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I am going to need a citation there. Around my state, body cameras have been fought by police unions and have had to be bargained into CBAs by government, when really, they should be treated no different than uniform, PPE and equipment.

What of observed human history gives you any hope that such a thing will happen?

All of these systems function well ... "in theory". Even the ones you may not agree with. Socialism and communism are perfectly fine theoretical systems, until you introduce humans into the equation with desires for power, wealth, etc.

I have seen no hint that Libertarianism is somehow above this and will be the panacea. I also have no idea how you come to the conclusion that collusion will not be a problem in a libertarian world.

I'm pretty sure the Java Jive is still around. Or at least it was, 10 years ago.

One of the ideas put forward in Neil Gaiman's American Gods is that roadside attractions, "Biggest X", collections of whimsy happened where they happened because they were ancient places of power, and people felt inexplicably drawn to them and to set up somewhere people would explore and worship, if not literally, with their attention and energy. Gods could recharge there.

My understanding is that CEC can be received on any alive interface, not just the active.

> HIPAA

They're not directly or a business associate of an entity involved in providing you healthcare so not this.

But the implication is that others weren't banging their heads. The amount of money invested in this particular domain is in the tens, if not hundreds, of billions. There are so many companies whose lives, whose workflows, product lines would be made vastly easier.

The thing that calls her out as a scammer is that Theranos probably invested more money in the faking it, the deception, with Siemens equipment than they did in actually trying to solve the problem itself.

ACR isn't generally a lossless 4K snap shot but indexed 32x32 pixel blocks from arbitrary locations on screen. In some cases it's even a fuzzy hash of the content source, and while 80Kbps isn't a lot, you can still push out data in a timely manner.

They do. But the apartment complex gets a nice little kickback, especially since an app for unlocking your front door is one that has at least a plausible argument for having your location, which means a whole bunch of location data that can be mined/sold/both.

> only the top of the line models have pricing power

And they still do it anyway because why wouldn't they? My $4K+ TV still wants all sorts of "personalized viewing experience" access.

Yeah, the Balwani stuff. Now I know there is nuance and some people will read this as victim shaming but...

"she was really just a innocent naive girl fighting her way up and through, revolutionizing tech and the medical industry, but being beat down, serially sexually harassed, if not assaulted, or abused by Balwani, the real evil in this story"...

Except she was the CEO. She might have had a romantic relationship with Balwani but she was his boss.

"Powerless to help herself and stop this from happening". To steal from our current occupant in the White House, "You're fired".

None of that was an issue until her trial.

If you read a lot of the in depth reporting, and what came up at trial, Holmes and Bagwani themselves and their PR team pushed it heavily. The media lapped it up but she was fully "leaned in".

Yeah, when there's the comment of "marketed as a successful woman" it's "by who"? Media jumped on board, but that was heavily the message being pushed by Holmes and Theranos, Bagwani, because it was their lever to stand out. To then say "but not like that" is BS.

Don't use PayPal when pointing to an achievement of Musk's.

PayPal was already a working prototype, trademarked, and ready to go when Musk's failing-to-take-off online bank merged with them.

Musk was made CEO because he was the largest shareholder when they tried to figure out relative valuations at the merger.

He lasted four months. Spent most of it arguing with engineering about throwing away the full working prototype in favor of rewriting it from scratch in a language he understood, and arguing with the board about whether or not that was really what he should be focused on as CEO.

He lasted four months.

And in a world where executives resign, or "spend time with their family", etc., the Board of PayPal, having just attended Musk's wedding that weekend, publicly fired him on Monday morning as he was boarding a plane to go to his honeymoon. That is how bad it was.

Musk's actual contribution to PayPal is mostly "cashing the dividend checks".

So many thoughts here but yeah:

> but shortly before her prison sentence was set to begin she decided she wanted someone to document her last days of freedom. Maybe she wanted to have her say

What, had she not gotten to have her say in all of the hundreds of interviews up until that point?

> the more Holmes talks to Fielder, the more he teases out her unhinged rationale, which is: The device works fine! We just had to figure out that pesky chemistry stuff! The strange thing is that Holmes has such a corporate mindset that she treats the chemistry stuff…that hadn’t been invented yet…as just another glitchy small problem that could easily be solved

And yet she went to (and dropped out of) Stanford for chem eng and spent most of her time in labs and genomics. Dropout or not you can't point to her as being "corporate, not chemist".

> Holmes says to Fielder that she’s never told a lie in her life.

So what was telling some facilities people to move some document cabinets in front of the door way to the actual lab where all the FDA inspectors would see was a bank of Siemens machines doing the work that she was telling the FDA her machines were doing?

I will give Bill this, he does know how to play a typical user. Yeah, MS has some shenanigans (putting it mildly) in its birth and climb, but it was obvious from that that he was a relatively competent nerd, programmer etc., and that he was trying to paint the thought process of someone trying to put together family videos not "hurr, where this go, what this do?" like a Neanderthal.

Amusing watching all the executives try to push responsibility on each other and stay out the spotlist or, if unavoidable, take ownership of the smallest possible part of the problem, and then convene committees (that largely caused the mess) to solve the mess.

