Perhaps the ethical qualms could be settled if the tracing of workers were handled by a neutral third party. Being tracked by parties you are affiliated with opens a whole can of worms.
How can they be a neutral third party when they're paid by, and report to, the employers and not the employees? Their incentive would be to find problems, because that makes their service look worthwhile.
They could make the data for all levels of the organization public within the organization. Doing this would allow for time tracking to be had for the scared middle management, but also give any employees the chance to view any unfair treatment.
Of course this would never happen, but honestly, I would probably be ok with it.
Not in the way that biological organisms are conscious, if that is what you mean. Though we share similar binary frameworks, the AI is not a celled organism with the biological capacity to live consciously as we are.
For children or for adults, the fatalist style of Tolstoy is what lends him the unmistakable charm. A part of our being, I think, will always desire to be liberated from the norm of not discussing pity or death without any moral undertone. Life and violence can be sad and violent, Tolstoy reminds us.
Do you believe the regulations are sufficient for protecting people from FB? Do you believe that FB is operating in good faith and not finding alternative means by which to gather and exercise the soft power that comes with hosting a private, global currency?
I tend to lean against regulation but this is one of those cases where I wouldn't mind seeing FB somehow banned from anything related to currency.
No, we're in an age in which innovative projects are suffocated by shady politics before they even onboarded their first user.
Remember the letter sent to Libra consortium members by US senators? [1]
They threatened Visa, Mastercard and Stripe with extreme regulatory scrutiny of all their payment business (not only Libra-related) in case they would stay on the project. The threat worked and the threatened companies left the consortium soon after.
This is right out of the playbook of despotic governance: create laws so complex that everyone is probably violating some of them all the time and then selectively enforce the law against those you don't like.
Thanks for your hard work! The tool has been extremely helpful in my political science research. I have noticed that a sort of error occurs when I try to scrape too many tweets from too many accounts at once (which I do by referencing a txt file with the account names that I want to scrape tweets from). I've fixed this by just making shorter lists of account names. Is there another workaround I am unaware of?
As a political science student, I am compelled to point the allure of minimalism to the Greco-Athenian ideal of being self-sustaining (to a fair degree). The lack of material possession suggests, to others, that one is complete and satisfied in their seemingly ideal state.
It feels to me that Apple affords the benefit of Facebook, in that users do not anticipate asking "where's my stuff". But the added benefit is the perceived security and reliability of Apple.
Assuming that most people would not be comfortable with walking through a city square with their email address taped on their back, how do users justify sharing personal contact information (attached to their academic and professional profiles) in posts that are known to go viral? Has LinkedIn enforced any measures to prohibit unwarranted mass data collection for profit?
