FireBeyond

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by FireBeyond 9d ago
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 ca
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by FireBeyond 9d ago
> 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.
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by FireBeyond 9d ago
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
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by FireBeyond 9d ago
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".
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by FireBeyond 9d ago
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 lev
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by FireBeyond 9d ago
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 t
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by FireBeyond 9d ago
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 a
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by FireBeyond 9d ago
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
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by FireBeyond 11d ago
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 loophol
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by FireBeyond 11d ago
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
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by FireBeyond 11d ago
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 fam
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by FireBeyond 11d ago
"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 o
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by FireBeyond 11d ago
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.
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by FireBeyond 11d ago
Would have? They did. Michelle Obama was ripped to shreds over programs to make school lunches healthier.
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by FireBeyond 11d ago
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'
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by FireBeyond 11d ago
> 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 lev
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by FireBeyond 12d ago
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 w
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by FireBeyond 12d ago
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 th
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by FireBeyond 12d ago
> 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
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by FireBeyond 12d ago
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
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by FireBeyond 13d ago
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 with
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by FireBeyond 13d ago
I walked home along a river (path) as a 5 and 6 year old, home from school in the UK.
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by FireBeyond 13d ago
Yes. In my "other life" I work in fire and EMS, and in uniform regularly have parents stop us and point us out to their kids - "If you're ever hurt or in trouble, you can ALWAYS go to these people, they're safe.&quo
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by FireBeyond 13d ago
I got into an argument with a security guard at a gated community who tried to demand we give him a name, address, and "what's going on?" before he'd let us in. Fixed that when I asked if he personally called 911 and whe
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by FireBeyond 13d ago
I don't entirely agree. There's an angle on the "if corrupt, who cares?" but the stock and bond market have orders of magnitude more oversight and (potential) consequences than the risks and consequences of insider tra
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by FireBeyond 13d ago
John Tuld, in Margin Call : Sam Rogers: And you're selling something that you know has no value. John Tuld: We are selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price.
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by FireBeyond 13d ago
Well, the problem is that you want each node to be able to directly connect to each other, so you run into a mesh situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJqKqxQR36Y shows 8 running at 100gbps and clustered.
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by FireBeyond 13d ago
Yes, AI... this video does a good job walking through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJqKqxQR36Y (tl;dw - guy connects first four DGX and then another 4 "DGX-alikes". Uses 400gbps breakout cables (you can split
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by FireBeyond 13d ago
Ooh, who could this be... so many contenders... Aladtect, PSTrax, Lexipol...
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by FireBeyond 14d ago
There's a sizable part of the group that truly believe that cities get more representation than they do, that there are more rural Americans than urban.

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