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1. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2017 23:34:01 EDT Mike Macgirvin
   40 years ago I was a researcher designing products from conductive polymers for Raychem Corporation in Menlo Park CA. This has no meaning to anybody except it seems the building I was in has just been given approval to be swallowed up by the ever growing Facebook campus. So some faceless and nameless Facebook employee will be inhabiting the office looking out over San Francisco Bay where I sat and invented stuff 25 years before Facebook existed. Except there won't be any private offices overlooking the bay in 2017; just rows upon rows of cubicles.
   1. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2017 07:21:53 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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      @mike The even more galling thing is that I bet an increasing fraction of Facebook employees are censors, moderating the "fake news". Recent articles have claimed that they're hiring more people to make manual censorship decisions.
   2. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2017 09:17:26 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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      ...only to fire them all at once when they have a big enough training set? ;-P ;-O