Leaving aside that the vast majority of people on such lists are nothing of the sort, your presence on them is evaluated if not every time you book a flight, but every time you check in for one.

Otherwise that's a pretty gaping loophole. "Get Precheck and then go to terrorist training camp, you're safe for a few years".

(All of this is notwithstanding the fact that all of this is absolute garbage security theater, and I say that as someone with Pre and Clear.

Careful, your partisanship is showing. Telling that you don't mention Rick Scott, Elaine Chao, Kushner, Wilbur Ross, Tom Price, George Santos, Duncan Hunter, MTG, Mike Kelly, Kelly Loeffler, Chris Collins... but instead hand wave away Trump and say "but look at all these Democratic thieves who are thieves but less successful ones".

And uh, going to need a citation on what exact thievery you're referring to with, say, Obama, whose net worth comes from two book deals after his Presidency for his memoirs, unless you're seriously claiming that Penguin Random House offering advances on what turned out to be best sellers or a Netflix deal is akin to a revolving door to consultancy, let alone the theft you're actually accusing him of here. Meanwhile, all the names I mentioned were people who did commit actual crimes or were believed to have done so (by the DOJ) but either "didn't press charges" after influence from the current administration, were charged, or were convicted and then pardoned or commuted again by the current administration.

But no, let's talk about the Dems.

Absolutely. In my town the politicians on the planning and zoning committees are all best friends with all the developers in town, and not just "we work in the same area, socialize at the same events", but "we go on joint family vacations with our kids together and are in each other's bridal parties"...

... and then wonder why the public gets mad when the environmental impact study says "not good", public works says "area roads can't support the traffic influx and can't support increasing capacity due to geography and existing homes" and still approve the developer's new project anyway.

"the reality is" as you offer up as much evidence as you claim the OP is lacking.

Meanwhile in my FB circle of friends and acquaintances I have 3 people who call themselves Independent, and 4 who call themselves Libertarian.

All of them have voted for Trump, twice, and as far as I know, at least 2 voted multiple times for the Bush dynasty.

And stood in front of a TV camera during Obama's administration and said that Republicans would not support bills that objectively made Americans lives better because their goal was only to make sure Obama was a one term President.

Would have? They did. Michelle Obama was ripped to shreds over programs to make school lunches healthier.

It's amazing that in a discussion about how bad corruption has become or is perceived to have become under this particular Republican administration, that there's several people hand-wringing about the Democrats and how they've been corrupt, or they're worse, or now "what if they get hypothetically get worse as a result of this?". Anything to avoid having to take direct action against those currently in power, currently openly selling pardons, shitcoins, and government contracts.

> Feels like they're upset that Trump exposed how rotten this game has gotten.

You make it sound like he's the one calling this out, "Drain the swamp" style, when instead he's the one elevating it to the next level. A month ago he sat for a TV interview in the White House, and he said, verbatim, "My children are insider trading all the time". And it was so on-brand for Trump's administration that it barely moved the needle.

Barron is an unemployed college drop out who gained $150M in net worth in a year. Donald Jr and Eric start companies or get paid millions for board seats that get billions in government contracts within days of their forming/joining.

You, unable to form more than three words about all of this, but able to go on a vague rant about how its the Democrats we should really be angry at. Corruption is endemic. It's never been as brazen, and as much, as now.

We literally have political appointees betting on the contents of speeches they're about to make, military members betting on the likelihood of classified missions they're about to undertake, people vandalizing/manipulating weather stations.

I don't think it's quite that tendentious. You can say "well, but that's not the majority of the marketplace" and you're right. But it's not an inconsequential one, either.

It already works like that. "Identity theft" is entirely framed as a problem for the citizen, affecting them and that it's their responsibility to resolve or face the consequences (credit score, collections, etc.) when all the citizen did "wrong" was choose an institution who cared more about profit than security. For the institution, all their obligation often seems to be is to "partner"[1] with a credit monitoring service.

[1] A credit monitoring service that will give the institution that "free 12 months" at a vastly reduced bulk rate because it knows that in order to sign up for free credit monitoring you actually sign up, with a card, for their top tier product (which might otherwise be $50+ a month) on what is effectively a 12 month trial after which they switch you over to a paid subscription (hell, there may even be commissions paid to the institution for anyone who neglects to cancel quickly enough). The incentives are so perverse.

> Most operating systems and browsers come with a sync mechanism that many people default to, but it's no more than that: the default.

Assuming the FIDO Consortium approves. Otherwise you might be like KeePass, being unceremoniously threatened with revocation of attestation, for offering to do what the big players are able to do.

My Google account is in good standing but has other issues. In between startups and side projects I cannot link my phone number as it has been used "too many times". So apparently, to Google, if I want a new account or to set this up, I need a new phone number. Enquiries to support have gone as well as you'd expect with Google.

From my time in there Garrett seems to sincerely believe in Minority Report as his vision, minus the cautionary tale. And has said "A false positive is better than a false negative. That doesn't advance our mission of a world without crime, because of Flock". Really scary.

I walked home along a river (path) as a 5 and 6 year old, home from school in the UK.