It's a misnomer, but is someone's attempt to define any tech company which is so far apart from the rest of the pack in terms of business practices and reach that they don't warrant being called 'yet another tech company'.
This usually involves under handedness, tax loopholes, and secret handshakes that 'normal' startups are too scared to execute on. 'Normal' startups have a market safety net to fall back on and can pivit anytime they want without much fanfare caused. Unicorns are not afforded this luxury because they are, well, unicorns.
No need for an algorithm when using Steganography and Deniable Cryptography. A lot of the quantum-breakable debate pretty much ends with those two. They are in-fact bulletproof and resistant to all attempts to uncover the message, if done right, of course.
Good for mindset, but bad for soulset. A lot of people live in their heads with Modafinil, and don't take guidance from the subtle cues in nature, which they're going to have to at some point. Michael Tsarion brings this up in his talks: The War on Conciousness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knwyZawRse8 We have a deep fear of Nature because it's the 'final boss' we have to deal with at some point. Be this death, grief, or getting old. Any number of things are competing for your attention in Nature. Rushkoff talks about how our minds increasingly live inside a computer program and are out of sync with Nature. The internal clock is ignored and we live in a constant state of panic when checking our email and trying to game the stock market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQHubIMP-as Alongside time being out of whack, we experience different hormones and endorphins at different times of the year. So summer might be dopamine, winter might be adrenalin filled, and autumn is some sort of smart drug like Modafinil which allows for high performance.
Exactly. From the linked article: Modafinil "indirectly upregulates cerebral serotonin" ...a concern for those focusing on quality of life rather than quantity of output.
"To give you some perspective: the type of behavior displayed by upper classes of society; the elegance, the subtlety, the higher levels of intelligence and conscience, most likely reflect low serotonin levels (or rather, a lower ratio of serotonin to other neurotransmitters). Now take the opposite, high serotonin, say in combination with a poor immune system, low metabolic rate, chronic inflammation, and what will you have? Well, a serf/thrall."
Again this is about choice. With things like Soundcloud, you don't even have to register to download music, and I've downloaded my fair share of 1-2 hour long DJ sets from there. Basically enough music to last my entire lifetime and I will never be bored. DJ sets are great because there's no skipping through tracks, and you can have them playing in the background when doing coding, and you can discover music accidentally that way. Also there seems to be no limits on Soundcloud with regards to how much you can download. It's all you can eat, which is refreshing. I'm curious how they can achieve this though. I know they have a paid / pro plan there, but still it screams of too much upfront value and I do worry about their viability into the future. But for now Soundcloud is exponentially better than any other service out there.
Actually, uploading a DJ set on Soundcloud is against their ToS because those mixes contain songs that are copyrighted. Soundcloud is not a good place to upload mixes and that's why there's currently a huge rage between DJs and Soundcloud's team. Basically, the product became big enough to care about copyrights. If you're a DJ, you don't have a right to distribute your mix as a free download if it contains a song copyrighted by a third party.
I suggest you to check out Mixcloud. It's a service made specially for uploading mixes, but it doesn't allow you to download them for the reasons I said earlier. It's also free and does not require you to sign up for an account.
That's why I wrote ‘Twitter Should Be A Public Utility’ http://blog.higg.im/2015/06/12/on-twitter/ For me the disconnect was that Twitter failed and partially succeeded in making Twitter what I call 'plumbing', or a sort of duct tape for the web. If microblogging had a stack similar to TCP/IP that could be fundamental to how the web operates, then they missed that boat repeatedly.
It would be interesting to see the A/B results for video. If it's not obvious that video appeals to our senses more abruptly, then they could be late to this one.
The web's becoming more TV-like as time goes on, and it pains me that text is being forced to become a second class citizen of the web.
I since moved away from roll-you-own WP solutions as it's a devops nightmare, and tricky to get right, unless you pay someone to do it for you.
You should probably try to get your domain off the apex too:
http://blog.higg.im/2014/03/10/getting-jque-re-off-the-apex/