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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
> slapping tariffs Countries change trade policy often as is deemed advantageous. For example, the UK decided to leave the customs union of the EU and start treating trade with the continent as it does everywhere else, and did so by no l
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
Tell that to the fishermen on the shores of the South China Sea, Hong Kong, people in India along the border, and of course, Taiwan. I'll agree that the US is regressing, but it's becoming more like China . You have an elite that
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
> I don't personally consider "China" my adversary They're not an adversary in the same way that a guy demanding your wallet at knifepoint is, or a company able to cut off your electricity is. China is an adversary in
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
I mean, yeah? It's generally a bad idea to use information-handling hardware from your main geopolitical rival.
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If I were an entrepreneur, I'd focus on getting a platform up that runs open Western models with good management and governance tools, and a decent coding agent front-end. The whole "we're going to replace all of your workers
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
Data agreements must be enforced. In California, it's thought that only 9% of data brokers are compliant with state laws requiring transparency and deletion of personal data.[0] It only goes down from there; most states do not have str
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
> You guys could do a little bit of research before chiming in. It's not that hard to find this information, and there are dozens of documentary videos on YouTube about Flock cameras. Anyone can put up anything on YouTube. Have a go
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
The ACLU has, at the very least, noted that there are changes to the Flock T&C that could lead to the sale of data [0] > Sale of data. Flock’s previous T&C stated flatly, “Flock does not own and shall not sell Customer Data.” Tha
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
How do we know they're abiding by those agreements? So far as I can tell from my little corner of Healthcare IT, Big Tech primarily has people doing two things: 1) creating ways to get people to generate data 2) people sitting around c
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
It seems they can't do so without possible consequence in California, at least. It'd be interesting to know about other jurisdictions, and whether or not ALPR data is used as a possible lever to offer municipalities a "discou
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
I would guess so, though that doesn't exactly get rid of the costs of the hardware. I'd be interested to see what the op ex is for a company running this sort of business. You're storing lots of video, which isn't exactl
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>The backlash against Flock has intensified as a growing number of police officers have been accused of or charged with abusing the technology, often to stalk romantic interests. As of Aug. 12, there had been more than 100 cases of abuse
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
We need to have a package of FLOSsoftware that you could run on the cloud of your choice that offers most of what GitHub does (niceties on top of Git) without the centralization. GitLab was close last I remember but there was some sort of e
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
> When e.g. people suggest that China is having "economic problems" and growth is "slowing", over the last 30 years the Chinese idea of "normal" (5-8%) is the USA's idea of "extraordinary". It
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
You pay less money in the app. Companies are not going to hire a mobile dev team to create an app to give you a way to pay them less for a good. They hire a mobile dev team to create an app to give you a way to hand over data that you oth
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
It'd be interesting to see what a lawyer specializing in disability law would think of that. At least in the US, I could see that being something that the ADA prohibits.
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
The Flock that's currently the subject of massive public scrutiny and vandalism campaigns? How many of the cameras operated by the state security apparatus of the CCP do you reckon are shot, cut down, spray painted, stolen, or otherwis
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
> I'd rather have the competent one who sees the interest of the people collectively as important. If this is meant to be in reference to China, the problem is, you cannot truly ascertain competence given the current regime. It&#x27
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
> high wages, intellectual pluralism or trade disputes aren't part of the bedrock of international norms. Well, the idea, particularly before 9/11, is that they could be. You'd have increased manufacturing in developing
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> There's a fairly good case to be made that playing by, and being able to set, international norms is in the long term interest of powerful countries. There's also a fairly good case to be made that not playing by internationa
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
> I'd rather have no overlord Unfortunately, that's not how humans work. > the one abusing its power to force deals since the 80s us obviously the worst. Agreed. China's behavior towards its own people, its neighbors -
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
There will be another one. I hope you like the CCP's vision of the future.
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Well, to a point. I honestly don't get why, for example, we're building anything that requires a lot of water in Arizona.
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
It's like literally any other change to society: You either are able to convince people of its utility, or you are run out of town. At the very least, a lot of these projects are done via less-than-open deals with municipalities and of
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Psychopathic Traits of Corporate Leadership as Predictors of Stock Returns(2017)(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by lenerdenator 2mo ago|3 comments
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I had to edit the title to fit the length requirement for submission; full title is "Psychopathic Traits of Corporate Leadership as Predictors of Future Stock Returns". Paper is by Wisniewski, Yekini, and Omar.
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
This is what happens when you take people with impaired empathy for other human beings, nurture that impairment, and then present unfathomable sums of wealth to incentivize the continuation of the impairment.
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
I've been playing Project Zomboid with my friends. It's an isometric survival game set in 1993 in a fictional area around Louisville, Kentucky. It has VHS tapes, TV and radio broadcasts, ham radio, CDs, and landlines in it. So far
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The massive database it's connected to, the government's awareness of said database, and the government's intentions regarding the database.
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by lenerdenator 2mo ago
> Meta is a terrible company but you're saying it should be illegal for the founder of a company to remain in control of the company as it grows. Correct. Well, at least with majority control vested in one single person with no acco

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