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by brk 6d ago
To be clear, I was defending YC's investment in them, not Flock at their early stages. If you have spoken to Garrett in the early days you would have heard a much different vision than today.
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by brk 7d ago
In their defense, Flock didn't start off quite this way. They were initially offering a product geared to HOAs and private entities to help with simple violations and things like that. At some point they stumbled on this loophole of al
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by brk 12d ago
This can only mean that IBM Clippy is next.
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by brk 15d ago
Sure, if you want to trust a cheap knock-off with no Apple logo. I learned my lessons from cube chargers, not going to risk getting ripped off again with some no-name product.
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by brk 19d ago
I wish Messenger had an auto-reply feature: "I probably won't see your message for a while because I don't install Meta apps on my phone"
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by brk 19d ago
Bug or feature?
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by brk 19d ago
At this point the barrier for me to install an app is pretty high. If you're going to needlessly gate certain functions behind an app that work on a desktop browser (or could work in-browser), then I just won't use those functio
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by brk 26d ago
Given Flock's behavior to date, I really don't consider the assumption that they could move to selling collected data to be a conspiracy theory. We have already seen that data is a highly valuable currency. And investor-backed com
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by brk 26d ago
Yet? You have to admit, the precedent for them being a company that understands the sensitivity of this data has not been set.
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by brk 28d ago
Technically, most people came at it with no strong perspective. The pushback developed when it became undeniably clear the the devices were being abused, and there was no accountability. In particular, Flocks CEO has handled this extremely
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by brk 1mo ago
For a relatively small battery like that, it's not going to last for days. In the typical outage where that battery would carry you, you can typically just leave the fridge closed and it will stay cold enough to prevent 99% of your stu
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by brk 1mo ago
It had my boat name, which so far I haven't seen duplicated, and isn't particularly specific to anything that would preclude someone else from using it.
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by brk 1mo ago
You're setting yourself up for a lonely life. I think it is like CGI in movies, in the beginning it was often obvious and jarring. Over time as it gets better the obviousness of AI images will be much harder to spot and they will be co
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by brk 2mo ago
Not quite sure how you got that out of my comment, but no. In the US at least, those classified as poor have a very low tax burden, in many cases they pay $0, or close to $0 in federal taxes after standard deductions.
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by brk 2mo ago
FWIW, I was with you until the "Tax the rich" bit. Considering how many people the average "rich" person employs, they are generating plenty of tax revenue.
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by brk 2mo ago
I'll have to try and dig out a couple of the ones I bought and re-verify this. Really though the 60fps doesn't matter for the majority of users. Even the 4K aspect is overkill for most common things. ISTR GoPro moved away from Amb
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by brk 2mo ago
Not surprising, it's a commoditized sector. On top of that, when GoPro first launched mobile phones generally did not have cameras capable of producing production-quality images, and especially video. 20 years later, the game is much d
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by brk 2mo ago
Are you looking for Good or Great? If you just need Good, there are dozens of no-brand options on Amazon and Ali that do 4K60fps with output that is more than sufficient for any non-professional use. I don't have a brand recommendation
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by brk 2mo ago
There used to be a card you could plug into a PC ISA Bus that gave you a second workstation/interface. The main selling point was to allow 2 users to share a single PC for cost savings. IIRC, it only supported text displays, but for 99
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by brk 2mo ago
I use the 1st of my birth month. Slightly less suspicious? It's at least a little easier to remember. Generate fake profiles and identities usually is easier when you have bits that are rooted in your actual reality. Like, you have the
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by brk 2mo ago
Never? Facebook is pretty overrun with what are basically fake profiles. Hell, I've been curating an alter ego on Facebook for over a decade. Built up a profile with several dozen "friends" that are all kind of interconnected
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by brk 2mo ago
That was my thought, but I also think we're at the point that the iconic companies that have come and gone 30+ years ago are unknown to the current crop of young-ish startup founders. I would be really curious to know if the current Th
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by brk 2mo ago
I guess we are recycling company names now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation (I know, Corp vs. Lab).
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by brk 2mo ago
It also appears to have a fairly narrow detection angle. This might work for spotting a drone when you already know roughly where it is, but that problem becomes infinitely harder when you have to scan the entire sky. RF drone detection has
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by brk 2mo ago
While that is certainly a topic worth pursuing, especially for anyone with a "corporations are people" argument, the challenge is the immediate vacuum afterwards, which is likely to attract copy-cats. You might "execute"
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by brk 3mo ago
True, though it seems like at least 75% of the traffic on various social media and streaming sites is content that people want to avoid, yet there it is.
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by brk 3mo ago
RFC 3514 is being repurposed as an "AI Bit", all AI-generated content will be required to set this bit during transfers.
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by brk 3mo ago
This equates to about 20 cents per day per person, or about $73/year. It is a move in the right direction for sure, but I'm not sure I'd call this a significant statistic.
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by brk 3mo ago
Could be nostalgia for sure, but the issues you are describing were not anticipated or immediately obvious on initial launch (at least as far as I recall). From what I have seen of folding screens today, they come with some significant trad
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by brk 3mo ago
15 years ago, I would agree that Apple might not have been willing to accept those kinds of issues. I'm not sure about the Apple of today. That is not a slight against any Apple leadership, but I do feel that, for a variety of reasons,

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