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Comment Re:"Hey! How can we monetise human relationships?" (Score 0) 129

by l0g0s (#65361583) Attached to: Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI
I hope others realize how dehumanizing this is and actually DO something about it instead of just going along with it. Keep in mind that we STILL have mobile providers touting how "connected" they keep people through their mobile devices. This is what the algorithms and echo chambers are leading us to. Social media and video chats are not real connection, but people allow it as a substitution for face to face because it's easier than real relationships. AI "relationships" will be easier as well. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Helen Keller

Comment Re:Meh, Postmodernism (Score 1) 214

by l0g0s (#53833457) Attached to: Apple CEO Tim Cook Tackles Truth in the Digital Age
Indeed. “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” Mark Twain Truth should be self-evident and able to stand on it's own merit. It does not need to be defended and is not culturally relevant. Truth is universally relevant.Our interpretation of truth is what screws everything up.

Submission + - Buffer sees clear benefits to transparent employee salary policy

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: At social media startup Buffer, a single leadership decision eliminated salary negotiation for new employees, preempted gender-based salary discrimination, and prompted a flood of job applications.

The decision? Make all employee salaries transparent.

"We set down transparency as a core value for the company," CEO Joel Gascoigne said in 2014. "And then, once we'd done that, we went through everything. And salaries was one of those key things that we found that [made us] question ourselves: 'Why are we not transparent about this?'"

Years later, the policy is still in place (go ahead and calculate your salary as a would-be Buffer employee)—and it presents a fascinating case study for anyone interested in the ways open organizations approach a rather prickly subject: transparency.

Comment Re:Good Plan (Score 1) 473

by l0g0s (#34931884) Attached to: Mail Service Costs Netflix 20x More Than Streaming
Good point. If Net Neutrality ever fails in favor of providers offering streaming service to THEIR streaming content and filtering out competition, then Netflix will long for the days when they had a business model that cost an extra $700 mil per year to give them access to customers.

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