TomSawyer

Were you swimming with a band that uses a magnetic clasp?

That crossed my mind, but it'd mean they'd be willing to lock out large networks behind a NAT. I was wondering if there's something more sophisticated available.

A few weeks ago I was looking up public profiles on LinkedIn and I noticed what I interpreted to be some network-side fingerprinting of some kind. The first couple profiles came up, but from that point I was only served a sign up page. It didn't matter if I changed browsers or spawned new incognito sessions.

The point of anti-trust laws is not to punish success, but to police against an entity using their dominant position in one market to take over a different market.

The exploited are being tricked into believing that there's intangible value in spending their life's work on something that they believe in and are passionate about, right? It's only virtuous to do that if someone doesn't profit from it, correct?

Yes, and being passionate about your work — such as wanting to work with new developments in your chosen field or changing jobs for an opportunity where you'll be better able to apply your talents to your field of interest — is just a capitalist ploy.

I'm reminded of the Netflix slide deck that was making the rounds, last year. Adjusting pay, yearly, based on the market value of the employee seems like an ideal solution to this problem. If you stay at a typical company for a year you might get a 5% raise and have some seniority and relationships under your belt. This model tends to undervalue the true costs of replacing you and the likelihood that there's another company willing to pay 10%+ over your current pay.

Is this someone's slide deck as article? Beginning with what symbols aren't — not logos, not emoji, not cymbals, har har — seems more suited for a cheesy in-person ice breaker.

Since when does science require public belief to sustain itself?

Not if you were born recently.

Maybe artificially grouping trends by an arbitrary ten year period is what's weird?

I just noticed that Duolingo also released Hiragana and Katakana stacks via their spaced repetition flashcard app, TinyCards.

Nope -- American.