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Post by reaperducer »

bfung wrote: post #116
blackbrokkoli wrote: post #100

> 4. ADT 2.0: Digital neighborhood watch. That this is not only a market, but a "wish" which seems to get traction even here on HN confirms to me that the old joke "1984 is not a manual" is more relevant than ever, and scarily not only in regards to the usual suspects, corporate and nation states, but people themselves. Can anyone explain to me why anyone would advocate a profit-driven, systematic eradication of soul…

In China, this already happened with smart cameras everywhere to monitor traffic and people. It’s only a matter of time other sensors are added. And only a small slippery slope away from a US city gov/municipality to think it’s a good idea to install for the whole community. When 5g comes online...

In China, this already happened with smart cameras everywhere to monitor traffic and people

And once the Chinese market starts to look saturated, the companies that make these systems will target Western governments. Hard.

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Post by blackbrokkoli »

zone411 wrote: post #125
blackbrokkoli wrote: post #100

> 4. ADT 2.0: Digital neighborhood watch. That this is not only a market, but a "wish" which seems to get traction even here on HN confirms to me that the old joke "1984 is not a manual" is more relevant than ever, and scarily not only in regards to the usual suspects, corporate and nation states, but people themselves. Can anyone explain to me why anyone would advocate a profit-driven, systematic eradication of soul…

Ask that to one of the ~6 million victims of burglaries per year (2.5 mil burglaries/year). How are those black swan events? How are they low impact?

What can a start-up driven cloud mass surveilance do in that regard what a 1950-tech alarm system can not?

Why not look into the countless measures other nations with far less crime or individuals have successfuly done which coincidentally also are not opening an attack surface for sinister activities as large as Alaska?

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Post by trevyn »

blackbrokkoli wrote: post #100

> 4. ADT 2.0: Digital neighborhood watch. That this is not only a market, but a "wish" which seems to get traction even here on HN confirms to me that the old joke "1984 is not a manual" is more relevant than ever, and scarily not only in regards to the usual suspects, corporate and nation states, but people themselves. Can anyone explain to me why anyone would advocate a profit-driven, systematic eradication of soul…

>Can anyone explain to me why anyone would advocate a profit-driven, systematic eradication of soul and character around each and every human residence?

The more money you make, the more effort you spend cementing your position and systematically eradicating soul and character. See: Gated communities.

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Post by eladgil »

aaavl2821 wrote: post #64

There are biotech startups working on all of those already There are a couple interesting gene therapy companies workout on hearing (akuous and decibel among others). Lots of ophthalmology gene therapy companies also, as well as more traditional companies. Hair regeneration has been a popular area of research for a while Most companies work on biomarkers as part of the drug dev process. However building a business ar…

Which of these do you think are farthest along?

Gene therapy seems to be working a little bit in ex-vivo approaches (you take cells out, modify them, and put them back in, largely in the immune system) but progress elsewhere is very limited.

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Post by NikolaNovak »

ghaff wrote: post #90
NikolaNovak wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>>SaaS can be on-premises. True; the distinction between SaaS and COTS becomes moot in practical terms then, and all of my comment still applies. >>The tools need to adapt to the user, the user shouldn't need to adapt to the tool. Again, that's: - True for an IT project whose goal is to support whatever the user is currently doing (and what many of us are trained to do / think in current IT paradigm). - Not True for…

Quite a few years ago, I was at a very small company and we made the decision to move from hosting our own Microsoft Exchange to Gmail--partly for cost reasons and partly because we had had a couple of serious mail outages. A couple of people at the time were really unhappy about the change because there were some differences, at least at the time, in the ability to create nested folders/labels like they were accusto…

My mind thinks hierarchically in everything I do so I understand that Google's "Search, don't sort" is difficult to adopt to.

(Note, FWIW, though I think we're on the same page - the "business processes" I'm talking about in relation to ERP are less interface/program-mechanic based, and more along the lines of "Who is authorized/must approve" "How do we run accounting" "What is our procurement workflow" "How do you calculate taxes" etc)

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Post by criddell »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #69
criddell wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with subscriptions? If you are getting an ongoing service (like Spotify, or HBO, or magazine delivery, etc...) it seems that an ongoing fee makes sense.

