the past, that would mean getting a job in marketing and living a corporate life until such time that one could quit and pursue their interests. Today, it is entirely possible to stitch together a set of opportunities to bring all of those passions together. what in the ever living gently caress?.......
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 05:54 |
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Main Paineframe posted:
that's because for whites and asians they perform great, better than most nations actually and guess who's 95% of techies hmmmmmmmmm
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 06:26 |
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one of my friends got a job as an 'entrepreneur in residence' at a very well known vc firm. idk what that means but i'm thinking i should start hitching to their coattails
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 06:27 |
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Main Paineframe posted:pure, unfiltered, techcrunch. those with weak hearts may wish to avert their eyes now I read about three paragraphs and that was enough. fuckin hell these people are hosed in the head.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 06:29 |
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THAT ARTICLE IS VERY INSANE
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 06:29 |
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:one of my friends got a job as an 'entrepreneur in residence' at a very well known vc firm. idk what that means but i'm thinking i should start hitching to their coattails it means he is almost certainly going to be paid to do nothing
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 06:29 |
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A VC-employed entrepreneur-in-residence? I don't get it. He can't entrepreneur poo poo, cause that's what those who are not him do.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 06:39 |
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Trashman posted:I read about three paragraphs and that was enough. fuckin hell these people are hosed in the head. I don't know which i like less ,the fact that something wrote that or that someone might read it in earnest
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 06:42 |
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syscall girl posted:I don't know which i like less ,the fact that something wrote that or that someone might read it in earnest boomers and rich people still think that the rampant unlimited growth they were promised is only being stopped by monolithic evil unions full of mindflayers
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 06:44 |
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i yearn for a day when we are all uber drivers of our own destinies
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 07:02 |
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Snapchat A Titty posted:Abolishing unions for loving algorithms are you making GBS threads me goddamnit well you see the algorithms arrived at the conclusion to treat people better on their own with no outside guidance
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 07:26 |
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can't wait for someone to post about autonomous corporations again
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 07:27 |
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syscall girl posted:on a somewhat related note somebody in the dnd chat thread said they saw fishmech arguing with one of his alternate accounts that was years ago when i had to keep up seperate posting identities.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 07:32 |
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Nintendo Kid posted:that was years ago when i had to keep up seperate posting identities. tbh if i had any need or interest in an alt i'd probably do the same for funzies and no one would be the wiser because im white noise as gently caress
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 07:37 |
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i'm so whitenoise no one will quote this post
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 07:39 |
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for a while i managed to scage accounts off people who were TOTALLY QUITTING SA FOREVER and then i'd usually try to keep up a simulacra of their posting style while doing so.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 07:39 |
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Nintendo Kid posted:for a while i managed to scage accounts off people who were TOTALLY QUITTING SA FOREVER and then i'd usually try to keep up a simulacra of their posting style while doing so. what in the
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 07:48 |
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theflyingexecutive posted:well you see the algorithms arrived at the conclusion to treat people better on their own with no outside guidance hahaha gently caress you gently caress everything
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 07:49 |
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Nintendo Kid posted:for a while i managed to scage accounts off people who were TOTALLY QUITTING SA FOREVER and then i'd usually try to keep up a simulacra of their posting style while doing so. was it an episode of black mirror where a kludgy machine intelligence mimicked deceased people in an attempt to comfort their bereaved or w/e? because its u fake edit: yeah it was s2e1 brb
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 07:56 |
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syscall girl posted:was it an episode of black mirror where a kludgy machine intelligence mimicked deceased people in an attempt to comfort their bereaved or w/e? probably, but it was more about being able to slowly transition the accounts into my posting style so i didnt have to do all the work. anyway black mirror was just talking about a system that already claims to exist, where once you die it sets loose their markov bot thing trained on all your social media and private email you allow the company to see Elder Postsman posted:what in the getting free accounts off people is fun.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 07:59 |
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fits my needs posted:Maybe I want to do a mix of cooking, Egyptian hieroglyphic travel blogging, and some regression analysis of health data. In the past, that would mean getting a job in marketing and living a corporate life until such time that one could quit and pursue their interests. Today, it is entirely possible to stitch together a set of opportunities to bring all of those passions together. according to his profile, he's a stanford-educated software "engineer" who became a VC investor right out of college and is currently working on his philosophy PhD at harvard clearly he'd be caught up in the soulless corporate grind if he hadn't been freed by the magical forces of disruption. i'm sure he's just eternally grateful that technology has liberated him to do whatever he wants, at least until he runs out of his parents' money
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 08:03 |
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fight the future
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 08:12 |
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Main Paineframe posted:VC investor right out of college ughghhhhhbb
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 08:38 |
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Elder Postsman posted:what in the yeah this is pretty drat sad
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 09:03 |
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syscall girl posted:was it an episode of black mirror where a kludgy machine intelligence mimicked deceased people in an attempt to comfort their bereaved or w/e? it was part of the episode with the substitutes for deceased loved ones which were pretty much just markov chain bots. in an early scene, the guy makes fun of a childhood photo and puts it on his profile for lols. then later when the bot comes across the picture, it thinks he was genuine and acts like it.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 09:18 |
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As a Millennial I posted:
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 09:22 |
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Snapchat A Titty posted:it was part of the episode with the substitutes for deceased loved ones which were pretty much just markov chain bots. in an early scene, the guy makes fun of a childhood photo and puts it on his profile for lols. then later when the bot comes across the picture, it thinks he was genuine and acts like it. when i saw that ep i immediately thought what if someone used my post history to represent me after my death and all that would imply that would be pretty rough
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 09:46 |
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syscall girl posted:when i saw that ep i immediately thought what if someone used my post history to represent me after my death and all that would imply ya mine wouldnt be very good neither. its literally teen crazed enthusiasm => 20s weary malaise => 30s angry misanthropy loving bot would probably hang itself before it got outta the tub
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 09:52 |
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i stand by every one of my posts
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 09:55 |
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theflyingexecutive posted:can't wait for someone to post about autonomous corporations again corporations serving on corporations' boards and as officers and directors all decisions made by algorithm or heuristic, running on a virtual compute infrastructure in the cloud, with EFT and payment gateways for financials all non-compute work fulfilled via a combination of web APIs all work that still needs doing by a human fulfilled via on-demand piecework through Mechanical Turk/TaskRabbit style gateways that standardize labor and continually drive down rates truly a wondrous future we're building for ourselves. what happens in the libertarian utopia when the libertarians are out-competed by the machines?
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 10:58 |
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theadder posted:i squat over every one of my posts
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 11:00 |
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'on-demand village economy'
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 11:47 |
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yes, let's put algorithms in charge of things literally skynet
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