Really silly request, but could someone provide an implementation where I can just drop in an svg and it would have this effect? Please, and thank you.
What can legally be done to prevent something like this? It's worth noting that this is not nearly as bad as the kind of stuff that ISPs do in some other countries...
You may need an account to see, but the important text here is:
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I couldn't find any other info about where the company is based or who its founders and executive team are.
How would things change if Schmidt held political office? What if all big time VCs we're politicians too. Basically, what I am wondering is whether this is a policy problem or a technology problem.
Techies tend to think that the US government has gone rogue and is defying the people, who universally want to tone this stuff down. But really, the government is just responding to the will of the people here. Many Americans are terrified of terrorism and approve of these sorts of government efforts to fight it.
The US government's propaganda machine is what made Americans "terrified of terrorism" in the first place. The government is sowing terror propaganda quite intentionally in order to claim and retain (historically, in the US) exceptional powers to control its own citizens. If the propaganda was toned down to 1/1000th its current volume, I think we'd suffer far less intrusion into our lives and would be no less safe, but the government would be the loser, with all of these mechanisms of control vanishing.
I could see where you're coming from, but the two objective arguments I see that argue for the toning down of government surveillance, or at least major changes to our surveillance system would be:
1. The current policies and attitude are [seemingly] going to have negative economic impacts of enormous proportions.
2. Surveillance will always be a cat and mouse game as technology improves, and surveillance will become increasingly difficult, perhaps impossible.
I agree, and I think the surveillance should be drastically reformed. I just think that the only way to accomplish this is to convince a large chunk of the population to change their minds on the issue, not to try to start at the top of government.
As communities become more and more siloed, people will increasingly assume that their social bubble's opinions are the opinions and will of the majority. They will then look to the behavior of legislators and see "the will of the majority" being disregarded. This bodes ill for representative democracy, especially in a two-party system like the US.
Schmidt is not trustworthy when it comes to privacy. His views are stoneage. Seriously, would you trust any politician that said "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." because that's Mr Schmidt's well documented position.
> In my opinion, Genius is not as compelling of a product to work on as they seem to think.
I guess it could be helpful to define what the product exactly is. Genius is a high traffic transactional site, so they probably have the same problems that any large site has. They're also incredibly text heavy, and I probably wouldn't being going too far if I said that they are striving to eventually have every piece of written text available. Looking at these two qualities alone, I feel that there is enough going on to make their product compelling to virtually any person that has done software engineering, applied statistics, machine learning, or read a book.
It started as a way of annotating rap lyrics to explain the content to the uninitiated. Unfortunately, many of these annotations are flat-out wrong (not to mention many of the subject matters are more or less open to interpretation). So right off the bat, the whole notion of calling the platform "Genius" is highly dubious, I feel. Not sure why they think that they can easily expand out into other mediums which will require more, not less, intense analytical thought, intimate knowledge about the subject, etc. as opposed to just being knowledgable about what mostly amounts to slang.
(Stackexchange would make a better Genius.com)
So the original product has now morphed into some sort of "global" annotation system for any kind of text (including literature, law, tech). I just feel like they will have a hard time attracting true experts in these subjects.
I guess I'm also just not a fan of the site's overall aesthetic. The design is very dark and cluttered. Not very inviting.
Also soon we're going to take our annotation technology to OTHER SITES! This will allow anyone to create annotations anywhere (and save us the trouble from copying EVERYTHING to Genius.com)
I'm impressed by the attention to detail. I also really like the "Run into the Spike" point, especially the line, "Want to chill and watch TV? Go to a gym-esque place instead." Having effective distractions is a great strategy. On a similar note, my hockey coach in high school used to tell us to stretch if we we're watching TV. Even if you are "chilling", maybe there's a way to utilize that chill time in a positive way.
