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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Every person has a massive profile (table / database) built all about them. This isn’t conspiracy. This is big business. There are a few data brokerage companies focused on people:

    -Acxiom (worlds biggest broker, pretty much every piece of junk mail you get drives from a company purchasing data from them)

    -TransUnion (credit, such as if you pay the minimum bill or are late on payments)

    -CoreLogic (all real estate purchase information)

    -FourSquare Labs (location broker which i find to be particularly insidious)

    There are also databases built specifically for business entities, such as Data Axle.

    And companies will purchase packages from ALL of these data brokers when they want to target a specific audience.


  • My problem is the algorithm. There is no way to browse categories and drill down into the features to find what you are actually looking to find.

    You search for xxx company Product, and you may get that product on the first page, but it will be surrounded by dozens of cheap alternatives. I find a lot of those alternatives aren’t comparable to the one I actually seek.

    If you don’t know the specific product you are looking for, you will never be able to sort the wheat from the chaff.



  • This likely isn’t a matter of people “not doing their job”. Did you communicate that there was a problem with those trash cans being full? Likely, no one else did, either. Since everyone seems to expect everyone else to complain?

    A similar thought process, even though I agree with your original sentiment that we need to have trash cans available: If you would have “done your job” and communicated, there may have been 4 more trash cans available.