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The internship I was assigned in college was a local junkmail mill. I was supposed to sign an NDA at some point but never did. Apparently they were able to use FOIA requests targeted at localities to get a lot of information for mail campaign targeting that all got put in a big database. Seemed a little sketchy.
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It varies by location. Most people I meet are just professionals that don't care, most people who do care are just entertained because professionals have better things to do than argue with activists.
Good too know. FWIW I'm not activist, just about fairness and balance myself - what good for the goose is good for the gander as they say.
Lobbing identity politics grenades when it has nothing to do with the subject at hand is activism. It's the softer kind, but it's still activism.
Please don't do this. It does more to entrench people's positions than anything else.
I was under the impression that any genderisation was to be avoided in our modern times. More so when the "Junk Mail" is in quotes followed by `men`, it disassociates the past term of "Mail Man" by the use of quotes in the original article title. Had it been postman or postmen, then that would be the legacy terminology used, but in this context, it does somewhat seem to stick out more. After all if you flip the gende…
It varies by location. Most people I meet are just professionals that don't care, most people who do care are just entertained because professionals have better things to do than argue with activists.
You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
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Good too know. FWIW I'm not activist, just about fairness and balance myself - what good for the goose is good for the gander as they say.
>FWIW I'm not activist, just about fairness and balance myself Lobbing identity politics grenades when it has nothing to do with the subject at hand is activism. It's the softer kind, but it's still activism. Please don't do this. It does more to entrench people's positions than anything else.
Duly noted.
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The "old school" data brokers were keeping track of menstrual cycles 20 years ago for timed targeted ads. They were very specific about many things. The new kids Google and Facebook didn't invent this game.
Mind posting some links about this? I'd be very interested in reading about it.
The internship I was assigned in college was a local junkmail mill. I was supposed to sign an NDA at some point but never did. Apparently they were able to use FOIA requests targeted at localities to get a lot of information for mail campaign targeting that all got put in a big database. Seemed a little sketchy.
No need to do that when the USPS will sell it to them.