• Concept of "Surveillance Wages": Employers are increasingly using "surveillance wages," where algorithms analyze personal data to determine the minimum pay a candidate will accept, moving away from traditional experience-based pay.
• Data Sources: Companies may utilize signals of financial vulnerability, such as credit card balances, payday loan history, ZIP codes, and even social media activity to gauge a worker's leverage.
• Information Asymmetry: The practice creates a significant power imbalance, as employers may have access to a candidate's past compensation and financial health via background and credit checks, while the candidate has little to no insight into the company's internal data.
• Algorithmic Influence: Tools originally designed for "surveillance pricing" in consumer markets (e.g., airline tickets or retail) are being adapted for the labor market to predict behavior and optimize cost-cutting.
• Risks and Bias: Experts warn that these practices can lead to systemic discrimination, targeting those in desperate financial situations or predicting life events like pregnancy or union interest.
• Industry Adoption: An audit found that major companies in healthcare, logistics, customer service, and retail are already utilizing vendors that offer these data-driven algorithmic tools.

Hacker News Discussion

• Verification of Past Pay: Several users noted that while many states now ban asking for salary history, employers often bypass this by using third-party background check services (like The Work Number or credit reports) that provide precise historical income data.
• The Role of AI/Algorithms: Commenters discussed how companies like Salesforce and Intuit are being linked to these practices, using "behavioral science" to predict the lowest "reservation price" for a new hire.
• Data Privacy Concerns: There is significant skepticism regarding the "anonymization" of this data; many believe that even "aggregate" data is easily deanonymized when paired with specific resumes.
• Strategic Advice: Users suggest being extremely cautious about what is shared on social media and checking your own reports from major data brokers (like Equifax or LexisNexis) to see what information is being sold to potential employers.
• Legal and Ethical Debate: Some argue that this is a logical extension of market efficiency, while most view it as a predatory practice that exploits vulnerable workers and erodes the bargaining power of the labor force.

• The article argues that answering the "What is your current/expected salary?" question with a single number is a strategic mistake that limits your earning potential.
• Giving a specific number early in the process creates an "anchor" that recruiters will use to keep the offer as low as possible.
• Instead of providing a number, the author suggests pivoting the conversation toward the value you bring to the role and the total compensation package.
• A key strategy is to ask for the company's budgeted range for the position first, which puts the onus on the employer to disclose their limits.
• If forced to give a range, ensure the bottom of your range is the minimum you would actually accept, while the top represents your "dream" scenario.
• The goal of salary discussions in early interviews should be to establish "alignment" rather than a final price tag.
• Delaying the specific salary talk until after you have "wowed" the team gives you more leverage, as they are now invested in hiring you specifically.

Hacker News Discussion

• Many commenters emphasize that while "not answering" is a common piece of advice, it can be impractical for those who lack extreme leverage or are in urgent need of work.
• A popular counter-strategy mentioned is to confirm the salary range during the very first recruiter call to avoid wasting hours on interviews for a role that cannot meet your financial requirements.
• Users suggested that if you do provide a number first, you should always include a disclaimer that you "look at the entire package holistically" (benefits, equity, PTO) to maintain flexibility for later negotiation.
• There is a consensus that once a final offer is made, you should almost always ask, "Is there any way you can come up a little bit from that?" as this simple question frequently results in a 5-10% bump with minimal risk.
• Some participants shared "pleasant surprise" stories where refusing to name a price led to offers significantly higher (+50% or more) than what they would have asked for.
• The discussion highlights a shift toward transparency, with many noting that asking for the "salary band" is becoming a standard and respected practice in tech hiring.

TRSP Desirable Characteristics Physical and conceptual entities MUST be represented via a digital representation (e.g. landing page, metadata, attribute set, database index) to have a presence in the digital landscape.

I had to look up "social negotiation" to fully understand this sentence in context. From Fandom, "Social negotiation is a subset of the first class collaborative element, cultural negotiation, which is itself a subset of information exchange. The amount and type of social negotiation involved in a collaborative process is linked to the characteristics of the collaborative media and the participants." Here is the source if you are baffled with the language as I am: https://collaboration.fandom.com/wiki/Social_negotiation#:~:text=Social%20negotiation%20is%20a%20subset,collaborative%20media%20and%20the%20participants.

Expectations A form of content negotiation

I take it there's different protocols within the http based on content.

Hans Monderman (19 November 1945 – 7 January 2008) was a Dutch road traffic engineer and innovator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Monderman

Suggested by Jerry Michalski: https://app.thebrain.com/brains/3d80058c-14d8-5361-0b61-a061f89baf87/thoughts/bd9c210a-ac8a-0e34-b309-f62e61e72778/attachments/724c3cbf-7aba-4ac7-5b1a-392125168c09

problems with negotiation skills. Responses mentioned a lack of member attributes that foster relationship building, such as amiability, openness, and respect for others.

Conversation around Adam Grant's Think Again.

• Task Conflict vs Relationship Conflict
• The absence of conflict is not harmony; it is apathy
• Beliefs vs Values; what you think is true vs what you think is important. Be open around beliefs; be committed to values.
• Preachers, Prosecutors, Politicians... and Scientists: defend or beliefs, prove the others wrong, seek approval and be liked... hypothesize and experiment.
• Support Network... and a Challenge Network. (Can we force ourselves to have a Challenge Network by using the Six Thinking Hats?)
• Awaken curiosity (your own, and other's to help them change their mind)
• Successful negotiators spend more time looking for common ground and asking questions to understand
• Solution Aversion: someone rejecting a proposed solution may end up rejecting the existence of the problem itself (e.g. climate change)

Moghadam, R. (2020). The best way for the EU to spend its €750bn fund. https://www.ft.com/content/21280a55-844b-4776-919a-84efd11fcc21

This document talks about content negotiation being used to request an audio version of a resource, no protocol-level negotiation of time versioning appears here.

