If the advertisers can't tell if you're using this app or a traditional podcast app, are you really supporting the makers any less by using this app? The advertisers won't pay them any less because they won't be able to know that x% of users didn't hear the ad.
Gee I remember when this was first posted. I remember being jealous for not thinking of the idea myself. Can't believe it's been 6 months and that you've been acquired already. Really kind of inspirational and makes me realize what wonderful things I could have built in that span of time instead of, well, not shipping.
Do you remember which episode that was? Or do you remember anything else that could make the search easier? Tried to google but couldn't find the parody
How would you suggest we work on improving technology without having it be useful in "evil" ways? Or are you suggesting all of us not take data jobs (or even work on any generalizable tech) at the risk that it somehow in a tangential way could be used for evil purposes?
I understand what you're saying, and actually kind of agree with you (that people are commenting minutiae to avoid an elephant in the room), I just don't know if there's a solution.
I really wish the tech community would stop encouraging "this and that is terrible"-style articles. It toxifies the whole atmosphere, and it doesn't have to be like this if we don't want to.
Fame and success is still valued by society writ large. This is deeper than this most recent social media layer. I also left social media but I feel just as much pressure as before because the people who I hang around with (who themselves are on social media, but that's not the only reason they act that way) directly or indirectly put pressure on incentive levers which all in all culminate in me preferring to be a "somebody" rather than a "nobody".
On the other hand, I generally don't expect to find this in documentaries. This is what books are good at. (I'd never expect to see Power Broker content in documentary format.)
Young people are the inexperienced, they're the ones who're gonna get squeezed into whatever shape employers set up. I used to think we were in for a big corporate culture shift, to more informality, more power to the worker, more acceptance of neurodiversity. That was in college, but my opinion completely switched once I entered the workforce and realized how the levers of food-controlling power work to either filter out or implicitly threaten any behavior that isn't suitable for the goals of those at the top.
I buy this. But then again, why go through all the trouble? They can just reject you once they see how old you are (and blame something else or not tell you at all).
I can't for the life of me figure out how to read around other people (even in silence). Is there something wrong with me? I bet I could learn but I'm not sure how.
Yeah, I see this as a pretty interesting illustration at how poor engineers are at figuring out how things actually function in the world for anything other than products.
I used to love listening to this all day while coding. But I've had to wean myself off it because I started feeling like my brain started becoming a bit messed up by it, compared to listening to just silence.
Would those who regained hearing have tinnitus? I mean, in theory, wouldn't you be able to recover from tinnitus if you made yourself deaf and ate the proteins. Maybe stupid question, but why not?
Part of me wonders if it's at all possible if the protestors represent only a vocal minority of opinions in Hong Kong. I mean, maybe busy families around HK would prefer to stay as part of china. I'm certainly not informed enough to know if that's the case or not. If a small vocal minority in SF wanted to make the city an independent nation, wouldn't you want the US government to step in to stop anything radical from happening?