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In certain places in America. My county sheriff's office would be more than happy to have something to do that isn't picking up somebody's stray dog. I'm sure this is true for the UK and Canada too.
> county sheriff I take it you live somewhere roughly in the middle of nowhere?
Even New York City has a county sheriff.
https://www.nyc.gov/site/finance/sheriff-courts/sheriff.page
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> county sheriff I take it you live somewhere roughly in the middle of nowhere?
I take it you know roughly nothing about how the world works? Even New York City has a county sheriff. https://www.nyc.gov/site/finance/sheriff-courts/sheriff.page
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I think the point is to make the smallest unit of functionality possible and then people can integrate that into their use case using attachments, casings, etc. in a way they see fit. It's a good approach for this product in my opinion.
I think this argument would work better if the AirTag in its minimal form wasn't so teardrop-shaped. It feels almost like it was designed to be difficult to integrate into other environments because it lacks any edges or openings. It ensures that anything that could hold it must be at least as big as the AirTag itself. It really confuses me why they couldn't even allow for a single small hole in its edge - it would s…
I'm a little confused by this, aren't AirTag basically circular discs pretty much just big enough to house a CRT2032 battery?
Form factor wise they don't look teardrop shaped at all in the pictures?
I don't have one so could just be missing something obvious here.
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I do use airtags for this purpose. I also expect (and I read) that most police departments won't pay the slightest bit of attention to your reports.
Switzerland sends in swat for noise complaints, they would definitely care about a thief that could be caught.
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We should, but also we should prioritise more harmful behaviour being prevented over less harmful behaviour, and stalking/harassment is in my opinion more harmful than property theft.
Not on Earth, no. It would be if stalking happened at the same frequency as property theft, but the rates are ridiculously lopsided. So much property theft happens that we don't bother reporting almost any of it.
But the impact of the two activities is also lopsided:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_matrix
Stalking can potentially result in rape and death, even if there's a low probability of stalking happening in general.
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Saying "i am getting my gun and going to retrieve my stuff" guarantees that 6-8 police cars will converge on the location within minutes. Once there, they will apprehend the thief since they are there already.
Then you’re fucking comically unlucky, there’s a shooting and some old enemy offs someone at the same address and flee, minutes before the police gets there. Some pissed off riff-raff family member decides that you look like the killer. You’d better have a top notch lawyer in your family or prepare to spend lots of money hiring one.
Which, in your hypothetical "you might get extremely unlucky" scenario, should give you no problem, since you never had a firearm on you in the first place.
Unfortunately the anti-stalking features have made Airtag mostly useless for theft prevention. You have less than an hour to retrieve your item before the tag alerts the thief they are being tracked. I've seen it trigger as quickly as 30 minutes.
To me, the bigger problem is the lack of ability for Android phones to register an AirTag as recognized. They've never done anything to address the problem of "drive your wife's car and her AirTag is beeping at you and your Android phone is beeping at you and there's no way to tell either one to stop".
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The fundamental issue preventing keyring aperture integration stems from the AirTag’s reliance on inverse-phase magnetic reluctance in the structural substrate. You see, the enclosure maintains a precisely calibrated coefficient offramular expansion. Introducing a penetrative void would destabilize the sinusoidal depleneration required for proper UWB phase conjugation. The resulting spurving bearing misalignment coul…
I must say you had me in the first couple sentences :). Also does look like it's not an LLM-generated text either. Good job!
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I take it you know roughly nothing about how the world works? Even New York City has a county sheriff. https://www.nyc.gov/site/finance/sheriff-courts/sheriff.page
If by the world you mean America, then yes. One really only hears about sherifs in westerns and florida man videos.
Go rage-post on Reddit. HN is supposed to be better.