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Indeed. That's why I like the privacy cards on the iOS App Store a lot. For apps like this, it makes it really easy to spot the ones that'll record my location data on their servers for some reason.

It's the same with fitness tracking apps, so many of them send health data to their servers, but there are a few (often paid ones, of course) that seem to store important data only locally.

And yet they have personnel shortages, which was my point. Where one job disappears, another opens up.

I've heard this argument over and over. I used to be an avid believer in this myself.

However, this has been the fear of people for years, with every new tech and every time, it seems like some new thing replaced the old, or even added to it. The electric guitar, the synth, DAWs, they never replaced musicians, they just gave them more tools, yet there were always nay sayers.

I see this happening in business too. People haven't been fired en masse due to tech and we're currently having massive shortages in the work force. Even with McDonald's moving to self-service screens. I'm getting less and less scared of tech taking over and removing people from everything.

> There's much more of a focus on punishment instead of reintegration.

Yup, this is a cultural thing. In the US, people (in general) want criminals to be punished, they don't put too much value in rehabilitation. It's very different from many European countries which is visible in sentencing.

> I haven't encountered evidence that would suggest that the US is better at preventing crime than others.

On the contrary, there's much more crime in the US than most western countries. Whether this has anything to do with punishment vs rehabilitation is impossible to say though. I personally think that lack of many social services is more to blame. Things like social security, public housing mixed with private, health care, workers rights, et cetera mean less people end up in criminality in the first place.

Recidivism rates unfortunately are extremely hard to compare due to the methods and sentencing being extremely different.

Ok, that makes sense. Most other options will be bulkier indeed.

No, it doesn't, since the drone will show you where the drone is. For your own location relative to the drone, it is though. You can do without, but just showing home (take off) location on the map is not ideal.

Pardon my ignorance, but is there any reason why a GoPro (Max) or Insta360 is not sufficient?

I actually work in LE and video from domestic and commercial security cameras are always a major piece of information that we look for in every single investigation. So... Yes, LE gives a shit in many countries.

However, also in many countries, like my own, police is very under staffed and burglaries are often on the bottom of the priorities list. Armed robberies, murders, shootings, stabbings, explosions, fires, domestic abuse, rape, to name a few, are the ones that get the highest priority. And those things take a lot of work to find suspects, prove what they're suspected of, write it down and get them convicted.

A case, unfortunately, isn't finished when you catch a suspect. It's a crap load of work to get someone convicted and that gets massively underestimated by people who only read statistics and conclude that LE doesn't care... Most of us do, which is why we join the field.

> I'd be surprised if you can get a truck at anywhere near MSRP these days.

Europe, that's where. List price vs MSRP is not a mostly US issue honestly.

I own a 21 year old car that still drives great. It's amazing honestly.

> So, yea, a WiFi camera isn't great, but it's still going to get 99% of criminals out there. Next we just need WiFi jammer alarms.

All we need is onboard storage to record a couple hours of video locally which can then be synced when the connection is back again. Right? That doesn't fix real-time information transmission, but video is most often important for finding suspects after the fact.

Well then, since Google these days is slow as hell on slow internet, I guess users with slow internet are no longer important.

When trying to find something on Google while visiting smaller towns in Germany, it's often down right unusable. Then again, I've been used to broadband and 4G for many years now.

> Cars are second class citizens most of the time and people driving them know this.

As someone who's never been able to afford living in a Dutch city, but has worked there, this is very true. Driving through Amsterdam is like driving through a mine field. Cyclists seemingly pop up out of nowhere and always take the right of way. This has become such a custom in the Netherlands that (at least in Amsterdam) cyclists even have the right of way even when running a red light. Courts have decided in favor of cyclists who were hit by cars while running red lights, because when driving in Amsterdam, you need to expect this to happen as a driver.

I'm not opposed to this at all, since cyclists are much more vulnerable than drivers. However, I've noticed that this is becoming much more dangerous with electric bicycles taking over. You used to be able to estimate quite well whether you can cross in front of a cyclists by the type of bike and the person on it... But not anymore. A 72 year old who used to cycle maybe 15 km/h is now casually doing 25 km/h and not slowing down for crossings. This is also visible in the statistics, with the number of cyclists involved in fatal accidents rising.

Not the first of such stories either:

https://borncity.com/win/2020/08/16/microsoft-kontensperrung...

This is why I explicitly make on-site backups of anything that's in the cloud and don't store my passwords with Apple. If they suddenly decided I had CSAM for some reason, I'd be locked out of everything.

Yes, both true, but in no way contrary to the statement you're replying to.

Politicians in general are highly ignorant on technology and have no clue about the impact of ideas like this. They get advice from advisory boards populated by political science students that had internships at IT companies and are now 'advisor on AI in government'. Sometimes they get external advice from expensive consultants that tell them what they want to hear, especially if they think they might be able to sell more projects afterwards.

So, a politician who objectively wants to protect children in a modern world will come up with dumb ideas like this and get confirmation that it's not a dumb idea. It's Hanlon's Razor at work.

Probably what Brexiteers expected to happen, that everything they don't like disappears and nothing gets worse.

This may have caused WhatsApp to get big in much of the EU, but by now many European countries also have unlimited text, so it's not the case any longer.

