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With 2500 units sold, no one has moved to counterfeit yet(1). A device this simple will be cloned by AI in an afternoon. There is no imaginable anticounterfeit strategy.

(1)2500*$175=$437,500. Estimated profit is 33-66%, so $150-300k. Nice for a soloprenuer, but limited market, so small target for piracy.

We should be making more protest about this.

The cool thing is running two phones w same number. One big market phone and one minimal. Take the minimal out most of the time and the big one when you need to.

Tmobile used to let me do that but it was pricey.

That's an argument against people actng lszy, not against them using ai.

Vast majority?

The combined market cap of those four companies is maybe $500-600 billion combined. The total S&P 500 market cap is roughly $45-50 trillion.

So defense contractors represent maybe 1-1.5% of a typical index fund portfolio.

History will note this action was made the same day scaffolding was set up to remove the president's name from the Kennedy center.

In the conservative worldview, competition is fair dinkem, so the setting for these businesses is just. That's how we got here.

Also in that worldview, we have the responsibility to defend innocent children. Let's if they can follow their own moral code and outlaw this surveillance to protect our kids.

They don't have equal weight.

Even 100s of yummy grandma-cheeseburgers is not worth feeding private data brokers detailed maps of our own communities.

Nowadays some of them are just as likely to sell the data to the other side.

Nowadays the other side may get access to them without us even knowing.

French cultural pessimism

Specifically Jean Baudrillard describes copies of copies with decreasing relavence and quality. But more sinisterly, the loss of knowing what is real, important, safe, efficacious.

His work builds extensively on Plato, Lucretius, and Deleuze's concept of the Simulacrum.

The old way is a magnet pulling everything toward the industrial military consumer complex.

This new direction turns the magnet around and pushes away everything else.

Yep. The worst of both worlds..

1. Whatever the govt wants

2. Their own mods to max profit.

Corporations were conceived specifically to remove responsibility. They should not be this widely available.

Perhaps they have that in common, but facism pushes out into directions that marxism does not. Esp wrt to class, race, and self-determination.

It helps to ask: how many of the modern fascist leaders are retreating to the farm? I see them developing and deploying tech to inceease their grip on power. I see the "farmsy-folk" as a contingent the facists have persuaded to nip at those in the middle. And the means of the persuasion is, ironically, using the Marxist argunent of alienation.

Static is bc of the scrawny wires though.

Anyway, usb-c receptacles could be countersunk to help that fumbling problem. Right angle connectors could help, too.

Thats a big part of it. Customers go into a flock demo with motivated reasoning. "Im scared. Im not sure i should be this scared."

Seeing a vulnerable set of kids happily playing and hearing a confident voice say "A shooter could end all this. We can prevent it" validates that and closes the sale.

If a cautious pragmatist goes to the demo thinking "i know crime stats have declined for decades and im concerned about misuse of technology." Then a performatively confident person says "this is a component of a massive surveillance state ripe for misuse. It will give us footage of crimes and only stop a small percentage of them," how well do you think it would sell?

Drivers license leaks are surging.

It may be a sign deepseek isn't "only for" Americans. Billions of non-native speakers communicate in "flawed" versions of English. Similar for other languages. Circling back to polish instructions for the picky among the Americans... hmm

If it tickles anyone's subconscious feelings, it would be their internal guiding myth of exceptionalism. With their recent forays into authoritarianism, it's becoming ever harder to paper over the reality.

I like your 6,000 foot view.()

Most people get proseltyzed abt veg before independence. As adults, few reconsider, replaying childhood scripts.

Then, society papers over reality.

() oops just realized that tracks your tall person analogy.

Were in an era where virtually all sw could have an mcp intf to do anything...not even just color.

This isn't a someone. It's a corporation, a legal fiction explicitly designed to dissolve responsibility.

I believe it's not a "problem." It's expression, like a painting. Every work of audio reactive LEDs is a reflection of the designer's intent, constraints, biases, imagination, and the context in which it was designed. Like painting, there are technical chops, the craft, like the first half of the article, the lag, the mapping of frequency and amplitude, etc. But once those are mastered the road becomes wide open. That's the "what makes someone tap their foot?" the article asks.

Cameras move crime around. Wealth inequality raises crime risk, but community cohesion partially buffers that effect.

Happy to provide sources when back at my keeb if rqstd.

This isn’t pension funds placing bets risking people’s investment

Its potentially much worse: we don't know if the threats and bets are isolated. While diplomacy happens, the threats may very well be exaggerated to create the market opportunity.

Exactly. Support means saying "I accept the reduction in my social security and medicare and other govt services in exchange for this war."

This high profile failure means the end of the brrrt meme.

That sounds a bit gobbeldygook to me. Its either oversinplification or bs. Install a crystal oscillator? That'a one component of a more complex system...accurate enough timing for this could be achieved with an rc oscillator...and there are already numerous xtals in a phone.

Which "timings" are they talking abt?

Im trying to be charitable...but that desc isnt helping.

It doesnt have to be universally true to be true in a mathematical system like options/puts/calls.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/from-sexual-harassment-to-dr...

1. The article points out Claude has resisted being trained for that. AI in general could, but Claude can not.

Why is Elon Musk a free man?

We have a publicly verifiable history of repeated violations that would put any American away for a long time.

Their soft power is being cashed in for the benefit of an oligarchy.