FireBeyond

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by FireBeyond 5d ago
> Of course, in most jurisdictions nothing stops you from going to court first if you like. But most modern-thinking judges tend to take a dim view if you turn up in front of them without having given ADR a go first. “Nothing is stopping
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by FireBeyond 5d ago
Somewhat smoothed? On the model at the back? Her hair has detail to it, but name one clearly defined facial feature on her face.
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by FireBeyond 5d ago
The girl in the front, sure. The girl behind? No. It's not even skin smoothing, there's not a single clearly defined feature to her face, while the hair at the same depth is markedly more detailed.
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by FireBeyond 5d ago
> not the AI scaled slop most of these cameras produce nowadays As someone who has only been an Apple user for phones (and Canon, Sony and Leica elsewhere), AI or otherwise, Apple is not immune to relatively heavy post processing in soft
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by FireBeyond 5d ago
You say in practice, NDAs. What we've seen so far: classified military ops, people with access to Presidential speeches...
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by FireBeyond 6d ago
The other issue is that for Flock's marketing purpose, if a Flock query was made in relation to a crime, and that crime was later resolved, Flock considers themselves to have "helped solve the crime", regardless of the releva
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by FireBeyond 7d ago
That's the best you got. "Just lie on your visa applications, no countries on earth share data with each other and no-one cares except the US and who cares about them, nothing will ever happen to you." Cool. Actually, the idi
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by FireBeyond 7d ago
Airlines do care. They get assessed a fee for every passenger that is turned around. Oh look, Australia cares: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/form-listing/forms/1563.pdf > Have you, or any other person include
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by FireBeyond 7d ago
You make it sound so "meh, whatever", but there's a few realities attached to this: The airline in question will likely not serve you again, but probably more importantly, when you apply for a tourist visa to just about any c
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by FireBeyond 7d ago
But what they can do is confiscate your phone, _image_ it, without the access attempt, and keep the phone as evidence until or unless they feel the need to apply for a warrant for the access.
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by FireBeyond 8d ago
Amazon and PayPal are horrible for this. Clicking out of the dialogs and modals to actually get logged in? (Shout out to PayPal for a dark pattern that implies "continue to login" but is actually "continue to set up PassKeys&
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by FireBeyond 8d ago
I also despise that in between OSes, browsers and certain sites I am having to close/cancel/skip sometimes three or even four dialogs to say "No, I'm not interested in changing my login method to passkey" (PayPal is
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by FireBeyond 8d ago
A nominal fee convinces people they're getting a bargain. "Free" feels like you're driving to someone's house to pick up their trash.
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by FireBeyond 9d ago
> “At a minimum, relocating Paramount’s headquarters and other operations out of California would result in losses of 2,750 and 5,550 job-years in California across all industries and losses of between $1.01 billion and $2.03 billion in
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by FireBeyond 10d ago
> This is really clever from Apple. The journalist use case is just the PR story. This will be really useful for identity verification and insurance apps This is definitely not an Apple thing, though the use profile is more ubiquitous. C
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by FireBeyond 10d ago
> Do you have an example in mind for this? Liver lesions, often benign cysts. Other cysts too (kidney, ovarian). Will often require targeted contrast MRI, and needle biopsy - which has notable risks for bleeding, often minor, but 3-4% ca
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by FireBeyond 10d ago
> This suggests a very fundamental misunderstanding of healthcare, treatments, and what insurance companies exist for. They are not about health policy or well being. They are about derisking profit loss. Their recommendations are to red
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by FireBeyond 11d ago
My thoughts there are that there are a couple of factors at play - false positives, which might lead to interventions, even exploratory, that are not zero-risk. Even without risk, not zero-cost. And as such you end up with "you had no
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by FireBeyond 11d ago
The first part of this one is more hilarious when you ask "Find me the nearest Starbucks" while CarPlay is actively providing you navigation : "I'm sorry, I don't know your location".
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by FireBeyond 11d ago
I feel like imaging and physicians really amped up on pushing this over the last decade or two. Most of the big DI companies (GE, Philips, Siemens) had very friendly financing targeted heavily at physicians. They had "matching" se
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by FireBeyond 11d ago
The CRAs compete for breach business, because it's absolutely a profitable enterprise for them: How many people actually sign up for your "free credit monitoring for a year" following a breach? When you do, you typically do s
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by FireBeyond 11d ago
It's definitely not 10%, more like 3%. His net worth is currently listed as $248B. If he has to pay out the penalty on both acquisitions, his net worth will still be about $240B. There's nothing articulable about the difference in
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by FireBeyond 11d ago
And will be still worth a quarter trillion dollars. Years of his life, perhaps, though a large part of that will be banks and lawyers, not him grinding it out. He won't even notice the money being gone, not even close.
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by FireBeyond 11d ago
> There should be a national registry of officers fired for misconduct that makes them ineligible for rehire in all jurisdictions There is/was (though Trump has largely de-fanged it) - tracks officers fired or who resigned in lieu o
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by FireBeyond 12d ago
The problem is that when such things happens, insurers have said - and won - in Court with: "We are not denying or delaying care for our customer. We are, instead, only noting that we are not going to be the Responsible Party for payin
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by FireBeyond 12d ago
> so people who don't have the time or energy to For example, people who are sick, ill, or injured...
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by FireBeyond 12d ago
The difference here is that oftentimes your situation can markedly deteriorate, sometimes irreversibly, as a result of that denial. And the "make a stink" can come at a time you're least equipped to deal with it. > It&#x27
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by FireBeyond 12d ago
That's not how it works, and I have firsthand experience, and hasn't been for at least three decades. The very first thing that happens when you show up in Fontenay-sous-bois is that they run Interpol checks and other checks in yo
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by FireBeyond 12d ago
That's the association's problem, not the referees. When I refereed basketball in Australia, referee grading was done according to FIBA standards and you had to be evaluated before any promotion in your referee grade and that coul
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by FireBeyond 12d ago
Absolutely - I used to referee basketball in Australia, including at a high level. Extremely high level junior, was generally not an issue. As was true local league. It was the intermediates, the travel leagues. Where "your kid is go

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