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Re:Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of it... by pessimizer on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @09:39AM (#14255508)
Turns out you can't mass produce individualism.
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Re:Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of it... by Balgair on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @12:58PM (#14257654)
I mean, you can mass produce the appearance of individualism with a large enough data set and a well constrained ecosystem. Look at all the IoT-toaster bots on FB and Twitter scamming real people out of money. To some, the appearance is as good as the real thing.
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