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Reading 13: On Trolls

Patents were created to encourage invention. Engineers and other inventors daring to push the envelope, which is generally to societies benefit, get 20 years to develop, perfect, and monetize their inventions before competitors can enter the same market. In theory, the patent system…

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Reading 02: Meritocracy?

I think the Tech industry likes to believe it is a true meritocracy because it is one of the ways that people in technology can claim they are better than other industries. There is definitely a difference between meritocracy of individuals and of firms as a whole. As pointed out in…

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Reading 00: Introduction

Hi my name is Noelle Rosa and I am a senior Computer Science major. I grew up with two brothers in Westfield, New Jersey, not too far outside of New York City. People always give NJ a hard time but I would just like to point put that I grew up 45 minutes from the beach, 45 minutes…

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Reading 08

Corporate personhood refers to a company’s status as a “person” with respect to the constitution. Should corporations be treated as fully human, meaning that they are entitled to a freedom of speech and religious expression even though they can’t face certain consequences to negative actions such as jail…

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Reading 06: I don’t care if people listen to me call my mom to ask how to bleach clothes

Edward Snowden released documents- primarily on Wikileaks but also to other news sources- over the course of a couple months. These documents showed US and UK involvement in…

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Reading 11: Automation should be okay?? I hope???

Automation is no doubt impacting employment in the United States and around the world, but as the Wall Street Journal article points out, nobody knows at what scale. It is generally accepted that many of the lower level, redundant jobs are the…

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Reading 01: Super power?

Programming is unabashedly a powerful skill. The age-old saying “knowledge is power” has remained true and will continue to for the foreseeable future. As referenced in the “Programming, power, and responsibility” blog, understanding that others don’t have and the ability to do things…

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Reading 10

Fake news refers to the continued posting and sharing of information meant to delude or incite people in some way. I think the term is used pretty broadly nowadays to include content that might even be true at its core but is titled or labeled in a misleading way. I have found, in my own life, that fake news…

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Reading 07: Ads exist for a reason

I think it is incredibly hard to make an argument that companies have no right to gather information and data mine when people are so ready to hand out most of their information. The Atlantic article makes a note of the fact that even though most people are unhappy…

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Reading 07: Ads exist for a reason

I think it is incredibly hard to make an argument that companies have no right to gather information and data mine when people are so ready to hand out most of their information. The Atlantic article makes a note of the fact that even though most people are unhappy…

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