Products turning into services, that's what wrong. You stop paying, the devices stop working. Or, they decide they're bored with providing the service, and pivot or get acquihired (or just decide to prod you into upgrading), the devices stop working. Plus, it seems that the new breed of service companies isn't satisfied with just providing a service in exchange of money. They also use the opportunity to exfiltrate as…

You don't subscribe to cable tv or netflix?

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Post by bredren »

blackbrokkoli wrote: post #100

> 4. ADT 2.0: Digital neighborhood watch. That this is not only a market, but a "wish" which seems to get traction even here on HN confirms to me that the old joke "1984 is not a manual" is more relevant than ever, and scarily not only in regards to the usual suspects, corporate and nation states, but people themselves. Can anyone explain to me why anyone would advocate a profit-driven, systematic eradication of soul…

I played with this idea some with a startup called Perch, which intended to turn old smartphones into security cameras or modern webcams.

While some users were interested in deterring crime, others just like to watch webcams. Sometimes weird and noteworthy stuff happens, though I found not nearly often enough. Also low-cost application specific cameras like wyze emerged that were easier to setup than old phones.

Anyhow, Petty crimes are currently very interesting to people to catch in this sort of age of online shaming. This is evidenced by the stolen package bomb videos.

Importantly, adding more surveillance does not mean you can go out now and not assume you're being recorded or that your actions in public might turn up on a social network. We passed this as an assumption years ago.

However, it is still possible to do terrible things in broad daylight and get away with it. We had, I believe two unsolved daytime pedestrian hit and runs in inner Portland in December! Hard to imagine but there is still relatively low or even no useful video coverage in some areas. And it isn't always a great thing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/e5kr7q/woman_and_...

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Post by blackbrokkoli »

scarejunba wrote: post #128
blackbrokkoli wrote: post #100

> 4. ADT 2.0: Digital neighborhood watch. That this is not only a market, but a "wish" which seems to get traction even here on HN confirms to me that the old joke "1984 is not a manual" is more relevant than ever, and scarily not only in regards to the usual suspects, corporate and nation states, but people themselves. Can anyone explain to me why anyone would advocate a profit-driven, systematic eradication of soul…

Because the normal result of this for people isn't that they have to go perform two minutes hate or praise Big Brother; it's that their packages don't get stolen. And the downside? Nothing. In fact, the expression of "I could be watched at any time but no one will" is a greater expression of trust. People live their lives very differently from the universe you're talking about. They enforce things through trust netwo…

Well, 300 million people are currently living under an administration whose election was most likely heavily influenced by mass data collection and analysis.

Nobody cares if you and your friend read each others diaries or whatever. The problem is the metaphorical diary being owned by a global entity, along with two billion other diaries. Locked behind shoddy security and regarded as sellable for the right price at any point in time.

As a German I was thoroughly (and rightfully IMO) teached to treat the opinion of "haha personally I just don't look further than a few meters beyond my nose and the world looks quite fine now" as danger, not as an excuse and your statement are falls quite clearly in that category. Just because you don't see nothing doesn't mean nothing is happening.

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Post by cjsawyer »

arkanciscan wrote: post #120

I fail to see how TikTok is a "good reminder for the generational turnover of social products". Has an entire generation passed since Vine or Snapchat? If anything it's proof that securing an early lead in a new form of media (short form video in the aforementioned cases) doesn't guarantee success even for a generation. My takeaway is that young people are increasingly mercurial and disloyal. Chasing their attention…

The lifecycle of a social media should be measured by some % of pairs of children and their parents both using it. It’s an instant buzzkill.

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Post by spoon16 »

jcadam wrote: post #136

> 7. Software-only defense contractor. Yea, I keep thinking of doing this but there's so much red tape in starting a defense company, it's seriously daunting. I'm a software developer in the defense industry, btw. > ...be focused on a more SaaS-centric software-driven model... Actually, I think the time may finally be right for something like this in my industry.

Checkout Rebellion Defense https://rebelliondefense.com/
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