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This app was infuriating. Tried it for a few weeks living in a less than ideal neighborhood. Day one I get a notification of a fire or something 5 miles away. Hardly useful, but I get it. Day two there's a robbery! Scary, but when you click the notification you see that it happened in a city about 40 miles away. After a week or so it becomes clear that the app will notify you every night with anything it can, stretching the distance as it sees fit to be able to justify the notification. Live in a decently sized metro area? Prepare to get hundreds of notifications all for stuff not happening anywhere actually near you.

While I don't want to defend the anti porn people, it is worth noting that pornography itself has escalated just as much if not more over the past few years. The availability and diversity of every type of porn content imaginable has never been greater and it's much much harder to avoid porn on the internet. Logically this would mean that those who are against porn would want to step up their game.

I always need to remind people when this book comes up: If you like Neuromancer, you must play the game Soma.

I picked up Neuromancer after playing Soma and finding it to be the most incredible story driven game I've ever played and wanting to devour all it's influences, and Gibson was certainly an influence.

Don't read about it, don't look at the plot, just start playing the game and at least make it to when you meet the lady.

>Zero-trust methods reduce the cost of a data breach by about $1.76 million.

This is mentioned as a quick aside without any explanation of how you could ever come to such a figure. Such statements and the lack of data gives a strong salesman vibes to this whole article.

>After relying on attrition to winnow its staff, Amazon now has about 100,000 fewer employees than in the previous quarter.

Only Amazon could normalize losing 100k people via attrition

In my experience in larger software companies, the hardest part of automation is convincing management that it's worth it to stop other development for long enough to automate a problem away. A lot of managers are fine throwing people at a problem if it means meeting a date and making the team look good while under the hood all the knobs are being turned by hands by an ever struggling staff.

And then the worst case I've found myself in is where the people you hire specifically to automate are told to do things manually at first "until we get the automation out." Then you end up in a constant cycle of promising automation that will never exist because all of the workload is falling to the automators who have no time to fix anything.

The problem is in most cases by the time you're talking about involving a lawyer, most consumers have given up the fight. A majority of the fraud cases I've had requiring charge backs have been in the 20-50 dollar range, so not nearly enough to justify legal assistance.

By putting the onus on the legal system it allows merchants to commit smaller scale fraud more easily because normal people don't have lawyers on hand and aren't willing to do so for a $30 case of fraud, as justified as it may be.