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Bitcoin changes Ad-revenue business models along with all their associated privacy and surveillance capitalism issues

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The right small: a different perspective: I say “the right small” because just “being small” or touting “the long game” can be as much of an error as going mass. Many confuse the passage of time for “the long game”

What Sam looks for in founders: breadcrumbs from their past that hint at their trajectory, outsiders with a unique insight, unusually strong in one area, cognizant of their weaknesses, understand where they need to focus right now, have a way to inspire and bring people together

If we bury metals, we can just mine more aluminium, tin, or iron — we’re not close to running out of any of these. But recycling metals is a good idea, as it’s cheaper and much more environmentally friendly than mining.

The conditions of this task-based work exemplify the worst of digital labor: it is freelance, poorly paid, and highly informal. Images, texts, and annotated videos flash before the eyes of microwork laborers, each task thoroughly detached from the product that it builds toward. As Jones writes, this “thins the aperture of knowledge to a tiny sliver... See more

The I.L.R. would list the specific skills that people have learned — customer service, say, or project management — as opposed to which courses they passed and majors they declared. And it would include other life experiences they accumulated.

Balaji: You are what you eat... In the future you will never not know your infection because of non-invasive diagnostics. You can now see cause/effect for your diet. What we optimize today is Twitter likes. The media diet issue is analogous to our diet diet - we went from family cooked meals to capitalist entities not aligned with you (CocaCola,... See more