> stunning to see how many people suffer from food born illness today

The way I see people handle food, I'm not surprised at all. People leave lunch meat out of the fridge for sometimes hours, cut the fungus off things and eat the rest (which is ok sometimes, but often isn't), rinse chicken breast in the sink, use the same tools and cutting boards to handle uncooked and cooked food... And I can keep going.

So many people have no clue how food should be handled, or willfully ignore what they do know.

This is true for many things, but mostly the ones you use often while driving. Windscreen wipers, temperature, volume, yes. Much of that, however, can be done on the steering wheel already.

What annoys me is that many manufacturers are still adding as many buttons as possible as some form of luxury. Seat memory buttons in the door that you only use once per drive max, can easily be added to a screen (or smart, through key recognition). This adds a much larger number of options too. There are other options like this too that would be much better suited for screens than buttons.

I wish that, in stead of picking 'buttons or screens' as the options for cars, manufacturers will start looking at the best choice for specific functionality in stead of continuing how they are right now.

As a European, I feel very thankful that the US has given up many of the luxuries (health care, social security, paid time off by law) we have here to fund a military to protect the world. My country has 2 fighter jets and a tank with a flat tire (hyperbole) and really depends on this. I've been vocally critical of the US defense spending, but through the Ukraine war have come to a realization we've all been spoiled and naive and feel like Europe really needs to pick up defense spending and not just in the short term.

The article doesn't state that they are less happy. It just states that they are not happier as in, they are probably pretty much equally as happy as other people.

How about an indication of the opposite? Since you stated that smart people "are better at answering all of the questions you listed".

You seem to have completely missed the point of my comment though, which is that the questions are not well-defined and therefore it's not obvious what 'the better answer' is.

> smarter people are better at answering all of the questions you listed

Define 'better'. For example:

> “How do I get my child to stop crying?”

Lots of 'dumb' parents are very good at solving this question, they give the kid what they want and put them in front of the TV or give them a bunch of candy. Smart parents might overthink the question, read a book on parenting, try a naughty chair, fail and get stressed.

The smart parents answer might be the one that's best in the long term, but it might not and really doesn't solve the actual problem right now. So is it the better answer? That depends, because it's not a well-defined problem, which I think is the point.

> That is not my experience at all.

I think we have different experiences then. Or, maybe, your interpretation of 'seeing the awful' is different.

I see 'dumb' people fall for pyramid schemes/MLM which seem obvious to me. They will only see the awful after they've lost money. We both see it, but there's a period where they don't, while I do.

I see people fall for sales tactics and which are transparent to me. Getting a €400 discount on an €800 delivery package for a second hand car that has €150 in actual value, does not seem like a deal to me. Others are very happy and are happy the sales person gave them the fake discount.

When other people are happy that the government reduces taxes on gas due to rising prices, I see rising corporate profits that were paid for with public funding.

When some people get angry about the conspiracy they read on Facebook, I get angry about the manipulation going on that caused that conspiracy to spread.

In the end, in my experience, the 'dumb' people see awful more on the micro level, while I see it more on the macro level. That probably probably makes us just about as unhappy about the stuff that happens around us, just from completely different perspectives.

The only real difference I see, is that I seem to have a harder time finding people to discuss things with than the average person seems to. Where 'dumb people' just seem to be able to repeat talking points and opinions they've heard somewhere, I often prefer more in depth discussions and conversations on the why and how, causing me to be an outsider (sometimes).

> it suggested that I would lose my asking privileges if I kept it up with the weird prompts

This makes me hella curious about the type of stuff you were requesting.

This is my experience too. Worked with an Indian start-up and most of them were utterly useless. They also never managed to make any of their deadlines because they'd always say yes to whatever you asked. Thank god for the one guy who always fixed everything we needed.

Of course, this is a broad generalization, but so is the idea that Indian talent will take over the world.

A lot of work is still needed in fixing the duck curve problem in the power grid. We need to have washing machines that start running when there's over production of solar, electric cars that provide power to the grid when there's shortages and software and hardware to do this.

That's just one of the challenges, of course, but it's one that might be relevant to your finance experience, since a lot of this work has to be done in energy markets.

> Same with pronunciation of words I’ve only seen written.

I had the opposite experience when visiting the US for the first time. I saw a bag of 'luh-too-ché' in the store. For about 10 second my mind was wondering what it was. Then I realized that the word that is (to my Dutch brain) pronounced as 'ledice' is not spelled that way, it's spelled 'lettuce'. I came to the US with C2 level proficiency (thanks to subtitled media and MMORPGs), but I still had a lot to learn!

I really hope they'll release a firmware update for the controller, before they shut down Stadia, so it can be used as a regular Bluetooth HID controller. It already works like that through a USB-C cable, but not wirelessly, unfortunately.

> I wonder how many people actually know what the optimal should be

Well, data center operations is a pretty competitive business with many acquisitions happening. Especially larger companies, like Equinix are buying up smaller companies. The large ones have entire teams dedicated to energy efficiency, both for cost savings and due to regulations popping up.

Coincidentally I've worked with a guy that does exactly this. His entire job is figuring out ways to make the data centers more efficient and I know that there are working groups where different operators come together to discuss ways to save energy.

So I'm sure not that many people will know the optimal temperature, but the ones that need to know, know. Small, on premise data centers might be winging it, but the ones that are running the majority of the internet are really trying to improve efficiency, just to stay competitive.