Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker (2016) • Hacker News Board

Re: Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker (2016)

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Post by Cenk » Mon, May 07, 2018, 11:42 AM UTC

dexterdog wrote: post #9

I just looked at the most recent 12 on https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons This barely works on maybe two of the twelve so I'm gonna call BS on all of this.

These cartoons aren’t part of the caption contest. The caption only works on "caption contest" cartoons.

Re: Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker (2016)

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Post by sincerely » Mon, May 07, 2018, 7:55 PM UTC

didsomeonesay wrote: post #20

baking wrote: post #12

Unfortunately, the author perpetuates the myth that those Linkedin requests are coming from individuals. In fact most of them are auto-generated (and address spoofed) by Linkedin from email addresses collected possibly many years ago and without the knowledge of the purported sender.

Is there any evidence to back this claim? So LinkedIn uses "dark patterns" to trick users into contact list import and sending invitations, this is well-known. But are they really sending e-mails in someone's name without their consent? Or do they just make it very hard to understand what you're consenting to? I don't want to defend LinkedIn, I'd just like to understand the extent of their unethical behavior.

Is uninformed consent really consent?

Re: Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker (2016)

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Post by joshu » Tue, May 08, 2018, 2:23 AM UTC

labster wrote: post #13

joshu wrote: post #5

Creativity is the art of putting two things together that didn’t obviously go together. This was an excellent example of such.

That's such an insightful comment that I gotta ask: can I add you to my professional network on LinkedIn?

All my upvotes for you.

Re: Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker (2016)

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Post by krageon » Tue, May 08, 2018, 9:15 AM UTC

didsomeonesay wrote: post #20

baking wrote: post #12

Unfortunately, the author perpetuates the myth that those Linkedin requests are coming from individuals. In fact most of them are auto-generated (and address spoofed) by Linkedin from email addresses collected possibly many years ago and without the knowledge of the purported sender.

Is there any evidence to back this claim? So LinkedIn uses "dark patterns" to trick users into contact list import and sending invitations, this is well-known. But are they really sending e-mails in someone's name without their consent? Or do they just make it very hard to understand what you're consenting to? I don't want to defend LinkedIn, I'd just like to understand the extent of their unethical behavior.

I think you also understand already that if you're not properly informed, you're not really consenting. This is like putting super small text in a contract and then saying "but you signed it!". On some level most people feel that this isn't a genuine dealing and that it isn't fair. Let's not muddy those waters by arguing about whether or not US law thinks it's OK to take advantage of people in this way (the only reason I mention this at all is that these discussions usually devolve into that and it's incredibly tiresome).