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Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby
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Re: Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
In a different story that Mac later runs Windows 7: https://kuulpeeps.com/2018/12/14/freddie-figgers-meet-the-29... But there was no capacitor, it was just taken apart 5 (or 6) times. Not abandoned here either, just a crack-addicted mother.
From the same article: " “In late 2008, I started developing “Tracker”, a software program that receives GPS signals to determine the location of any cell phone, whether it is turned on or off." How is that possible?
It's not.
Re: Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby
#33You would think they have the sense to do 5 mins of google research on people they write about at the BBC? > "So I got my dad's shoes, I cut the sole of the shoe open, I built the circuit board and placed it inside of the shoe with a 90 megahertz speaker, a microphone and a wired area network card," says Freddie. None of this makes any sense.
There is a huge problem with UK journalism and these faux business stories. Very simply: the people who write these stories are on other beats, they are usually people who don't know about business or technology or anything, and the "story" is about something else (i.e. overcoming adversity, something that gets clicks). This may sound trite but has consequences. Various types of financial scammers (a big industry in…
> It is what happens when you tell students repeatedly that business is bad, and anyone who starts a business is a thief (ironically, that primes you for scammers).
Can you elaborate? I don’t think I follow.
Re: Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a huge problem with UK journalism and these faux business stories. Very simply: the people who write these stories are on other beats, they are usually people who don't know about business or technology or anything, and the "story" is about something else (i.e. overcoming adversity, something that gets clicks). This may sound trite but has consequences. Various types of financial scammers (a big industry in…
> It is what happens when you tell students repeatedly that business is bad, and anyone who starts a business is a thief (ironically, that primes you for scammers). Can you elaborate? I don’t think I follow.
95% of the "business" stories that the BBC covers are about people overcoming adversity or some other disadvantage. 95% of the financial scams in the UK market themselves as a way to "fight the system" or beat the rich people (look at r/SuperStonk, it isn't active knowledge, it is a moral crusade).
In both cases, the logic is: you can't win, everything is rigged, anyone who is rich already stole from you because weakness and disadvantage is morally superior, you deserve to win because you are disadvantaged...
Enter the guy, who is just a regular guy, selling you a forex trading system to settle your score with the baddies.
Btw, if you don't believe this search for forex trading scams. Almost all of them are: I was just a regular guy like you, I started with £500, now I have this shiny car (rented, ofc), and I am sharing these secret "rich person" systems with yooooooooooou...this is your only opportunity to get rich because the system is so unfair (the only way to get people to take risks that would seem stupid in any other context is crush their self-esteem, and tell them they have no other choice).
Re: Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby
#35Take everything this guy says with a grain of salt. His phone business appears to be a scam. These paragraphs caught my eye: > The Figgers F3, which went on sale in 2019, contains a chip designed to enable wireless charging whenever the phone is within five metres of a "super base charger" - a device that has been awaiting approval by the FCC. > The marketing of the F3 caused controversy, with some bloggers arguing t…
His Wikipedia is interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Figgers
For example: “Figgers also has a license spectrum band from FCC”. The citations there are a student-run uni newspaper in Ghana, and the news site of a Florida State University radio station.
If the guy isn’t all he claims, he’s done an excellent job of layering together successive Wikipedia-credible sources and then using those as a springboard to more and more credible news stories, culminating in coverage in WashPo and the BBC.
I am pretty skeptical, but if I’m right to be, also pretty impressed by his press coverage game.
Re: Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby
#36Take everything this guy says with a grain of salt. His phone business appears to be a scam. These paragraphs caught my eye: > The Figgers F3, which went on sale in 2019, contains a chip designed to enable wireless charging whenever the phone is within five metres of a "super base charger" - a device that has been awaiting approval by the FCC. > The marketing of the F3 caused controversy, with some bloggers arguing t…
His Wikipedia is interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Figgers For example: “Figgers also has a license spectrum band from FCC”. The citations there are a student-run uni newspaper in Ghana, and the news site of a Florida State University radio station. If the guy isn’t all he claims, he’s done an excellent job of layering together successive Wikipedia-credible sources and then using those as a springbo…
Reminds me of Citogenesis, how things repeated enough becomes truth. https://xkcd.com/978/
Re: Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby
#37Take everything this guy says with a grain of salt. His phone business appears to be a scam. These paragraphs caught my eye: > The Figgers F3, which went on sale in 2019, contains a chip designed to enable wireless charging whenever the phone is within five metres of a "super base charger" - a device that has been awaiting approval by the FCC. > The marketing of the F3 caused controversy, with some bloggers arguing t…
His Wikipedia is interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Figgers For example: “Figgers also has a license spectrum band from FCC”. The citations there are a student-run uni newspaper in Ghana, and the news site of a Florida State University radio station. If the guy isn’t all he claims, he’s done an excellent job of layering together successive Wikipedia-credible sources and then using those as a springbo…
He's clearly in the wrong field. He should be doing PR for megacorps with these results.
Re: Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby
#38Take everything this guy says with a grain of salt. His phone business appears to be a scam. These paragraphs caught my eye: > The Figgers F3, which went on sale in 2019, contains a chip designed to enable wireless charging whenever the phone is within five metres of a "super base charger" - a device that has been awaiting approval by the FCC. > The marketing of the F3 caused controversy, with some bloggers arguing t…
His Wikipedia is interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Figgers For example: “Figgers also has a license spectrum band from FCC”. The citations there are a student-run uni newspaper in Ghana, and the news site of a Florida State University radio station. If the guy isn’t all he claims, he’s done an excellent job of layering together successive Wikipedia-credible sources and then using those as a springbo…
That is a very...strange wiki. If not self written, then perhaps written based on spoken self accounts.
Also, I know of no place in Florida called "Coral Gates." Perhaps the transcriber misheard.
Re: Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby
#39Take everything this guy says with a grain of salt. His phone business appears to be a scam. These paragraphs caught my eye: > The Figgers F3, which went on sale in 2019, contains a chip designed to enable wireless charging whenever the phone is within five metres of a "super base charger" - a device that has been awaiting approval by the FCC. > The marketing of the F3 caused controversy, with some bloggers arguing t…
Hah, reminds me of InstaCharge.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/03/fiji-pm-endors...
Re: Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
His Wikipedia is interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Figgers For example: “Figgers also has a license spectrum band from FCC”. The citations there are a student-run uni newspaper in Ghana, and the news site of a Florida State University radio station. If the guy isn’t all he claims, he’s done an excellent job of layering together successive Wikipedia-credible sources and then using those as a springbo…
He's clearly in the wrong field. He should be doing PR for megacorps with these results.
This is quite common in the product world. Even before the internet we had "as seen on TV" where people would go to extreme lengths to get their product mentioned either on some magazine show or, failing that, just an informercial. They then have a circular reference which can be used to gain legitimacy when trying to get covered in a more prestigious publication.