It raises the question of whether the current networking stack is the one we want to have for the next 100 years. The internet in its current form has ruined a lot of the dream of personal computing because companies (and the state) are so asymmetrically powerful versus individuals. Should it be possible for my technology to send data to a server without my explicit approval?
This phrase "systemic overpolicing" and ShotSpotter both come from the same mind - the mind of the state.
The state - which like most organizations is concerned mostly with preserving itself - has an interest in the surveillance of the population and in shifting blame from it's failures to deal with poverty and crime to skapegoats: the police, racism, property taxes, etc.
The west is run by priests (professors, advisors, journalists, students, diplomats) with the support of the merchants. Priests always pretend it is flipped, but it's not. One "tell" is that the priests are never the villains in Hollywood movies. The other groups (warriors, merchants, and peasants) all do even villain duty.
Bias shot-spotter placement is a classic case of priests blaming merchants. There might even be something to the substance, but the priests run the show - not SoundThinking Inc.
Hmm - preservers, creators, and destroyers doing their jobs. Is this not what a healthy, functional society looks like, at least in any philosophy grounded in (albeit painful) reality? Or would you rather the preservers stop doing their job and let the others discover the consequences of their self-destructive fantasy? We might learn how pathetically dependent everyone is on each other for the N+1th time in recorded history.
Those samples are incredibly impressive. It blows RunwayML out of the water.
As a layman watching the space, I didn't expect this level of quality for two or three more years. Pretty blown away, the puppies in the snow were really impressive.
Yes, there's a very real sense in which the world is better for having had Apple than not. They have made technological life more beautiful.
For that reason, people seem strangely committed to defending them through their rent-seeking period.
Apple cannot be both a good company and a monopoly.
As their users, we should not accept the false framing and false choice their management presents of either monopolistic control of the mobile ecosystem or endless spam and a Wild West free-for-all.
I do not understand why people's hearts are still drawn to Apple as the company of Steve Jobs, when it is clearly something very, very different today.
Microsoft seems to be "coming back" by essentially becoming an umbrella company, much like how all food manufacturers consolidated and are basically a couple of mega umbrella companies