For me, this is not surprising, but rather a beautiful example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. (Graph)

They know the amount of uncertainty and lack of predictability of the severity. And they are equally sure of the trajectory of failure.

Explaining the pronouns you want to use in social interactions.

Hdt. 5.106 Histiaios asks to be returned to Miletus under the pretense of securing the rebelling cities. While he himself was the one who told Aristagoras to revolt in the first place 498 BCE.

Hdt. 5.106 Darius confronts Histiaios about the rebellion of provinces started by Aristagoras in Miletus (Histaios' former governorship) 498 BCE.

Hdt. 5.96 Artaphrenes responds to the pleas of the Athenians with an ultimatum commanding the Athenians to take Hippias back as their tyrant, 500 BCE.

Hdt. 5.96 Athenians sent a message to Artaphrenes in order to dissuade the Persians from believing or helping Athenian exiles (like Hippias), 500 BCE.

Hdt. 5.96 Hippias, the deposed tyrant of Athens, seeks help in re-securing power in Athens from Artaphrenes, the governor of Sardis (half brother to Darius)

Hdt. 5.73 The Athenians come to Sardis to speak to the Persians about becoming allies, -507 BCE. The reader sees the Achaemenids and their past members (current revoltees) being replaced as the active agents in the narrative. Herodotus now has the Athenians and Spartans (Hellenes) speaking for their own interests rather than being dominated by outside forces (Achaemenid or otherwise).

Hdt. 5.49 Aristagaros comes to Sparta to speak with Kleomenes to convince the Spartans to join in his revolt against Darius and the Achaemenids. He brings his famous world map as a prop and visual aid.

Hdt. 5.35 Histiaios sends a messenger to Aristagoras telling him to revolt against Darius (which nicely coincides with Aristagoras' desire to revolt against the Achaemenids since he can't pay back his loan form Artaphrenes and Darius).

Hdt. 5.31 After promising to help the Naxians re-gain control of their island, Aristagoras instead tells Artaphrenes (the governor of Sardis) to help him attack it and seize it's wealth. Artaphrenes agrees to attack Naxos provided that Darius approve the plan.

Hdt. 5.30 The Naxians approach Aristagoras (ruler of Miletus in leu of Histiaios) about securing their island [Naxos]. Aristagoras agrees to help them (but he's secretly scheming against the Naxian's interests).

Hdt. 5.24 Influenced by the advice of Megabazos, Darius recalls Histiaios to Sardis under the suspicion that Histiaios is plotting a rebelling - fortifying his principate as the seat of his tyranny. Instead of punishing Histiaios outright or letting him continue ruling in Myrcinus Darius makes him part of his personal council. Adhering to the old maxim: keep your friends close and your possibly-duplicitous-generals even closer.

Hdt. 5.17 Megabazos, a proxy for Darius and the Achaemenid Empire, sends messengers to the Macedonians demanding their supplication. The messengers converse with Amyntas of Macedon.

1.24. Arion asks to be allowed to sing before throwing himself into the sea.

1.24. Arion the lyre-player begs the Corinthian sailors plotting to kill him to take his money but spare his life.

1.22. The Lydians and Milesians end the war and enter into an alliance. One might treat this agreement as the result of personal negotiations between the tyrant of Miletus and the Lydian king.

1.21. Alyattes offers to make a truce with the Milesians while he rebuilds the temple that was burned.

1.19. The Pythia refuses to answer the question about the illness until the Lydians rebuild the temple of Athena at Assesos.

1.9. Candaules rejects Gyges' advice and overrules his hesitation; the situation moves from a consultation to an order from a superior to an inferior.

1.212 Queen Tomyris asks Cyrus to return her son and leave the country.

1.208 Cyrus sends a message to Queen Tomyris after deciding to attack her within her own city. Bold move bro.

1.206 Queen Tomyris responds to Cyrus' marriage proposal. It's a no. She thinks her troops can defeat Cyrus' in battle and save her city without loosing power over her holding to a political alliance.

1.205 Cyrus sends a marriage proposal to Queen Tomyris of the Massegetai in order to capture her holdings through political alliance rather than through battle. Tomyris is not feeling it though.

1.162 In response to Harpagos's terms of surrender, the Phocaeans send back terms of their own terms, requesting time to deliberate.

1.164 Before the siege can really get underway, Harpagos preemptively allows the Phocaeans to surrender.

1.124 Harpagos sends a secret message to Cyrus encouraging him to rebel against Astyages.

1.128 In his defeat, sour-grapes Astyages sends another message to Cyrus

1.127 Cyrus gives a sassy response to Astyages that he will meet the Medes on the field of battle.

1.127 Astyages sends a messenger to Cyrus before the start of fighting.

1.161 The Chians of the island Chios surrender Pactyes to Mazares thus ending this vignette of rebellion within the Achaemenid Dynasty.

Hdt. 1.1 Egyptians and Phoenicians: negotiation. Direction?

1.160 Pactyes is finally traded back to his Achaemenid pursuers.

Mazares sends a message to the Cymeans to negotiate the return of Pactyes the rabble-rouser.

1.152 The Lacedaemonians send a herald to Cyrus to give an order/ultimatum that no Greek cities be harmed or destroyed in conquest. Cyrus responds to this missive with confusion (and some derision) as he has no idea who the Spartans are.

1.141 The Ionians and Aeolians attempt to make a defensive alliance with Cyrus and his Persians (in order to avoid destruction and plundering). They seek the same favorable terms they had under Croesus. Cyrus sees this as presumptuous, when neither of these nations came to his aid and now expected favors from him.