He doesn't have to, because that's not the only reason a rational adult wouldn't hire an internet warrior. He might choose not to hire you because you've made it clear that the majority of the people in your own culture are beneath contempt in your mind. That may not be a desirable quality in an employee, even if the potential employer doesn't disagree with your anti-religious views.

...and contact us at our secret phone number, we *really* want you.

And you should be more concerned that once your "friend" has identified you to his life logging software, it will be able to automatically tag you in every video or photo.

And it's highly unlikely anything will come of it. To cameras on the street you are uninteresting.

You should be concerned about some weirdo using you in an image meme, or of a "friend" incidentally capturing you everywhere you go, and another "friend" tagging you in the videos or photos, making your private business searchable.

The thing about geeks is their "look what I made" braggadocio is even bigger than their idealism, so *somebody* knows who created bitcoin. And the namedropping "I know who created bitcoin" also trumps idealism. So if somebody with resources wants to find out who created bitcoin, they will succeed.

Perhaps what was meant was don't incite panic making a false claim, as in don't yell "Fire!"

If you're going to fight for privacy and rights and puppies and things, then do things toward that goal. Securing your own phone doesn't do that. It just makes work for you. Unless you really do have something of interest to them. Which you probably don't.

Use your efforts to write letters, keep informed so you can vote intelligently, educate people, publish something, or whatever. Securing your own phone is just "I got mine." Worse, it's probably wasted effort.

I don't own the code I create for my employer. I am not free to post it on the internet, publish it, give it away or sell it.

No, I believe he meant it as written. It appears that progressivism is about how one wants to be seen by other "progressive" people. The "progressive" people I know (they all think they're smarter than non-progressive people) do all the meaningless "progressive" things that look good to other "progressives", like changing their facebook profile pictures to equal signs when asked to do so, and posting progressive rants on the internet, but they all seem to have ordered their lives around never encountering the people they champion, they spend their money on toys and entertainment, and they spend their time being entertained. And posting progressive rants on the internet.

...and please provide one clean towel in the bathroom. Thanks.

If you're going to host an event in your home, could you please clear off enough space on one of the covered surfaces for the snacks people are bringing, wash the dishes and empty the trash, remove the clothing from the living room so people have a place to sit, vacuum the food debris off the floor, and open a window? Yeah, it's none of my business, and I have the option of never accepting your invite again, but these are life skills you should have learned in your twenties, the latest, and if you're going to blame your life circumstances on "the man", at least try to take care of this one thing you do have control over.

No, you didn't. Here's why I don't believe you:

The eye it partially obstructs is the eye most people focus on when they are talking to you. So when you are wearing them people can't really even look you in the eye without constantly dodging the device in the way, and switching unnaturally to the left eye.

Yes, your attention to your phone makes it look like you aren't in the here and now. It's probably why people considered it rude even before phones were so multi-function.

But the glasses are even worse, because you *can't* indicate your complete attention without taking them off. You *can* look up from a smart phone, and people can see they have your attention. With the glasses, even if you intend to give your undivided attention, and even if the thing isn't displaying something at the moment, you still don't look like you're giving your complete attention. It's like holding your phone up in picture taking position. Even if you're not looking at it people will assume you're going to, or that you're taking pictures instead of paying attention to the conversation.

Try it. Hold your phone up at about cheek level, off to the side of your face, far enough in front of you that you could read it if you looked at it. I guarantee it will be extremely distracting to conversation and people will assume you are distracted and possibly recording them, even if you don't look at your phone. They will probably stop mid-sentence and ask you what you're doing.

With the glasses there's a constant reminder that there's a device between you and me, and I know it's capable of displaying stuff as I'm trying to talk to you, and I know there's a camera pointing at me. As if you were holding a cell phone up. Worse, the eye it partially obscures is the one most people focus on, so they can't even really look you in the eye.

Definitely. But even if they made it more fashionable I think it'd still be dorky.

That should have been even less likely, both times. Sigh.