Agreed, but that's on the recruiters, not on the platform.
jungle
joined 2 years ago
Thanks, it's rare to find a well thought out answer in here like yours.
I agree that LinkedIn always did shady things to increase their user base. They used dark patterns to get access to your address book even as they got constant criticism for that, both externally and internally. One of their top product managers was actually proud of that, and said that they would have done more if possible.
But I very much doubt they actually sold their customer's emails at any point. They have always been very protective of their customer's data, fighting scrapers and limiting APIs. There's no upside to selling your customers info. You're undermining your own business by doing so.
My sarcasm detector is uncertain with this one.
How do you mean? Are you confusing recruiters reaching out to you (which is the whole point of the platform) with spammers?
You truly made an effort to ignore everything I wrote. Well done, I guess.
Yep, I knew you would show up.
You have obviously never sold a car or a house in a country where you have to trust that the cash the buyer is giving you is not counterfeit, or if using a bank transfer, that they will actually make the transfer once you signed away your ownership. You're privileged to be able to trust your fellow american (I guess you're from the US) and your legal system.
You can just use an ownership database maintained by the country
The blockchain would be the ownership database maintained by the country. The key is the atomic exchange of money for ownership. In case you don't know what I mean by "atomic", I mean that the two operations cannot be done separately: either the ownership and the money are both transferred, or none are. Which solves the problem that you apparently don't have but many others less privileged do.
I have an example but it's not necessarily the best and most practical solution, it's just one very good solution to a problem that not everyone experiences, so it's generally shot down as unnecessary.
In countries where buying a car or house involves an asynchronous exchange of money and keys or signing of documents, with all the trust issues involved, having an NFT represent ownership (which requires recognition and acceptance by the state) is a perfect use case, where you transfer ownership and receive payment in one atomic operation.
Yep, I wish everyone thought like that.
Yes, in spite of all the efforts decade after decade there has been no solution. Sometimes it was close (like when Arafat and Rabin shook hands) but any progress was always destroyed by the extremists on one side or the other, or by outside interests.
I don't think there's a solution. External pressure will hopefully stop this escalade, but the conflict will persist.
WhatsApp doesn't have an inbox. What are they talking about!?