The trypophobia comparison is nonsense and the author is obviously just trying (and failing) to include a memey word in the hopes of minor virality.
And it’s always fun to hear ‘reveal the algorithm’ as though it’s KFC’s blend of spices.
Also complaining about the societal impact of bad content, then complaining that good content is sometimes inaccurately caught in a filter is just insane. The filters are either too strict or too soft, they can’t be both at the same time (human reviewers follow rules just like algos).
Hey, that's my stance as well! I'm from Eastern Europe and I don't think it was customary here until very recently (now things are changing as we become Americanized...) to smile in photographs. I too prefer to not create a fake, infantilized version of reality for the photo. For me, it's part of the American obsession/oppression of having to hide your real feelings and pretending to be happy and successful at all times.
I’ve definitely noticed tech, especially tech press, getting much more political and negative in the last few years.
I don’t really know if it’s the WHOLE of tech (or just how it’s reported), but it definitely feels like a downer right now.
As a tech liberal dreamer, it’s totally getting to me.
I want to read about interesting new solutions to problems, but at the moment it seems mostly like negative press about Uber.
Obviously it’s responsible to call it when conpanies do bad things, but is tech really unethical on the scale of pharma or agrobusiness or fast food? Doesn’t seem so. ( I get that they’re tech press so they’ll only report on tech, but context would be nice).
Seems like a reasonable way to prevent overly-broad fishing by law enforcement. If they have a warrant they can request information through legal channels.
Uber has already been seen to act adversarial to law enforcement, raids are utilized to try and limit Uber's ability to conceal information. I have no doubt in my mind that Uber would willingly fail to comply to requests for information.
The mirror image of your argument is just as applicable:
Law enforcement has already been seen to act adversarial to private interests, remotely logging out of computers is utilized to try and limit law enforcement's ability to obtain information beyond the scope of a warrant. There is little doubt that law enforcement would willingly take information beyond the scope of the warrant and later find a way to use it against them.
Really? By that logic the private interest of a lot of non-white drivers of staying alive must be against the law. The time for hero worship and blind trust is over.
>> When the call came in, staffers quickly remotely logged off every computer in the Montreal office, making it practically impossible for the authorities to retrieve the company records they’d obtained a warrant to collect. The investigators left without any evidence.
That excuse, thin as it is, could perhaps have sufficed for the first occurrence of such an act. But now it's been publicized. And it's a bit hard to pretend that, during a police raid, you're secretly and cryptically notifying the higher-ups, for some mysterious reason that you are completely ignorant of. It's just not credible that an intelligent tech worker who works for Uber and knows how to read English would not figure this out.
I did the same and filled it with things that are relevant to me, and now my ads are generally enjoyable — things I might not have otherwise known about.
There was a lot of cruft in there from the early days when it was easy to like everything. But after the cleanout my ads are definitely better.
Even not having service trade isn’t a great disaster. Companies with sizeable EU revenue can just set up a European subsidiary (in Ireland, etc) to conduct business in Europe from the UK (or anywhere).
(Though I accept it’ll be a pain for e.g. finance companies which the EU requires to be based within the EU,)
Startups eespecially aren’t held back by these rules right now, they just sell everywhere in USD (and at some point when they’re big enough create an EU subsidiary).
The goods thing would be a real issue, if everything on supermarket shelves became 1.5x as expensive. So as long as that’s solved it’ll be fine.
> Startups eespecially aren’t held back by these rules right now, they just sell everywhere in USD (and at some point when they’re big enough create an EU subsidiary).
It's not all about the money, e.g regulations like DPD and soon GDPR can affect this. Legal departments of our customers won't touch anything non-EU based with a 100 mile pole.
>Companies with sizeable EU revenue can just set up a European subsidiary (in Ireland, etc) to conduct business in Europe from the UK (or anywhere). //
Or anywhere ... Why would you go to the bother and expense of being in UK, puppeteering a company in the EU. You just move to the EU and save yourself the cost/hastle.
OK - but tell me how that would work for cars for example, to be sold in the EU they need to have a certain percentage assembled in the EU. So really all those jobs will need to jobs to Ireland to be sold in the EU.
Please no-one tell Jony.